Posted on 11/01/2010 10:18:41 AM PDT by Racehorse
As a top adviser in a multinational financial services company, Susan Grant 59, was used to effortlessly juggling numbers, client details and other complex information in her head. So when she found her thoughts so muddled she couldn't remember if she needed to take the interstate north or south to drive home, she knew something was wrong.
“I'd find myself talking to clients and unable to think of a word,” she recalled. “So I'd stop in the middle of a sentence — and then I couldn't remember the sentence itself.”
A series of medical tests resulted in six diagnoses — everything from Alzheimer's to drug overuse — before her condition was finally identified: frontotemporal disease, or FTD.
FTD is a term used to describe several little-known disorders that progressively damage the parts of the brain that are in charge of personality, decision-making and language. Also known as frontotemporal lobar degeneration or Pick's disease, FTD often is confused with — and misdiagnosed as — Alzheimer's disease. Yet while Alzheimer's destroys memory, FTD changes behavior. An easygoing person becomes aggressive. Someone fun-loving and outgoing is suddenly passive and withdrawn.
But the most alarming difference between Alzheimer's and FTD is the age at which it strikes. While Alzheimer's is primarily a disease of the aged, FTD tends to occur between ages 40 and 65 — hence the nickname “baby boomer dementia.” It can affect people as young as their 20s.
“It hits in the prime of life,” said Sarah Oxford, executive director of the San Antonio-based Frontotemporal Disease Association. “Most FTD patients are in their most productive years. They're mid-career, with families, young children. The effects can be devastating.”
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I was going to reply to this... but I forgot what I was going to say :P
I knew what it was. I just didn’t want to post it.
Hope Not, too ;^)
Mike
Only happens to me when black helicopters are in the area.
................uh..........what?.............
Yet I was high on pot from 15 to 26, with lots of LSD in there too. Then at 26 I discovered cocaine, went from snorting to smoking, then finally went to crack.
I got clean and sober, and have an amazing skill with web development under .NET 4.0 with SQL back end. I'm tops in my field, quite versatile with it, and work for a very major concern on very high profile stuff.
Don't think drugs turns the smart, stupid. I think the stupid started there.
It’s all a ploy. She figures if she can pull Lucia away from Mel she can hurt him and get her cash quicker...she now’s that Mel is close to his own kids and of course would be close to Lucia, so she is trying her best to use it against him... . Oh. Uh. Where was I? Where am I?
I would suspect pot as well. The way it remains in fat cells for weeks; if the person was even only an occasional smoker, it was always in her brain. Plus you are smoking everything that was in the pot, including herbicides, which are also quite dangerous smoked right into the bloodstream. I wish anyone would inform kids of this fact.
Also, it’s the first generation to have grown up on frankenfoods. McDonald’s, packaged crap, everything in aluminum. Fake flavors, fake colors. Think about all the neurotoxins.
I grew up with a lot of that crap too. Scary.
Everyone that has intelligent independent thought knows that, unfortunately, many over the years have bought into the governments kool-aid and continue to spout ignorant statements.
Ignorance is all around, and it has no boundaries (especially across the political spectrum)
LOL, I was going to post the same thing. :-)
“I got clean and sober,”
Way to go, Laz. This site wouldn’t be as entertaining sometimes if you weren’t here.
His was the polite version. I can use that at work without anyone freaking out.
Wasn't that what Billy Sims had when Sam Bradford won the Heisman?
I used to say that at work just how I wrote it!
I wonder who put “teaparty” in the keywords. Is someone trying to imply that the tea party is populated by a bunch of demented people? Hmmmmmm...
I’m 54, and I call these symptoms “sometimers”.
I’ve also heard that there is some early research on the statin drugs that have been pushed on baby boomers causing this.
They don't know what causes Pick's Disease.
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