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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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Author By ftdtalkPosted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

A new way to detect emotion recognition difficulties in FTD… by tracking eye movements

In our most recent research study, Lucy Russell has developed a new test to improve the ability to detect emotion recognition problems in people with FTD. This has just been published in the Alzheimer...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021

Women in Science Day 2021

Today, 11th February, is the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The 2021 theme focuses on women scientists at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19, but research in...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on February 3, 2021February 10, 2021

What’s new in fluid biomarkers in FTD?

Whilst we have had less chance to work in the lab during the Covid pandemic it has given us a chance to review what research has been published in our field and how best we should focus our time movin...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on January 4, 2021February 10, 2021

Introduction to new members of the FTD talk team

2020 was a very challenging year for us all. In the research field, our workplace was closed for the majority of the year and most of us are still working from home now as we start 2021. Participant v...
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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.

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