What If It's Not Alzheimer's |
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Association of Frontotemporal Dementia (Website) |
Pick's Disease Support Group (Website) |
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University of California, San Francisco (Website) |
Family Caregiver Alliance (Website) |
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National Institutes of Health (Website) |
Other Internet Articles
The National Institute on Aging provides this brochure called "Talking With Your Doctor: A Guide for Older People." The first section is okay about selecting a doctor, but I think we are really limited by which doctor we can see. The rest of the brochure has a lot of good useful information. http://www.niapublications.org/pubs/talking/index.asp To access the PDF file http://www.niapublications.org/pubs/talking/Talking_with_Your_Doctor.pdf +11/06/06 (Don B.) |
The University of Penn. has this PDF file which is a chapter that was published in M. J. Goolsby (Ed). Nurse Practitioner Secrets. |
The Mayo Clinic provides the following information about diagnosis. Diagnosis Information for Frontotemporal Dementia |
From the University of Southern California about dementia. |
From the Northern California Institute for Research and Education is able to distinguish Alzheimer from Frontotemporal Dementia. |
Dr. Rodney A. Short is from the Behavioral Neurology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. |
In the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine, Dr. David Clark and Dr. Jeffery Cummings from the UCLA wrote an article called "The Diagnosis and Management of Dementia. |
The Mayo Clinic offers an article called "Essentials of the Proper Diagnoses of Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia and Major Subtypes of Dementia" |
Dr. Carol Manning of the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia Health System wrote this article "Beyond Memory: Neuropsychological features in differential diagnosis of dementia" |
The Alzheimer's Association provides this website about what happens in the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease. It is an interactive tour of the brain. +11/06/06 (Don B.) |
The Department of Psychology at the Illinois State University provides this review called "Review of Differential Diagnoses in cases of Dementia" +11/14/06 |
The IrishHealth.com website offers this web page called "Early Onset Dementia." It is an interesting article. Not once you they talk about FTD but they talk about younger people with dementia issues. +11/15/06 |
The Philly.com website published this article called, "Probing a Mind for a Cure" http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/13961528.htm +11/23/06
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Research links vasectomy with higher dementia risk Northwestern University article about this research Another Northwestern University article about this research Reuters's article about this research +02/21/07[D1018]
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The Callier Library a satellite facility of The University of Texas provided this article. "Screening for Frontotemporal Dementias and Alzheimer's Disease with the Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition: A Preliminary Analysis" +11/09/07 |
Software Improves Dementia Scans, Study Shows Dementia Diagnosis by Pet Scan Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease More Accuratelyl +11/09/07 (Vida) [D1000] |