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 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 ...

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 ...

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients' skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients' brains, a new study ...

Bruce Willis’ ex-wife Demi Moore revealed Thursday on Instagram that the retired actor has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. In the spring of 2022, Moore shared that the 67-year-old ...

University of Queensland researchers have discovered that nearly 70% of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that ...

Sparks of visual artistic creativity occurred early in frontotemporal dementia and were disproportionately observed in patients with temporal lobe-predominant degeneration, a case-control study showed ...

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 ...

A loved one undergoing massive shifts in personality or speech can be challenging to work with. You might be wondering if it’s already a symptom of an underlying disease. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of diseases that damage the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These lobes, located on the front and sides of your brain, are important for personality, ...