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 ...

Wendy Williams has frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and primary progressive aphasia (a disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate), her care team recently confirmed in a statement. Ahead of ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most commonly diagnosed form of dementia, but it’s far from the only one. In fact, most people who ...

In Why Self-Control Fails in Dementia, I explained how part of frontal lobe function is to regulate behavior. Another part of frontal lobe function is to help us plan and organize actions and ...

In Don’t Listen to Your Lizard Brain, I explained how we all have a reptilian brain inside us that generates primitive drives such as hunger, sexuality, and territoriality, and that we can use our ...

Gait apraxia affects a person's ability to start and coordinate walking. It occurs when something affects the brain's frontal ...

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) ...