"It's called frontotemporal dementia, named after the parts of the brain that it attacks -- the upper lobes of the front part of the organ. Alzheimer's, by comparison, affects the entire brain.
And while people with Alzheimer's disease suffer progressive loss of memory and ability to function, those with frontotemporal dementia may act wildly and bizarrely, veering into theft, sexual deviancy and other uncontrolled acts, according to experts.
"We know that many of these patients are said to be crazy and wind up in jail rather than in a hospital," said Dr. John Q. Trojanowski, director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute on Aging.
And the condition is a killer, according to a study in the current issue of the journal Neurology to which Trojanowski contributed. The study found that people who had frontotemporal dementia died much faster than those with Alzheimer's disease."
Who knew... but then again, I suspect it may have contributed but the man was a stone cold alcoholic
