Sentences with phrase «frontal lobe dementia»

He got frontal lobe dementia and required nursing - home care.

I've been a caregiver (who studies nutrition) for years, currently with a client who has «frontal lobe dementia».

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Primitive reflexes are primarily tested with suspected brain injury or some dementias such as Parkinson's disease for the purpose of assessing frontal lobe functioning.

The researchers examined total cerebral volume, frontal lobe volume, temporal lobe volume, hippocampal volume and white matter hyper - intensity volume in patients without prior stroke or dementia.

Bruce Miller of the University of California, San Francisco, has shown that even some adult patients who develop a degeneration of their frontal and temporal lobes (called frontotemporal dementia) suddenly develop artistic talents, possibly because they can now allocate all their attention to the parietal lobes.

For the first time ever, thin electrical wires were surgically implanted into the frontal lobes of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease to determine if using a brain pacemaker could improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities in patients with this form of dementia.