Language Deficits And Cognitive Dysfunction In Motor Neuron Disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1072451

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Motor neuron disease (MND) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are fatal degenerative brain diseases that overlap clinically and pathologically. Patients with either disease can develop a combination of motor and cognitive deficits (known as FTD-MND). Recent studies suggest that FTD-MND is more common in familial MND. This project will investigate language disturbance – a prominent feature of FTD – in MND patients to establish whether such impairment predicts the development of FTD-MND.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $263,513.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cognitive assessment | cognitive decline | frontotemporal dementia | genetics | motor neuron disease (MND) | prognosis | therapy

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