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Factors predicting loss of independence and mortality in frontotemporal lobar degeneration
  1. Osamu Yokota1,2,
  2. Tomoko Miki2,3,
  3. Seishi Terada1,
  4. Norihito Yamada1
  1. 1 Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
  2. 2 Department of Psychiatry, Kinoko Espoir Hospital, Kasaoka, Japan
  3. 3 Department of Psychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Osamu Yokota, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan; oyokota1{at}yahoo.co.jp

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2020-325944

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    • Contributors OY, TM, ST and NY drafted and edited the manuscript.

    • Funding This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT KAKENHI grant no. 18K07559), Grants-in-Aid from the Research Committee of CNS Degenerative Diseases and Research on Dementia from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (H29-Nanchi-Ippan-033), an Intramural Research Grant for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders from National Centre of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP) (30-8), grants from the Strategic Research Programme for Brain Sciences from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED, JP20dm0107109) and grants from Zikei Institute of Psychiatry.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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