Frontotemporal dementia patients with extrapyramidal symptoms have brainstem atrophy and reduced metabolism in certain areas of the brain significantly more often than patients without extrapyramidal ...

Sparks of visual artistic creativity occurred early in frontotemporal dementia and were disproportionately observed in patients with temporal lobe-predominant degeneration, a case-control study showed ...

A loved one undergoing massive shifts in personality or speech can be challenging to work with. You might be wondering if it’s already a symptom of an underlying disease. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) ...

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, as its name implies, involves shrinkage of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Hidden beneath this moniker is a devilish complexity and variability. In some ...

Dr. Diana Kerwin, a geriatrics medicine physician with Texas Health Dallas, told KERA's Sam Baker the news about the actor was not surprising after Willis's 2022 diagnosis of aphasia. It's actually ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

Background A 55-year-old woman was followed over a 13-year period as part of a longitudinal study of people at risk for familial dementia. She was a member of a family with an autosomal dominant ...

Now that initiatives such as ARTFL and LEFFTDS have gathered sufficient numbers of participants for scientists to tackle prevention and treatment trials (see Part 2 of this conference series), the ...

An early-stage study has found that sodium selenate is safe and well-tolerated in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). This variant of frontotemporal dementia is one of ...