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Turk Geriatri Dergisi, vol.10, no.4, pp.200-202, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Late-onset bipolar disorders are generally reported to be associated with general medical conditions. Frontotemporal dementia, which is a highly heterogenous disorder in terms of its clinical and neuropathological characteristics, is one of the neuropsychiatric disorders which presents with affective, behavioral and language symptoms. Therefore some cases with frontotemporal dementia might receive psychiatric diagnoses like depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Especially for cases with right-sided frontotemporal involvement, the signs and symptoms of disinhibition syndrome are identical to the criteria used for the diagnosis of manic episode. Two cases of mania associated with frontotemporal dementia were previously reported in literature. In this paper, a frontotemporal dementia case presenting as secondary mania is discussed.