Cortical function in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) are the most common causes of dementia; however, their overlapping clinical syndromes and involved brain regions make a differential diagnosis difficult. We aimed to identify the differences in the cognition and motor cortex excitability between AD and bvFTD patients.

Keywords

• alzheimer’s disease (ad)
• behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvftd)
• cortical function
• event-related potentials (erp)
• transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms)