Frontotemporal dementia ... shrinkage in the frontal and temporal areas of the brain,” says Dr Teresa Niccoli from the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL. The temporal lobes are behind the ...

The Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance of the frontal lobes for human functioning ... among the young and the increase of dementia due to an aging population.

More than 55 million people are living with some form of dementia right now. Two specific types, frontal lobe dementia and alcohol-induced dementia, share some similarities but have distinct ...

BvFTD, which results from damage to the frontal lobes of the brain ... more common types of dementia, such as day-to-day memory loss. It says that in the early stages of the disease, many people ...

When ALS occurs with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a condition affecting the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes, its effect ... In the final stages of ALS with FTD, a person may experience ...

All but the FTD-MND patients had advanced clinical dementia (CDR=4-5). Compared with gender-matched mean control volumes, mean FTD volumes were reduced throughout the frontal lobes from stage 2 ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a disease. It is caused by the progressive loss of nerve cells in the brain's frontal and temporal lobes. As those areas shrink it can lead to changes in a person ...

Frontotemporal dementia refers to a group of disorders caused by nerve cell damage to areas of the brain behind the forehead (in the frontal lobe) and behind the ears (in the temporal lobes).

BvFTD, which results from damage to the frontal lobes of the brain, mainly causes problems with behaviour ... Alzheimer’s UK says that FTD symptoms are “very different” from other more common types of ...

Someone with FTD may also notice changes in personality or mood and difficulties with language. Dr. McGrath points out that ...