ISFTD Webinar on Clinical Syndrome Associated With Right Anterior Temporal Lobe Atrophy

Dr Tsapkini is Associate Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, neuropsychologist by training. Over the past 10 years she has focused on the effects of neuromodulation, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in particular, combined with language and cognitive interventions in primary progressive aphasia (PPA). In her work she uses different methods of brain imaging such resting-state fMRI, Diffusion Tensor imaging, MRS. She has been extensively supported by NIH awards.

Dr Jessica L. Hazelton is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, research affiliate of Frontier, The University of Sydney and is the current chair of the ISFTD EMCR committee. Her work focuses on using multimodal neuroimaging, electrophysiological and psychophysiological techniques to understand mechanisms contributing to behavioural and emotional dysfunctions in FTLD.

Prof. Yolande Pijnenburg is a behavioural neurologist. She is the medical director of the Alzheimer Center Amsterdam at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. She is also in the board of directors of the Amsterdam Neuroscience research institute. Her main focus of research are the clinical manifestations of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia. She was involved in key papers on PCA and bvAD. Since 10 years she runs a neuropsychiatric clinic together with a psychiatrist where they conduct a longitudinal study called the Social Brain Project in order to investigate tools to differentiate between bvFTD, bvAD and primary psychiatric disorders. She is the supervisor of 17 PhD students and 4 post doc researchers. She is the chair of the Dutch FTD experts group, and together with Dr. Simon Ducharme she leads the Neuropsychiatric International Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia.