Fronto-temporal dementia presenting as Geschwind's syndrome
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Portable Thermographic Screening for Detection of Acute Wallenberg's Syndrome
Published on: September 19, 2019
Alfredo Postiglione1, Graziella Milan, Sabina Pappatà
1Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Naples Federico II & AOUP Policlinico Federico II, Naples, Italy. alfposti@unina.it
Abstract:
Geschwind described a syndrome (Geschwind syndrome, GS) in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, characterized by sexual behavioural disorders, hyper-religiosity, hypergraphia and viscosity. In this report we describe a patient affected by fronto-temporal dementia (FTD), who showed all the personality changes of GS without having epilepsy, and suggest that clinicians should be aware of several other features in FTD, such as hyposexuality and hypergraphia, which are usually not noted during the diagnostic evaluation.
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