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  2. Frontotemporal dementia - Wikipedia

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    FTD is traditionally difficult to diagnose owing to the diverse nature of the associated symptoms. Signs and symptoms are classified into three groups based on the affected functions of the frontal and temporal lobes: [8] These are behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia, and progressive nonfluent aphasia. An overlap ...

  3. Transcortical motor aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Transcortical motor aphasia (TMoA), also known as commissural dysphasia or white matter dysphasia, results from damage in the anterior superior frontal lobe of the language-dominant hemisphere. This damage is typically due to cerebrovascular accident (CVA).

  4. Aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, [a] is an impairment in a person’s ability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. [2] The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in the Global North. [3]

  5. 5 symptoms of frontotemporal dementia: Bruce Willis’s ... - AOL

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    There are two types of FTD – behavioural variant FTD (bvFTD) and primary progressive aphasia (PPA). BvFTD, which results from damage to the frontal lobes of the brain, mainly causes problems ...

  6. Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia: Most common ... - AOL

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    The frontal lobe is responsible for things like decision-making, judgement, movement, speaking, ... Unlike the aphasia following a stroke, which causes a sudden loss of ability to speak ...

  7. 5 signs of frontotemporal dementia: Bruce Willis’s condition ...

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  8. Frontal lobe disorder - Wikipedia

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    The causes of frontal lobe disorders can be closed head injury. An example of this can be from an accident, which can cause damage to the orbitofrontal cortex area of the brain. [2] Cerebrovascular disease may cause a stroke in the frontal lobe. Tumours such as meningiomas may present with a frontal lobe syndrome. [11]

  9. What is frontotemporal dementia? The disease afflicting actor ...

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    Frontotemporal dementia is a progressive brain disease that affects the frontal and anterior temporal lobes of the brain. ... subcategory of primary progressive aphasia, a broad term for language ...