In these cases the cause is likely to be genetic. This is known as familial frontotemporal dementia. For behavioural variant FTD, which mainly affects emotion and personality, around one in every two ...

Frontotemporal dementia also called FTD, is a rarer type of dementia caused by a build up of proteins, tau, FUS and TDP-43, in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Dementia is caused by ...