Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a group of neurologic disorders associated with changes in personality, behavior, language or movement. Some FTD forms are inherited, and some are not. Typically, people develop FTD symptoms ...
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Bruce Willis' family has announced that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
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For decades, scientists have been interested in the effects of neurodegenerative disorders on the way people approach and produce visual art. They have sought the "artistic signatures" of diseases of the nervous system in ...
Nov 29, 2022
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Two recent studies from the University of Eastern Finland show that educational background and previous traumatic brain injury may potentially affect the risk of frontotemporal dementia.
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The clean-up of cellular "protein clumps" could prevent the onset of some types of dementia, according to a new study from The University of Queensland.
Nov 7, 2022
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Dementia encompasses a range of neurodegenerative conditions that lead to memory loss and cognitive deficiencies and affect some 55 million people worldwide. Yet despite its prevalence, there are few effective treatments, ...
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is one of the most common causes of progressive dementia in working-age people. However, making a diagnosis and a prognosis is often challenging because the frontotemporal dementia spectrum includes ...
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a common form of early-onset dementia, is marked by impairments in behavior, language, and sometimes motor function. Unlike Alzheimer's Disease (AD), researchers and clinicians have been unable ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Researchers have, for the first time, compared schizophrenia and frontotemporal dementia—disorders that are both located in the frontal and temporal lobe regions of the brain. The idea can be traced back to Emil Kraepelin, ...
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What did Stephen Hawking and Mao Zedong have in common? They both suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), for which a cure remains elusive. Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University took an important step toward ...
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