What is Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)?

Frontotemporal Dementia was first described over 100 years ago by Arnold Pick and is often referred to as Pick’s disease. It is a cause of dementia which is in some ways similar to Alzheimer’s disease involving a progressive decline in a person’s mental powers over a number of years. Both are what we call neurodegenerative disorders but because different regions of the brain are affected the symptom profile in FTD and Alzheimer’s disease are distinct, at least in the early stages.