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Webinar: Corticobasal Syndrome & Corticobasal Degeneration, Basics & What You Need to Know
In this AFTD Educational Webinar, Melissa Armstrong, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida (Gainesville) provides an in-depth look at corticobasal syndrome and corticobasal degeneration.…
Messages of Hope
Keep breathing. 💙 #MessagesOfHope #FTD #DementiaUnder60 #ThinkFTD #endFTD #dementia #earlyonsetdementia #youngonsetdementia #raredisease #NotRareEnough #AFTD #FindHelpShareHope #findhelp #sharehope #help #hope #breathe #keepbreathing #inhale #courage #courageous #exhale #quote #quoteoftheday #inspiration #inspirational…
English Woman Writes about Personal Experience with FTD
In a personal account that speaks to the ways FTD steals the people we love, the wife of a man living with a form of the disease shares how she…
Primary Progressive Aphasia and COVID-19
The facts about COVID-19 are frightening, and also very complicated. Their full implications can be difficult to understand for many of us. This holds true to a greater extent for…
AFTD Staff Featured in FTD Care Webinar
In a recent webinar hosted by Home Instead Senior Care, AFTD Program Manager Matthew Sharp and Education Program Manager Deena Chisholm discuss FTD and caring for persons with the disease,…
Messages of Hope
Carry hope, and hope will carry you. #MessagesOfHope #FTD #DementiaUnder60 #ThinkFTD #endFTD #dementia #earlyonsetdementia #youngonsetdementia #raredisease #NotRareEnough #AFTD #FindHelpShareHope #findhelp #sharehope #help #hope #holdontohope #quote #quoteoftheday #inspiration #inspirational #encourage #encouragement…
Large Study Explores How Genetics, Family History Relate to FTD Onset
Researchers recently combined data from multiple studies across the globe to explore how genetics and family history relate to age of onset and disease duration in FTD. The study pulled…
“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” Co-Stars Talk about Caregiving in FTD
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist stars Peter Gallagher and Mary Steenburgen share how the show, in which Gallagher’s character has progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), finds…
Scientific American Highlights Evolving Research into Tau Protein
In a recent online feature, Scientific American highlights how the protein tau has taken a leading role in research combating FTD and other neurodegenerative diseases. While the abnormal accumulation of…
A Message from Dr. Murray Grossman about COVID-19
Dear Friends, COVID-19 is upon us. This is from the same family as one of the viruses that causes the common cold, so it spreads very easily; but the disease…
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