| Altered emotional morality in frontotemporal dementia. | |
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PMID: 19499384 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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INTRODUCTION: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a disorder characterised by abnormal social behaviour and potential sociopathy, provides a window to the neurobiology of moral behaviour. This study investigated the basis of altered moral judgements in patients with FTD. METHODS: We administered an inventory of moral knowledge, five "reasoned" moral dilemmas, and five "emotional" moral dilemmas where subjects may cause direct harm to another through their own actions, to 21 patients with FTD compared to 21 comparably mildly impaired patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 21 normal controls. Among the FTD patients, the results were compared to findings on functional neuroimaging. RESULTS: All groups showed retention of knowledge for moral behaviour and the ability to make reasoned moral judgements. In contrast to the other groups, the FTD patients were altered in their ability to make emotional moral judgements. Among the FTD patients, the altered moral judgements corresponded to right hemisphere frontotemporal involvement. CONCLUSIONS: In FTD patients, these findings suggest a decreased emotional responsiveness to others and a tendency to respond to moral dilemmas in a calculated fashion. Such a disturbance may result from ventromedial frontal dysfunction in FTD and supports the presence of a "morality" network in the brain, predominantly in the right hemisphere. |
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Mario F Mendez; Jill S Shapira |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Cognitive neuropsychiatry Volume: 14 ISSN: 1464-0619 ISO Abbreviation: Cogn Neuropsychiatry Publication Date: 2009 May |
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Created Date: 2009-06-05 Completed Date: 2009-08-19 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9713497 Medline TA: Cogn Neuropsychiatry Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 165-79 Citation Subset: IM |
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Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center, 11301 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA. mmendez@UCLA.edu |
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Aged Alzheimer Disease / psychology, radionuclide imaging Antisocial Personality Disorder / psychology, radionuclide imaging Data Interpretation, Statistical Dementia / psychology*, radionuclide imaging Emotions / physiology* Female Functional Laterality / physiology Humans Male Middle Aged Morals* Neuropsychological Tests Positron-Emission Tomography Psychomotor Performance / physiology Questionnaires Social Behavior Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon |
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