Katya Rascovsky

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Diagnostic criteria for the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD): current limitations and future directions
    Katya Rascovsky
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
    Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 21:S14-8. 2007
  2. ncbi 'The quicksand of forgetfulness': semantic dementia in One hundred years of solitude
    Katya Rascovsky
    Memory and Aging Center, UCSF Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Brain 132:2609-16. 2009
  3. ncbi Disparate letter and semantic category fluency deficits in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease
    Katya Rascovsky
    Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
    Neuropsychology 21:20-30. 2007
  4. ncbi Early features in frontotemporal dementia
    Ana María Villamizar Caycedo
    Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, UCSF, USA
    Curr Alzheimer Res 6:337-40. 2009
  5. ncbi Distinct cognitive profiles and rates of decline on the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease
    Katya Rascovsky
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14:373-83. 2008
  6. ncbi Self-appraisal in behavioural variant frontotemporal degeneration
    Lauren Massimo
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Gates Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 84:148-53. 2013
  7. ncbi Frontal paralimbic network atrophy in very mild behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
    William W Seeley
    UCSF Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Arch Neurol 65:249-55. 2008
  8. ncbi Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia
    Katya Rascovsky
    Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 3 West Gates, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Brain 134:2456-77. 2011
  9. ncbi The Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition (PBAC): a validated screening measure for dementia
    David J Libon
    Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 25:1314-30. 2011
  10. ncbi The early neuropsychological and behavioral characteristics of frontotemporal dementia
    Dana Wittenberg
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Neuropsychol Rev 18:91-102. 2008

Detail Information

Publications12

  1. ncbi Diagnostic criteria for the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD): current limitations and future directions
    Katya Rascovsky
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
    Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 21:S14-8. 2007
    ..In this article, we discuss the limitations of current diagnostic criteria and propose the establishment of an international consortium to revise diagnostic and research criteria for the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia...
  2. ncbi 'The quicksand of forgetfulness': semantic dementia in One hundred years of solitude
    Katya Rascovsky
    Memory and Aging Center, UCSF Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Brain 132:2609-16. 2009
    ..The novel also provides an inspiring and human account of one town's fight against 'the quicksand of forgetfulness'...
  3. ncbi Disparate letter and semantic category fluency deficits in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease
    Katya Rascovsky
    Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
    Neuropsychology 21:20-30. 2007
    ..These unique patterns of letter and semantic category fluency deficits may be indicative of differences in the relative contribution of frontal-lobe-mediated retrieval deficits and temporal-lobe-mediated semantic deficits in FTD and AD...
  4. ncbi Early features in frontotemporal dementia
    Ana María Villamizar Caycedo
    Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, UCSF, USA
    Curr Alzheimer Res 6:337-40. 2009
    ..Treatment is currently focused around symptoms but disease-modifying therapies seem feasible...
  5. ncbi Distinct cognitive profiles and rates of decline on the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease
    Katya Rascovsky
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14:373-83. 2008
    ..8 points/year) on MDRS total and specific subscale scores. These results suggest that the MDRS may be a useful adjunct to other clinical measures for distinguishing FTD from AD and tracking the progression of the disorder...
  6. ncbi Self-appraisal in behavioural variant frontotemporal degeneration
    Lauren Massimo
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Gates Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 84:148-53. 2013
    ..We examined whether a domain-specific versus multi-domain model best explains degraded self-appraisal in bvFTD...
  7. ncbi Frontal paralimbic network atrophy in very mild behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
    William W Seeley
    UCSF Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Arch Neurol 65:249-55. 2008
    ..Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) strikes hardest at the frontal lobes, but the sites of earliest injury remain unclear...
  8. ncbi Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia
    Katya Rascovsky
    Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 3 West Gates, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Brain 134:2456-77. 2011
    ..Future studies will be needed to establish the reliability and specificity of these revised diagnostic guidelines...
  9. ncbi The Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition (PBAC): a validated screening measure for dementia
    David J Libon
    Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 25:1314-30. 2011
    ..The PBAC is a valid tool and able to assesses differential patterns neuropsychological/behavioral impairment in a broad range of neurodegenerative conditions...
  10. ncbi The early neuropsychological and behavioral characteristics of frontotemporal dementia
    Dana Wittenberg
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Neuropsychol Rev 18:91-102. 2008
    ..As this review underscores, frontotemporal dementia remains a powerful model for studying brain-behavior relationships...
  11. ncbi International approaches to frontotemporal dementia diagnosis: from social cognition to neuropsychology
    Bruce L Miller
    UCSF Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Ann Neurol 54:S7-10. 2003
  12. ncbi ApoE and TDP-43 neuropathology in two siblings with familial FTLD-motor neuron disease
    Keith A Vossel
    a Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Neurocase . 2012
    ..Although differences seen in a sibling pair could arise due to chance, these findings raise the possibility that apoE4 exacerbates brain pathology in FTLD through formation of neurotoxic apoE fragments and interactions with TDP-43...