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Frontotemporal Dementia: The Hard Work of Pushing Toward Trials

In the last 10 years, the science of frontotemporal dementias has exploded, thanks to big openings in…

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Monty Python’s Terry Jones has Been Diagnosed with PPA

The comedy genius behind Monty Python, Terry Jones, has been diagnosed with PPA. The news came as Bafta…

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Prolific Film Director, Curtis Hanson, Has Passed Away From FTD

From The Washington Post… FTD has claimed yet another creative life. Curtis Hanson, Oscar-winning director of “L.A….

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Brain Atrophy Patterns Support Distinct Subtypes of Frontotemporal Dementia

FTD Symptoms range from sluggish apathy to obsessive compulsion, and numerous genetic mutations and neuropathologies can underlie…

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Knowing When it’s Alzheimer’s, and When it’s Not

The trouble started in 2010 when Dennis Krupinski was just 53. A longtime employee in Walt Disney…

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A Rare Form of Dementia Slowly Took My Husband and Made Me a Widow at 36. But These 9 Words Changed How I Lived

Mother of four children and FTD advocate, Tia Singer Willin, tells her harrowing story about how FTD…

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Using Film to Educate and Inspire

AFTD Volunteer and FTD advocate Katie Brandt lost her husband to FTD in 2012 when he was…

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Progress Made in Diagnosing Early-Onset Dementia

In a recent article on nextavenue by Sam Perkins, light is shed on how progress is being…

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PSP Research May Offer Insights into New Treatments for Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

About 100 times rarer than Parkinson’s, and often mistaken for it, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) afflicts fewer…

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Partnerships Play a Key Role in the Battle Against Brain Diseases

In a recent article on Huffington Post, written by Dr. Howard Fillit, Chief Science Officer of the…

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