Abstract: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, formerly called Pick's disease, is a progressive dementia that is associated with focal atrophy of the frontal and/or temporal lobes. For over 100 years, the key clinical and pathological feature of this disease has been recognized to be focal, often asymmetric cortical involvement. Histopathologically, frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is distinct from Alzheimer's disease but heterogeneous, even among similar clinical syndromes. Recently, with the advent of specialized immunohistochemical stains and insights gained from molecular genetics, it has been recognized that FTLD is closely related to, and sometimes overlaps with three other neurodegenerative diseases: corticobasal ganglionic degeneration (CBD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and motor neuron disease (MND). The central role of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, in the pathogenesis of FTLD, has led to classification as a “tauopathy.”
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-06-02
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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