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| - | **Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)**, also known as **frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)**, or less commonly, Pick's disease, is the most common causes of dementia in adults younger than 60 years. FTD is actually an umbrella clinical term that encompasses a group of neurodegenerative diseases (behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, non-fluent variant [[geri:dementia:primary-progressive-aphasia-ppa|primary progressive aphasia]], and semantic-variant [[geri:dementia:primary-progressive-aphasia-ppa|primary progressive aphasia]]). Individuals with behavioural variant may have disinhibited behavior, hyperorality, lack of empathy, impaired executive function, and lack of sympathy; Loss of insight is one of the core features of the frontal/behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Those with primary progressive aphasia will have progressive deficits in speech, grammar, word output, semantic knowledge, or naming. | + | **Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)**, also known as **frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)**, or less commonly, Pick's disease, is one of the most common causes of dementia in adults younger than 60 years. FTD is actually an umbrella clinical term that encompasses a group of neurodegenerative diseases (behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, non-fluent variant [[geri:dementia:primary-progressive-aphasia-ppa|primary progressive aphasia]], and semantic-variant [[geri:dementia:primary-progressive-aphasia-ppa|primary progressive aphasia]]). Individuals with behavioural variant may have disinhibited behavior, hyperorality, lack of empathy, impaired executive function, and lack of sympathy; Loss of insight is one of the core features of the frontal/behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Those with primary progressive aphasia will have progressive deficits in speech, grammar, word output, semantic knowledge, or naming. |
| == Epidemiology == | == Epidemiology == | ||