Name of Fellow

    Dr James Burrell

    Institution

    Funder

    NHMRC

    Contact information of fellow

    Country

    Australia

    Title of project/programme

    Language Deficits And Cognitive Dysfunction In Motor Neuron Disease

    Source of funding information

    NHMRC

    Total sum awarded (Euro)

    € 176,064

    Start date of award

    01/01/14

    Total duration of award in years

    4.0

    The project/programme is most relevant to:

    Alzheimer's disease & other dementias

    Keywords

    motor neuron disease (mnd) | frontotemporal dementia | cognitive decline | cognitive assessment | genetics

    Research Abstract

    Motor neuron disease (MND) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are fatal degenerative brain diseases that overlap clinically and pathologically. Patients with either disease can develop a combination of motor and cognitive deficits (known as FTD-MND). Recent studies suggest that FTD-MND is more common in familial MND. This project will investigate language disturbance – a prominent feature of FTD – in MND patients to establish whether such impairment predicts the development of FTD-MND.

Types: Fellowships
Member States: Australia
Diseases: Alzheimer's disease & other dementias
Years: 2016
Database Categories: N/A
Database Tags: N/A

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