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Frontotemporal Dementia

Bruce Willis and Frontotemporal Dementia

October 3, 2025 No Comments

Diane Sawyer sat down with Emma Heming Willis and Neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller to talk about Bruce Willis’ health. (11 minute video)

5 Types of Dementia in 8 Minutes

June 20, 2025 No Comments

This “Overview for Med Students” sums up 5 common types of dementia: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lewy body, vascular and frontotemporal dementia. Watch now.

Wives’ Care Partnering Tips

October 5, 2023 No Comments

Two wives caring for their husbands with dementia generously share their experiences and offer caregiving tips to those find themselves in a similar position with a loved one.

Frontotemporal Dementia: ‘Cruelest Disease You Never Heard Of’

February 19, 2023 No Comments

Frontotemporal Dementia, FTD, is the most common form of dementia in people under age 60. Why isn’t it better known?

Seeing Dementia’s Tau Tangles

April 24, 2013 No Comments

ARTICLE ON TRACERS + VIDEO ON TAU 2 new PET tracers promise to change the face of diagnosing and researching dementias such as Alzheimer’s. Learn how

MRI Screens Will Change Dementia Diagnostics in 2013

January 6, 2013 No Comments

Can new MRI technology effectively & non-invasively diagnose the type of dementia that is afflicting a person?

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Music After 70 Cuts Dementia 39%

October 30, 2025

A major study of over 10,000 older adults found that those who regularly listened to or played music not only had a much lower risk of dementia, but also performed better on memory tests.

5 Estate Planning Tips for People with Dementia

October 29, 2025

Check out these 5 simple tips for estate planning with dementia. Do they apply to you?

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Thought of the Week: A Perfect Day

October 28, 2025

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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Big Cup, Little Man: Picking Up the Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

SHORT-TERM MEMORY lapses are obvious signs of Alzheimer’s, but other tell-tale signals begin to show much earlier. Learn how to look for semantic impairments, such as simple questions about size.

85 with Dementia? Good Chance It’s HS-AGING, Not Alzheimer’s

Three important dementia studies focus on HS-AGING, a type of dementia almost as common as Alzheimer’s in the 85+ group. Yet few people have heard of it. Why? What makes it different?

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A Grandchild for One Day Keeps Dementia Away

An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?