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  1. The value of a family history to distinguish monogenic from polygenic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2026-09-22
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  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. The neuropathology of a chromosome 17-linked autosomal dominant parkinsonism and dementia ("pallido-ponto-nigral degeneration")

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1998-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    A group of similar autosomal dominant hereditary neurodegenerative disorders have been linked to chromosome 17 in thirteen kindreds.

  2. alpha-Synuclein in filamentous inclusions of Lewy bodies from Parkinson's disease and dementia with lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1998-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites are the defining neuropathological characteristics of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

  3. Frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17: a new group of tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 1998-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Frontotemporal dementia is a neurological disorder characterised by personality changes, deterioration of memory and executive functions as well as stereotypical behaviour.

  4. Protein nitration in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1998-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    Oxidative stress has been proposed as a pathogenetic mechanism in Parkinson's disease (PD).

  5. Senile dementia with tangles (tangle predominant form of senile dementia)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 1998-04-01 Genetics

    Senile dementia with tangles is a sporadic subset of very late onset dementia with preponderance in females over age 80 years.

  6. Multiple neurological abnormalities in mice deficient in the G protein Go

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1998-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The G protein Go is highly expressed in neurons and mediates effects of a group of rhodopsin-like receptors that includes the opioid, alpha2-adrenergic, M2 muscarinic, and somatostatin receptors.

  7. Abnormal accumulation of NACP/alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 1998-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    The precursor of the non-Abeta component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid (NACP) (also known as a-synuclein) is a presynaptic terminal molecule that accumulates in the plaques of Alzheimer's disease.

  8. Evidence of increased oxidative damage in both sporadic and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1997-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Some cases of autosomal dominant familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) are associated with mutations in the gene encoding Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1), suggesting that oxidative damage may play a role in ALS pathogenesis.

  9. A generalised increase in protein carbonyls in the brain in Parkinson's but not incidental Lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1997-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    The degeneration of neurones in Parkinson's disease (PD) may involve oxidative stress.

  10. α-Synuclein in Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature 1997-08-28 Lewy body dementia

  11. Mutation in the α-Synuclein Gene Identified in Families with Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Science 1997-06-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder with a lifetime incidence of approximately 2 percent.

  12. Dietary antioxidants and Parkinson disease. The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1997-06-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The community-based Rotterdam Study, the Netherlands.

  13. Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17: a consensus conference. Conference Participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1997-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    We held an international consensus conference on frontotemporal dementia, behavioral disturbances, and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 to determine whether these are homogeneous or heterogeneous disorders, to agree on terminology, and to develop strategies for further research.

  14. A study of the Lund-Manchester research criteria for frontotemporal dementia: clinical and single-photon emission CT correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 1997-04-01 Digital health tools

    We evaluated the Lund-Manchester research criteria (LMRC) for frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  15. Dietary antioxidants and other dietary factors in the etiology of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 1997-03-01 Disparities

    It has been suggested that dietary antioxidants reduce Parkinson's disease (PD) risk by neutralizing free radicals, thus preventing injury to neurons in the substantia nigra.

  16. Hereditary frontotemporal dementia is linked to chromosome 17q21-q22: a genetic and clinicopathological study of three Dutch families

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1997-02-01 Digital health tools

    Hereditary frontotemporal dementia (HFTD) is a rare autosomal dominant form of presenile dementia characterized by behavioral changes and reduced speech.

  17. Which clinical features differentiate progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome) from related disorders? A clinicopathological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1997-01-01 Clinical safety

    The difficulty in differentiating progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP, also called Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome) from other related disorders was the incentive for a study to determine the clinical features that best distinguish PSP.

  18. Oxidative stress and the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 1996-12-01 Lewy body dementia

    Current concepts of the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) center on the formation of reactive oxygen species and the onset of oxidative stress leading to oxidative damage to substantia nigra pars compacta.

  19. Unusual clinical presentations of cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1996-12-01 Digital health tools

    Cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration classically presents predominantly as a motor disorder with a unique constellation of histological alterations characterized by the presence of neuronal loss and gliosis in a selective distribution, swollen achromasic neurons, and extensive deposition of abnormal tau in neurons and glia.

  20. Consensus guidelines for the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB): report of the consortium on DLB international workshop

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 1996-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We identified optimal staining methods for each of these and devised a protocol for the evaluation of cortical LB frequency based on a brain sampling procedure consistent with CERAD.

  21. To improve the specificity and sensitivity of the clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP, Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Society for PSP, Inc. (SPSP) sponsored an international workshop to develop an accurate and universally accepted set of criteria for this disorder.

  22. Natural history of progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome) and clinical predictors of survival: a clinicopathological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1996-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Onset of falls during the first year are emphasised, as they could lead to an early diagnosis and influence the prognosis of patients with PSP.

  23. Accuracy of clinical criteria for the diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1996-04-01 Clinical safety

    We assessed the validity and interrater reliability of neurologists who, using four different sets of previously published criteria for the clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), also called Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, rated 105 autopsy-proven cases of PSP (n = 24), Lewy body disease (n = 29), corticobasal ganglionic degeneration (n = 10), postencephalitic parkinsonism (n = 7), multiple system atrophy (n = 16), Pick's disease (n = 7), and other parkinsonian or dementia disorders (n = 12).

  24. Clinical, neuroimaging, and pathologic features of progressive nonfluent aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1996-02-01 Digital health tools

    We report the clinical, neuroimaging, and neuropathologic features of progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), a rare neurodegenerative syndrome most notable for its distinct language disturbance.

  25. Long-term outcome of unilaterally transplanted parkinsonian patients. I. Clinical approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1996-02-01 Digital health tools

    Five patients with Parkinson's disease, unilaterally transplanted with foetal mesencephalic cells into putamen (n=1) or putamen and caudate (n=4), were followed throughout a period of 15-36 months after surgery, according to the recommendations of the core assessment programme for intracerebral transplantations (CAPIT).

  26. Animal models of Parkinson's disease: an empirical comparison with the phenomenology of the disease in man

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 1996-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    Animal models are an important aid in experimental medical science because they enable one to study the pathogenetic mechanisms and the therapeutic principles of treating the functional disturbances (symptoms) of human diseases.

  27. Pallidal lesions in patients with liver cirrhosis: clinical and MRI evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Metabolic brain disease 1995-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Fifty patients with liver cirrhosis underwent neurological, psychometric, electroencephalographic and biochemical examination as well as cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the incidence of pallidal lesions in cirrhotics and their correlation to liver function, as well as to neurological and mental state.

  28. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: the evolution of a disease once considered rare

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurovirology 1995-03-01 Caregiving

    Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, a formerly rare disease that chiefly occurred in persons with underlying lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, is now seen with increasing frequency in the era of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

  29. Clinical characteristics of a family with chromosome 17-linked disinhibition-dementia-parkinsonism-amyotrophy complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 1994-10-01 Digital health tools

    We studied the clinical features, pathology, and molecular genetics of a family (Mo) with an autosomal dominant disinhibition, frontal lobe dementia, parkinsonism, and amyotrophy.

  30. Neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenics. Relationship to age, chronicity, and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 1994-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    We sought to determine whether neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia is related to current age, age at onset, or duration of illness, and whether the pattern of such impairment can be distinguished from that caused by progressive dementias of Alzheimer's type.

  31. The syndrome of 'pure akinesia' and its relationship to progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1994-06-01 Digital health tools

    Five patients developed a stereotyped syndrome of progressive akinesia of gait, speech, and hand-writing without rigidity, tremor, or dementia.

  32. An evaluation of the predictive validity and inter-rater reliability of clinical diagnostic criteria for senile dementia of Lewy body type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 1994-05-01 Disparities

    Several recent autopsy studies suggest that senile dementia of Lewy body type (SDLT) may be the second most common neuropathologic cause of dementia in the elderly, accounting for 7 to 30% of all cases.

  33. Clinical and neuropathological criteria for frontotemporal dementia. The Lund and Manchester Groups.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 1994-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Clinical and neuropathological criteria forfrontotemporal dementia * Early loss of insight into the fact that the altered condition is due to a pathological change of own mental state.

  34. A sequence of cytoskeleton changes related to the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and neuropil threads

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1994-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Frontal sections of the temporal lobe including the transentorhinal/entorhinal region, amygdala, and/or hippocampus from human adult brains are studied for cytoskeleton changes using immunostaining with the antibodies AT8 and Alz-50 and selective silver impregnation methods for neurofibrillary changes of the Alzheimer type.

  35. Prevalence and pattern of major neurological disorders in rural Kashmir (India) in 1986

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 1994-01-01 Disparities

    In 1986 in the Kuthar Valley in the Anantnag District of south Kashmir (northwestern India), we studied the population to ascertain the prevalence and pattern of various neurological diseases.

  36. Mitochondrial DNA variants observed in Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Genomics 1993-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD) were sought by restriction endonuclease analysis in a cohort of 71 late-onset Caucasian patients.

  37. Clinical picture of frontal lobe degeneration of non-Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia (Basel, Switzerland) 1993-05-01 Digital health tools

    Frontal lobe degeneration of non-Alzheimer type (FLD) is the second most common primary degenerative dementia in southern Sweden.

  38. Quantitative assessment of the synaptophysin immuno-reactivity of the cortical neuropil in various neurodegenerative disorders with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia (Basel, Switzerland) 1993-03-01 Disparities

    It has remained a matter of debate until now whether amyloid and tangle pathology may be regarded as the main causes of the dementia in Alzheimer's disease (AD) or only as markers of the disease.

  39. A clinicopathologic study of 100 cases of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1993-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    The clinical details of 100 cases of histologically confirmed Parkinson's disease were examined and correlated with pathologic findings.

  40. Acoustic analysis in the differentiation of Parkinson's disease and major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of psycholinguistic research 1992-09-01 Digital health tools

    In its early stages, Parkinson's disease (P.D.) may be difficult to distinguish from major depression (M.D.) leading to inappropriate management.

  41. Neuroleptic sensitivity in patients with senile dementia of Lewy body type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1992-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Severe, and often fatal, neuroleptic sensitivity may occur in elderly patients with confusion, dementia, or behavioural disturbance.

  42. Cognitive impairments in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurologic clinics 1992-05-01 Digital health tools

    The clinical neuropsychologic profiles of patients with Parkinson's disease and patients with SDAT show both overlap and dissociation.

  43. Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study of 100 cases.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 1992-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Few detailed clinico-pathological correlations of Parkinson's disease have been published.

  44. Neurofibrillary tangles but not senile plaques parallel duration and severity of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 1992-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    We studied the accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and senile plaques (SPs) in 10 Alzheimer's disease patients who had been examined during life.

  45. Progressive language disorder due to lobar atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1992-02-01 Disparities

    Sixteen patients with progressive language disorder have been studied longitudinally.

  46. Oxidative stress as a cause of nigral cell death in Parkinson's disease and incidental Lewy body disease. The Royal Kings and Queens Parkinson's Disease Research Group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1992-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    We examine the evidence for free radical involvement and oxidative stress in the pathological process underlying Parkinson's disease, from postmortem brain tissue.

  47. Semantic dementia. Progressive fluent aphasia with temporal lobe atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain 1992 Lewy body dementia

    We report five patients with a stereotyped clinical syndrome characterized by fluent dysphasia with severe anomia, reduced vocabulary and prominent impairment of single-word comprehension, progressing to a stage of virtually complete dissolution of the semantic components of language.

  48. Ageing and Parkinson's disease: substantia nigra regional selectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1991-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    The micro-architecture of the substantia nigra was studied in control cases of varying age and patients with parkinsonism.

  49. Accuracy of clinical diagnosis in parkinsonism--a prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques 1991-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's syndrome (PS) is reasonably easy in most cases but the distinction between different variants of PS may be difficult in early cases.

  50. Neurologic aspects of cobalamin deficiency

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Medicine 1991-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In addition, the hematocrit correlated significantly with severity, independent of the longer duration of symptoms in nonanemic patients.

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