Elkhorn3
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- 05/2020
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- Helena
I don't know if this is the right place to post, or useful to anyone else, but I just found this article from 2009 that really explains the sudden paranoia and fear my husband has started to have. It explains that FTD can be a precursor to onset of ALS symptoms--and when that happens, the path of the disease is identifiably different than other ALS progressions. Since this article clearly mirrors what's happening for us right now, I found it really helpful.
Didn't think ALS could get much crueler, but it just did.
Didn't think ALS could get much crueler, but it just did.
Neurobehavioral Features in Frontotemporal Dementia With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Objective To compare the clinical features at presentation in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) who develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with those of patients with behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD) who do not develop ALS.Design Archival data analysis on 61 deceased...
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