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frontotemporal dementia

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frontotemporal dementia
Neurology A form of dementia that affects speech and personality, while stimulating visual perception; FD has been linked to chromosome 17. See FTDP-17, Prion disease.
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24 RC521 Twenty-seven European and North American academics and practitioners contribute 19 chapters offering mental health professionals as well as general practitioners and students an up-to-date discussion of new evidences from basic and clinical sciences concerning four major dementing illnesses likely to be encountered in a daily practice: Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body disease, and frontotemporal dementia.
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