A great deal of media coverage of actor Bruce Willis바카라™ medical condition, frontotemporal degeneration, was inaccurate, revealing the public바카라™s limited knowledge of the disease, new research has revealed.
A great deal of media coverage of actor Bruce Willis바카라™ medical condition, frontotemporal degeneration, was inaccurate, revealing the public바카라™s limited knowledge of the disease, new research has revealed.
A great deal of media coverage of actor Bruce Willis바카라™ medical condition, frontotemporal degeneration, was inaccurate, revealing the public바카라™s limited knowledge of the disease, new research has revealed.
In 2022, Willis바카라™ family released a statement saying that he had been diagnosed with aphasia, an acquired language impairment, and would retire from acting.
Ten months later, the family issued another statement indicating doctors had diagnosed Willis with a more specific condition, frontotemporal degeneration.
This resulted in an explosion of media coverage, as prominent news outlets produced stories describing frontotemporal degeneration to a public largely unfamiliar with the disease.
A new paper in the journal Innovation in Aging, published by Oxford University Press, showed that the media misconstrued the disease. Rather than describing how frontotemporal degeneration was discovered to be the underlying source of Willis바카라™ aphasia, many reports described his aphasia as 바카라śprogressing into바카라ť frontotemporal degeneration, implying they are two different disorders.
Norah O바카라™Donnell put it on CBS evening news: 바카라śHis family says that has progressed into frontotemporal dementia, which impacts personality, behaviour, and language.바카라ť
Similarly, Entertainment Tonight reported that the family 바카라ś바카라¦ revealed that his brain disease has progressed to frontotemporal dementia.바카라ť
This is inaccurate. His aphasia did not turn into frontotemporal degeneration. His aphasia was a symptom of frontotemporal degeneration and after ten months his doctors had figured out the underlying condition, the research noted.
Why did journalists make this mistake? The paper speculated that aphasia developing into something else made for a better narrative: an esoteric and complicated story about diagnostic clarification is not nearly as interesting as a story of a movie star suffering further hardship.
바카라śGiven the confusion surrounding frontotemporal degeneration, the courageous disclosure by the Willis family is a model for educating the public about this still hidden disease,바카라ť said Steven M Albert, the editor-in-chief of Innovation in Aging, which published the paper.