Newswise — LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 25, 2020) – Working with their colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers at the University of Kentucky have found that they can differentiate between subtypes of dementia inducing brain disease. “For the first time we created criteria that could differentiate between frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and a common Alzheimer’s ‘mimic’ called LATE disease,” explained Dr. Peter Nelson of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) at the University of Kentucky (UK). He says they validated the criteria rigorously. The study was recently published in BRAIN: A Journal of Neurology. The first author of the paper was John L. Robinson from University of Pennsylvania and the corresponding author was Dr. Nelson.
This work comes in the wake of a large group effort organized and funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of…
