Exploring Abstract Semantic Associations in the Frontotemporal Dementia Spectrum in a Dutch Population

Abstract Objective To investigate the differential ability of the “Test Relaties Abstracte Concepten” (TRACE), a Dutch test for abstract semantic knowledge, in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Methods The TRACE was administered in patients with behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD; n = 16), nonfluent variant (nfvPPA; n = 10), logopenic variant (lvPPA; n = 10), and semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA; n = 9), and controls (n = 59). We examined group differences, performed correlational analyses with other neuropsychological tests and investigated discriminative ability. We compared the T... Mehr ...