Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease with Spastic Paraparesis Dysarthria and Seizures and N135S Mutation in PSEN1

摘要

ObjectiveEarly onset familial Alzheimer’s disease (EOFAD) can be caused by mutations in genes for amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) or presenilin 2 (PSEN2). There is considerable phenotypic variability in EOFAD, including some patients with spastic paraparesis. The objective is to describe clinical and neuropathologic features of a family with a PSEN1 mutation that has been reported previously, without autopsy confirmation, in a single Greek family whose affected members presented with memory loss in their thirties, as well as variable limb spasticity and seizures.