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Author By ftdtalkPosted on November 10, 2020February 10, 2021

Early social cognition problems in genetic FTD

Our latest research was recently published in Cortex and led by Lucy Russell, who worked on this as part of her PhD. It is the first large scale study to investigate social abilities in individuals wi...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on October 16, 2020February 10, 2021

Abnormal response to pain in people with C9orf72 mutations

The latest paper from the FTD talk team has been published in the JNNP journal. This work was led by Rhian Convery, a current PhD student within the group, and uses data from the GENFI study to descri...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on September 23, 2020October 6, 2020

Dementia conferences in 2020 – what’s changed?

In the world of research, scientists aim to attend annual conferences that are relevant to their field of interest. This enables researchers to meet with colleagues and collaborators from around the w...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on September 18, 2020October 6, 2020

The dementia ‘chatathon’ and FTD awareness week

On the 7th September 2020 five members of our team took part in a fundraising event to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK. Adam Smith from the Dementia Researcher website organised a 'chatathon'...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on September 8, 2020November 26, 2021

Ignite – an app to detect FTD

Last week we launched an app that we hope will help detect the early stages of FTD. Ignite has been developed to test multiple different brain functions including social skills, attention, and proble...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on May 5, 2020October 6, 2020

Covid-19 and FTD

Covid-19 has changed the world for many of us. Much FTD research has had to be put on hold in recent months and the FTD talk team have all had to work from home since early March. However, although...
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on March 27, 2020February 10, 2021

Brain imaging identifies progressive disease stages of TDP-43 type C

Our latest research published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy was led by Martina Bocchetta in collaboration with Mar Iglesias Espinosa, a neurologist who visited our team from Spain....
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Author By ftdtalkPosted on February 8, 2020February 10, 2021

Understanding age at onset in genetic FTD

Our latest paper has just been published in Lancet Neurology. This work was led by Katrina Moore, a former PhD student within the group, and is the first study published by the FTD Prevention Initiati...
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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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