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Frontotemporal Dementia – Symptoms & Causes

Mental Symptoms

People with frontotemporal dementia would have many mental symptoms. They occur when neurons and nervous system are affected by gradual damage. These would include trouble working out things, difficulty organizing and planning, being distracted easily, memory issues, losing the ability to comprehend abstract things, thinking in an inflexible and rigid way. In most cases, mental signs do not tend to happen in the early stages. You often find them in advanced cases when the condition keeps progressing. [3]