The annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) took place earlier this summer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference brings together experts from around the world to share...
Every year, alongside the main GENFI summer meeting (see our previous blog post for a full rundown), we hold our annual Participant Engagement Board (PEB) meeting. This is a roundtable discussion betw...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
