Un caso de demencia frontotemporal en su variante lingüística fluente

the difficulty of finding words in a conversation and express what we think, and unconsciousness in the writing of words and their meaning in the presence of fluent speech, is evident in this study case, a woman of 62 years, with studies in business and bilingual secretary, who prior to his difficulties, she served as secretary of senior management with outstanding language skills and writing palm os. he has presented a gradual progression of their deficits, evolving towards a profile of global cognitive impairment, specifically their language skills, verbal explicit memory deficit and semantic change in the calculation, dysorthography, agraphia and executive dysfunction, with partial limitation to perform functionally in activities of daily living. by presenting this case, is a clinical initial involvement of the semantic system and the mental representation of words, being consistent with a semantic dementia. we report the role of neuropsychological assessment and the development of clinical history, to conduct a clinical differential diagnosis between primary degenerative dementia's such as alzheimer's disease and variants of frontotemporal dementia.