Olivier Piguet

Behavioural and psychological symptom determinants of carer burden across clinical syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and Alzheimer’s disease: a transdiagnostic analysis

Abstract Background This study characterised overall transdiagnostic associations between psychological and behavioural symptoms and carer burden, and examined syndrome-specific contributions across clinically probable FTLD and AD groups. Methods A total of 432 individuals with c...

Language impairments in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia: a comparative study with semantic dementia

Abstract Introduction Recent evidence suggests that individuals with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) may experience language changes in a similar, but less severe manner, than what is observed in semantic dementia (SD). Few studies, however, have specifically...