title: A fresh look at memory loss: Reexamining frontotemporal dementia.
abstract: Frontotemporal dementia is a neurodegenerative disease affecting cognition and behavior in multiple devastating ways. This article highlights diagnostic features helpful in differentiating frontotemporal dementia from other dementias, most commonly Alzheimer disease.
authors.affiliation: Stephanie Zale is a graduate of the PA program at Mercer University in Atlanta, Ga. Lisa Dickerson is a clinical assistant professor in the PA program at Mercer University. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zale
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dickerson
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D018888:Aphasia, Primary Progressive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D057180:Frontotemporal Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders