Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Key Takeaways Pick's disease affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, leading to dementia.It is diagnosed with neuropsychological exams and brain ...

Dr. Diana Kerwin, a geriatrics medicine physician with Texas Health Dallas, told KERA's Sam Baker the news about the actor was not surprising after Willis's 2022 diagnosis of aphasia. It's actually ...

A distinct pattern of frontal-temporal atrophy discernible on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may flag chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living patients, new research suggests. "These new ...

People with frontotemporal dementia grapple with behavioral, language, and cognitive problems as their disease worsens. It may be small comfort but for a few, their disease sparks an artistic flair, ...

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, as its name implies, involves shrinkage of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Hidden beneath this moniker is a devilish complexity and variability. In some ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through ...

These days, everyone seems to know about the frontal lobes; the parts of the brain that continue to develop through our teens and into our early twenties. To be more precise, the area that is commonly ...