While less common, tissues from patients with genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia and ALS also are shared with research investigators. The ...

Researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to misdiagnosis ...

University of Queensland researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ...

Scientists are urgently seeking fluid biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia, the most common dementing illness among 40- and 50-year-olds. Two large collaborations studying genetic FTD cohorts have ...

University of Queensland researchers have discovered that nearly 70% of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

A recent study by researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) has found that nearly 70% of patients suspected of having ...

A groundbreaking study reveals how a rare combination of genetics, proteomics, and environmental factors may hold the key to delaying or preventing Alzheimer's, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

Objective: To describe the demographic characteristics, initial psychiatric diagnoses, and the time to reach a diagnosis of probable behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia ... autopsy is not ...

Many diseases are linked to degeneration or disruption of this ... thinning to a range of diseases as well as identifying new genetic factors that influence retinal thickness.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), sometimes called Pick’s ... how they are involved in the different diseases that cause dementia, along with information on genetic testing and current research.