Frontotemporal dementia

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), or frontotemporal degeneration disease or frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder, includes some types of dementia.

FTD is the clinical presentation of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. It is characterized by progressive neuronal loss predominantly involving the frontal or temporal lobes, and typical loss of over 70% of spindle neurons, while other neuron types remain intact.

Second only to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in prevalence, FTD accounts for 20% of young-onset dementia cases.

Common signs and symptoms include significant changes in social and personal behavior, apathy, blunting of emotions, and deficits in both expressive and receptive language.

Types: One type of FTD, is "semantic-variant primary progressive aphasia, ... that (mostly or) primarily (does something to, or) affects the areas in the brain responsible for speech and language", according to media; Furthermore, one [can have] trouble [remembering] faces and names.https://stanfordmag.org/contents/my-brothers-keeper. Retrieved 2025-08-15

 Related pages 
 Lewy body dementia
 Vascular dementia

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