MET-FTD

Music Employed Treatment for Frontotemporal Dementia (MET-FTD) is an intervention to improve empathy in individuals with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). This program was created by Jeff Wolfe, neurologic music therapist from Institute for Therapy through the Arts in collaboration with Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour (Northwestern University) and Kaitlin Seibert (University of Chicago). Initial assessments of this program is underway with Dr. Jana Wingo (Northwestern Neuropsychologist) overseeing the neurocognitive evaluations.