Catalog

Frontotemporal dementia, language variant

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Link to WHO Definition

Frontotemporal dementia, language variant – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1693157226

A clinical syndrome primarily affecting language. It is characterised by an insidious onset and gradual progressive impairment of language that affects activities of daily living. Aphasia should be the most prominent deficit during the initial phases of the disease. As the clinical syndrome progresses, other cognitive functions may be involved as well, but language remains the most impaired domain throughout the disease.