[현대건강신문=박현진 기자] An announcement has been made that there is a risk of confusing frontotemporal dementia with abnormal behavior with mental illness.
Frontotemporal dementia is a type of degenerative dementia that occurs when the function of the frontal lobe and temporal lobe deteriorates due to pathological changes limited to the frontal lobe, which is the front of the brain, and the temporal lobe located below the side.
Typical symptoms include impaired language function and impaired executive function to plan and perform certain tasks. Unlike Alzheimer’s disease, memory is relatively well preserved in the early stages, making it difficult to diagnose.
Moon Yeon-sil, information committee member of the Korean Dementia Society (professor of neurology at Konkuk University Hospital) said, “Significant symptoms in the early stages include personality changes, behavioral disorders, and language decline.” It is known to be caused by abnormal protein function in the brain.”
At the Spring Conference of the Korean Dementia Society held at the Baekbeom Kim Koo Memorial Hall in Hyochang-dong, Seoul on the 15th, Professor Yolande Pijnengurg of the University of Amsterdam Medical Center, Netherlands, who is famous as a frontotemporal dementia researcher, said, “It is possible to identify frontotemporal dementia through markers and genetic tests. can,” he said.
Professor Yolande Finnengurg introduced markers for identifying frontotemporal dementia, which had been studied for a long time, and presented a method for identifying frontotemporal dementia through genetic analysis.
Park Ki-hyung, planning director of the Korean Dementia Society (Professor of Neurology at Gil Hospital), said, “There are frontotemporal dementia researchers like Professor Yolande Finnengurg in Europe, but there are very few domestic studies on schizophrenia because there are very few patients with frontotemporal dementia among dementia patients in Korea.” , schizophrenia, depression symptoms and frontotemporal dementia symptoms can be similarly confused,” he explained.
He added, “I hope this announcement will increase domestic interest in frontotemporal dementia, which is very difficult to diagnose.”