Although behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is classically defined by
behavioral and socio-emotional changes, impairments often extend to other cognitive …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the most common
neurodegenerative earlyonset dementias. Despite the fact that both conditions have a very …

Loss of empathy is a core presenting feature of the behavioral-variant of frontotemporal
dementia (bvFTD), resulting in socioemotional difficulties and behavioral transgressions. In …

Social feedback can selectively enhance learning in diverse domains. Relevant
neurocognitive mechanisms have been studied mainly in healthy persons, yielding …

Objectives: With comparable baseline performance on executive functions (EF) and memory
between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) …

Mind wandering represents the human capacity for internally focused thought and relies
upon the brain's default network and its interactions with attentional networks. Studies have …

Impaired capacity for Theory of Mind (ToM) represents one of the hallmark features of the
behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and is suggested to underpin an …

Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative
disease. Executive dysfunction is common in patients with ALS, with up to 50% of patients …

The use of social tasks in the neuropsychological assessment of the behavioral variant of
frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is at present not required by diagnostic guidelines, despite …

Aging diminishes social cognition, and changes in this capacity can indicate brain diseases.
However, the relative contribution of age, diagnosis and brain reserve to social cognition …