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Social cognition across bipolar disorder and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: an exploratory study. 2023

Izabela Guimarães Barbosa, and Flávia da Mata Chiácchio Leite, and Maxime Bertoux, and Henrique Cerqueira Guimarães, and Luciano Inácio Mariano, and Leandro Boson Gambogi, and Antônio Lúcio Teixeira, and Paulo Caramelli, and Leonardo Cruz de Souza

Departamento de Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Neurociências, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorder type 1 (BD1) and behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) share similar behavioral and cognitive symptoms, rendering the differential diagnosis between them a clinical challenge. We investigated the accuracy of social cognition (SC) measures to differentiate bvFTD from BD. METHODS We included three groups of participants: early-onset BD1 (in remission, n=20), bvFTD (n=18), and cognitively healthy controls (HC) (n=40), matched for age, schooling, and sex. All participants underwent cognitive assessment, including the Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) and Modified Faux-Pas (mFP) tests, which assess mentalizing. RESULTS Compared to HC, BD1 and bvFTD patients underperformed on both SC measures. BD1 and bvFTD did not differ regarding FER or mFP total scores, although patients with bvFTD had significantly higher difficulties than those in the BD1 group to detect social faux-pas (p < 0.001, d = 1.35). CONCLUSIONS BD1 and bvFTD share deficits in the core SC functions. These findings should be considered in the development of tasks aiming to improve clinical differentiation between the two disorders.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009483	Neuropsychological Tests	Tests designed to assess neurological function associated with certain behaviors. They are used in diagnosing brain dysfunction or damage and central nervous system disorders or injury.	Aphasia Tests,Cognitive Test,Cognitive Testing,Cognitive Tests,Memory for Designs Test,Neuropsychological Testing,AX-CPT,Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome,CANTAB,Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery,Clock Test,Cognitive Function Scanner,Continuous Performance Task,Controlled Oral Word Association Test,Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System,Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment,Hooper Visual Organization Test,NEPSY,Neuropsychologic Tests,Neuropsychological Test,Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test,Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status,Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure,Symbol Digit Modalities Test,Test of Everyday Attention,Test, Neuropsychological,Tests, Neuropsychological,Tower of London Test,Neuropsychologic Test,Test, Cognitive,Testing, Cognitive,Testing, Neuropsychological,Tests, Cognitive
D003071	Cognition	Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism obtains knowledge.	Cognitive Function,Cognitions,Cognitive Functions,Function, Cognitive,Functions, Cognitive
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000083282	Social Cognition	Perception, interpretation, and categorizing self judgement of one's own social behaviors and group position and those of others.	Cognition, Social
D000544	Alzheimer Disease	A degenerative disease of the BRAIN characterized by the insidious onset of DEMENTIA. Impairment of MEMORY, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe APRAXIAS and a global loss of cognitive abilities. The condition primarily occurs after age 60, and is marked pathologically by severe cortical atrophy and the triad of SENILE PLAQUES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; and NEUROPIL THREADS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1049-57)	Acute Confusional Senile Dementia,Alzheimer's Diseases,Dementia, Alzheimer Type,Dementia, Senile,Presenile Alzheimer Dementia,Senile Dementia, Alzheimer Type,Alzheimer Dementia,Alzheimer Disease, Early Onset,Alzheimer Disease, Late Onset,Alzheimer Sclerosis,Alzheimer Syndrome,Alzheimer Type Senile Dementia,Alzheimer's Disease,Alzheimer's Disease, Focal Onset,Alzheimer-Type Dementia (ATD),Dementia, Presenile,Dementia, Primary Senile Degenerative,Early Onset Alzheimer Disease,Familial Alzheimer Disease (FAD),Focal Onset Alzheimer's Disease,Late Onset Alzheimer Disease,Primary Senile Degenerative Dementia,Senile Dementia, Acute Confusional,Alzheimer Dementias,Alzheimer Disease, Familial (FAD),Alzheimer Diseases,Alzheimer Type Dementia,Alzheimer Type Dementia (ATD),Alzheimers Diseases,Dementia, Alzheimer,Dementia, Alzheimer-Type (ATD),Familial Alzheimer Diseases (FAD),Presenile Dementia,Sclerosis, Alzheimer,Senile Dementia
D001714	Bipolar Disorder	A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.	Affective Psychosis, Bipolar,Bipolar Disorder Type 1,Bipolar Disorder Type 2,Bipolar Mood Disorder,Depression, Bipolar,Manic Depression,Manic Disorder,Manic-Depressive Psychosis,Psychosis, Manic-Depressive,Type 1 Bipolar Disorder,Type 2 Bipolar Disorder,Psychoses, Manic-Depressive,Bipolar Affective Psychosis,Bipolar Depression,Bipolar Disorders,Bipolar Mood Disorders,Depression, Manic,Depressions, Manic,Disorder, Bipolar,Disorder, Bipolar Mood,Disorder, Manic,Manic Depressive Psychosis,Manic Disorders,Mood Disorder, Bipolar,Psychoses, Bipolar Affective,Psychoses, Manic Depressive,Psychosis, Bipolar Affective,Psychosis, Manic Depressive
D057180	Frontotemporal Dementia	The most common clinical form of FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION, this dementia presents with personality and behavioral changes often associated with disinhibition, apathy, and lack of insight.	DDPAC,Dementia, Frontotemporal,Dementia, Frontotemporal, with Parkinsonism,Dementia, Hereditary Dysphasic Disinhibition,Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy Complex,Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy Complex,FTD-GRN,FTD-PGRN,FTDP-17,FTLD with TDP-43 Pathology,FTLD-17 GRN,FTLD-TDP,Familial Pick's Disease,Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism,Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism-17,Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin-Positive,Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Ubiquitin-Positive Inclusions,Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia,Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia (FLDEM),GRN-Related Frontotemporal Dementia,HDDD1,HDDD2,Hereditary Dysphasic Disinhibition Dementia,Multiple System Tauopathy with Presenile Dementia,Semantic Dementia,Wilhelmsen-Lynch Disease,Complex, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy,Complex, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy,Complices, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy,Complices, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy,Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe,Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM),Dementia, GRN-Related Frontotemporal,Dementia, Semantic,Dementia, Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal,Dementias, Frontotemporal,Dementias, Frontotemporal Lobe,Dementias, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM),Dementias, GRN-Related Frontotemporal,Dementias, Semantic,Dementias, Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal,Disease, Familial Pick's,Disease, Wilhelmsen-Lynch,Diseases, Familial Pick's,Diseases, Wilhelmsen-Lynch,Disinhibition Dementia Parkinsonism Amyotrophy Complex,Disinhibition Dementia Parkinsonism Amytrophy Complex,Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy Complices,Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy Complices,FTLD with TDP 43 Pathology,Familial Pick Disease,Familial Pick's Diseases,Familial Picks Disease,Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism 17,Frontotemporal Dementia, GRN-Related,Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin Positive,Frontotemporal Dementias,Frontotemporal Dementias, GRN-Related,Frontotemporal Dementias, Ubiquitin-Positive,Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Ubiquitin Positive Inclusions,Frontotemporal Lobe Dementias,Frontotemporal Lobe Dementias (FLDEM),GRN Related Frontotemporal Dementia,GRN-Related Frontotemporal Dementias,Lobe Dementia, Frontotemporal,Lobe Dementias, Frontotemporal,Pick's Disease, Familial,Pick's Diseases, Familial,Semantic Dementias,Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal Dementia,Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal Dementias,Wilhelmsen Lynch Disease,Wilhelmsen-Lynch Diseases