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Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia – here's what we know about the disease

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par Catherine Loveday, Professor, Neuropsychology, University of Westminster

American actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family has announced.

In 2022, the 67-year-old action movie star was diagnosed with aphasia - difficulty with language and speech. Aphasia can occur for a variety of reasons (most commonly stroke) but for Willis, it is now clear that these speech problems were the early signs of this particularly devastating form of dementia.

Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella term for any disease…

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