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Student-led study aims to improve diagnosis of early-onset dementia, a frequently misdiagnosed condition

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Research led by a University of Sydney medical student could enable earlier and more accurate diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia—one of the most commonly misdiagnosed forms of early-onset dementia, which can begin as early as a person's late 40s and is often mistaken for a psychiatric condition.

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