A small number of studies have focused attention on the relationship between activities of daily living and linear brain measures in dementia patients, but only in Vascular Dementia and normal aging.35,38 Activities of daily living performance decreased with increased subcortical atrophy only for the AD group. Perhaps, one explanation for this fact is that FTD patients present a reduced capacity to perform daily tasks from the early stages of disease (a difference from AD),39 when BFI values still remain low.