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Pain and apathy

Dor e apatia

Abstract

In this case report we discuss the lack of emotional reactivity and evasive motor motivation to nociceptive stimuli presented by a patient with frontotemporal degenerative disease and apathy as a predominant behavioral symptom.

Key words:
pain; apathy; frontotemporal; dementia; anterior cingulate cortex

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