Complex cognitive disruption in frontal dementia related to motor neuron disease

Percept Mot Skills. 2001 Jun;92(3 Pt 2):1213-29. doi: 10.2466/pms.2001.92.3c.1213.

Abstract

We describe a patient in whom motor neuron disease and frontal dementia showed concomitant development. This patient underwent a detailed and sequential neurolinguistic assessment, which indicated an alteration in language planning, language comprehension, and morphosyntactic operations. He showed also attention deficit, abstract reasoning disturbances, and prosopoagnosia which became worse during the year follow-up. We suggest that a more specific and sensitive neurolinguistic and neuropsychological test battery must be used to detect and study the entire disruption of cognitive processes in frontal dementia related to motor neuron disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Atrophy / diagnostic imaging
  • Atrophy / pathology
  • Cognition Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Cognition Disorders / etiology*
  • Dementia / physiopathology*
  • Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Frontal Lobe / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Motor Neuron Disease / complications*
  • Motor Neuron Disease / diagnosis
  • Motor Neuron Disease / physiopathology*
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed