Different Apathy Profile in Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Preliminary Investigation

Table 2

Comparison of behavioral profiles of the two groups. Statistically significant differences are indicated in bold; confounders included in the logistic regression analysis are reported in italics. NPI: Neuropsychiatric Inventory.

	bvFTD (𝑁=28)		AD (𝑁=20)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	|𝑧|	𝑝
NPI delusions	1.89	3.72	1.05	1.701	0.324	0.746
NPI hallucinations	0.18	0.55	0.45	1.395	0.473	0.636
NPI agitation	3.48	4.07	1.00	2.026	2.897	0.004
NPI depression	2.54	3.05	1.80	1.542	0.245	0.806
NPI anxiety	2.93	3.79	1.95	3.300	0.873	0.382
NPI euphoria	1.79	3.11	0.60	2.088	1.912	0.056
NPI apathy	5.79	3.48	4.30	2.774	1.458	0.145
NPI disinhibition	2.07	3.13	0.45	1.395	2.697	0.007
NPI irritability	4.00	4.07	1.95	2.417	1.792	0.073
NPI aberrant motor behavior	3.29	4.23	1.20	2.215	1.697	0.090
NPI sleep disturbances	2.58	2.56	0.90	1.619	2.239	0.025
NPI appetite disturbances	4.79	4.53	2.60	3.393	1.687	0.092
NPI total score	3500	22.09	18.25	12.152	2.814	0.005