2/2/2020: Frontotemporal Dementia, Pleistocene Park, John Green
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Frontotemporal dementia -- or FTD -- is the most common and most devastating forms for dementia. As Bill Whitaker tells us, the cause of the illness, which effects many Americans under the age of 60, remains unclear. With Arctic permafrost thawing too quickly, scientists in Siberia are considering drastic measures. Scott Pelley reports. John Green, the best-selling author of books like "The Fault in Our Stars," opens up to Jon Wertheim about exploring his fears through his writing.
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| 0:32.6 | This is a story about the cruelest disease you've never heard of. |
| 0:41.3 | It's called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. |
| 0:45.3 | FTD is the number one form of dementia in Americans under the age of 60. |
| 0:51.3 | I was washing my hands and I looked in the mirror and I did not recognize my own face. |
| 0:56.3 | Didn't recognize yourself. |
| 0:58.0 | No, I looked in the mirror |
| 0:59.5 | and I kept looking, I remember, |
| 1:03.4 | I kept looking at this woman wondering who was she? |
| 1:08.9 | Our adventure led us high above the Arctic Circle to find out why the Earth is warming so fast, so far below. |
| 1:17.6 | How far below the surface are we right now? |
| 1:21.6 | Right now, we are about 10 meters. |
| 1:23.6 | So about 30 feet? |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | We met a scientist who enjoys Russian vodka, smokes like a Soviet steel mill, and believes |
| 1:32.2 | these massive bones exposed by warming could bring the extinct woolly mammoth back from the dead. |
| 1:39.8 | That's amazing. |
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