Summary | Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

Summary

Study director: Adam Boxer, MD, PhD
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Recruiting?: Yes
Official study title: Eye movement control in normal adults and in adults with neurologic disease
Conditions studied: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), semantic dementia (SD), progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA), Alzheimer's disease (AD), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and healthy adults
Purpose: To learn about the mechanisms of eye movement control and visual perception, as well as how these functions may change with different neurologic diseases.