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Actor Bruce Willis made headlines when his family announced he had been diagnosed with aphasia. Behavioral Neurologist Ian Michael Grant, MD, explains the condition.
The announcement drew comparisons to Bruce Willis who also suffers from both aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Other celebrities have announced their diagnoses including actresses Emilia Clarke and Sharon Stone.
The recent diagnoses of Bruce Willis and Wendy Williams have brought a spotlight to a relatively lesser-known condition called primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and its broader category, frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Bruce Willis. Glenn Gordon Caron, creator of the 80s television show Moonlighting, which starred Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd, has revealed that the actor has lost his language skills and is incommunicative due to frontotemporal dementia.