Frontotemporal dementia ... shrinkage in the frontal and temporal areas of the brain,” says Dr Teresa Niccoli from the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL. The temporal lobes are behind the ...

In the mild and moderate stages of dementia abnormal gait unexplained ... complex motor behaviours that have been described with frontal lobe lesions and are attributed to cortical disinhibition.

A major trial in frontotemporal dementia patients has found that oxytocin can help improve symptoms of apathy. A new study ...

Peter Alexander was 49-years-old when he was diagnosed with dementia, or more specifically frontotemporal dementia (FTD) - the same condition that both Bruce Willis and Wendy Williams have developed ...

The finding of neurologic signs in addition to cognitive impairments in the mild and moderate stages of dementia suggests ... assessed or elicited: gait, frontal lobe signs, signs of parkinsonism ...