Clinical Accuracy of Serum Neurofilament Light to Differentiate Frontotemporal Dementia from Primary Psychiatric Disorders is Age-Dependent

CONCLUSION: PPD have mildly elevated sNfL compared to healthy subjects but much lower than bvFTD. Results support the use of sNfL as a biomarker to differentiate PPD from bvFTD at age 60 or below, but accuracy decreases in older ages.PMID:38609836 | DOI:10.1016/j.jagp.2024.03.008

Source: Am J Geriatr Psychia... - April 12, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Victoria Light Sherri Lee Jones Elham Rahme Katerine Rousseau Sterre de Boer Lisa Vermunt Mahdie Soltaninejad Charlotte Teunissen Yolande Pijnenburg Simon Ducharme For Signature Consortium Source Type: research