Environmental reduplicative paramnesia in a case of atypical Alzheimer's disease
Authors:
Armin von Gunten a;
Judit Miklossy bc;
Mario-Luca Suv
b;
Patrick R. Hof d;
Panteleimon Glannakopoulos ae
b;
Patrick R. Hof d;
Panteleimon Glannakopoulos ae
| Affiliations: | a Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l' Age Avanc , Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vandois, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| b Division de Neuropathologie, Institut Universitaire de Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| c Center for NeuroVirology and Cancer Biology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA | |
| d Departments of Neuroscience and Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA | |
e Service de Psychiatrie G riatrique, Ch ne-Bourg, Switzerland |
DOI:
10.1080/13554790590944825
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Subjects:
Clinical Neuropsychology;
Cognitive Neuropsychology;
Cognitive Psychology;
Neuropsychology;
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Abstract
A 79-year-old patient with neuropathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease (AD) presented with a selective environmental reduplicative paramnesia (RP), the belief that one or more environments exist simultaneously in two or more physical locations. Clinical presentation and neuropathological examination revealed an atypical form of AD. High neurofibrillary tangle densities were observed in the frontal and temporal association cortex, whereas the parietal and entorhinal cortex, as well as the hippocampus, were nearly spared. These findings are compared to those reported in frontal and frontotemporal variants of AD and discussed in the light of current anatomoclinical models for environmental RP.
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