The diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia is often difficult because behavioral change has a broad differential diagnosis. Genetic testing may aid in the diagnostic process. We investigated the prevalence of pathogenic genetic variants (PGVs) in individuals referred to our memory clinic with late-onset behavioral change and identified clinical “red flags” for PGV carriership, specifically in diagnostically ambiguous cases.
Groeneveld et al. (Thu,) studied this question.