Frontotemporal Dementia in the Netherlands

__Abstract__ In 1892, Arnold Pick described the first patients with a clinical syndrome that is currently named frontotemporal dementia (FTD). He emphasised the focal aspect of cortical atrophy in his patients, to this day the hallmark of this disorder. Following a detailed description of the neuropathological changes by Alois Alzheimer in 1911, including the argyrophilic neuronal inclusions later known as Pick bodies, the term Pick’s disease was introduced in 1926. Over the years, many different names have been used to describe this clinical and pathological entity: frontal lobe dementia, dem... Mehr ...