Clinical and pathological diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia: report of the Work Group on Frontotemporal Dementia and Pick's Disease

GM McKhann, MS Albert, M Grossman… - Archives of …, 2001 - jamanetwork.com
An international group of clinical and basic scientists participated in the Frontotemporal
Dementia and Pick's Disease Criteria Conference at the National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda, Md, on July 7, 2000, to reassess clinical and neuropathological criteria for the
diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Previous criteria for FTD have primarily been
designed for research purposes. The goal of this meeting was to propose guidelines that
would enable clinicians (particularly neurologists, psychiatrists, and neuropsychologists) to …