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Aggressive Dementia in Your 30s? It Happened to This Mom

Alex Berg of iVillage reports on Tracy Mobley’s struggle with frontotemporal dementia as a young mother in Aggressive Dementia in Your 30s? It Happened to This Mom. Read the story, which includes comments from AFTD Executive Director Susan Dickinson, at http://www.ivillage.com/dementia-your-30s-it-happened-mom/4-a-258190.

Dementia That’s Neither Alzheimer’s Nor Easy

NPR Member Station Reports on Dementia That’s Neither Alzheimer’s Nor Easy
Peter O’Dowd of NPR member station KJZZ in Phoenix interviewed Howard Rosen, M.D., a member of the AFTD Medical Advisory Council, for a report on frontotemporal dementias. The story aired July 6, 2010 and included interviews with caregivers from a Phoenix-area support group. Dr. Rosen is a neurologist at University of California, San Francisco.

Summer Newsletter Available

The Summer 2010 issue of the AFTD newsletter is now available online.

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Philadelphia Inquirer Details AFTD-Funded Research

Fruit fly genes yeilding clues to a deadly disease

The article by Staff Writer Tom Avril (Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2010) highlighted research, funded in part by AFTD, that is studying inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget’s disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD). The article included comments from AFTD grant recipient J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD, and AFTD Medical Advisory Council Members Virginia Lee, PhD, and John Trojanowski, MD, PhD.

Dutch film supports AFTD

Disordered  by Klaas Jansma and Pieter Wolswijk

This three-part documentary on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) shows how the lives of three patients have changed  and how this has affected the people around them. Klaas Jansma is a psychologist involved in the Dutch National Steering Committee for Young People with Dementia. Pieter Wolswijk is a geriatric psychologist and freelance filmmaker. This documentary is an initiative of the Intercollegiate Group of Geriatric Psychologists in the Arnhem Region, the Netherlands. Read a description or view a movie trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVOnX4uGk0s.

Price: $27 inclusive of shipping and handling. For each copy sold in the USA and Canada, $3 will be donated to AFTD.

Available through:   Klaas Jansma via email at krjansma@hotmail.com

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