Welcome to From Care to Cure, a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit. This episode features an interview with Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit. Dr. Dickerson explains what dementia is, how patient- and family-reported symptoms lead to the diagnosis of a clinical syndrome and why an accurate diagnosis is important because it provides the gateway to appropriate treatment, care and research opportunities.
Additional details about the new clinical guidelines Dr. Dickerson described are available from the Alzheimer’s Association: https://www.alz.org/news/2024/clinical-practice-guideline-evaluation-alzheimers.
The MGH FTD Unit clinical research program is committed to providing the highest quality of care while we work tirelessly for a cure for FTD, atypical and young-onset forms of Alzheimer’s Disease and related neurological disorders. You can learn more about the MGH FTD Unit at www.FTDBoston.org.
We would like to thank Bernie Metzger for our beautiful music, an excerpt from Bernie’s composition Ramblings An FTD Journey, inspired by his wife Karen Zander’s journey with FTD.
Amy Almeida is our producer. Thank you to Sam Murdock for technical production assistance.
From Care to Cure is made possible by generous contributions from donors to the MGH FTD Unit. If you would like to support our work, visit www.FTDBoston.org/Donate.
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