Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

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PERCEIVED CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR IN FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA: A 10-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF FORENSIC CASES IN TÜRKIYE.

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In a decade of Turkish criminal-responsibility referrals involving frontotemporal dementia, nearly half the offenses preceded the diagnosis by roughly three years, and the authors argue that superficially planned conduct "should not be equated with preserved volitional criminal intent" (J Forensic Sci 2026) — a descriptive, single-center series rather than a test of that inference.

J Forensic Sci. 2026.