The implications of disease coexistence

In order to better counsel patients, it is key for clinicians of different disciplines to be aware of, and diagnose, the 'overlap syndrome' between two medical disorders - ALS and FTD - since it significantly affects patient survival. In her new study, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, from the University of California San Francisco in the US, also highlights that from a research perspective, identifying the syndrome early is an opportunity to study damaged nerve cells and understand more about the early stages of both ALS and FTD. Her work is published in Springer's Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, in a special issue entitled Frontotemporal Dementias, which contains 56 studies on this topic.

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