Carmela Tartaglia, MD

Dr. Carmela Tartaglia is a cognitive/behavioral neurologist at the University Health Network Memory Clinic and a scientist at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto. She uses a multi-pronged approach that combines biofluid assessments and imaging to characterize the neural substrates of cognitive-behavioral changes in neurodegenerative disease, with a focus on frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and atypical Alzheimer’s disease. Her research program aims to identify biomarkers for early disease detection and further understanding of the molecular changes that underlie the cognitive, behavioral and motor impairments that occur in FTLD and atypical AD. She has been involved in a number of international collaborations in FTLD and has led numerous studies that seek to understand the contribution of co-pathology to the heterogeneity of presentation and progression across neurodegenerative diseases.