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FTD Talk > Blog > Research
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 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 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 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 December 17, 2020February 10, 2021

New study detects important changes in the blood in semantic dementia

A new paper from our group, led by Carolin Heller in the Biomarkers Lab as part of her PhD, has now been published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. It looks at two blood marke...
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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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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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