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The Clinical Value of the Faux Pas Test for Diagnosing Behavioral-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
Xavier Delbeuck1, Marianne Pollet1, Florence Pasquier1
1Univ-Lille, INSERM UMR-S 1171, CMRR and CNRMAJ, CHU Lille, DistAlz, Lille, France.
Objective:
We studied the clinical value of the faux pas test to diagnose behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia.
Methods:
The faux pas test was administered to patients referred to a memory clinic in a context of behavioral disturbances. The diagnosis of behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 14) or not (n = 25) was confirmed after a 3 years follow-up.
Results:
The faux pas test displayed a high sensitivity for behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (.83) however its specificity was only moderate (.64).
Conclusions:
Our results confirm that the FPT capture's specific cognitive impairments in patients with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia. However, some patients with psychiatric disease or other neurological diseases may also show impaired scores.
