Includes dementias such as behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD), primary progressive aphasia, Pick’s disease, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy.

Symptoms

Typical symptoms include changes in personality and behavior and difficulty with language. Nerve cells in the front and side regions of the brain are especially affected.

Brain changes

No distinguishing microscopic abnormality is linked to all cases. People with FTD generally develop symptoms at a younger age (at about age 60) and survive for fewer years than those with Alzheimer’s.

Other Types of Dementia

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• Vascular dementia  Learn more
• Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)  Learn more
• Mixed dementia  Learn more
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• Frontotemporal dementia  Learn more
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