Psychiatric conditions that can mimic early behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: the importance of the new diagnostic criteria.

Curr Psychiatry Rep

Institute of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neuroscience, Favaloro University, Pacheco de Melo 1854/60, C1126AAB, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published: October 2012

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