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Frontotemporal Dementia
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Definition
: The most common clinical form of FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION, this dementia presents with personality and behavioral changes often associated with disinhibition, apathy, and lack of insight.
Other names
Ubiquitin-
Positive Frontotemporal Dementias; Ubiquitin-
Positive Frontotemporal Dementia; Frontotemporal Lobe Dementias (FLDEM); Frontotemporal Dementias, Ubiquitin-
Positive; Frontotemporal Dementias; Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin Positive; Dementias, Ubiquitin-
Positive Frontotemporal; Dementias, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM); Dementias, Frontotemporal; Dementia, Ubiquitin-
Positive Frontotemporal; Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM); Dementia, Frontotemporal; Multiple System Tauopathy with Presenile Dementia; Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia (FLDEM); Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin-
Positive; Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism; Dementia, Hereditary Dysphasic Disinhibition; Dementia, Frontotemporal, with Parkinsonism