After being diagnosed with aphasia in 2022, Bruce Willis has now been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Blockbuster action movie star Bruce Willis stepped away from acting in spring 2022 after being diagnosed with aphasia, a neurological disorder that impacts the ability to produce and understand words. Now, Willis' condition has progressed and he's received a new diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, his family announced Thursday .
The prevalence of frontotemporal dementia is somewhat uncertain, because historically, doctors sometimes misidentified the condition as depression, schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease, according to University of California, San Francisco Health . Current estimates suggest that FTD is the most common form of dementia diagnosed in people ages 60 and younger, although the condition can affect older people, as well.
PPA affects a person's ability to use and understand language; it comes in several forms, which differ in their specific symptoms. As their condition progresses, people with PPA can lose the ability to speak, develop problems with memory and reasoning, and show behavior changes similar to those with bvFTD.
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