TY - JOUR T1 - Hyper-religiosity in frontotemporal dementia with predominant atrophy of the right temporal lobe JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 173 LP - 174 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2020-002755 VL - 21 IS - 2 AU - Maria Karatzikou AU - Theodora Afrantou AU - Dimitrios Parissis AU - Panagiotis Ioannidis Y1 - 2021/04/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/21/2/173.abstract N2 - A 56-year-old Greek woman developed personality changes, presenting first with prominent hyper-religiosity alternating with periods of retardation, together with social disinhibition. For 10 months before, she had expressed extravagant religiosity, having previously been religiously indifferent. She had begun praying at home, reading Christian magazines and attending church frequently. She had also collected and decorated personal health folders with collages of religious pictures (figure 1). There were no problems with memory, facial recognition or visuospatial function.Figure 1 Saints’ collage by a patient with right temporal lobe atrophy.On examination, she showed psychomotor agitation with severe inability to maintain concentration and could not focus on specific tasks. Nevertheless, she remained orientated to person, place and time, … ER -