There are a few reasons. First, "frontotemporal dementia can be caused by several very different types of brain pathology, making it very difficult to provide an accurate diagnosis to patients ...

Dementia can affect memory and thinking, and damage the parts of the brain involved in processing information ... a larger share of this age group might actually end up with frontotemporal dementia ...

Researchers have identified proteins that are specific to frontotemporal dementia, a rare form of dementia affecting ... This indicates that people with FTD have problems with RNA regulation and brain ...

behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, functional neurological disorder, traumatic brain injury with postconcussion symptoms, alcohol-related cerebellar degeneration ...

Lewy Body dementia is marked by visual hallucinations that are more prominent in the early stages of the disease, gait issues, falls, and parkinsonism. Frontotemporal dementia often starts with ...

While loss of empathy has been the focus of much research from the scientific community, the precise brain mechanisms underlying the loss of empathy in frontotemporal dementia remain unclear.

Pick's disease, more commonly known today as frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is a neurodegenerative ... such as those in the brain, than either X-rays or CT scans. Positron emission tomography (PET): ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of disorders that ... An MRI creates a two- or three-dimensional image of the brain using a magnetic field and radio waves. A CT scan creates a 3D image from ...

Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the ability to empathize. A study at Karolinska Institutet has now shown that these patients do not show the same brain activity as healthy ...

Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the ability to empathize. A study at Karolinska Institutet has now shown that these patients do not show the same brain activity as healthy ...

Some of these personality changes might happen spontaneously, as a result of the damage occurring in the brain. With frontotemporal dementia, for instance, a decline in agreeableness, where the ...

Neuropsychological assessment, or cognitive testing, is the gold standard tool for measuring cognitive functions (or the “software” of the brain ... (e.g., Lewy Body Dementia, Frontotemporal ...