The pursuit for markers of disease progression in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: a scoping review to optimize outcome measures for clinical trials.

Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by diverse and prominent changes in behavior and personality. One of the greatest challenges in bvFTD is to capture, measure and predict its disease progression, due to clinical, pathological and genetic heterogeneity. Availability of reliable outcome measures is pivotal for future clinical trials and disease monitoring.

[Sustainability in Flemish and Dutch mental health care].

Background: The Flemish and Dutch (mental) health sectors cause greenhouse gas emissions and therefore will have to make an effort to reduce their climate impact.

Aim: To assess whether differences can be found in the climate policies of Flemish and Dutch mental health institutions.

Method: Descriptive research based on a sustainability questionnaire, in which concrete actions, objectives and ambitions in the field of sustainability were questioned at Flemish and Dutch mental health institutions.

Diagnostic Instability Over Time in the Late-Onset Frontal Lobe Syndrome: When Can We Say it's FTD?

Objectives: Distinguishing sporadic behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) from late-onset primary psychiatric disorders (PPD) remains challenging with the lack of robust biomarkers. An early bvFTD misdiagnosis in PPD cases and vice-versa is common. Little is known about diagnostic (in)stability over longer period of time.

[Automated speech analysis can distinguish frontotemporal dementia from depression: a pilot study].

Background: Differentiating the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia from a depression is challenging. Recent development of automated speech analyses might add to diagnostic.

Aim: To investigate the value of automated speech analyses in differentiating bvFTD from a depressive disorder.