Essays about: "frontotemporal dementia"

Found 3 essays containing the words frontotemporal dementia.

  1. 1. Potential Neurophysiological Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Age-related Neurodegenerative Diseases

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Veronika Marková; [2020]
    Keywords : dementia; Alzheimer’s disease; frontotemporal dementia; TMSevoked potentials; motor-evoked potentials; mild cognitive impairment; aging; diagnosis;

    Abstract : The global population with dementia is rapidly increasing around the world.The major risk factor for dementia is aging. There is currently no treatmentavailable and the cost of symptomatic treatment is high. READ MORE

  3. 2. Development of Sandwich Assays for Potential Protein Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

    Author : Jamil Yousef; [2020]
    Keywords : Biomarkers; cerebrospinal fluid; neurodegenerative diseases; neuroproteomics; sandwich assay; suspension bead array.; Biomarkörer; ryggmärgsvätska; neurodegenerativa sjukdomar; neuroproteomik; sandwich assay; suspension bead array.;

    Abstract : As the aging population is increasing worldwide, so is the prevalence of neurodegenerativediseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), frontotemporal dementia(FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Reliable biomarkers able to aid the diagnosis anddifferentiation of these diseases are needed in order to start the right treatment as early as possible. READ MORE

  4. 3. A pipeline for the identification and examination of proteins implicated in frontotemporal dementia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Katharina Waury; [2020]
    Keywords : Bioinformatics; Proteomics; Dementia; FTD; Biomarker; Machine Learning; Random Forest; R; Pipeline;

    Abstract : Frontotemporal dementia is a neurodegenerative disorder with high heterogeneity on the genetic, pathological and clinical level. The familial form of the disease is mainly caused by pathogenic variants of three genes: C9orf72, MAPT and GRN. READ MORE