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Redonner avec une carte de crédit AFTD
For those of you who would like to “give back” to AFTD, the organization has teamed up with Capital One to offer an AFTD credit card. A percentage of each…
Aide & Espoir #1
Numéro #1 : octobre 2011 (publié à l'origine sous le nom de The Gateway)
Nouveaux critères pour la variante comportementale FTD
In 2011, an international consortium developed and published revised guidelines for the diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. The link below is a table that delineates the new criteria for…
Opportunité de recherche sur les soignants à San Francisco
Les proches aidants intéressés par une étude de recherche visant à améliorer la qualité de vie des aidants peuvent contacter Judy Mastick, RN, coordonnatrice de l'étude ou Jennifer Merrilees, RN, Ph.D. dans le département de…
La famille Basile partage son histoire avec le journal Chicago
Irene Basile does a Q&A with a Chicago reporter about her late husband’s battle with FTD. Nick Basile, her son, will run in the Chicago Marathon on October 9th in…
Petit-déjeuner avec Bob - Cuisiner pour guérir
Join Kathy and Bob Renney on Sunday, Oct. 2 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for pancakes, eggs and sausage while learning a bit about FTD. Bob was diagnosed in 2009 and…
Des chercheurs découvrent une mutation clé qui cause la DFT et la SLA
Researchers find key mutation that causes FTD and ALS: In a landmark paper published in the online journal Neuron today a group of researchers report successful identification of a long-sought…
Un neurologue de l'UCSF remporte une bourse MacArthur pour la recherche FTD
William Seeley, neurologist at UCSF, won a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship for his research into FTD. The no-strings-attached, five-year fellowship allows Dr. Seeley the freedom and creativity to delve into FTD…
Bourse pilote AFTD Awards 2011
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) recently awarded its 2011 pilot grant for research to Dr. Fenghua Hu, research assistant professor at Cornell University. Dr. Hu will receive $60,000 for…