ABN Abstracts.

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the proceedings of the Association of British Neurologists and the British Neuropsychiatry Association, Royal College of Physicians, in London, England on October 2-4, 2002. The present syndromic variants of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, frontotemporal dementia, progressive non-fluent aphasia, semantic dementia, reflect focal pathological damage to the frontal lobes or to the left temporal lobe. This study aims to identify the clinical correlates arising from focal degeneration of the right temporal lobe. Systemic lupus erythematosus is a chronic multisystem disease of uncertain aetiology. Neuropsychiatric involvement occurs in about 50% of patients and carries a poor prognosis.