Bradley F. Boeve

TL;DR: It is found that repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is a major cause of both FTD and ALS, suggesting multiple disease mechanisms.

TL;DR: The revised criteria for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia improve diagnostic accuracy compared with previously established criteria in a sample with known frontotmporal lobar degeneration and reflect the optimized diagnostic features, less restrictive exclusion features and a flexible structure that accommodates different initial clinical presentations.

TL;DR: The Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) Consortium has refined its recommendations about the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB, updating the previous report, which has been in widespread use for the last decade.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that in multiple FTD families with significant evidence for linkage to the same region on chromosome 17q21, FTD is caused by mutations in progranulin (PGRN) that are likely to create null alleles and identified mutations in PGRN as a cause of neurodegenerative disease.

TL;DR: In older patients with MCI, hippocampal atrophy determined by premorbid MRI-based volume measurements is predictive of subsequent conversion to AD.