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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. Research criteria for the diagnosis of prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2020-04-02 Getting a diagnosis

    The prodromal phase of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) includes (1) mild cognitive impairment (MCI), (2) delirium-onset, and (3) psychiatric-onset presentations.

  2. Neurodegenerative Diseases - Is Metabolic Deficiency the Root Cause?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2020-03-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer, Parkinson, Huntington, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are a prominent class of neurological diseases currently without a cure.

  3. Cognition Deficits in Parkinson's Disease: Mechanisms and Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Parkinson's disease 2020-03-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative disorder mainly in middle-elderly population, which represents diverse nonmotor symptoms (NMS) besides such well-documented motor symptoms as bradykinesia, resting tremor, rigidity, and postural instability.

  4. Development of disease-modifying drugs for frontotemporal dementia spectrum disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2020-03-23 Clinical safety

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) encompasses a spectrum of clinical syndromes characterized by progressive executive, behavioural and language dysfunction.

  5. Systematic review of gene expression studies in people with Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Acta neuropsychiatrica 2020-03-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    We screened 3,809 articles and identified 31 eligible studies.

  6. Diagnosis Across the Spectrum of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-03-01 Biomarkers

    Patients in the CBS-AD group had a longer diagnostic latency, relatively benign clinical trajectory, greater cognitive impairment, and higher APOE-ε4 allele frequency than those in the CBS-non-AD group (AUC, 0.80-0.87; P Conclusions and relevance These findings suggest that studies focusing on the PSP-RS subtype are likely to miss a large number of patients with underlying PSP tau pathology.

  7. Brain iron deposition is linked with cognitive severity in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2020-02-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dementia is common in Parkinson's disease (PD) but measures that track cognitive change in PD are lacking.

  8. The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020-02-19 Lewy body dementia

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated α-synuclein (α-syn) into intraneuronal inclusions named Lewy bodies (LBs).

  9. Discriminating α-synuclein strains in Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature 2020-02-05 Getting a diagnosis

    Synucleinopathies are neurodegenerative diseases that are associated with the misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein, including Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy 1 .

  10. Peripheral innate immune and bacterial signals relate to clinical heterogeneity in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2020-01-30 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The innate immune system is implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD), but peripheral in-vivo clinical evidence of the components and driving mechanisms involved and their relationship with clinical heterogeneity and progression to dementia remain poorly explored.

  11. Systematic review of genetic association studies in people with Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-01-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Eight thousand five hundred twenty-one articles were screened, and 75 articles were eligible to be included.

  12. New directions in clinical trials for frontotemporal lobar degeneration: Methods and outcome measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-06 Digital health tools

    New personalized endpoints that are clinically meaningful to individuals and their families should be developed.

  13. The Role of Quantitative EEG in the Diagnosis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of medicine and life 2020-01-01 Digital health tools

    Quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) is a modern type of electroencephalography (EEG) analysis that involves recording digital EEG signals which are processed, transformed, and analyzed using complex mathematical algorithms.

  14. Lysosomal Dysfunction at the Centre of Parkinson's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2019-11-05 Caregiving

    Parkinson's disease (PD) and frontotemporal dementia/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FTD/ALS) are insidious and incurable neurodegenerative diseases that represent a significant burden to affected individuals, caregivers, and an ageing population.

  15. Effect of nutrition on neurodegenerative diseases. A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nutritional neuroscience 2019-11-04 Prevention and risk

    Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the progressive functional loss of neurons in the brain, causing cognitive impairment and motoneuron disability.

  16. Loss of Dynamic RNA Interaction and Aberrant Phase Separation Induced by Two Distinct Types of ALS/FTD-Linked FUS Mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular cell 2019-10-17 Clinical safety

    FUS is a nuclear RNA-binding protein, and its cytoplasmic aggregation is a pathogenic signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  17. New evidence on the management of Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-09-10 Risk factors

    Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia, jointly known as Lewy body dementia, are common neurodegenerative conditions.

  18. Beyond the synucleinopathies: alpha synuclein as a driving force in neurodegenerative comorbidities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2019-09-04 Clinical safety

    The fundamental role that alpha-synuclein (aSyn) plays in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple system atrophy, is a well-accepted fact.

  19. Robust automated computational approach for classifying frontotemporal neurodegeneration: Multimodal/multicenter neuroimaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-08-28 Digital health tools

    This multimodal approach enhanced the system's performance and provided a clinically informative method for neuroimaging analysis.

  20. Neuropathology of dementia in patients with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review of autopsy studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2019-08-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    PD dementia (PDD) is associated with α-synuclein propagation, but coexistent Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology may coexist.

  21. The role of zinc, copper, manganese and iron in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurotoxicology 2019-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Metals are involved in different pathophysiological mechanisms associated with neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs), including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and multiple sclerosis (MS).

  22. Lipid and immune abnormalities causing age-dependent neurodegeneration and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2019-07-22 Disease mechanisms

    This article describes pathogenic concepts and factors, in particular glycolipid abnormalities, that create cell dysfunction and synaptic loss in neurodegenerative diseases.

  23. Neuroinflammation in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2019-07-19 Inflammation and the immune system

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) refers to a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders with different pathological signatures, genetic variability and complex disease mechanisms, for which no effective treatments exist.

  24. Evolution of prodromal Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: a prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Parkinson's disease has a long prodromal stage with various subclinical motor and non-motor manifestations; however, their evolution in the years before Parkinson's disease is diagnosed is unclear.

  25. Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-06-01 Prevention and risk

    LATE-NC is a common TDP-43 proteinopathy, associated with an amnestic dementia syndrome that mimicked Alzheimer's-type dementia in retrospective autopsy studies.

  26. Orthostatic hypotension and REM sleep behaviour disorder: impact on clinical outcomes in α-synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2019-05-29 Clinical safety

    OH and RBD yielded individual and combined negative effects on disability in α-synucleinopathies, reflecting a 'malignant' phenotype of PD with early cognitive impairment and postural instability.

  27. A longitudinal study of speech production in primary progressive aphasia and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain and language 2019-05-07 Digital health tools

    We examined longitudinal change in language expression during a semi-structured speech sample in 48 patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) or behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and related this to longitudinal neuroimaging of cortical thickness available in 25 of these patients.

  28. Management of Dysphagia in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 2019-04-17 Clinical safety

    Various methods of rehabilitation for dysphagia have been suggested through the experience of treating stroke patients.

  29. Long-term outcomes of deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2019-04-01 How common it is

    The efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson disease (PD) is well established for up to 1 or 2 years, but long-term outcome data are still limited.

  30. Prognosis and Neuropathologic Correlation of Clinical Subtypes of Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2019-04-01 Risk factors

    From a total of 146 patients, 111 patients were included (67 men [60.4%]; mean [SD] age at diagnosis, 62.5 [11.5] years).

  31. Causes and outcomes of hospitalization in Lewy body dementia: A retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2019-03-23 End-of-life care

    The most common reasons for hospitalization in LBD are potentially modifiable.

  32. The Role of Movement Analysis in Diagnosing and Monitoring Neurodegenerative Conditions: Insights from Gait and Postural Control

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain sciences 2019-02-06 Digital health tools

    Quantifying gait and postural control adds valuable information that aids in understanding neurological conditions where motor symptoms predominate and cause considerable functional impairment.

  33. Recent advances in the genetics of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current genetic medicine reports 2019-01-30 TREM2 and immune genetics

    In this review we highlight recent advances in the human genetics of frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  34. Dementia with Lewy bodies: an update and outlook

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-01-21 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disorder producing progressive cognitive decline that interferes with normal life and daily activities.

  35. Update on treatments for nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson's disease-an evidence-based medicine review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2019-01-17 How common it is

    The evidence base for treating a range of nonmotor symptoms in PD has grown substantially in recent years.

  36. Neuropathological Diagnoses of Demented Hispanic, Black, and Non-Hispanic White Decedents Seen at an Alzheimer's Disease Center

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Disparities

    Our nation is becoming increasingly diverse; however, few autopsy studies examine multiple ethnoracial groups, especially Hispanics.

  37. Neurons selectively targeted in frontotemporal dementia reveal early stage TDP-43 pathobiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-12-03 Disparities

    TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) aggregation is the most common pathological hallmark in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and characterizes nearly all patients with motor neuron disease (MND).

  38. Baseline predictors for progression 4 years after Parkinson's disease diagnosis in the De Novo Parkinson Cohort (DeNoPa)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2018-11-23 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cardiovascular risk factors, deregulated blood glucose, uric acid metabolism, and inflammation were identified as risk markers for faster disease progression.

  39. Inflammation in ALS/FTD pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-11-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are neurodegenerative diseases that overlap in their clinical presentation, pathology and genetics, and likely represent a spectrum of one underlying disease.

  40. Uncovering the heterogeneity and temporal complexity of neurodegenerative diseases with Subtype and Stage Inference

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Nature communications 2018-10-15 Digital health tools

    The heterogeneity of neurodegenerative diseases is a key confound to disease understanding and treatment development, as study cohorts typically include multiple phenotypes on distinct disease trajectories.

  41. Cause of Death and End-of-Life Experiences in Individuals with Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-10-06 End-of-life care

    Study results highlight a critical need for better prognostic counseling and education for persons and families living with DLB.

  42. Microglia in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-09-26 Lewy body dementia

    The neuroimmune system is involved in development, normal functioning, aging, and injury of the central nervous system.

  43. Animal models of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-09-24 Lewy body dementia

    Animal models of adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases have enhanced the understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  44. The genetic landscape of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Revue neurologique 2018-09-21 Disparities

    The cause of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains unknown in most patients.

  45. Serum neurofilament light chain in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2018-09-12 Biomarkers

    As serum NfL correlates with functional impairment and brain atrophy in bvFTD at different disease stages, we propose it as marker of disease severity, paving the way for its future use as outcome measure for clinical trials.

  46. C9orf72-mediated ALS and FTD: multiple pathways to disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2018-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    The discovery that repeat expansions in the C9orf72 gene are a frequent cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has revolutionized our understanding of these diseases.

  47. Lewy Body Pathology and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Associated With Contact Sports

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2018-09-01 Genetics

    Traumatic brain injury has been associated with increased risk of Parkinson disease and parkinsonism, and parkinsonism and Lewy body disease (LBD) can occur with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

  48. Developing consensus among movement disorder specialists on clinical indicators for identification and management of advanced Parkinson's disease: a multi-country Delphi-panel approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Current medical research and opinion 2018-08-20 Clinical safety

    Identifying patients progressing to APD and suitable for device-aided therapies will enable general neurologists to assess the need for referral to movement disorder specialists and improve the quality of care and patient outcomes.

  49. Promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2018-08-17 How common it is

    Neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (NDAs) such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis represent a major socio-economic challenge in view of their high prevalence yet poor treatment.

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