Local neurologist explains actor Bruce Willis' diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia

Last year, the family of Bruce Willis announced he’d been diagnosed with aphasia, which is the loss of the ability to understand or express language. Then, this past February, they revealed the"If you look at a brain, you’ll see space, more space than you should, in the front and on the side," explained Dr. Trent Roubleau, a neurology specialist at St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center.

"The person will develop both," Dr. Roubleau explained about the progression of FTD. "If they start out with the behavioral variant, they will get more of the aphasia later. It’s just in what order it happened." At this time, there aren’t any treatments that will stop the progression of FTD. But, Dr. Roubleau said intensive speech therapy can help someone with the language or aphasia variant retain language for a longer amount of time. He recommends physical and occupational therapy, as well.

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