Question

Frontotemporal Dementia brain scan shows a __________

(a) growing brain

(b) shrinking brain

(c) brain with lesions

(d) brain with a tumour

Answer 1

Correct option is (b) shrinking brain

Easiest explanation: Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) is the most common kind of dementia found in the population. In this, the neural cells of the brain go for apoptosis (cell death) causing an atrophy (shrinkage) of the brain. This causes the person to have memory disorders.