 Background: Frontotemporal dementia FTD is the first cause of dementia in the presenium onset before the age of 65 years. Characterized by behavioral disorders, it is often more incapacitating than Alzheimers disease AD, and leads to death within 7 years on average 9-10 years for AD. It affects young individuals on average, 20 years younger than in AD, who are often still active. Management of these patients is therefore burdensome and complex. As opposed to AD, however, no treatment is currently available. Few therapeutic trials have actually been conducted on this disorder. Many reasons may account for this: 