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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a complex clinicopathological concept comprising several fatal neurodegenerative diseases. Clinically, behavioural change, language impairment, semantic memory deficits, motor neuron signs, parkinsonism and apraxia can develop in various orders.1 2 Pathologically, tau, transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 kDa and fused in sarcoma are major components of diagnostic lesions of various pathological disease entities. Such clinicopathological complexity may make predicting a longitudinal course difficult in the early stage. On the other hand, most families hope to know the details of the course of a disease and to get practical advice helpful for their life. Researchers also have had a strong interest in this issue.3 4
Murley et al 5 used a transdiagnostic approach to survival in an epidemiological cohort in the UK, examining the association between clinical …
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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.
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