Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) is a family of disorders that also included Pick’s Disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
FTLD is pathologically characterized by damage to the brain cells in the frontal and temporal cortex of the brain. Between the ages of 45-64, approximately seven people per 100,00 will be affected. A person who develops dementia after the age of 75 would be more likely to Alzheimer’s disease and not FTD.
FTD Researchers at the CTRND
Department: Department of Neuroscience
David R Borchelt
Professor, Director SantaFe Health Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Phone: (352) 273-9664
Email:
drb1@ufl.edu
Department: MD-NEUROLOGY-MOVEMENT DISORDER
Matthew Farrer PhD
Lauren And Lee Fixel Chair, Professor Of Neurology, Director Of Clinical Genomics Program At UF Clinical And Translational Science Institute
Department: Department of Neuroscience
Benoit Giasson
Professor, Graduate Co-Coordinator Neuroscience Graduate Program
Department: Department of Neuroscience
Malú Gámez Tansey
Norman and Susan Fixel Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, Co-Director Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease and the Parkinson’s Foundation Research Center
Phone: (352) 294-4096
Email:
mgtansey@ufl.edu
Department: Department of Neuroscience
Jada Lewis
Professor, Deputy Director McKnight Brain Institute