Neuropathologic Subtypes of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyū no shinpo
Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita

Abstract

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a heterogeneous disease entity encompassing a wide variety of histopathological features and genetic backgrounds. The last two decades have seen the discovery of causative genes and the identification of relevant proteins. The current histopathological classification is based on the major types of protein deposition in the brain, and most FTLD cases can be placed into one of three pathological subgroups: FTLD-tau, FTLD-TDP, and FTLD-FUS. Further sub-classification within each subgroup is based on the morphology of neuronal and glial inclusions and lesion distribution. Affected patients, including some from the same subgroups, show considerable heterogeneity in their clinical presentations, suggesting that the subgroups represent a variety of well-defined clinical syndromes, including variants of frontotemporal dementia (behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, progressive non-fluent aphasia, and semantic dementia) and motor disorders (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, corticobasal syndrome, and supranuclear palsy syndrome). On the other hand, patients with MAPT mutations always show the FTLD-tau phenotype, whereas patients with progranulin, C9orf72, VCP or TARDBP usually present the F...Continue Reading

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