Annibale Antonioni, Emanuela Maria Raho, Piervito Lopriore, Antonia Pia Pace, Raffaela Rita Latino, Martina Assogna, Michelangelo Mancuso, Daniela Gragnaniello, Enrico Granieri, Maura Pugliatti, Francesco Di Lorenzo, Giacomo Koch
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease of growing interest, since it accounts for up to 10% of middle-age-onset dementias and entails a social, economic, and emotional burden for the patients and caregivers. It is characterised by a (at least initially) selective degeneration of the frontal and/or temporal lobe, generally leading to behavioural alterations, speech disorders, and psychiatric symptoms. Despite the recent advances, given its extreme heterogeneity, an overview that can bring together all the data currently available is still lacking...
July 21, 2023: International Journal of Molecular Sciences