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Atypical forms of dementia are being diagnosed more often in people in their 50s and 60s – The Washington Post

Neurologists started studying these rarer dementias in the last 4 decades. No one knows whether they are becoming more common or doctors are better at spotting…

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At 59, the old Ted, the sensitive husband who cried during sad movies, is gone. A scan of Teds brain helps explain it: Discrete regions of the right temporal lobe that regulate emotion are getting smaller; the tissue is shrinking.
Ted can still do some of the things he has done for decades. Until a few years ago, he was the president at a construction company. Lately, hell see someone he is supposed to know but forgets who they are. He sleeps a lot. And he cant be left alone for too long or his…

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