Frontotemporal dementia is a brain disease that affects the parts of your brain responsible for behavior, speech and memory. “Frontotemporal” stems from the names frontal and temporal lobes, which are ...

Last month, we heard about Brit Andre Yarham, who was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia at the very young age of 22. Sadly, Andre died recently aged 24 after receiving a devastating diagnosis of ...

Frontotemporal dementia is one of the most common forms of dementia in people aged under 65. Unlike Alzheimer's, which is characterised by memory problems, frontotemporal dementia involves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marc Pierrat, center, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2022, participates in an exercise class at Infinity ...

All-cause mortality risk was over six times higher for people with young-onset dementia versus controls. Median survival was 8.7 years, but varied by clinical type. People with young-onset ...

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients' skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients' brains, a new study ...

A loved one undergoing massive shifts in personality or speech can be challenging to work with. You might be wondering if it’s already a symptom of an underlying disease. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) ...

I don’t know. I don’t have a sense of who I am. Marc Pierrat’s mind once ran as smoothly as the gears on his endurance bike. He was a mechanical engineer by training and a marathoner for fun, a guy ...