Term Name: frontotemporal dementia
Synonyms: frontotemporal lobar degeneration, multiple system tauopathy with presenile dementia, pallidopontonigral degeneration, Wilhemsen-Lynch disease
Definition: A dementia characterized by progressive neuronal loss predominantly involving the frontal and/or temporal lobes of the brain resulting in a gradual and progressive decline in behavior or language.
Ontology: Human Disease [DOID:9255]   ( DOID:9255 )

Relationships
is a type of: brain disease dementia
has subtype: corticobasal degeneration syndrome frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 7 Grn-related frontotemporal lobar degeneration with Tdp43 inclusions Pick's disease primary progressive aphasia