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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2012 Dec;12(6):715–723. doi: 10.1007/s11910-012-0317-0

TABLE 1.

Summary of imaging findings across clinical, genetic and pathological variants of FTD

Prefrontal Premotor Med TL Lat TL PL OL Striatum Cerebellum
Clinical syndromes
bvFTD +++ + ++ ++ + +
svPPA + +++ +++ +
agPPA ++ +
Genetic mutations
MAPT ++ +++ +++ + +
PGRN ++ + ++ ++ +
C9ORF72 +++ ++ + ++ ++ + + ++
Tau pathologies
Pick’s disease +++ + ++ ++ + +
PSP + + +
CBD + ++ + ++
TDP pathologies
TDP type A +++ + ++ ++ +
TDP type B ++ + + + +
TDP type C + +++ +++ +
FUS pathology ++ + + +++

Atrophy has been graded as follows: relatively spared (−), mildly involved (+), moderately impaired (++), severely impaired (+++)

TL = temporal lobe; PL = parietal lobe; OL = occipital lobe