This chapter explores the complexity of FTD and its different presentations as compared to Alzheimer's disease. It discusses the difficulties in finding a drug that can target the multiple proteins involved in FTD and the challenges in diagnosing and designing specific drugs for each case.
Frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, is tricky to pick up at the doctor's office and impossible to cure.
And for those who live with the condition, their families and their carers, the situation can be very challenging.
On All in the Mind this week, we hear from those people and a researcher who has spent decades working on the condition.