Dr. William Seeley, who earned an A.B. in psychology at Brown in 1994, has won a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for his work advancing the understanding of neurodegenerative disease. Seeley, 39, studies frontotemporal dementia as an assistant professor of neurology at the University of California–San Francisco, where he received his M.D. in 1999. In announcing the award, which provides $500,000 over five years with no strings attached, the foundation described frontotemporal dementia as “a family of devastating neurological syndromes usually afflicting people in midlife, and second only to Alzheimer’s as the primary cause of progressive pre-senile dementia.”

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