These images of Bruce Willis are an opportunity to explain the terrible disease he is suffering from. But the article misses that opportunity with its context-free adjectives: "puzzled," "annoyed," "quizzical." The man has frontotemporal dementia for crying out loud. How about some explanation, some empathy? This is often what #dementia looks like.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bruce-willis-looks-puzzled-annoyed-193032633.html

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These images of Bruce Willis are an opportunity to explain the terrible disease he is suffering from. But the article misses that opportunity with its context-free adjectives: "puzzled," "annoyed," "quizzical." The man has frontotemporal dementia for crying out loud. How about some explanation, some empathy? This is often what #dementia looks like.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bruce-willis-looks-puzzled-annoyed-193032633.html

#BruceWillis
#EndFTD

How sad how this resonates. Looking back and realizing your loved one's disease was in the #prodromal phase. My father's early-onset #Alzheimer's began with hearing loss, too.

"As Bruce declines, his family is realizing that the signs were there earlier than they realized. “Something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah admitted last year. “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bruce-willis-family-worries-may-134732695.html

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How sad how this resonates. Looking back and realizing your loved one's disease was in the #prodromal phase. My father's early-onset #Alzheimer's began with hearing loss, too.

"As Bruce declines, his family is realizing that the signs were there earlier than they realized. “Something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah admitted last year. “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bruce-willis-family-worries-may-134732695.html

#EndAlz
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For more information on FTD, check out the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. The AFTD is a terrific organization providing education, advocacy, support and research funding.

The AFTD | https://zurl.co/mjfF

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Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is associated with MAPT mutations, which affect tau protein. We use patient-derived 3D stem cell models to study neural development & degeneration.
Bertucci, et al. | https://zurl.co/JPD6

Cell lines used in this study are part of an outstanding resource collection produced with support from the #RainwaterCharitableFoundation. They are available to the research community through our #Neuracell core facility.
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