Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia"”.
-
Cognitive and brain markers in presymptomatic genetic behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia: a case-control study
… members of a kindred carrying the MAPT genetic variant for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD-MAPT), who are part of the FTDGeNZ study, with the aim of identifying early behavioural, cognitive and neural changes in gene-positive family members. Study one aimed to characterise …
-
How and why does social connectedness change in families living with the effects of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia?
There is a paucity of research studies exploring the changes to social connectedness of people diagnosed with bvFTD and their families, from the premorbid to late stages of the condition. The purpose of this exploratory study was to establish how and why social connectedness changed for the study …
-
A longitudinal exploration of the experience of fronto-temporal dementia in intergenerational families
Background: Dementia presents challenges for whole families requiring on-going adaptation. Family relationships provide important benefits, thus understanding the impact of dementia for families is critical to facilitating their wellbeing. Behavioural variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD) brings …
-
Behavioural disinhibition in the syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration
The different clinical syndromes caused by frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) have highly heterogenous and overlapping features which complicate clinical and research practice. Behavioural impairments are associated with all FTLD syndromes, cause high morbidity and lack proven symptomatic …
-
Social-semantic knowledge and behavioural changes in frontotemporal dementia
… in the brain have been derived from semantic dementia, a subtype of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) associated with a degradation of conceptual knowledge following atrophy in the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs). Recent research in FTD has begun to focus on social-semantic knowledge, and its …