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Dr Sanne Kaalund was awarded with a competitive grant extension from the Lundbeck Foundation to the project: "Measuring microscpic changes at the macroscopic level in frontotemporal dementia". For this deadline and funding scheme the Foundation received 36 applications for a total of DKK 57m. A total amount of DKK 12m was granted to 11 of these pro…

Pint of Science is a non-profit organisation that brings some of the most brilliant scientists to your local pub to discuss their latest research and findings with you.14th-16th May 2018 in Cambridge (and other locations)You don't need any prior knowledge, and this is your chance to meet the people responsible for the future of science (and have a …

New article is published:Lansdall, C. J., Coyle-Gilchrist, I. T. S., Jones, P. S., Vazquez Rodriguez, P., Wilcox, A., Wehmann, E., Dick, K. M., Robbins, T. W., & Rowe, J. B. (2018). White matter change with apathy and impulsivity in frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes. Neurology. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000005175 PMID: 29453244

The Guarantors of Brain offer four types of Brain fellowships. Applications for the 2018 Entry and Post Doctoral fellowships will opened 1st February (closing 16th March 2018). Post Doctoral & Brain Entry FellowshipsBrain fellowships 2018: OPEN The Guarantors of Brain offer four types of Brain fellowships.“Entry” clinical fellowships up to 12mon…

New review article published in Brain by Alexander Murley and James Rowe.Murley, A., & Rowe, J. B. (2018). Neurotransmitter deficits from frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a critical review. Brain. doi: 10.1093/brain/awx327

ITV Anglia interviewed Thomas Cope about his new publication on Brain.Date: January 2018

The new publication by Thomas Cope et al., has resulted in some media attention.Here are a few related web links:(5th January 2018). Recent advances in brain imaging have enabled scientists to show for the first time that a key protein which causes nerve cell death spreads throughout the brain in Alzheimer’s disease – and hence that blocking its sp…

A new article by Thomas Cope and colleagues has been published in Brain:Cope, T. E., Rittman, T., Borchert, R. J., Jones, P. S., Vatansever, D., Allinson, K., Passamonti, L., Vazquez Rodriguez, P., Bevan-Jones, W. R., O’Brien, J. T., & Rowe, J. B. (2018). Tau burden and the functional connectome in Alzheimer’s disease and progressive supranuclear p…

New publication in Current Opinion on Behavioural Sciences:Passamonti, L., Lansdall, C. J., & Rowe, J. B. (2018). The neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of apathy and impulsivity in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Current Opinion on Behavioural Sciences, 22,14-20. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.12.015Link to the article

The Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and related Disorders would like to welcome three new team members:1) Dr Timothy Rittman is back in the lab as Clinical Research Associate2) Juliette Lanskey has started as a Research Assistant3) Matthew Rouse has started as a Research AssistantWELCOME!

New publication out in Nature Communications. A study on patients with non-fluent primary progressive aphasia shows that fronto-temporal interactions determine predictive processes in speech.Cope, T. E., Sohoglu, E., Sedley, W., Patterson, K., Jones, P. S., Wiggins, J., Dawson, C., Grube, M., Carlyon, R. P., Griffiths, T. D., Davis, M. H., & Rowe, …

The lab is now on twitter as well! @CambridgeFTD We will tweet about all group-related new publications, events, etc

2 new publications out in November 2017 Cash, D. M., Bocchetta, M., Thomas, D. L., Dick, K. M., van Swieten, J. C., Borroni, B., Galimberti, D., Masellis, M., Tartaglia, M. C., Rowe, J. B., Graff, C., Tagliavini, F., Frisoni, G. B., Laforce, R., Jr., Finger, E., de Mendonca, A., Sorbi, S., Rossor, M. N., Ourselin, S., Rohrer, J. D., & Genetic Ftd …

Claire Lansdall has successfully submitted and defended her dissertation on "Apathy and Impulsivity in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Syndromes" and been awarded with her doctorate.Congratulations!

Three new publications are currently in press.Murley, A., Rowe, J. B. (in press). Neurotransmitter deficits from frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a critical review. Brain.Cope, T. E., Rittman, T., Borchert, R., Jones, P. S., Vatansever, D., Allinson, K., Passamonti, L., Vazquez Rodriguez, P., Bevan-Jones, W. R., O’Brien, J. T., Rowe, J. B. (in pr…