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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 General introduction 7
Chapter 2 Characterizing disease trajectories in genetic frontotemporal dementia 21
2.1 Cognitive profiles discriminate between genetic variants of
frontotemporal dementia 23
2.2 Longitudinal cognitive changes in genetic frontotemporal
dementia within the GENFI cohort 45
2.3 Longitudinal brain atrophy rates in patients with presymptomatic
genetic frontotemporal dementia 71
Chapter 3 New sensitive cognitive instruments in the frontotemporal dementia
spectrum 107
3.1 Exploring abstract semantic associations in the frontotemporal
dementia spectrum in a Dutch population 109
3.2 A cognitive composite for genetic frontotemporal dementia:
GENFI-Cog 135
3.3 Emotion recognition of morphed facial expressions in
presymptomatic and symptomatic frontotemporal dementia, and
Alzheimer’s dementia 163
Chapter 4 Memory impairment in frontotemporal dementia 185
4.1 A meta-analytic review of memory impairment in behavioural
variant frontotemporal dementia 187
4.2 Episodic memory impairment in genetic frontotemporal
dementia: a GENFI study 209
4.3 Differences in discriminability and response bias on Rey Auditory
Verbal Learning Test delayed recognition in behavioural variant
frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease 237
Chapter 5 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in presymptomatic genetic
frontotemporal dementia: a pilot study 257
Chapter 6 General discussion 281
Chapter 7 English and Dutch summary 307
English summary 308
Nederlandse samenvatting 310
Dankwoord 313
Curriculum vitea 316
List of publications 317
Phd portfolio 321