Mayo Clinic staff have been at the forefront of research on dementia and Alzheimer's disease since the 1980s. For more information on dementia research, which includes research on frontotemporal dementia/Pick's disease, see the Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center .
Mayo Clinic in Arizona is part of the Arizona Alzheimer's Research Consortium, a statewide research collaboration designed to "capitalize on the state's complementary resources in brain imaging, computer science, the basic and behavioral neurosciences, and clinical and neuropathological research to help in the understanding, early detection, treatment, and prevention of Alzheimer's disease (AD)."
See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic doctors on frontotemporal dementia on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
Discovery of a Mutation Opens the Door to Dementia Research
2007 Mayo Magazine
Alzheimer's Disease
Discovery's Edge