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Author By ftdtalkPosted on November 10, 2021November 20, 2021

Imogen Swift shortlisted for a national science writing prize

Congratulations to Imogen Swift from our team who was recently shortlisted for a national award called the MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Prize. Her article is below, and was written after intervie...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on October 15, 2021November 19, 2021

New evidence for the role of inflammation in FTD

Two new papers have been published by our team this month highlighting the role of inflammation in the brain in people with FTD. Both papers have been led by Aitana Sogorb Esteve from our team. The...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on September 22, 2021November 20, 2021

New fellowship for Aitana Sogorb Esteve

Congratulations to Aitana Sogorb Esteve from our team who has just been awarded a prestigious 5 year fellowship from Race Against Dementia. The fellowship will support her work with our team and a...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on August 5, 2021November 20, 2021

How do we measure progression of symptoms in clinical trials?

We have a new paper out this week led by Georgia Peakman investigating how we might measure the progression of symptoms in FTD. This uses data from the GENFI study to look at the only two commonly use...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on July 19, 2021November 19, 2021

Looking beneath the surface of FTD

Two recent papers from our team led by Martina Bocchetta have highlighted the importance of brain regions outside of the frontal and temporal lobes in FTD. Although FTD is named after these two lob...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on July 15, 2021November 20, 2021

New evidence for early social cognition problems in FTD

We have a new paper out this week led by Hannah Franklin, who was a PhD rotation student with us last year. She focused on using a questionnaire called the Revised Self-Monitoring Scale (RSMS) that we...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021

FTD Imaging Webinar

For those interested in hearing about what we have learned in brain imaging in FTD in the last ten years, then sign up to this webinar which is being run by ISTAART. It is designed to be an educationa...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021

The ARUK annual conference 2021 – the Early Career Researchers day

The Alzheimer’s Research UK annual conference, or ARUK, takes place each year in the Spring. Dementia researchers from all over the UK gather to share their research in the field of neurodegenerativ...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on March 3, 2021March 19, 2021

1st ISFTD Congress

Today was the start of the first conference our team is attending in 2021 and the 1st edition of the International Society for Frontotemporal Dementia Congress. As the name indicates, the ne...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on March 1, 2021March 2, 2021

PET imaging changes are seen before symptom onset in people with MAPT mutations

Approximately one third of all people with FTD are genetic, and research has shown that changes in the brain associated with FTD can occur years before any symptoms (or presymptomatically). We need to...
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Our blog aims to provide updates about our latest research as well as important research papers that other teams around the world have published. We will also aim to provide updates about clinical trials and about the news from conferences we attend.

Recent Posts

  • Imogen Swift shortlisted for a national science writing prize
  • New evidence for the role of inflammation in FTD
  • New fellowship for Aitana Sogorb Esteve
  • How do we measure progression of symptoms in clinical trials?
  • Looking beneath the surface of FTD
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