Dysexecutive mild cognitive impairment associated to frontal atrophy: Case report

Abstract Non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) evolving to neurodegenerative diseases other than Alzheimer's disease (AD) is rarely well documented. We report a case of a 49 year-old woman who presented a slowly progressive attentional/dysexecutive syndrome sparing other cognitive domains and without significant impairment of daily life activities. Her mother had Parkinsonism and her brother, a psychotic syndrome. Brain CT/MRI showed frontal atrophy while brain SPECT showed moderate cortical hypoperfusion, mainly in the frontal lobes. Our case is an example of non-memory MCI whose neuropsychological data and brain imaging indicating high likelihood of progression to a non-AD dementia.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Balthazar,Marcio Luiz Figueredo, Damasceno,Benito Pereira
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Academia Brasileira de Neurologia, Departamento de Neurologia Cognitiva e Envelhecimento 2008
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642008000100076
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