NIC-FTD

Dutch description

Wat? ‘Neuropsychiatric International Consortium on Frontotemporal Dementia’ is een internationale samenwerking met als doel de ziekte frontotemporale dementie (FTD) verder ontrafelen. NIC-FTD richt zich op het verbeteren van diagnostiek en het opdoen van kennis over de prognose, het ziekteproces en nieuwe biomarkers van FTD.

Voor wie? Dit onderzoek richt zich op het bijeenbrengen van FTD-professionals.

English description

Participants of the Neuropsychiatric International Consortium on Frontotemporal Dementia (NIC-FTD) are research centers from all over the world with a special interest and expertise in both frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and psychiatric diseases.

FTD is one of the most common early-onset type dementias worldwide. FTD shows large symptomatic overlap with psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism. FTD patients often receive a psychiatric diagnosis initially and vice versa. An early and correct diagnosis is pivotal since psychiatric conditions are potentially treatable, whereas FTD is not. Diagnosing FTD versus psychiatric disorders accurately remains challenging for clinicians due to lack of reliable clinical assessment methods and specific biomarkers. NIC-FTD aims to improve clinical assessment tools and biomarkers to differentiate between FTD and psychiatric disorders. Therefore, the key objective of NIC-FTD is to build a shared research database by collecting data of clinical characteristics, neuropsychological and cognitive behavioral assessments, neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers of FTD patients and patients with psychiatric disorders, enabling collaborative research in this important field.