INVESTIGADORES
ROCA MarÍa
artículos
Título:
Frontotemporal dementia presenting as pathological gambling.
Autor/es:
FACUNDO MANES; TERESA TORRALVA; MARIA ROCA; EZEQUIEL GLEICHGERRCHT; TRISTAN A. BEKINSCHTEIN ; JOHN R. HODGES
Revista:
NATURE REVIEWS NEUROLOGY
Editorial:
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2010 vol. 6 p. 347 - 352
ISSN:
1759-4758
Resumen:
A 69 year-old woman presented to an interdisciplinary medical group with pathological gambling,and went on to develop disinhibition, loss of empathy, and perseverative, stereotyped and ritualistic behavior.An initial neuropsychological evaluation showed selective impairment on the Iowa Gambling Task similar to that of patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, despite normal performance on standard neuropsychological tasks. MRI scans showed frontal lobe atrophy, which was consistent with findings on hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime single photon emission CT (HMPAO-SPECT).
