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Bernardino Ghetti is Doctor of Medicine and Specialized in Mental and Nervous Diseases from the University of Pisa, Italy. At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, he completed Research Fellowships of Italian National Research Council and North Atlantic Treaty Organization and then Residency in Pathology and Neuropathology. He is Board Certified in Neuropathology and is Professor of Pathology, Psychiatry, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Neurology, Distinguished Professor of Indiana University, and Chancellor’s Professor of Indiana University-Purdue University. He founded the Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center and served as its First Director for 23 years. He served as 58th President of the AANP and 16th President of the ISN. He is the Founder of ISFTD and served as its First President. His seminal work in neuroscience helped deciphering the neuropathology and genetics of hereditary dementias and continues with groundbreaking studies of the structure of the filament core of tau and a-synuclein in human neurodegenerative diseases. He is a Fellow of ANA and AAAS, received the NINDS’ Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Siena, Italy, the AANP’s Award for Meritorious Contribution to Neuropathology, the Alzheimer’s Association’s Henry M. Wisniewski Award for Lifetime Achievement in AD Research, and the AAN’s Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s, and Related Diseases. Emanuele Buratti is currently Group Leader of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste and Professor at the University of Trieste. Previously, he studied at the University of Trieste for a B.Sc. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. In 1995, he moved to ICGEB as a Staff Research Scientist. Dr. Buratti principal areas of expertise are the investigation of RNA binding proteins and RNA metabolism in neurodegeneration and metabolic diseases. On these subjects, Emanuele Buratti is the author of more than 160 research papers in peer-reviewed publications and of book articles on these subjects (for a full list see orcid.org/0000-0002-1356-9074). He is Associate Editor at Frontiers in Genetics, Academic Editor at PloS ONE, and part of the Editorial Board at Journal of Biological Chemistry and Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian FTD Patient association (AIFTD) and an Expert Panel Member for Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Homepage: http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/molecular-pathology.html Dr. Brad Boeve is a consultant in the Department of Neurology and Center for Sleep Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and is Professor of Neurology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He also serves as Chair of the Division of Behavioral Neurology. His clinical and research interests include the non-Alzheimer’s degenerative dementias and the neurologically-based sleep disorders, and particular interests in frontotemporal dementia +/- parkinsonism +/- ALS, primary progressive aphasia, corticobasal syndrome, and progressive supranuclear palsy/Richardson’s syndrome, among other disorders. He is a member of the International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias, the Medical Advisory Council of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, and the FTD Prevention Initiative. He is co-PI of Longitudinal Evaluation of Familial Frontotemporal Dementia Subjects (LEFFTDS), co-investigator in the Advancing Research and Treatment in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ARTFL), and co-PI of the ARFTL-LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ALLFTD) Consortium. He is funded by the National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Little Family Foundation, and the Mangurian Foundation. Dr. Rosa Rademakers is Scientific Director of the VIB Center for Molecular Neurology and Professor of Neurogenetics at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, since 2019. Prior to that, she was Professor of Neuroscience at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, where she still holds a position as Supplemental Consultant. Her research is focused on the molecular genetic analyses of neurodegenerative diseases, with a special interest in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and related neurodegenerative disorders. Her research program aims to provide new insights into disease pathogenesis and to identify novel targets for therapy through the discovery and subsequent study of novel disease genes. She leads the international FTLD-TDP whole genome sequencing consortium and is the co-lead of the Genetics Core of the ARFTL-LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ALLFTD) Consortium. She is the current President of the International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias and a member of the Medical Advisory Council of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. She has received the Paolo Gontijo Medicine Award, the Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research and is the recipient of the 2016 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders of the American Academy of Neurology. Table of Contents 1. Behavioural variant FTD: recent advances in the diagnosis and understanding of the disorder John Hodges, Olivier Piguet, Rebekah Ahmen 2. The neuropsychiatry of frontotemporal dementia Bruce Miller 3. Nosology and Neuropathology of Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia Marsel Mesulam, S. Weintraub, E. Rogalski, E. Bigio 4. Measuring Behavior and Cognition in FTLD Kate Rankin et al 5. Clinical update on C9orf72: FTD, ALS and beyond Isabelle Le Ber and Brad Boeve 6. Clinical aspects of familial FTLD associated with MAPT and GRN mutations Brad Boeve and Howie Rosen 7. Neuroimaging in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Sheena Dev, Bradford C. Dickerson, Alexandra Touroutoglou 8. The FTD Prevention Initiative – linking together genetic FTD cohort studies Jonathan Rohrer and Adam Boxer 9. Fluid Biomarkers of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration John van Swieten and Emma van der Ende 10. Cross-cultural perspectives on frontotemporal degeneration Chiadi U. Onyike et al 11. Clinical characteristics and Neuropathology of PSP, CBD and Related 4R-Tauopathies Dennis Dickson, Irene Litvan, D.Coughlin, Keith A. Josephs 12. Tau protein and frontotemporal dementias Michel Goedert, Maria G Spillantini 13. FTLD-TDP pathological subtypes: clinical and mechanistic significance Manuela Neumann, Edward Lee, Ian Mackenzie 14. Lysosomal dysfunction as a pathogenic mechanism in FTD: Evidence from PGRN and TMEM106B genetics and biology Xiaolai Zhou, Thomas Kukar, Rosa Rademakers 15. Future trends in understanding the pathological role of TDP-43 and FUS proteins Emanuele Buratti 16. Description of a new data resource for FTD including multiomic data on human post mortem brain (MAPT, GRN, C9orf72), matching mouse models and iPS models Peter Heutink and Kevin Menden 17. Mendelian and sporadic FTD: avenues from genetics to disease pathways through in-silico prediction and modeling Raffaele Ferrari 18. FTLD treatment: Current Practice and Future Possibilities Adam Boxer and Peter Ljubenkov
