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Review: Clinical, genetic and neuroimaging features of frontotemporal dementia

Convery, R; Mead, S; Rohrer, JD; (2019) Review: Clinical, genetic and neuroimaging features of frontotemporal dementia. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology , 45 (1) pp. 6-18. 10.1111/nan.12535. Green open access

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Abstract

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a heterogeneous group of disorders causing neurodegeneration within a network of areas centred on the frontal and temporal lobes. Clinically, patients present with behavioural symptoms (behavioural variant FTD) or language disturbance (primary progressive aphasia), although there is an overlap with motor neurone disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders. Whilst neuroimaging commonly reveals abnormalities in the frontal and temporal lobes, a closer review identifies a more complex picture with variable asymmetry of neuronal loss, widespread subcortical involvement and in many cases more posterior cortical atrophy. An autosomal‐dominant genetic disorder is found in around a third of people with mutations in progranulin, C9orf72 and the microtubule‐associated protein tau being the commonest causes. In the other two‐thirds, the disorder is sporadic, although recent genome‐wide association studies have started to identify genetic risk factors within this group. Much of this knowledge has been understood only in the past 10 years and so this review will discuss the current knowledge about the clinical, genetic and neuroimaging features of FTD.

Type: Article
Title: Review: Clinical, genetic and neuroimaging features of frontotemporal dementia
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/nan.12535
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1111/nan.12535
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: frontotemporal dementia
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Institute of Prion Diseases
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Institute of Prion Diseases > MRC Prion Unit at UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068269
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