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fromBuzzFeed
17 hours ago

Doctors Are Revealing 1 Commonly Missed Warning Sign Of Dementia, And It Can Happen Early

Early dementia commonly presents with language and visual-spatial problems, navigation difficulties, personality or sensory changes, and subtle task-completion issues.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

'I lost me': How frontotemporal dementia changed a mind and a marriage

You lost yourself? Yeah. Where did you go? I don't know. I don't have a sense of who I am. Marc Pierrat's mind once ran as smoothly as the gears on his endurance bike. He was a mechanical engineer by training and a marathoner for fun, a guy who maintained complicated systems at work and a meticulously organized garage at his Westlake Village home.
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