Associate Professor Rebekah Ahmed is a neurologist at the Frontier Clinic at The Brain and Mind Centre at The University of Sydney. She is also the director of the Memory and Cognition Clinic at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
Here she discusses how clinicians make a diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia, and the clinical changes that occur throughout the disease process.
This presentation is part of the 2019 Frontier FTD Information and Support Day which is held annually at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.
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Frontier is a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary research clinic that investigates frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in collaboration with ForeFront Ageing and Neurodegeneration. FTD is Australia’s second most common degenerative disease that causes dementia in younger adults. As the first ever research group to concentrate on FTD in Australia, Frontier is dedicated to identifying better ways to diagnose FTD, finding the cause and developing effective treatments for the condition.