Julie S. Snowden

TL;DR: Consensus criteria for the three prototypic syndromes-frontotemporal dementia, progressive nonfluent aphasia, and semantic dementia-were developed by members of an international workshop on frontotem temporal lobar degeneration and ought to provide the foundation for research work into the neuropsychology, neuropathology, genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology of these important clinical disorders.

TL;DR: The chromosome 9p21 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) locus contains one of the last major unidentified autosomal-dominant genes underlying these common neurodegenerative diseases, and a large hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 is shown.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors sequenced tau in FTDP-17 families and identified three missense mutations (G272V, P301L and R406W) and three mutations in the 5' splice site of exon in

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 this article, a 67-yr-old man and 2 women (aged 60 and 66 yrs) with primary cerebral atrophy in whom progressive breakdown in language and visual perception are attributed to loss of semantic information.