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Frontotemporal Lobar degeneration including Frontotemporal Dementia

Background

Frontotemporal Lobar degeneration; FTLD; Pick's disease

Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) is a term for a group of conditions caused by loss of brain cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Pick's disease is an older name for the disease and is now mostly used just to mean a particular type of underlying pathology, although some people still use this to mean the clinical syndrome of FTLD.

Anybody can develop FTLD. It affects men and women alike. Although it typically affects people in their fifties and sixties it has been diagnosed in people from the ages of twenty to eighty. The rate of progression varies enormously ranging from a duration of less than two years to well over ten years.

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Medical text written October 2001 by Contact a Family. Approved October 2001 by Professor M Rosser, Professor of Clinical Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK and Medical Adviser to the Pick's Disease Support Group. Last updated October 2006 by Dr Jonathan Rohrer, Dr Rohani Omar and Dr Jason Warren of the Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.

 

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