The frontotemporal dementias: a neuropsychiatric perspective

Professor John Hodges MD, FRCP, FRACP, F Med Sci John is Professor of Cognitive Neurology at the University of New South Wales based at the Neuroscience Research Australia where he co-directs the Frontotemporal Dementia Research Group (FRONTIER www.ftdrg.org). John qualified in Medicine from London University with honours (1975) and undertook periods of psychiatric and neurological raining in Southampton, Oxford and San Diego and obtained his MD in 1988. From 1997 to 2007 he was the MRC Professor of Behavioural Neurology with a joint appointments in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Addenbrooke's Hospital and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Cambridge where he lead a multidisciplinary research group. He has a longstanding interest in many aspects of cognition particularly in the context of neurodegenerative disorders. His current research focuses on aspects of frontotemporal dementia. He is the author of over 400 journal articles and five books including Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians (OUP 2007), Early Onset Dementia (OUP) Frontotemporal Dementia Syndromes (CUP, 2007). His real passions remain jazz, cricket, ceramics and his family. Frontotemporal Dementias (FTD) is a complex disorder with various presentations and a range of underlying pathologies. The symptomatology of FTD depends on the initial distribution of pathological changes in the brain. Those with orbitomesial frontal changes present changes in social cognition and behaviour (behavioural vari...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Dementia, Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Motor neurone disease, Neuroimaging, Neuromuscular disease, Parkinson's disease, Stroke, Memory disorders (psychiatry), Psychiatry of old age, Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia) PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS - DAY Source Type: research