Objectives This longitudinal study compared emerging plasma biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease between controls, patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Lewy body dementia (LBD), frontotemporal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dementia can affect memory and thinking, and damage the parts of the brain involved in processing ... of this age group might actually end up with frontotemporal dementia compared to older people.

Photograph by Isadora Kosofsky, Nat Geo Image Collection One type of frontotemporal dementia damages the brain’s frontal lobes, altering personality, social conduct, and the ability to control ...

Researchers at U.C. San Francisco say the critical molecules may be just that for people with frontotemporal dementia: the most common form of the brain disorder. Dementia affects more than six ...

This might initially affect people with frontotemporal dementia but can also be common in vascular dementia, especially if areas of the brain responsible for language have been affected by reduced ...

Dementia usually affects older people, so when it occurs in middle age, it can be hard to recognize. The most common form is frontotemporal ... of genes in the brain - along with defects that ...

Dementia usually affects older people, so when it occurs in middle age, it can be hard to recognize. The most common form is frontotemporal ... of genes in the brain—along with defects that ...