Criminal behavior in older adults, including theft, traffic violations, sexual advances, trespassing, and public urination, may be a sign of dementia, researchers say. There is a subgroup of people, ...

A new study suggests that criminal behaviour can be an early symptom of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). The results also show that the types of crime committed by people with ...

Hydromethylthionine (TauRx Therapeutics Ltd), an experimental tau inhibitor in development for the treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD), also has significant pharmacologic activity in behavioral ...

An early-stage study has found that sodium selenate is safe and well-tolerated in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). This variant of frontotemporal dementia is one of ...

Researchers have identified clinical features that can help determine which patients assessed for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (BVFTD) are most likely to actually have the condition.

A new study suggests that some patients diagnosed with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) -- an incurable condition that robs patients of the ability to control their behavior and cope ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increased white matter hyperintensities occurred frequently among patients with behavioral-variant ...

Disinhibition is one of the main symptoms of the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a type of dementia associated with degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.

We may not be surprised when an older person with a long history of criminal behavior gets into trouble again. But when a 60-year-old minister who has always been a role model to his community or a 75 ...

If older patients are suddenly craving sweets, gaining weight, and developing swallowing difficulties, consider a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a new study suggests. Results show that ...