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“Still Alice” Rings True
The Philadelphia ABC affiliate produced a segment about the struggles associated with early onset dementia featuring a…
Billionaire Invests in Brain Research
Diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease in 2009, Richard Rainwater “has poured more than $50 million into…
Rare dementia ravages people in midlife
AFTD Executive Director Susan Dickinson talks to a reporter from the Delphos Herald about the hallmark characteristics…
2015 Travel Grants
AFTD offers modest financial assistance to family caregivers and people with the disease to attend an FTD…
Nancy Carlson Art Exhibit
Author, illustrator and FTD caregiver Nancy Carlson is selling a collection of doodles and donating 20% of…
Progranulin-Boosting Drug Moves into Phase 2 for Frontotemporal Dementia
A drug being tested for cases of FTD with a progranulin mutation moves into phase 2. Read the…
Amid loss, Minn. author Nancy Carlson still makes children’s books
Author Nancy Carlson describes her journey caring for her husband, who has FTD. Read the article here.
A Symphony for Douglas
An article, posted on CantonRep.com, about a symphony written by Linda Anne Bentz Parsons and orchestrated, arranged…
A Wife’s Death Means a New Beginning
In this blog, Dan Browning, who writes about health care and medical research for the Star Tribune…
Changes in Eye Can Predict Changes in Brain
Researchers have shown that loss of cells in the retina is one of the earliest signs of…
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