Subclinical motor involvement in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: A case control study

•Patients with clinical feature of bvFTD but no demonstrable motor deficit show, abnormalities in balance and gait, which is more severe in patients compared to controls and medial/lateral instability is unique to patients.•Coefficient variation of step length (Gait instability) was significantly im...

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Published in:Asian journal of psychiatry 2020-01, Vol.47, p.101821-101821, Article 101821
Main Authors: Selva Ganapathy, V., Chandra, S.R., Bharath, Srikala, GS, Ravi
Format: Article
Language:English
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Aged
Biomechanical Phenomena
Case-Control Studies
Female
Frontotemporal Dementia - complications
Frontotemporal Dementia - physiopathology
Gait Disorders, Neurologic - etiology
Gait Disorders, Neurologic - physiopathology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Postural Balance - physiology
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Summary:•Patients with clinical feature of bvFTD but no demonstrable motor deficit show, abnormalities in balance and gait, which is more severe in patients compared to controls and medial/lateral instability is unique to patients.•Coefficient variation of step length (Gait instability) was significantly impaired in patients.•There is evidence for early and distinct alteration in both gait and balance parameters in patients with bvFTD.•Assessment of the above parameter and initiating appropriate rehabilitative training is likely to have an impact in delaying clinically obvious motor problem which leads to falls.
ISSN:1876-2018
1876-2026
DOI:10.1016/j.ajp.2019.10.001