You often hear about a midlife crisis when a person’s behavior changes radically. But in some cases, what’s going on is not a midlife crisis, but instead a form of dementia. According to an article entitled "When Character Crumbles" in the November/December 2010 issue of Scientific American Mind, the early signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have been incorrectly attributed to a midlife or marital crisis by family members and some doctors. It turns out that FTD also is misdiagnosed as...
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