The ravages of a brain disease
When Stu Bryant began acting rude and impulsive, his family was baffled. Then they learned he had frontotemporal disease, which strips away self-restraint and the ability to decipher social situations. See full story
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( Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / April 23, 2011 )
"I got something wrong with my brain," says Stu Bryant as he tries to talk about his frontotemporal dementia. FTD is a degenerative brain disease affecting the frontal lobes that robs victims of their self-restraint and ability to decipher social situations.
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