ArticleBrain imaging and behavior2019
Occupational attainment influences longitudinal decline in behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration.
Article in Brain imaging and behavior, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Speech and language impairments in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Theoretical and practical challenges for capturing reserve and resilience in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A narrative review.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Review
- Educational attainment and sex modulate clinical outcomes in genetic frontotemporal dementia.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Higher neighborhood deprivation is associated with accelerated disease progression in behavioral-variant frontotemporal degeneration.Alzheimer's & dementia. Behavior & socioeconomics of aging · 2025Article
- Higher neighborhood deprivation is associated with accelerated disease progression in behavioral-variant frontotemporal degeneration.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Examining the relation between bilingualism and age of symptom onset in frontotemporal dementia.Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- The pursuit for markers of disease progression in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: a scoping review to optimize outcome measures for clinical trials.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Systematic examination of methodological inconsistency in operationalizing cognitive reserve and its impact on identifying predictors of late-life cognition.BMC geriatrics · 2023Review
- Anterior cingulate sulcation is associated with onset and survival in frontotemporal dementia.Brain communications · 2023Article
- Cox regression model under dependent truncation.Biometrics · 2022Article
- Sex differences in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia: A new window to executive and behavioral reserve.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2021Article
- Social and leisure activity are associated with attenuated cortical loss in behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
- Active lifestyles moderate clinical outcomes in autosomal dominant frontotemporal degeneration.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2020Article
- High occurrence of transportation and logistics occupations among vascular dementia patients: an observational study.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2019Observational
- Recent advances in understanding frontotemporal degeneration.F1000Research · 2019Review
- UNC13A polymorphism contributes to frontotemporal disease in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Neurobiology of aging · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
To evaluate whether occupational attainment influences the trajectory of longitudinal cognitive decline in behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration (bvFTD). Single-center, retrospective, longitudinal study. Sixty-three patients meeting consensus criteria for bvFTD underwent evaluation at the University of Pennsylvania Frontotemporal Degeneration Center. All patients were studied longitudinally on letter-guided fluency, category-naming fluency and Boston Naming Test (BNT). Occupational attainment was defined categorically by assigning each individual's occupation to a professional or non-professional category. Linear mixed-effects models evaluated the interaction of neuropsychological performance change with occupational status. Regression analyses were used to relate longitudinal decline in executive function to baseline MRI grey matter atrophy. Higher occupational status was associated with a more severe slope of cognitive decline on letter-guided fluency and category-naming fluency, but not BNT. Faster rates of longitudinal decline on letter-guided and category-naming fluency were associated with more severe baseline grey matter atrophy in right dorsolateral and inferior frontal regions. Our longitudinal findings suggest that bvFTD individuals with higher lifetime cognitive experience demonstrate more rapid decline on measures of executive function. This finding converges with cross-sectional evidence suggesting that lifetime cognitive experiences contribute to heterogeneity in clinical progression in bvFTD.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.