Disease | Clinical Characteristics |
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Pick's Disease |
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Preventable: No | |
FTDp-17 |
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Preventable: No | |
Primary Progressive Asphasia (PPA) |
The types of language difficulties that occur differ among individuals, but generally involve things such as the following:
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Preventable: No | |
NF-PPA |
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Preventable: No | |
Supranuclear Palsy |
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Preventable: No | |
Coritcobasal Degeneration (CBD) |
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Preventable: No | |
Vascular Dementia |
Alzheimer's Society provided the following information about Vascular Dementia. People with vascular dementia may particularly experience:
Other symptoms may include:
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Preventable: Yes. Early detection and an accurate diagnosis are important! Although the brain damage that causes vascular dementia cannot be reversed, it may be possible to slow the progression of the disease in a number of ways including:
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Best FTD Resources
What If It's Not Alzheimer's |
Chapter 1 |
Association of Frontotemporal Dementia (Website) |
Overview Information |
Pick's Disease Support Group (Website) |
University of California, San Francisco (Website) |
I recommend everyone view this video! The Memory and Aging Center and UCSF in San Francisco has started to create a film about Frontotemporal Dementia called "When I'm 64". Currently there is a trailer of the movie you can see by clicking on the link below or by going to the "When I'm 64" website. You will need QuickTime 7.x or later to be able to run the video. They are also looking for a different name for the movie too. Which I agree, it doesn't portray FTD. It is a catchy name, but I think we can do better. They are also looking for video of people with FTD before diagnosis. If you have video and would like to maybe help with this video, please click here or contact them at : When I'm 64 +11/25/06
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Family Caregiver Alliance (Website) |
National Institutes of Health (Website) |
Other Internet Articles
Alzheimer's Association |
Facts about dementia
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At the Alzheimer's Disease Education Referral Center website you can find an article called, " Frontotemporal Dementia: Growing Interest in a Rare Dementia." |
"For the Record" website has an article called "Frontotemporal Dementia Stealing Lives at an Early Age by Kara McDonald. |
Northwestern University website has this article about dementia. |
The Victorian Government in Australia has a website called Better Health Channel, which has this pages about dementia. General Information about Dementia |
Continuing Medical Education website offers this one page. In the middle of the page is an article about FTD. |
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) www.asha.org/about/publications/leader-online/archives/2004/040427/f040427a.htm |
The Sacramento County Network of Care provides an informative web page about dementia. sacramento.networkofcare.org/aging/library/hwdetail.cfm?hwid=uf4984&cat=2 |
Dr. Lawrence S. Honig at Columbia University talks about FTD in this article called "Recognition of Vascular Dementia, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and Frontotemporal Dementia" |
Dr. Rodney Short wrote an article called"Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration" in 2000.
www.dcmsonline.org/jax-medicine/2000journals/February2000/ftld.htm |
Dealing With Dementia |
The National Parkinson Foundation provide an article called: http://www.parkinson.org/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=9dJFJLPwB&b=108269&ct=89696 +11/12/06 |
Understanding dementiaDr. KRISHNAMOORTHY & JOTHEESHWARAN wrote this article about the general information about dementia and dementia issues in India.
http://over50stuff.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_over50stuff_archive.html#112751893697246283 +11/13/06 (Patty H.) |
Yahoo Health offers a web page about dementia. This information was created by a company called Healthwise here in Boise, Idaho.
http://health.yahoo.com/ency/healthwise/uf4984;_ylt=AlXxwoZ_3nscslGKRRyhZjamxbAB +11/15/06 |
The Mayo Clinic offers this article called, "Dementia: Not always Alzheimer's" http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dementia/AZ00003 +11/17/06 (Patty H.)
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The University of Florida Memory Disorder Clinic offers this article called, http://alzonline.phhp.ufl.edu/en/reading/BasicsDemSession1March2006.pdf +11/18/06 |
The American Heart Association provide this article on their website called, http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3033315 +11/18/06 (Darlene R.)
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The South Central Winconsin Chapter of the Alzheimer's association provide an article about Frontotemporal Dementia. http://www.alzwisc.org/Frontotemporal%20Dementia.htm +11/19/06 (Jeanette D.) |
The Montana Geriatric Education Center provided this document called, +12/06/06 (Mary M.)[D1006]
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Dementia: Supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=byID&r=true&o=10998 +11/21/07 |
Frontal lobe dysfunction explains some behaviors, doctors told http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1292496.html +11/22/07 |