A new method may help determine whether a person has Alzheimer's disease or frontotemporal dementia, two different types of dementia that often have similar symptoms, according to a preliminary study published in the July ...
Jul 26, 2017
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In a recent study in Human Molecular Genetics, researchers from VIB and KU Leuven led by prof. Philip Van Damme, reveal a novel function for progranulin in lysosomes: it acts as chaperone of the lysosomal protease cathepsin ...
May 8, 2017
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Scientists from the Gladstone Institutes identified that mutations in a protein commonly linked to frontotemporal dementia (FTD) result in obsessive-like behaviors. They linked these behaviors to immune pathways, implicating ...
Apr 24, 2017
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The most common genetic cause of the brain diseases frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a mutation in the C9orf72 gene. Researchers from VIB and UAntwerp, headed by Prof. Christine Van ...
Feb 14, 2017
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Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a mainstay of prostate cancer treatment. ADT has shown survival benefit in some patients but it also has been associated with some adverse health effects and a possible link to neurocognitive ...
Oct 13, 2016
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Through the worry, Linda Jacobs welcomed the sense of relief she felt when doctors diagnosed her husband, Ray, with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). She finally had an answer for many of the questions she had regarding Ray's ...
Oct 13, 2016
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For the first time novel expression sites in the brain have been identified for a gene which is associated with motor neuron disease and frontotemporal dementia.
Aug 1, 2016
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A new study has revealed that the functional impairments experienced by people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) may provide insight into effective behavioural management techniques to help them continue to look after themselves ...
Jul 5, 2016
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Frontotemporal dementia is associated with a wide variety of abnormal eating behaviors such as hyperphagia, fixations on one kind of food, even ingestion of inanimate objects, making an already-difficult situation even worse. ...
Jun 22, 2016
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Progranulin is a central protein in both neuronal survival and neurodegenerative diseases. It is thus not surprising that altered progranulin levels represent a universal theme shared across several common neurodegenerative ...
May 26, 2016
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