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Loss of Moral Reasoning in FTD from Bruce Miller, MD
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From: Bruce Miller, MD Category:  Neurologic Disease

Added: Oct 26, 2008


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Frontotemporal Dementia, FTD, affects the frontal lobe of the brain. The frontal lobe is the area of the brain that controls moral reasoning. When patients develop Frontotemporal Dementia they can carry out illegal activity that they would have never previously even thought about. They lose their normal sense of self. Dr. Bruce Miller, the Director of the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF, discusses frontotemporal dementia.





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