2012年5月9日 · More patients will share their stories in the coming weeks. A self-professed pain in the butt, Howard Glick, 54, has shaken up the FTD community, mainly for the purposes of bringing patients...

2024年12月23日 · AFTD Ambassador Deb Scharper shared the difficulties that she faced trying to get an accurate FTD diagnosis… Dementia advocate and thought leader Aisha Adkins wrote recently on the disproportionate burden that Black women face… Two couples living with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) share their experiences of managing the disease and the…

Jill Ferguson is a research participant of the Brain and Mind Centre’s FRONTIER Research Clinic. For 2021 World FTD Awareness Week, she and her husband, Mark, graciously share their story to help raise awareness of this younger-onset dementia. It took two years for Jill to work out what was happening to her.

Ourftdstory explains early age dementia & frontotemporal dementia causes, symptoms and support to learn challenges and resources of young age dementia.

2019年5月5日 · This is a story about the cruelest disease you have never heard of. It's called frontotemporal dementia — or FTD. And given the devastating toll it takes on its victims and their families, it...

2024年5月17日 · His doctors suspected he was experiencing psychological distress—but after a series of tests, Lee was diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), the most common type of dementia in people...

2020年7月2日 · When Jess’s mum, Janice, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Jess struggled to find more information about the disease. Having found support through Alzheimer's Society and others, she hopes her personal story about FTD can help people in …

2015年4月17日 · In November 2013, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). If that wasn’t enough, another evaluation five months later revealed that he also had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS) . Both FTD and ALS are neurodegenerative disorders with symptoms that tend to overlap and even accelerate one another.

Join the global conversation for 2021 World FTD Awareness Week! World FTD United invites those whose lives have been touched by frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) to tell their FTD story by video or text. Stories will be shared during World FTD Awareness Week, September 26 through October 3, 2021.

Dr. Kertesz, a neurologist and researcher, presents 19 factual stories of people with FTD, chosen to represent the typical behavior and language changes associated with the disorders. In each chapter the biology of the underlying brain disorder and the social and cultural aspects of the behavior change are explored.