To Treat Frontotemporal Dementia, Treat the Brain’s Immune Cells

Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 10:11 in Health & Medicine

The neurodegenerative disease known as frontotemporal dementia (FTD) causes untold suffering. As neurons die in regions of the brain important for maintaining our personalities and living a purposeful life, patients experience steadily worsening cognitive and behavioral symptoms, and the disease is generally fatal within a decade of diagnosis. Though FTD is not as well known […]

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