frontotemporal dementia
medical condition
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Summary
frontotemporal dementia is a rare disease[1]. It ranks in the top 0.8% of rare disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,823 views/month, #5 of 627).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: class of disease[3]
- Subclass of: TDP-43 Proteinopathies[4], frontotemporal degeneration with dementia[5], genetic neurodegenerative disease with dementia[6], dementia[7], encephalopathy[8], disease[9]
- Symptoms and signs: dementia[10], change[11], behavioral disorder[12], anomic aphasia[13], primary progressive aphasia[14], language disorder[15], memory disorder[16], motor disorder[17]
- Has cause: unknown[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Frontotemporal dementia[19]
- Medical examination: medical history[20], neurological diagnostic techniques[21], magnetic resonance imaging[22], autopsy[23]
- Possible treatment: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor[24], antipsychotics[25]
- Prevalence: 0.00022[26]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C84719[27]
- Health specialty: Neurology, psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry[28]
- Genetic association: CHMP2B[29]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9255[30], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:9255[31], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002145[32], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_282[33]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[34]
Why It Matters
frontotemporal dementia has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]