The different disorders that cause dementia may progress in ways that are quite different from the way that Alzheimer's progresses.

Progression of frontal lobe symptoms in FTD, LBD and AD
Background: To study the progression of frontal lobe symptoms within and across diagnostic dementia categories, a cross-sectional analysis of baseline behavioral data that are part of a large, prospec
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