Mario Mendez: 2010 S4SN Conference

Frontotemporal Dementia as a Window to the Social Brain

Mario Mendez
University of California- Los Angeles

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder characterized by early and relatively select disturbances in social and moral behavior. FTD results in an impairment in the essential emotions that drive these behaviors and, as such, constitutes a unique window to the neuroscience of the social brain.

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