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Memory Clinics - On the 25th anniversary of the first Memory Clinic in Portugal
de Mendonça, Alexandre; Frederico Simões do Couto; Manuela Guerreiro; Rui Alves; João GarciaMemory Clinics have first appeared in the 1980s, in the United States of America and in the United Kingdom, focusing on early stages of cognitive decline. The first memory clinic in Portugal was officially founded on the 4th October 2001, in Lisbon. Since then, MemoClínica followed a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cognitive complaints, keeping up with scientific advan...
Dementia in 16th-Century Medical Practice: Amato Lusitano
de Mendonça, Alexandre; Montalvo, Alexandre; Oliveira, Victor.; .
Study Group on Brain Aging and Dementia: 40 Years of History
Tábuas Pereira, Miguel; de Mendonça, Alexandre.; .
Dementia in ancient literature in Portugal
de Mendonça, AlexandreIt is generally accepted that the concept of dementia, in the present clinical meaning, is largely due to the works of the French physicians at the end of the 18th century. However, it must be recognized that the term had been previously used in literature. In the present work, we investigated in a systematic way the use of the term demência in old literature in Portugal. The site Biblioteca Nacional Digital wa...
Temporal dynamics predict symptom onset and cognitive decline in familial front...
Whiteside, David J.; Malpetti, Maura; Jones, P Simon; Ghosh, Boyd C. P.; Coyle-Gilchrist, Ian; van Swieten, John C.; Seelaar, Harro; Jiskoot, LizeIntroduction: We tested whether changes in functional networks predict cognitive decline and conversion from the presymptomatic prodrome to symptomatic disease in familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Methods: For hypothesis generation, 36 participants with behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD) and 34 controls were recruited from one site. For hypothesis testing, we studied 198 symptomatic FTD mutation carriers, 341...
The Benson Complex Figure Test detects deficits in visuoconstruction and visual...
Jiskoot, Lize C.; Russell, Lucy L.; Peakman, Georgia; Convery, Rhian S.; Greaves, Caroline V.; Bocchetta, Martina; Poos, Jackie M.; Seelaar, HarroSensitive cognitive markers are still needed for frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The Benson Complex Figure Test (BCFT) is an interesting candidate test, as it assesses visuospatial, visual memory, and executive abilities, allowing the detection of multiple mechanisms of cognitive impairment. To investigate differences in BCFT Copy, Recall and Recognition in presymptomatic and symptomatic FTD mutation carriers, a...
Language impairment in the genetic forms of behavioural variant frontotemporal ...
Samra, Kiran; MacDougall, Amy M.; Bouzigues, Arabella; Bocchetta, Martina; Cash, David M.; Greaves, Caroline V.; Convery, Rhian S.; van Swieten, John C.Background Behavioural variant fronto-temporal dementia (bvFTD) is characterised by a progressive change in personality in association with atrophy of the frontal and temporal lobes. Whilst language impairment has been described in people with bvFTD, little is currently known about the extent or type of linguistic difficulties that occur, particularly in the genetic forms. Methods Participants with genetic bvFT...
Motor symptoms in genetic frontotemporal dementia: developing a new module for ...
Samra, Kiran; MacDougall, Amy M.; Peakman, Georgia; Bouzigues, Arabella; Bocchetta, Martina; Cash, David M.; Greaves, Caroline V.; Convery, Rhian S.Objective To investigate the optimal method of adding motor features to a clinical rating scale for frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Methods Eight hundred and thirty-two participants from the international multicentre Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI) study were recruited: 522 mutation carriers (with C9orf72, GRN and MAPT mutations) and 310 mutation-negative controls. A standardised clinical questionnaire was used t...
Network structure and transcriptomic vulnerability shape atrophy in frontotempo...
Shafiei, Golia; Bazinet, Vincent; Dadar, Mahsa; Manera, Ana L.; Collins, D. Louis; Dagher, Alain; Borroni, Barbara; Sánchez-Valle, RaquelConnections among brain regions allow pathological perturbations to spread from a single source region to multiple regions. Patterns of neurodegeneration in multiple diseases, including behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), resemble the large-scale functional systems, but how bvFTD-related atrophy patterns relate to structural network organization remains unknown. Here we investigate whether n...
Cerebellar and subcortical atrophy contribute to psychiatric symptoms in fronto...
Bussy, Aurélie; Levy, Jake P.; Best, Tristin; Patel, Raihaan; Cupo, Lani; Van Langenhove, Tim; Nielsen, Jørgen E.; Pijnenburg, YolandeRecent studies have reported early cerebellar and subcortical impact in the disease progression of genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD) due to microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT), progranulin (GRN) and chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72). However, the cerebello-subcortical circuitry in FTD has been understudied despite its essential role in cognition and behaviors related to FTD symptomatology. ...