"Frontotemporal Dementia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The most common clinical form of FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION, this dementia presents with personality and behavioral changes often associated with disinhibition, apathy, and lack of insight.
| Descriptor ID |
D057180
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.228.140.380.266.299 C10.574.950.300.299 C18.452.845.800.300.299 F03.615.400.380.299
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| Concept/Terms |
Frontotemporal Dementia- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dementias, Frontotemporal
- Frontotemporal Dementias
- Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism
- Dementia, Frontotemporal, with Parkinsonism
- Multiple System Tauopathy with Presenile Dementia
- Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin-Positive
- Dementia, Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal
- Dementias, Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal
- Frontotemporal Dementia, Ubiquitin Positive
- Frontotemporal Dementias, Ubiquitin-Positive
- Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal Dementia
- Ubiquitin-Positive Frontotemporal Dementias
- Dementia, Hereditary Dysphasic Disinhibition
- Dementia, Frontotemporal
- Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia
- Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe
- Dementias, Frontotemporal Lobe
- Frontotemporal Lobe Dementias
- Lobe Dementia, Frontotemporal
- Lobe Dementias, Frontotemporal
- Wilhelmsen-Lynch Disease
- Disease, Wilhelmsen-Lynch
- Diseases, Wilhelmsen-Lynch
- Wilhelmsen Lynch Disease
- Wilhelmsen-Lynch Diseases
- Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Ubiquitin-Positive Inclusions
- Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Ubiquitin Positive Inclusions
- Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy Complex
- Complex, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy
- Complices, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy
- Disinhibition Dementia Parkinsonism Amyotrophy Complex
- Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amyotrophy Complices
- Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism-17
- Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism 17
- Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy Complex
- Complex, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy
- Complices, Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy
- Disinhibition Dementia Parkinsonism Amytrophy Complex
- Disinhibition-Dementia-Parkinsonism-Amytrophy Complices
- Familial Pick's Disease
- Disease, Familial Pick's
- Diseases, Familial Pick's
- Familial Pick Disease
- Familial Pick's Diseases
- Familial Picks Disease
- Pick's Disease, Familial
- Pick's Diseases, Familial
- Hereditary Dysphasic Disinhibition Dementia
- FTDP-17
- DDPAC
- GRN-Related Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dementia, GRN-Related Frontotemporal
- Dementias, GRN-Related Frontotemporal
- Frontotemporal Dementia, GRN-Related
- Frontotemporal Dementias, GRN-Related
- GRN Related Frontotemporal Dementia
- GRN-Related Frontotemporal Dementias
- FTD-GRN
- FTD-PGRN
- FTLD-17 GRN
- FTLD with TDP-43 Pathology
- FTLD with TDP 43 Pathology
- FTLD-TDP
- HDDD1
- HDDD2
- Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia (FLDEM)
- Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM)
- Dementias, Frontotemporal Lobe (FLDEM)
- Frontotemporal Lobe Dementias (FLDEM)
Semantic Dementia- Semantic Dementia
- Dementia, Semantic
- Dementias, Semantic
- Semantic Dementias
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Frontotemporal Dementia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Frontotemporal Dementia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2016 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Frontotemporal Dementia" by people in Profiles.
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Developing digital health technologies for frontotemporal degeneration. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Apr; 21(4):e70082.
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Cerebellar dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia: intra-cerebellar pathology and cerebellar network degeneration. J Neurol. 2025 Mar 25; 272(4):289.
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In vivo hyperphosphorylation of tau is associated with synaptic loss and behavioral abnormalities in the absence of tau seeds. Nat Neurosci. 2025 Feb; 28(2):293-307.
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Cognitive dispersion and its functional relevance in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and prodromal behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychology. 2024 Oct; 38(7):637-652.
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Psychiatric Screening Measures in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2024; 36(2):160-165.
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Disrupted endoplasmic reticulum-mediated autophagosomal biogenesis in a Drosophila model of C9-ALS-FTD. Autophagy. 2024 01; 20(1):94-113.
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c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Promotes Stress Granule Assembly and Neurodegeneration in C9orf72-Mediated ALS and FTD. J Neurosci. 2023 04 26; 43(17):3186-3197.
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LATE-NC staging in routine neuropathologic diagnosis: an update. Acta Neuropathol. 2023 02; 145(2):159-173.
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Nucleoporins are degraded via upregulation of ESCRT-III/Vps4 complex in Drosophila models of C9-ALS/FTD. Cell Rep. 2022 09 20; 40(12):111379.
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Poly(ADP-ribose) promotes toxicity of C9ORF72 arginine-rich dipeptide repeat proteins. Sci Transl Med. 2022 09 14; 14(662):eabq3215.