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1. Intro slide
2. Outline
3. A brief history (1)
4. A brief history (2)
5. A brief history (3)
6. FTD/FTLD classification (1)
7. FTD: overlaps
8. FTD/FTLD classification (2)
9. Causes of late onset dementia
10. Causes of early onset dementia
11. Levels of classification in FTD
12. Frontal (behavioural) variant FTD (fvFTD)
13. Typical fvFTD case: J.W. (1)
14. Typical fvFTD case: J.W. (2)
15. Typical fvFTD case: J.W. (3)
16. Typical fvFTD case: J.W. (4)
17. Typical fvFTD case: J.W. (5)
18. Typical fvFTD case: J.W. (6)
19. Neuropsychology in fvFTD
20. Theory of mind (ToM)
21. Performance on ToM and physical cartoons
22. Emotion judgement
23. Atrophy in fvFTD: orbitofrontal and medial cortex
24. Semantic dementia (SD)
25. Typical SD case: D.V. (1)
26. Typical SD case: D.V. (2)
27. Typical SD case: D.V. (3)
28. Perirhinal cortex: a key region?
29. VBM correlation with SD
30. Brain basis of concept knowledge?
31. Laterality
32. Word-picture matching: faces vs. animals
33. Progressive Non-Fluent Aphasia (PNFA) (1)
34. Progressive Non-Fluent Aphasia (PNFA) (2)
35. Distribution of atrophy: SD vs. PNFA
36. FTD genetics: tau mutations
37. FTD genetics: non-tau
38. Pathology of FTD: histological subtypes
39. Relationship between pathology/clinical syndrome
40. Pathological basis of SD
41. Histopathology in SD
42. Survival from symptom onset
43. Management

Topics Covered

• Clinical spectrum FTD
• Frontal or behavioural variant
• Semantic dementia
• Progressive non-fluent aphasia
• Disease overlap
• Genetic factors
• Epidemiological facts
• Neuropsychological methods and imaging diagnostics
• Pathological groupings of FTD
• Tau positive inclusions cases including Pick's disease, familial tauopathies and corticobasal degeneration
• Ubiquitin positive inclusions cases
• Multidisciplinary management of FTD

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Series:

• Neurodegenerative Diseases

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on August 13, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. John Hodges has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.