RaveNew Scientist\"Barb’s heart-wrenching story, and that of her family, is compassionately told in The Vanishing Family ... Interspersed throughout the book, Kolker skilfully weaves in the history of how researchers, often via extreme case studies (such as a man whose brain was punctured by a pole), unravelled the function of the frontotemporal lobes of the brain, which are most affected by FTD ... a profoundly human account of what it is like to face dementia – as well as how we might one day end it.\
