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Consensus Criteria published in 1998 by Neary and colleagues.4
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However, not all patients have all five core features: loss of insight, emotional blunting, impaired personal conduct, decline in social interpersonal conduct, and insidious onset. Loss of insight and emotional blunting were the ones least likely to be represented
Secondary criteria such as speech problems upt o mutism occurred in less than half.
