Latest frontotemporal dementia Stories
A Mayo Clinic-led international consortium has found a mechanism that may help explain Parkinson's and other neurological disorders.Studying just eight families worldwide, the international team of researchers have discovered a genetic defect that results in profound depression and parkinsonism in a disorder known as Perry syndrome. Although this syndrome is exceedingly rare, the mechanism implicated in it may help explain the origins of a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, such as...
People with frontotemporal dementia have shorter life spans than Alzheimer's patients, study findsA family confronted with Alzheimer's disease may well believe that it is the worst thing that can happen, but neurologists are describing a related brain condition that is even more troubling.It's called frontotemporal dementia, named after the parts of the brain that it attacks -- the upper lobes of the front part of the organ. Alzheimer's, by comparison, affects the entire brain.And while...
A non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called arterial spin labeling is just as accurate as invasive scanning techniques in distinguishing Alzheimer's disease from frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in the brains of elderly people, according to a new study at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).The study, led by Norbert Schuff, PhD, a Principle Investigator at SFVAMC, used arterial spin labeling to measure perfusion, or blood flow, in the areas of the brain affected by...
