Frontotemporal dementia or Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) disease, as it is now known, has been making news recently due in large part to actor Bruce Willis’ diagnosis. At Benchmark at Rye, ...
San Diego, California — A newly identified cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker can accurately distinguish between 2 major subtypes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) in living patients, a ...
An 11-center consortium of clinical centers in Germany has enrolled 700 patients with symptomatic frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), most at early stages of disease, plus 10 presymptomatic ...
The mutated and aggregated protein FUS is implicated in two neurodegenerative diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Using a newly developed fruit ...
A variant of the TMEM106B gene, originally discovered in people with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology, influences the TDP-43 protein in other neurodegenerative diseases too, ...
The Dementia Consortium has awarded £305,000 of funding to a project identifying new therapeutics for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Lobar degeneration (FTLD). A team at the ...
Single-cell gene expression patterns in the brain motor and frontal cortex, and evidence from follow-up experiments, reveal many shared cellular and molecular similarities that could be targeted for ...