This position document has been developed by the Dysphagia Working Group, a committee
of members from the European Society for Swallowing Disorders and the European Union …

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized
by disturbances of behavior and personality and different types of language impairment …

Background— Cerebral fat embolism syndrome is a rare, but potentially lethal, complication
of long bone fractures. Neurological symptoms are variable, and the clinical diagnosis is …

Objective: To evaluate CSF levels of β-amyloid (1-42) (Aβ 42 ) alone and in combination with
CSF tau for distinguishing AD from other conditions. Methods: At 10 centers in Europe and …

Fragile‐X syndrome is a common form of mental retardation resulting from the inability to
produce the fragile‐X mental retardation protein. Qualitative examination of human brain …

Several molecular subtypes of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease have been identified and
electroencephalogram and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers have been reported to support …

Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)
are extremes of a clinically, pathologically, and genetically overlapping disease spectrum…

Male patients with fragile X syndrome lack FMR1 protein due to silencing of the FMR1 gene
by amplification of a CGG repeat and subsequent methylation of the promoter region. The …

Several families with an early–onset form of familial Alzheimer's disease have been found to
harbour mutations at a specific codon (717) of the gene for the β–amyloid precursor protein (…

Tau is a neuronal phosphoprotein whose expression is developmentally regulated. A single
tau isoform is expressed in fetal human brain but six isoforms are expressed in adult brain, …