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  1. The value of a family history to distinguish monogenic from polygenic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2026-09-22
  2. Smartphone Passive Digital Phenotyping in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration 2026-09-21
  3. Diagnostic Value of Large Language Model-Extracted Gross Brain Findings in Neurodegenerative Diseases 2026-09-14

Studies

1,022 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1967 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 106
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 71
  • Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 53
  • Annals of neurology 34
  • The Lancet. Neurology 34

313 journals in all.

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  1. Patterns and trends in antipsychotic prescribing for Parkinson disease psychosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-07-01 Disparities

    In FY2008, 50% of patients with PD having a diagnosis of psychosis were prescribed an AP.

  2. Parkinson's disease progression at 30 years: a study of subthalamic deep brain-stimulated patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2011-06-11 Clinical safety

    Clinical findings in Parkinson's disease suggest that most patients progressively develop disabling non-levodopa-responsive symptoms during the course of the disease.

  3. A harmonized classification system for FTLD-TDP pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2011-06-04 Lewy body dementia

  4. Neuropathological background of phenotypical variability in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2011-05-26 Getting a diagnosis

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is the umbrella term encompassing a heterogeneous group of pathological disorders.

  5. Glial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of α-synucleinopathies: emerging concepts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2011-05-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) are adult onset neurodegenerative disorders characterised by prominent intracellular α-synuclein aggregates (α-synucleinopathies).

  6. Etiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2011-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    The past 25 years have seen a major expansion of knowledge concerning the cause of Parkinson's disease provided by an understanding of environmental and genetic factors that underlie the loss of nigral dopaminergic neurons.

  7. FTD and ALS: a tale of two diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2011-05-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The first reports of disorders that in terms of cognitive and behavioral symptoms resemble frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and in terms of motor symptoms resemble amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) bring us back to the second half of the 1800s. Over the last 150 years, and especially in the last two decades, there has been growing evidence that FTD signs can be seen in patients primarily diagnosed with ALS, implying clinical overlap among these two disorders.

  8. Lewy- and Alzheimer-type pathologies in Parkinson's disease dementia: which is more important?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2011-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    The relative importance of Lewy- and Alzheimer-type pathologies to dementia in Parkinson's disease remains unclear.

  9. Parkinson's disease: the quintessential neuropsychiatric disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2011-05-01 Risk factors

    Although diagnosed by characteristic motor features, Parkinson's disease may be preceded, and is frequently accompanied by, a wide range of cognitive and neuropsychiatric features.

  10. Cognitive status correlates with white matter alteration in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2011-04-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) can develop mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI), frequently progressing to dementia (PDD).

  11. Corticobasal degeneration: a pathologically distinct 4R tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2011-04-12 Disease mechanisms

    Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorder with onset in the 5(th) to 7(th) decade of life.

  12. Vitamin D receptor gene as a candidate gene for Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of human genetics 2011-03-01 Genetics

    Vitamin D and vitamin D receptor (VDR) have been postulated as environmental and genetic factors in neurodegeneration disorders including multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer disease (AD), and recently Parkinson disease (PD).

  13. White matter lesions in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2011-02-22 Caregiving

    Pure vascular parkinsonism without evidence of nigral Lewy body pathology may occur as a distinct clinicopathological entity, but a much more frequent occurrence is the comorbid presence of age-associated white matter lesions (WMLs) in idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD).

  14. Treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Parkinson's disease 2011-02-07 Digital health tools

    Patients at late stage Parkinson's disease (PD) develop several motor and nonmotor complications, which dramatically impair their quality of life.

  15. The diagnostic challenge of psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease: rates of and risk factors for prior psychiatric diagnosis in patients with early neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2011-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Depression was the most common psychiatric diagnosis in all groups.

  16. Presence of reactive microglia and neuroinflammatory mediators in a case of frontotemporal dementia with P301S mutation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2011-01-05 Disease mechanisms

    Our findings suggest that microglial activation and the production of proinflammatory mediators by phospho-tau-positive neurons and glial cells may differentially contribute to neuronal death and disease progression in neurodegenerative tauopathies.

  17. Behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia: diagnosis, clinical staging, and management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2010-12-10 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) present with insidious changes in personality and interpersonal conduct that indicate progressive disintegration of the neural circuits involved in social cognition, emotion regulation, motivation, and decision making.

  18. The cholinergic system in aging and neuronal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2010-12-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    However, the previous view of significant cholinergic cell loss during aging has been challenged.

  19. The relationship between neurological disease and bullous pemphigoid: a population-based case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Journal of investigative dermatology 2010-11-18 Vascular contributions

    Previous small studies and case reports have suggested that neurological disorders may be associated with bullous pemphigoid (BP).

  20. A recommended scale for cognitive screening in clinical trials of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2010-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive impairment is common in Parkinson's disease (PD).

  21. The MoCA: well-suited screen for cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2010-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Primary outcomes using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses showed that all 3 mental status tests produced excellent discrimination of PD-D from patients without dementia (area under the curve [AUC], 87%-91%) and PD-MCI from PD-N patients (AUC, 78%-90%), but the MoCA was generally better suited across both assessments.

  22. Clinical, genetic and pathological heterogeneity of frontotemporal dementia: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2010-10-22 Getting a diagnosis

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common young-onset dementia and is clinically characterised by progressive behavioural change, executive dysfunction and language difficulties.

  23. Nasu-Hakola disease: The first case reported by Nasu and review: The 50th Anniversary of Japanese Society of Neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology 2010-10-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD) was first reported separately by Nasu and Hakola around the same time in the 1970s. It is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder characterized by progressive dementia and repeated pathological fractures during adolescence.

  24. Treating neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies: a randomized controlled-trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2010-10-01 Treatments

    Sensitivity to psychotropic medications presents a therapeutic challenge when treating neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  25. What predicts mortality in Parkinson disease?: a prospective population-based long-term study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2010-10-01 Prevention and risk

    Of 230 patients, 211 (92%) died during the study period.

  26. Clinical spectrum of Kufor-Rakeb syndrome in the Chilean kindred with ATP13A2 mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2010-09-01 Clinical safety

    We report the clinical features of the original Chilean family with Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (KRS) that led to the discovery of the ATP13A2 gene at the PARK9 locus.

  27. Motor and cognitive outcome in patients with Parkinson's disease 8 years after subthalamic implants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-09-01 Digital health tools

    Prospective studies have shown that although the beneficial effects of this procedure are maintained at 5 years, axial motor features and cognitive decline may occur in the long term after the implants.

  28. Chaperone-mediated autophagy markers in Parkinson disease brains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-08-09 Lewy body dementia

    These findings suggest that there is reduced chaperone-mediated autophagy activity in the PD brain, provide evidence for the role of autophagy in PD pathogenesis and Lewy body formation, and suggest that this pathway may be a suitable therapeutic target in PD.

  29. A 12-year population-based study of psychosis in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-08-01 Risk factors

    Psychotic symptoms affect most patients with PD, with increased risk in those with higher age at onset, need for high doses of dopaminergic drugs, and probable REM sleep behavior disorder.

  30. Clinical review of treatment options for select nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy 2010-08-01 Digital health tools

    However, the largest study to date found nortriptyline therapy to be efficacious compared with placebo, whereas paroxetine controlled release was not.

  31. Neuropathology of variants of progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2010-08-01 Digital health tools

    Neurodegenerative tauopathies, of which progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is one of the most common, are clinically heterogeneous, reflecting differences in distribution and biochemical composition of tau pathology.

  32. REM sleep behavior disorder preceding other aspects of synucleinopathies by up to half a century

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2010-07-28 Risk factors

    These cases illustrate that the alpha-synuclein pathogenic process may start decades before the first symptoms of PD, DLB, or MSA.

  33. Association between cognition and function in patients with Parkinson disease with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2010-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) often have cognitive deficits from the time of diagnosis.

  34. Genetic etiology of Parkinson disease associated with mutations in the SNCA, PARK2, PINK1, PARK7, and LRRK2 genes: a mutation update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Human mutation 2010-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    To date, molecular genetic analyses have identified over 500 distinct DNA variants in five disease genes associated with familial Parkinson disease; alpha-synuclein (SNCA), parkin (PARK2), PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1), DJ-1 (PARK7), and Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2).

  35. The synaptic pathology of alpha-synuclein aggregation in dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-06-20 Lewy body dementia

    Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are usually associated with loss of dopaminergic neurons.

  36. A pathologic cascade leading to synaptic dysfunction in alpha-synuclein-induced neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Several neurodegenerative diseases are typified by intraneuronal alpha-synuclein deposits, synaptic dysfunction, and dementia.

  37. Dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer disease: neurodegenerative patterns characterized by DTI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2010-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Increased amygdalar diffusivity in the absence of tissue loss in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) may be related to microvacuolation, a common pathology associated with Lewy body disease in the amygdala.

  38. Anterior insula degeneration in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2010-05-29 Digital health tools

    The human anterior insula is anatomically and functionally heterogeneous, containing key nodes within distributed speech-language and viscero-autonomic/social-emotional networks.

  39. FUS pathology defines the majority of tau- and TDP-43-negative frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-05-20 Brain tissue and pathology

    Through an international consortium, we have collected 37 tau- and TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43)-negative frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) cases, and present here the first comprehensive analysis of these cases in terms of neuropathology, genetics, demographics and clinical data. 92% (34/37) had fused in sarcoma (FUS) protein pathology, indicating that FTLD-FUS is an important FTLD subtype.

  40. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. CNS drugs 2010-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a clinically and pathologically heterogeneous syndrome, characterized by progressive decline in behaviour or language associated with degeneration of the frontal and anterior temporal lobes.

  41. Profile of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2010-05-01 Caregiving

    Cognitive impairment (CI) is a common nonmotor complication of Parkinson's disease (PD), and is associated with significant disability for patients and burden for caregivers.

  42. Divergent network connectivity changes in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-04-21 Getting a diagnosis

    Recently, we showed that behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease cause atrophy within two major networks, an anterior 'Salience Network' (atrophied in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia) and a posterior 'Default Mode Network' (atrophied in Alzheimer's disease).

  43. Relationships between age and late progression of Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-04-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    To investigate the relationships between age, the advanced clinical stages of Parkinson's disease and neuropathology, we surveyed 129 case records from donors with pathologically proven Parkinson's disease at the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders.

  44. Hippocampal, caudate, and ventricular changes in Parkinson's disease with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2010-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Parkinson's disease (PD) has been associated with mild cognitive impairment (PDMCI) and with dementia (PDD).

  45. Mutations in CHMP2B in lower motor neuron predominant amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. PloS one 2010-03-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a common late-onset neurodegenerative disease, is associated with fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) in 3-10% of patients.

  46. Multi-organ distribution of phosphorylated alpha-synuclein histopathology in subjects with Lewy body disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-03-21 Lewy body dementia

    A sensitive immunohistochemical method for phosphorylated alpha-synuclein was used to stain sets of sections of spinal cord and tissue from 41 different sites in the bodies of 92 subjects, including 23 normal elderly, 7 with incidental Lewy body disease (ILBD), 17 with Parkinson's disease (PD), 9 with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), 19 with Alzheimer's disease with Lewy bodies (ADLB) and 17 with Alzheimer's disease with no Lewy bodies (ADNLB).

  47. Common variants at 7p21 are associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Nature genetics 2010-02-14 Risk factors

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is the second most common cause of presenile dementia.

  48. What features improve the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism (PSP-P)?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2010-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    Progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism (PSP-P) is a primary tauopathy characterised by neurofibrillary degeneration, which is frequently mistaken for Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), and vascular parkinsonism (VP) at presentation.

  49. The cholinergic system and Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2010-01-07 Lewy body dementia

    Although Parkinson disease (PD) is viewed traditionally as a motor syndrome secondary to nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation, recent studies emphasize non-motor features.

  50. Ageing, neurodegeneration and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Age and ageing 2010-01-05 Risk factors

    Age is the largest risk factor for the development and progression of Parkinson's disease (PD).

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