Projects
Changing gaze, changing perception: How participatory performative and visual art-practices can empower people with dementia and their caregivers to cope with the condition KU Leuven
Deciphering the contribution of progranulin deficient human microglia in the initiation and modification of frontotemporal dementia. University of Antwerp
Translational research in neurodegenerative dementia and related disorders. University of Antwerp
Can induced pluripotent stem cells from frontotemporal dementia be used to characterize mechanisms underlying progranulin haploinsufficiency mediated neurodegeneration? KU Leuven
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease, leading to behavioral changes and language difficulties. Unlike other forms of dementia, FTD generally affects younger people and is heritable in many cases, with mutations in three genes (GRN, MAPT and C9orf72) explaining the majority of genetic cases. Autosomal dominant loss-of-function mutations in progranulin (GRN) induce haploinsufficiency ...
Effects of bilingualism on cognitive functioning and development of dementia Ghent University
Recent studies demonstrated that in bi- and multilinguals the clinical manifestations of dementia occurred more than 4 years later than in monolinguals. A possible explanation for this bilingual advantage may be related to better functioning cognitive controle mechanisms. This research proposal will investigate the underlying cognitive and language processes associated with the bilingual advantages in patients with dementia.