Frontotemporal dementia has been in the headlines recently because of the diagnosis of Bruce Willis in 2023. It's one of the most common forms of younger-onset dementia but there are fears many cases are being missed.Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia primarily targets parts of the brain which govern personality and social behaviour.Experts want the diagnostic guidelines to be broadened, as they currently exclude patients with memory loss.Guest/sJulane Bowen, dementia law advocateOlivier Piguet, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of SydneyReferencesFourteen years later: Reviewing the diagnostic criteria for behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementiaFrontotemporal dementia patients missing out on timely diagnosis and treatment, researchers say

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