Do cognitive profiles differ in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal dementia and AD?
A double dissociation in the pattern of cognitive deficits exhibited by FTD and AD patients was demonstrated. The FTD patients were more impaired than AD patients on word generation tasks (i.e., verbal fluency) that are sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction but less impaired on tests of memory and visuospatial abilities sensitive to dysfunction of medial temporal and parietal association cortices.
Closed-suction drainage may not be essential after primary intradural spinal cord tumor surgery.