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   January 06, 2015   
      
   Criminal Behavior More Likely in Frontotemporal Dementia   
      
   the Neurology Advisor take:   
   Criminal behavior in middle-age or later in life may be an early sign of a   
   behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, and should promote a medical   
   examination for temporal brain disease or dementing disorders, according to a   
   study published in JAMA    
   Neurology.   
   Neurodegenerative diseases disrupt brain structures involved in judgment,   
   executive function, emotional processing, sexual behavior, violence, and   
   self-awareness, which can lead to anti-social and criminal behaviors that   
   present later in life, reported    
   Madeleine Liliegren, MD, of Lund University in Lund, Sweden, and colleagues.   
   The researchers reviewed medical records of 2,397 patients seen at the   
   University of California San Francisco's Memory and Aging Center between 1999   
   and 2012, of which 545 had Alzheimer's, 171 had behavioral variant of   
   frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), 89    
   had semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia, and 30 had Huntington's   
   disease. In total, 8.5% (204) showed a history of criminal behavior during   
   illness.   
   Among individual groups, 7.7% with Alzheimer's, 37.4% with bvFTD, 27% with   
   semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia, and 20% with Huntington's   
   disease exhibited criminal behavior during the illness. Fourteen percent of   
   patients with bvFTD were    
   more likely to have exhibited criminal behavior compared to 2% of patients   
   with Alzheimer's, while 6.4% with bvFTD were more likely to exhibit violence   
   compared to 2% of patients with Alzheimer's. Among the bvFTD group, common   
   criminal activity included    
   theft, sexual advances, trespassing, and public urination. The Alzheimer's   
   group more commonly committed traffic violations, likely due to cognitive   
   impairment.   
   The researchers stressed that the legal system must address these occurrences   
   in patients with a different approach than the typical "insanity defense"   
   that's often employed with patients who demonstrate mental instability and   
   disease.    
   CrimeCriminal Behavior More Likely in Frontotemporal Dementia   
   Neurodegenerative diseases can cause dysfunction of neural structures involved   
   in judgment, executive function, emotional processing, sexual behavior,   
   violence, and self-awareness. Such dysfunctions can lead to antisocial and   
   criminal behavior that    
   appears for the first time in the adult or middle-aged individual or even   
   later in life.   
   Madeleine Liliegren, MD, of Lund University in Lund, Sweden, and colleagues   
   conducted a retrospective medical record review of 2397 patients who were seen   
   at the University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center   
   between 1999 and 2012,    
   including 545 patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), 171 patients with   
   behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), 89 patients with   
   semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia, and 30 patients with   
   Huntington disease.   
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