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Joanna Hellmuth1, Kaitlin Casaletto1, Richard Cuneo2
1Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Neurocase
|February 13, 2020
Abstract:
We describe a rare case of a patient with rapid onset, prominent cognitive and behavioral changes who presented to our rapidly progressive dementia program with symptoms ultimately attributed to bilateral basal ganglia infarcts involving the caudate heads. We review the longitudinal clinical presentation and neuropsychological testing for this patient, and discuss the implicated basal ganglia and frontal lobe neuroanatomy.

