Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

Researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to misdiagnosis ...

A recent study by researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) has found that nearly 70% of patients suspected of having ...

The study used gold-standard autopsy confirmation to show that a blood test for Alzheimer's disease accurately detected ...

A new study published in the journal Cortex sheds light on how brain network organization differs in healthy aging and semantic dementia. Researchers found that older adults experience changes in the ...

Data pertaining to the pathophysiology and genetics of frontotemporal dementia primarily come from studies conducted in North America and Western Europe. More patients from underrepresented groups ...

Macular degeneration is very common and affects an estimated 19.8 million people in the United States. Approximately one in 10 Americans age 50 and older have an early form of the disease and as many ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is linked to variants in the valosin-containing protein (VCP) gene. Using a fruit fly model, it was demonstrated that ...

and Professor Hitoshi Okazawa from Institute of Science Tokyo and Maastricht University in the Netherlands uncovered the mechanism underlying frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) caused by ...

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 ...

The company says that in pre-clinical tests performed on 30 people with macular degeneration, all of the participants experienced a reading speed increase of at least 50% when using the glasses.