Special Event: 1st Annual Michael Bratton Memorial Golf Tournament

Please join us for the 1st Annual Michael Bratton Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit the Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Association on October 15, 2011.

We will have a great day of golf at the beautiful Silverhorn Golf Club in San Antonio, TX. The event will include a 4-person scramble, barbeque lunch and awards reception will follow the tournament.

Support a South Texas memorial golf tournament raising funds for research and public awareness towards a disease affecting hundreds of thousands of baby boomers, who are commonly misdiagnosed.

Detective Michael Bratton, retired from the San Antonio Police Department, lost his battle with FTD when he was only 51. He left behind two sons, also with the San Antonio Police Department, and a young daughter who are desperate to find a cure.

Additional information and Online Registration for the 1st Annual Michael Bratton Memorial Golf Tournament now available at this link.

Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Association (FTLDA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the education of the medical community and promoting public awareness of frontotemporal and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Our mission is to provide clinics for FTD patients, support research and provide medical education to achieve early diagnosis of the disease.

Frontotemporal Disease (FTD) is included with Neurodegenerative diseases along with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, and Huntington’s, to name a few.

FTD refers to a group of degenerative brain conditions affecting the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. FTD most frequently affects people in their 40s and 50s, although cases are often reported by people as young as their twenties.

Degenerative nerve diseases can be serious or life-threatening. It depends on their type. Most have no cure. The goal of treatment is usually to improve symptoms and slow progression, while relieving pain.

FTD is usually genetic.

The exact prevalence of FTD is not known. Often misunderstood as Alzheimer's or a variety of psychiatric conditions, FTD manifests itself in the following ways during its early stage:

  • Speech problems
  • Changes in personality
  • Changes in social behavior
  • Memory loss
  • Problems with balance
  • The sudden exercise of creative and artistic skills

It is unknown what causes FTD and at this time there are no proven drug treatments. Drugs used for other neurodegenerative diseases may not be appropriate for FTD patients.