Brain connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases—from phenotype to proteinopathy

M Pievani, N Filippini, MP Van Den Heuvel… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Functional and structural connectivity measures, as assessed by means of functional and
diffusion MRI, are emerging as potential intermediate biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD) …

Imaging and fluid biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia

LH Meeter, LD Kaat, JD Rohrer… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common type of presenile dementia, is a
heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive behavioural …

Presymptomatic cognitive and neuroanatomical changes in genetic frontotemporal dementia in the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) study: a cross …

JD Rohrer, JM Nicholas, DM Cash… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Frontotemporal dementia is a highly heritable neurodegenerative disorder. In
about a third of patients, the disease is caused by autosomal dominant genetic mutations …

Progranulin: a new avenue towards the understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative disease

BP Chitramuthu, HPJ Bennett, A Bateman - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Progranulin, a secreted glycoprotein, is encoded in humans by the single GRN gene.
Progranulin consists of seven and a half, tandemly repeated, non-identical copies of the 12 …

Altered network connectivity in frontotemporal dementia with C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion

SE Lee, AM Khazenzon, AJ Trujillo, CC Guo… - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72 represents the most common genetic cause of
familial and sporadic behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Previous studies show …

Structural and functional brain connectivity in presymptomatic familial frontotemporal dementia

EGP Dopper, SARB Rombouts, LC Jiskoot… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: We aimed to investigate whether cognitive deficits and structural and functional
connectivity changes can be detected before symptom onset in a large cohort of carriers of …

Treatment of primary progressive aphasias by transcranial direct current stimulation combined with language training

M Cotelli, R Manenti, M Petesi… - Journal of …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an untreatable neurodegenerative
disorder that disrupts language functions. Previous studies have demonstrated transcranial …

Conceptual framework for the definition of preclinical and prodromal frontotemporal dementia

A Benussi, A Alberici, K Samra, LL Russell… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The presymptomatic stages of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are still poorly defined and
encompass a long accrual of progressive biological (preclinical) and then clinical …

Advances in neuroimaging in frontotemporal dementia

E Gordon, JD Rohrer, NC Fox - Journal of Neurochemistry, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a clinically and neuroanatomically heterogeneous
neurodegenerative disorder with multiple underlying genetic and pathological causes …

Resting-state brain connectivity in healthy young and middle-aged adults at risk of progressive Alzheimer's disease

L Kucikova, J Goerdten, ME Dounavi, E Mak… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Functional brain connectivity of the resting-state networks has gained recent attention as a
possible biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). In this paper, we review the literature of …