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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), his loved ones announced (Getty). In a statement, his family ...

Tau in the blood can identify people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease, but plasma markers for other tauopathies, not to mention TDP-43 proteinopathies, have been hard to come by. Now, ...

Frontotemporal dementia worsens cognitive and behavioral difficulties and lowers life expectancy in people with ALS. It can complicate communication, daily activities, and disease management.

Scientists are urgently seeking fluid biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia, the most common dementing illness among 40- and 50-year-olds. Two large collaborations studying genetic FTD cohorts have ...

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 ...