Serum neurofilament light chain in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Petra Steinacker1, Sarah Anderl-Straub1, Janine Diehl-Schmid1

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (P.S., S.A.-S., E.S., I.U., C.A.F.v.A., J. Kassubek, B.L., P.O., A.C.L., M.O.) and Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry (B.M.), University of Ulm; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (J.D.-S., H.F., T.G.), Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich; Department of Nuclear Medicine (H.B.), Leipzig University Hospital; Department of Neurology (A.D.), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich; Department of Neurology (K.F.), Saarland University, Homburg; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (K.F.), University of Bonn, Germany; Swiss Epilepsy Center (H.-J.H.), Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (H.J.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg; AMEOS Klinikum (H.J.), Heiligenhafen; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (J. Kornhuber, J.M.M.), Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (M.L.), University of Würzburg; Department of Neurology (J.P.), University of Rostock; DZNE (J.P.), Rostock; Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry (A.S.), University Hospital Bonn; DZNE (A.S.), Bonn; Institute of Human Genetics (A.E.V.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (J.W.), University Medical Center Göttingen; DZNE (J.W.), Göttingen, Germany; iBiMED (J.W.), Medical Sciences Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal; Clinic for Cognitive Neurology (M.L.S.), University Clinic Leipzig; and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (M.L.S.), Leipzig, Germany.

Neurology
|September 14, 2018
PubMed
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