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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Mendez, Mario F. | Fras, Ivan Andrew | Kremen, Sarah A. | Tsai, Po-Heng
Affiliations: Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, The University of California at Los Angeles, V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Note: [] Corresponding author: M.F. Mendez, MD, PhD; Neurobehavior Unit (691/116AF), V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center, 11301 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA. Tel.: +1 310 478 3711, ext. 42696; Fax: +1 310 268 4181; E-mail: mmendez@UCLA.edu
Abstract: Patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) can make false statements consistent with delusions or confabulations. It is unclear whether bvFTD is primarily associated with either delusions or with confabulations and whether they can be explained by the pathophysiology of this disease. In order to clarify this, we retrospectively surveyed the records of 48 patients with bvFTD for the presence of any false reports and identified four patients. Their false reports included continued interaction with a favorite but dead relation, fictitious marriages with movie stars, and two who claimed that their partner was having an affair. When confronted with the falsity of their statements, the patients conveyed a lack of certainty regarding their external or internal source but persisted in the constancy of their reports. On functional neuroimaging, the patients had predominant frontal involvement. This report found that patients with bvFTD can have both fantastic, wish fulfilling confabulations and typical content-specific delusions. We propose that both phenomena result from known disturbances of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in bvFTD, including deficits in source monitoring and in activating an automatic "doubt tag" for false reports.
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2011-0335
Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 237-244, 2011
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