Frontotemporal Dementia
The Frontotemporal Dementia Disease Knowledge Page provides reference information on care of frontotemporal dementia.Patient Journey Stories of our Patient Representatives
Disease Knowledge Documents
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ERN-RND Centres for Frontotemporal Dementia

Care Standards
Available in many European languages .
Clinical Rating Scales

Online Medical Education
Frontotemporal Dementia
- Neuropsychological assessment in primary progressive aphasia – recommendations and pitfalls in clinical practice by Lize Jiskoot
- Semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia by Robert Rusina & Zsolt Cséfalvay
- Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) subtyping in clinical practice by Rik Vandenberghe
- Challenges in Frontotemporal Dementia: clinical, genetic and pathological heterogeneity by Harro Seelaar
- Fluid Biomarkers in Frontotemporal Dementia by Domenico Plantone
Cross-cutting thematic areas
- Patient Journeys: Reliable Comprehensive Documents which Summarise a Rare Disease by Petya Mihaylova & Mary Kearney
- The Importance of Genetic Counselling in the Diagnostic of Rare Neurological Disorders by Maria Judit Molnar
- Spring School 2026 – ‘RNAseq in RD’ by Diana Baralle
- Spring School 2026 – ‘Episignatures in Diagnostics of Rare Diseases’ by Camille Charbonnier
- Spring School 2026 – ‘Bioinformatic Tools for Diagnosing Rare Diseases’ by Christian Gilissen
- Spring School 2026 – ‘Non-coding Variants in Rare Diseases’ by Nicola Whiffin
- Spring School 2026 – ‘snRNA Genes in Neurodevelopmental Disorders’ by Christel Depienne
- Spring School 2026 – ‘Recommendations’ by Katja Lohmann and Ales Maver
- Spring School 2026 – ‘External Quality Assessment Scheme’ by Katja Lohmann and Ales Maver
- Spring School 2026 – ‘Quality Insurance’ by Katja Lohmann and Ales Maver
- Spring School 2026 – ‘NGS for Frontotemporal dementia’ by Laura Donker Kaat

Information for Patients
Please note that this section includes useful information from a variety of sources provided by ERN-RND members but which hasn’t been endorsed by ERN-RND.
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- Video on Genetics and Inheritance

Patient Organisations

Clinical Studies and Trials


