Summary

Study director: Joel Kramer, PsyD [1]
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Recruiting?: Yes
Official study title: Attention and Executive Functioning in Frontotemporal Dementia
Conditions studied: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) [2], Alzheimer's disease (AD) [3], mild cognitive impairment (MCI) [4], semantic dementia (SD) [2] and healthy adults [5] (NC or "normal control")
Purpose: To determine differences in and underlying brain regions responsible for attention.

Links:
[1] http://memory.ucsf.edu/ftd/staff/jkramer
[2] http://memory.ucsf.edu/ftd/overview/forms/multiple
[3] http://memory.ucsf.edu/Education/Disease/ad.html
[4] http://memory.ucsf.edu/Education/Disease/mci.html
[5] http://memory.ucsf.edu/Education/Topics/normalaging.html