Abstract
Apathy is a common neurobehavioral sign in cases of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. However, there is still no established sustained effective treatment. We present the case of a 65-year-old man with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia who suffered from severe apathy, but his apathy improved after a 10-month period of bupropion treatment. His single photon emission computed tomography report also showed slight improvement. To the best of our knowledge, such a case with imaging evidence has never been reported. Further studies to correlate the effects of bupropion on apathy in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia patients are clearly needed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 466-468 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Neurocase |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2 2016 |
Keywords
- Apathy
- bupropion
- dopamine
- motivation
- single photon emission computed tomography
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Clinical Neurology