Frontotemporal dementia ... shrinkage in the frontal and temporal areas of the brain,” says Dr Teresa Niccoli from the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL. The temporal lobes are behind the ...

Brains from 12 patients dying with a clinical diagnosis of frontal lobe dementia have been examined at post mortem. In pathological terms four groups were encountered. Groups A and B showed severe ...

The right temporal lobe ... and both frontal lobes. These findings suggest that the right temporal lobe variant of FTD should be considered in elderly patients with altered behaviour and problems with ...

Their pathology was characterised by nerve cell loss and microvacuolation. Our patients with ‘frontal lobe’ dementia and MND invariably showed this latter type. One of our most productive ...

Frontotemporal dementia, as its name suggests, occurs when neurons in the frontal (emotions, judgement, impulse) or temporal lobes (language ... s disease and usually appear as FTD enters later stages ...

A major trial in frontotemporal dementia patients has found that oxytocin can help improve symptoms of apathy. A new study ...

In the mild and moderate stages of dementia abnormal gait unexplained ... complex motor behaviours that have been described with frontal lobe lesions and are attributed to cortical disinhibition.

is a quick and reliable method of screening to evaluate frontal lobe dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, previous studies were generally conducted on small samples ...

Peter Alexander was 49-years-old when he was diagnosed with dementia, or more specifically frontotemporal dementia (FTD) - the same condition that both Bruce Willis and Wendy Williams have developed ...