Developing effective and affordable biomarkers for dementias is critical given the difficulty to achieve early diagnosis. In this sense, electroencephalographic (EEG) methods offer promising ...

Dementia researchers have called for updates to the diagnostic criteria for one of the most common younger-onset forms of the disease, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a condition ...

Converging evidence suggests that when individuals are left to think to themselves, a so-called default network of the brain is engaged, allowing the individual to daydream, reflect on their past, ...

Frontotemporal dementia isn’t one condition. It’s several disorders that affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Personality, emotions, behavior, and speech are controlled in these areas ...

In honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness week, Emma Heming Willis, wife of actor Bruce Willis, joined TODAY for an exclusive interview, her first on TV since her husband was diagnosed with ...

Frontotemporal dementia is one of the most common forms of dementia in people aged under 65. Unlike Alzheimer's, which is characterised by memory problems, frontotemporal dementia involves ...

Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), his family says, nearly a year after the Die Hard franchise star retired from acting because aphasia had hampered his cognitive ...

Frontotemporal dementia is a brain disease that affects the parts of your brain responsible for behavior, speech and memory. "Frontotemporal" stems from the names frontal and temporal lobes, which are ...

On Wednesday, the family of actor Bruce Willis disclosed that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain disease that currently has no cure. Calling the diagnosis a ...

Nearly a year after it was announced that Bruce Willis would step away from filmmaking following being diagnosed with aphasia, the American actor’s family says his “condition has progressed”. In a ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of neurologic disorders associated with changes in personality, behavior, language or movement. Some FTD forms are inherited, and some are not. Typically, ...