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ADDF and the AFTD Invite Scientists to Apply for FTD Biomarkers Grants
The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) invite scientists from academia…
It Is What It Is FTD Film Earns Award
The AFTD’s 18-minute film that chronicles the lives of four families confronted with FTD, It Is What It Is, recently won…
Siblings’ mission to help becomes clear
Writer Bill Zlatos reports on sister and brother Hayley and Matt Jameson, who recently created the Clear Thoughts Foundation for FTD…
Comedy Central’s Nicole Savini Asks “What’s So Funny?”
What’s So Funny? Caregiving with a Smile By Nicole Savini For The Association for Frontotemporal Dementias As…
Internet articles on FTD
AFTD has become aware of several articles circulating on the Internet that suggest haloperidol may be an…
Disappearing Dave
Erin Anderssen of The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, reports on frontotemporal dementia and its impact on Dave…
Aggressive Dementia in Your 30s? It Happened to This Mom
Alex Berg of iVillage reports on Tracy Mobley’s struggle with frontotemporal dementia as a young mother in Aggressive…
Dementia That’s Neither Alzheimer’s Nor Easy
NPR Member Station Reports on Dementia That’s Neither Alzheimer’s Nor Easy Peter O’Dowd of NPR member station…
Philadelphia Inquirer Details AFTD-Funded Research
Fruit fly genes yeilding clues to a deadly disease The article by Staff Writer Tom Avril (Philadelphia Inquirer,…
NYT runs tribute by Elinor Lipman
Sweetest at the End By ELINOR LIPMAN Published: New York Times April 9, 2010 “Disease could have…