Frontotemporal dementia
Allon Receives European Orphan Drug Status for Davunetide
...per day. About Progressive Supranuclear Palsy PSP is one of a group of progressive disorders called frontotemporal dementia (FTD), that affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the...
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Allon's CEO Presenting at Life Science Innovation Northwest
...davunetide as the first approved treatment for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), one type of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a group of rapidly progressive and fatal...
Little-Known Victims of Nigerian Internet Scams
...as Bill fall for such obvious scams? He wasn't stupid or greedy. Bill had an undiagnosed case of frontotemporal dementia. This disease affects patients at an early age, so...
Former UTEP strength coach Dan Viola dies at 58
...1987 to 1997 and became athletic director at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in 1997. Viola was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia shortly after stepping down from his position at...
What drove his desperation?
...Times on Friday offered a different take on those actions. They saw behavior consistent with a condition called frontotemporal dementia. That's what happens when the front part of the...
"Many people were still found to have a strong family history of dementia even without having any of the five known gene mutations, suggesting that there are still unknown genes that cause frontotemporal dementia," said Rohrer. "Discovering new genes and gene mutations could provide another key to unlocking the doors to new treatments and prevention strategies for dementia."
Rare brain disorder which causes dementia is genetic New Kerala | 4 months ago
What turned a law-abiding grandfather into a robbery suspect?
...Times Friday offered a different take on those actions. They saw behavior consistent with a condition called frontotemporal dementia. That's what happens when the front part of the brain...
Government waits for proof - sometimes for decades - before caring for sick veterans
...was over. He'd been planning to retire, "but not like this." A year later, Ogden was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a disease in which the areas of the brain associated with...
Gladstone scientists identify role of key protein in ALS and frontotemporal dementia
...brain. In fact, Dr. Finkbeiner's system showed many "normal" features of TDP-43 in neurons. For example, wildtype TDP-43 was found in the nucleus in healthy neurons. Mutant TDP-43 was...
Allon Receives Japanese Patent Allowance For Treatment And Prevention Of Major Neurological Diseases
The clinical-stage drug, davunetide is based on ADNP, and its therapeutic potential is focused on frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and cognitive impairment in...
Exploration Of 'Garbage Disposal' Role Of VCP And Implications For Degenerative Disease
...in VCP, a member of the AAA ATPase family, cause inclusion body myopathy, Paget's disease of the bone, and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD), a rare disorder that mainly affects...
Can depression cause memory loss?
...age 55 (and usually doesn't hit until a person is in his 70s or 80s), there is another type of dementia, called frontotemporal dementia that -- while rare -- strikes early in life.
Memory Minute: Is it dementia or Alzheimer's disease?
...judgments, interacts in socially appropriate ways, expresses oneself) decline, the diagnosis would be a frontotemporal dementia. Progressive loss of expressive language is diagnosed as...
