Update from the most recent FTD Meeting

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The FTD Annual Seminar was held on Monday 16th March 2026 at the Lecture Hall, Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ

Agenda

00:00:00 Welcome, Announcements and Introduction: Prof. Jonathan Rohrer 

00:08:54 General and Clinical Update on FTD: Prof Jonathan Rohrer 

00:30:12 Developing new questionnaires to understand changes in behaviour in FTD: Sophie Farley

00:46:16 New therapeutic trials for behavioural variant FTD and PPA: Dr Alex Murley 

01:03:34 Better Conversations with PPA and other rare dementias: Speech and language therapy trial for people with rare dementia and their family members: Dr Anna Volkmer 

01:12:12 Members Experience: Calypso Owen 

01:27:30 Managing the Moments: Behavioural Strategies for Caregivers of Individuals with FTD: Dr Sam Stern

01:48:33 F.A.Q. on Behavioural variant FTD: Nikki Zimmermann

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