Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Frontotemporal Dementia…

  FD

  Problem solved. /s

  Yeah I get the whole marketing strategy thing… ☹️

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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bro has dementia. You could call it the most memorable, epic name ever, and he’d still forget all about it in 10 minutes. It’s a fucked up disease.

    But as to your gripe with the name, Frontotemporal dementia is a pretty decent name.

    Even if you know nothing about medicine, you’ll understand it’s some type of dementia, and immediately get a very good image of how it affects a patient.

    If you’re more familiar with medicine and the brain, it will also tell you what regions these specific types of dementia affect, giving you clues as to what brain functions could be most impaired.

    Thank god medicine has moved away from eponyms, because Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or Binswanger disease, or Fahr disease, are much much worse. If you’re not familiar, you’d have no clue if they’re a type of dementia or a problem on your anus.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, because what we need in medicine is more acronyms to occlude meaning.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure that if a patient came in slurring their words and all they could basically remember to say was ‘I can’t remember much, but my last doctor said I have FTD’, then if the acronym was standardized, every doctor would know what they mean.

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