Thompson, AE;
Clark, CN;
Hardy, CJ;
Fletcher, PD;
Greene, J;
Rohrer, JD;
Warren, JD;
(2016)
Two cases of food aversion with semantic dementia.
Neurocase
, 22
(3)
pp. 312-316.
10.1080/13554794.2016.1149592.
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Abstract
Accounts of altered eating behavior in semantic dementia generally emphasize gluttony and abnormal food preferences. Here we describe two female patients with no past history of eating disorders who developed early prominent aversion to food in the context of an otherwise typical semantic dementia syndrome. One patient (aged 57) presented features in line with anorexia nervosa while the second patient (aged 58) presented with a syndrome more suggestive of bulimia nervosa. These cases add to the growing spectrum of apparently dichotomous behavior patterns in the frontotemporal dementias and illustrate a potentially under-recognized cause of eating disorders presenting in later life.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Two cases of food aversion with semantic dementia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13554794.2016.1149592 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2016.1149592 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| Keywords: | Anorexia, bulimia, eating behavior, frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1477940 |
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