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Newest in this topic

  1. Media Coverage of the Benefits and Harms of Testing the Healthy: a protocol for a descriptive study 2019-08-24
  2. The small molecule alpha-synuclein misfolding inhibitor, NPT200-11, produces multiple benefits in an animal model of Parkinson's disease 2018-11-01

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2 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2018 to 2019

Top journals

  • BMJ open 1
  • Scientific reports 1

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Media Coverage of the Benefits and Harms of Testing the Healthy: a protocol for a descriptive study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-08-24 Biomarkers

    Much testing in medicine is aimed at healthy people to facilitate the early detection of health conditions.

  2. The small molecule alpha-synuclein misfolding inhibitor, NPT200-11, produces multiple benefits in an animal model of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of alpha-synuclein (ASYN) in neurons and other CNS cell types may contribute to the underlying pathology of synucleinopathies including Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).

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