From Care to Cure

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  Our fifth episode of season 2 presents a discussion between our host, Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations at the MGH FTD Unit, and Carrie Milliard, Director of the FTD Disorders Registry, about the origins of the FTD Disorders Registry, the impo...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  Our fourth episode of season 2 presents a discussion between our host, Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations at the MGH FTD Unit, and Matthew Walsh, CNP, a nurse practitioner with the MGH FTD Unit, about the role that nurse practitioners can play...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from theMassachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  Our third episode of season 2 presents a discussion between our host, Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations at the MGH FTD Unit, and Dr. Mark Eldaief, a board-certified neurologist and psychiatrist with the MGH FTD Unit, about the role that psychia...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  Our second episode of season 2 showcases a conversation between our host, Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations at the MGH FTD Unit, and Dr. Deepti Putcha, a neuropsychologist and the Director of the MGH FTD Unit’s Posterior Cortical Atrophy Progr...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  Our first episode of season 2 features a conversation between our host, Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations at the MGH FTD Unit, and Nneka Watson, a staff speech language pathologist within the Unit, about the role that speech language pathologi...

The second season of From Care to Cure puts a spotlight on the FTD care team beyond the diagnosis.  We will explore the different roles for each member of a care team and how people living with a diagnosis of FTD or a related neurological disorder and their families can benefit from a comprehensive care team within clinical settings and in the community.  Season 2 will feature conversations with m...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from theMassachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features a conversation betweenDr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit, and Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations in the Unit, discussing the first steps families should take after a diagnosis of FTD or a related condition, ho...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features a conversation between Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit, and Katie Brandt, theDirector of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations in the Unit, discussing how to live a life alongside FTD and related conditions, finding the things that can gi...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit, and Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations in the Unit, discussing the motor symptoms that can be present in FTD and related conditions, treatments availa...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features a conversation between Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit, and Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations in the Unit, about treatments for the communication challenges that come with primary progressive aphasia and...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from theMassachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features a conversation between Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit, and Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations in the Unit, about the behavioral symptoms that can be present in FTD and related conditions and how family car...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from theMassachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features a conversation between Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit, and Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations in the Unit, about current treatments for FTD.  They discuss the current state of disease modifying treatments...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features a conversation between Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit, and Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations in the Unit.  They discuss what care planning is and what steps families should take after someone receives a...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  Our first episode features an interview with Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit.  Dr. Dickerson explains what drives his passion to care for and understand FTD, Alzheimer’s Disease and related conditions.  Listen to learn about what inspired Dr. Dickerson to focus his neur...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features an interview with Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit.  Dr. Dickerson explains why it can be so difficult to diagnose frontotemporal disorders, the variety of tests that can be required to diagnose FTD, and the vital role that patient- and family-repor...

Welcome to From Care to Cure , a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  This episode features an interview with Dr. Brad Dickerson, Director of the MGH FTD Unit.  Dr. Dickerson explains what dementia is, how patient- and family-reported symptoms lead to the diagnosis of a clinical syndrome and why an accurate diagnosis is important because it provides the g...

The Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit is launching From Care to Cure , a podcast about frontotemporal disorders (also known as FTD).  To learn more about the MGH FTD Unit, go to www. FTDBoston.org.