Diseases

Frontotemporal Dementia

The most common clinical form of FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION, this dementia presents with personality and behavioral changes often associated with disinhibition, apathy, and lack of insight.

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The most common clinical form of FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION, this dementia presents with personality and behavioral changes often associated with disinhibition, apathy, and lack of insight.

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73 entry terms
  • DDPAC
  • Dementia, Frontotemporal
  • Dementia, Frontotemporal, with Parkinsonism
  • Dementia, Hereditary Dysphasic Disinhibition
  • Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy Complex
  • Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy Complex
  • FTD-GRN
  • FTD-PGRN
  • FTDP-17
  • FTLD with TDP-43 Pathology
  • FTLD-17 GRN
  • FTLD-TDP
  • Familial Pick's Disease
  • Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism
  • Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism-17
  • Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin-Positive
  • Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Ubiquitin-Positive Inclusions
  • Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia
  • Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia (FLDEM)
  • GRN-Related Frontotemporal Dementia
  • HDDD1
  • HDDD2
  • Hereditary Dysphasic Disinhibition Dementia
  • Multiple System Tauopathy with Presenile Dementia
  • Wilhelmsen-Lynch Disease
  • Complex, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy
  • Complex, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy
  • Complices, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy
  • Complices, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy
  • Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe
  • Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM)
  • Dementia, GRN-Related Frontotemporal
  • Dementia, Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal
  • Dementias, Frontotemporal
  • Dementias, Frontotemporal Lobe
  • Dementias, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM)
  • Dementias, GRN-Related Frontotemporal
  • Dementias, Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal
  • Disease, Familial Pick's
  • Disease, Wilhelmsen-Lynch
  • Diseases, Familial Pick's
  • Diseases, Wilhelmsen-Lynch
  • Disinhibition Dementia Parkinsonism Amyotrophy Complex
  • Disinhibition Dementia Parkinsonism Amytrophy Complex
  • Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy Complices
  • Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy Complices
  • FTLD with TDP 43 Pathology
  • Familial Pick Disease
  • Familial Pick's Diseases
  • Familial Picks Disease
  • Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism 17
  • Frontotemporal Dementia, GRN-Related
  • Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin Positive
  • Frontotemporal Dementias
  • Frontotemporal Dementias, GRN-Related
  • Frontotemporal Dementias, Ubiquitin-Positive
  • Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Ubiquitin Positive Inclusions
  • Frontotemporal Lobe Dementias
  • Frontotemporal Lobe Dementias (FLDEM)
  • GRN Related Frontotemporal Dementia
  • GRN-Related Frontotemporal Dementias
  • Lobe Dementia, Frontotemporal
  • Lobe Dementias, Frontotemporal
  • Pick's Disease, Familial
  • Pick's Diseases, Familial
  • Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal Dementia
  • Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal Dementias
  • Wilhelmsen Lynch Disease
  • Wilhelmsen-Lynch Diseases
  • Semantic Dementia
  • Dementia, Semantic
  • Dementias, Semantic
  • Semantic Dementias

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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2010

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  • Dementia (1994-2009)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Frontotemporal Dementia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D057180. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D057180
  2. Frontotemporal Dementia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontotemporal_dementia
  3. Frontotemporal Dementia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18592