Preferred Name | frontotemporal dementia | |
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Frontotemporal dementia is a neurological disease where cognitive deficits [memory, visual spatial, attention, orientation, executive function, functional] occur that represent a decline from previous levels of functioning resulting in dementia caused by neurodegeneration as a result of deposition of tau in the frontal and temporal cortices. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ND_0000167 |
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FTD |
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definition editor |
Alexander P. Cox |
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label |
frontotemporal dementia |
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ND:0000167 |
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frontotemporal dementia |
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textual definition |
Frontotemporal dementia is a neurological disease where cognitive deficits [memory, visual spatial, attention, orientation, executive function, functional] occur that represent a decline from previous levels of functioning resulting in dementia caused by neurodegeneration as a result of deposition of tau in the frontal and temporal cortices. |
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