Study highlights effect of Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia on subcortical brain structures

A recent study by the Laboratory for Neuro-Analysis and Imaging (LANAI) at UMass Chan Medical School highlights how ...
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In FTD, Brain Atrophy Lifts Lid on Creative Circuits

People with frontotemporal dementia grapple with behavioral, language, and cognitive problems as their disease worsens. It may be small comfort but for a few, their disease sparks an artistic flair, ...

Youngest UK Dementia Case Dies at 24

An incredibly rare, tragic death in the UK might still have a silver lining.
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AviadoBio Announces ASPIRE-FTD Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial in the UK at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, and ...

- AVB-101 is an investigational one-time therapy designed to deliver a functional copy of the GRN gene directly to the brain, thereby potentially restoring progranulin levels and stopping disease ...
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AviadoBio Announces First Patient Treated in ASPIRE-FTD Clinical Trial Evaluating AVB-101 for Frontotemporal Dementia with GRN Mutations

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AviadoBio, a pioneering gene therapy company dedicated to developing and delivering potentially transformative medicines for neurodegenerative disorders, today announced that ...
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How frontotemporal dementia, the syndrome affecting Wendy Williams, changes the brain – research is untangling its genetic causes

Professor of RNA Therapeutics, Governor Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research, Founding Director of Frontotempral Dementia Research Center, UMass Chan Medical School Fen-Biao Gao receives and ...
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What is frontotemporal dementia? Here's what to know about Bruce Willis' diagnosis

Related video above: What is aphasia? Boston doctor explains health condition affecting Bruce WillisAfter retiring from acting in March 2022 due to a speaking disorder called aphasia, Bruce Willis, 67 ...