What is it about?
This chapter covers the wide clinical, genetic, and pathological presentations of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). FTD is a heterogenous group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders due to underlying frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) pathology, which includes behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal spectrum disorder (ALS-FTSD), semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), non-fluent variant PPA or agrammatic variant PPA (nfv/agvPPA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and corticobasal degeneration (CBD), among others.
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Why is it important?
Frontotemporal dementia is a more recently described class of neurodegenerative disorders, but has a wide variety of presentations therefore is often unrecognized or misdiagnosed. In this chapter, the clinical presentations of these disorders are described.
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This page is a summary of: Frontotemporal Dementia, January 2024, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-95702-1.00120-2.
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