Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting the frontal and temporal lobes that regulate higher cognitive brain functions such as personality, behavior ...

That's one reason FTD is often misdiagnosed at first. Note: your doctor may call FTD frontotemporal lobar degeneration or use the term Pick's disease to refer to some cases of FTD. To get a ...

Dementia usually affects older people, so when it occurs in middle age, it can be hard to recognize. The most common form is ...

What is frontotemporal lobar degeneration? Created with Sketch. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, also known as frontotemporal disorder, frontotemporal dementia, or frontotemporal degeneration ...

One previous study showed that a cohort of 68 patients with FTD worsened by an average of 3.57 points over a 12-month period per the Clinical Dementia Rating - Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration ...

The guidance summarizes the process of characterizing and diagnosing people who may have Alzheimer's, Lewy body disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, vascular cognitive impairment and ...

On the surface, the movement disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and the cognitive disorder frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), which underlies ...