2016 AFTD Education Conference “Reflect, Renew and Explore”
Approximately 50.000 – 60,000 Americans are thought to be living with a rare form of dementia known as Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) or commonly called Frontotemporal Dementia. A disease process which starts in the frontal or temporal lobes of the brain causes initial symptoms in language and behavioral symptoms due to the functions of the areas of the brain first impacted in FTD. Unlike Alzheimer’s disease, which begins in the hippocampal region of the brain, memory is o