Amanda K Lamarre, Katya Rascovsky, Alan Bostrom, Parnian Toofanian, Sarah Wilkins, Sharon J Sha, David C Perry, Zachary A Miller, Georges Naasan, Robert Laforce, Jayne Hagen, Leonel T Takada, Maria Carmela Tartaglia, Gail Kang, Douglas Galasko, David P Salmon, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Berneet Kaur, John M Olichney, Lovingly Quitania Park, Mario F Mendez, Po-Heng Tsai, Edmond Teng, Bradford Clark Dickerson, Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, Scott McGinnis, Bruce L Miller, Joel H Kramer
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the interrater reliability of the new International Behavioural Variant FTD Criteria Consortium (FTDC) criteria for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). METHODS: Twenty standardized clinical case modules were developed for patients with a range of neurodegenerative diagnoses, including bvFTD, primary progressive aphasia (nonfluent, semantic, and logopenic variant), Alzheimer disease, and Lewy body dementia. Eighteen blinded raters reviewed the modules and 1) rated the presence or absence of core diagnostic features for the FTDC criteria, and 2) provided an overall diagnostic rating...
May 21, 2013: Neurology