Title:
The most common genetic cause of frontotemporal dementia triggers disturbances in the structure and function of neuronal synapses
Published:
University of Eastern Finland, 17 December 2021
From the article:
Hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the C9orf72 gene, which causes frontotemporal dementia and the motoneuron disease ALS, leads to structural and functional changes in synapses that connect neurons, a new study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland shows.