Impaired self-conscious emotion ratings in frontotemporal dementia

Methods The study included seven patients who met International Consensus Criteria for clinically probable behavioral variant FTD (Rascovsky et al., 2011), seven who met National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association criteria for clinically probably AD (McKhann et al., 2011), and seven healthy comparison (HC) volunteers. 1.) Participant Characteristics: Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and healthy comparison (HC) groups bvFTD (7) AD (7) HC (7) p-value* Age 62.17 (8.21) 60.14 (6.99) 53.14 (11.28) 0.173 Education 16.16 (2.04) 16.57 (1.99) 16.86 (1.46) 0.779 Sex (male and female) (3, 4) (1, 6) (1, 6) 0.350 Mini mental state examination 23.75 (8.03) 25.86 (2.61) 29.71 (0.49) 0.096 Montreal cognitive assessment 22.15 (5.71) 21.50 (0.71) n/a 0.770 Disease duration (years) 3.73 (2.92) 3.43 (1.81) n/a 0.821 Self-conscious emotion ratings 10.57 (3.83) 31.28 (4.23) n/a