Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
The most common frontotemporal disorder, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), involves changes in personality, behavior, and judgment.
People with this dementia can act strangely around other people, resulting in embarrassing social situations. Often, they don’t know or care that their behavior is unusual and don’t show any consideration for the feelings of others. Over time, language and/or movement problems may occur, and the person needs more care and supervision.
In the past, bvFTD was called Pick’s disease, named after Arnold Pick, the
German scientist who first described it in 1892. The term Pick’s disease is now used to describe abnormal collections in the brain of the protein
The most common frontotemporal disorder, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), involves changes in personality, behavior, and judgment.
People with this dementia can act strangely around other people, resulting in embarrassing social situations. Often, they don’t know or care that their behavior is unusual and don’t show any consideration for the feelings of others. Over time, language and/or movement problems may occur, and the person needs more care and supervision.
In the past, bvFTD was called Pick’s disease, named after Arnold Pick, the
German scientist who first described it in 1892. The term Pick’s disease is now used to describe abnormal collections in the brain of the protein