Frontotemporal Cognitive Disorder
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Frontotemporal disorders (FTD), sometimes called frontotemporal dementia, are the result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Many possible symptoms can result, including unusual behaviors, emotional problems, trouble communicating, difficulty with work, or difficulty with walking.
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Wiki Number: 19-Frontotemporal Cognitive Disorder
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Brain Area: frontal lobe
Symptoms: difficulties with cognitive (movement and speech), emotional or behavioral activities
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Causes: brain injuries, frontotemporal-dementia or Alzheimer’s diseases
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Therapies: speech therapy
Youtube Video: 60 Minutes Archive: Frontotemporal Dementia
Amazon or Library Book: Frontotemporal Related Dementias
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Support Group: info@theaftd.com; 866-507-7222
(Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration)
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
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- The problematic syndrome of right temporal lobe atrophy: Unweaving the phenotypic rainbowby Christopher R S Belder on January 26, 2023
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- The role of neurofilament light in genetic frontotemporal lobar degenerationby Henrik Zetterberg on January 25, 2023
Genetic frontotemporal lobar degeneration caused by autosomal dominant gene mutations provides an opportunity for targeted drug development in a highly complex and clinically heterogeneous dementia. These neurodegenerative disorders can affect adults in their middle years, progress quickly relative to other dementias, are uniformly fatal and have no approved disease-modifying treatments. Frontotemporal dementia, caused by mutations in the GRN gene which encodes the protein progranulin, is an...
- Early impairments of visually-driven neuronal ensemble dynamics in the rTg4510 tauopathy mouse modelby Aleksandra Parka on January 25, 2023
Tau protein pathology is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's Disease or frontotemporal dementia. Synaptic dysfunction and abnormal visual evoked potentials have been reported in murine models of tauopathy, but little is known about the state of the network activity on a single neuronal level prior to brain atrophy. In the present study, oscillatory rhythms and single-cell calcium activity of primary visual cortex pyramidal neuron population were investigated in...
- Differential effect of dementia etiology on cortical stiffness as assessed by MR elastographyby KowsalyaDevi Pavuluri on January 25, 2023
CONCLUSIONS: Both tissue-confined and regionally-aware stiffness estimates exhibited unique and complementary stiffness differences in various etiologies of dementia. Our results suggest that mechanical alterations measured by MRE reflect both tissue-specific differences as well as environmental effects. Multi-inversion schemes in MRE may provide new insights into the relationships between neuropathology and brain biomechanics.