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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. Neurodegeneration in diabetic retinopathy: does it really matter?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Diabetologia 2018-07-20 Risk factors

    The concept of diabetic retinopathy as a microvascular disease has evolved, in that it is now considered a more complex diabetic complication in which neurodegeneration plays a significant role.

  2. Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with cognitive training for the treatment of Parkinson Disease: A randomized, placebo-controlled study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain stimulation 2018-07-18 Prevention trials

    We concluded that cognitive training along with active tDCS is a useful combined approach in the management of mood and cognitive dysfunctions in PD.

  3. Neurodegenerative disease concomitant proteinopathies are prevalent, age-related and APOE4-associated

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and neocortical Lewy body disease, co-pathologies associated with APOE ɛ4.

  4. Selective Genetic Overlap Between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Diseases of the Frontotemporal Dementia Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-07-01 Genetics

    Among 124 876 cases and controls, genome-wide conjunction analyses of ALS, FTD, PD, AD, CBD, and PSP revealed significant genetic overlap between ALS and FTD at known ALS loci: rs13302855 and rs3849942 (nearest gene, C9orf72; P = .03 for rs13302855 and P = .005 for rs3849942) and rs4239633 (nearest gene, UNC13A; P = .03).

  5. LRP10 genetic variants in familial Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: a genome-wide linkage and sequencing study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-06-07 Genetics

    In the initial kindred of ten affected Italian individuals (mean age of disease onset 59·8 years [SD 8·7]), we detected significant linkage of Parkinson's disease to chromosome 14 and nominated LRP10 as the disease-causing gene.

  6. A 2-Step Cerebrospinal Algorithm for the Selection of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) core Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers have shown an excellent capacity for the in vivo detection of AD.

  7. In-vivo staging of pathology in REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multimodality imaging case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-06-01 Risk factors

    Compared with controls, patients with idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder had decreased colonic 11 C-donepezil uptake (-0·322, 95% CI -0·112 to -0·531; p=0·0020), 123 I-MIBG heart:mediastinum ratio (-0·508, -0·353 to -0·664; p 18 F-DOPA uptake (Ki; -0·0023, -0·0009 to -0·0037; p=0·0013).

  8. Neurotransmitter deficits from frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-05-01 Caregiving

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration causes a spectrum of complex degenerative disorders including frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndrome, each of which is associated with changes in the principal neurotransmitter systems.

  9. Risk factors for non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-04-23 Prevention and risk

    Non-motor symptoms (NMS) of Parkinson's disease can be predominant as the disease advances, thereby constituting a major source of disease burden for patients and caregivers.

  10. Clinical Neurology and Epidemiology of the Major Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 2018-04-02 Getting a diagnosis

    Neurodegenerative diseases are a common cause of morbidity and cognitive impairment in older adults.

  11. Proteinopathies such as Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington diseases, where aberrant proteins spread throughout the brain during disease progression, may share a molecular basis and mechanisms of propagation.

  12. Prognosis for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: development and validation of a personalised prediction model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-03-26 Getting a diagnosis

    Eight candidate predictors entered the prediction model: bulbar versus non-bulbar onset (univariable hazard ratio [HR] 1·71, 95% CI 1·63-1·79), age at onset (1·03, 1·03-1·03), definite versus probable or possible ALS (1·47, 1·39-1·55), diagnostic delay (0·52, 0·51-0·53), forced vital capacity (HR 0·99, 0·99-0·99), progression rate (6·33, 5·92-6·76), frontotemporal dementia (1·34, 1·20-1·50), and presence of a C9orf72 repeat expansion (1·45, 1·31-1·61), all p Interpretation We have developed an externally validated model to predict survival without tracheostomy and non-invasive ventilation for more than 23 h per day in European patients with ALS.

  13. Are dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia the same disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMC medicine 2018-03-06 Getting a diagnosis

    Intravitam PET and postmortem studies have revealed a more pronounced cortical atrophy, elevated cortical and limbic Lewy body pathologies, higher Aβ and tau loads in cortex and striatum in DLB compared to PDD, and earlier cognitive defects in DLB.

  14. Treatment of autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson disease and other synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2018-03-01 Clinical safety

    Dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system afflicts most patients with Parkinson disease and other synucleinopathies such as dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, and pure autonomic failure, reducing quality of life and increasing mortality.

  15. Several parameters representing the clinical diversity of Parkinson's disease (PD), including severity, phenotypes, cognitive decline, anxiety and depression were analyzed to examine the link with interleukin-1β (IL-1β), the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), IL-6, IL-10, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) and also to determine the relationship between levels of these factors in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  16. Sex differences in progression to mild cognitive impairment and dementia in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2018-02-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    This study provides evidence for sex differences in the progression to cognitive impairment in PD, while specific cognitive features become more important indicators of progression with impending conversion to PDD.

  17. Synaptic markers of cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases: a proteomic approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    See Attems and Jellinger (doi:10.1093/brain/awx360) for a scientific commentary on this article.

  18. Slowly progressive dementia caused by MAPT R406W mutations: longitudinal report on a new kindred and systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-01-09 Disease mechanisms

    Dominance of 4R over three-repeat (exon 10-) tau isoforms contrasts with earlier reports of R406W patients and was not sufficiently explained by the presence of H1/H2 haplotypes in two of the autopsied patients.

  19. A proteomic network approach across the ALS-FTD disease spectrum resolves clinical phenotypes and genetic vulnerability in human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2018-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are neurodegenerative diseases with overlap in clinical presentation, neuropathology, and genetic underpinnings.

  20. Asymmetry of post-mortem neuropathology in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-01-01 Digital health tools

    Antemortem behavioural and anatomic abnormalities have largely been associated with right hemisphere disease in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, but post-mortem neuropathological examination of bilateral hemispheres remains to be defined.

  21. Dementia After Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Coexistence of Multiple Proteinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2018-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We report the clinical, neuroimaging, and neuropathologic characteristics of 2 patients who developed early onset dementia after a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  22. Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease-dementia: current concepts and controversies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2017-12-08 Genetics

    Intravitam PET and post-mortem studies revealed more pronounced cortical atrophy, elevated cortical and limbic Lewy pathologies (with APOE ε4), apart from higher prevalence of Alzheimer pathology in DLB than PDD.

  23. Clinicopathological correlations in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with FTLD were distributed between FTLD-tau (34 patients: 10 corticobasal degeneration, nine progressive supranuclear palsy, eight Pick's disease, three frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism associated with chromosome 17, three unclassifiable tauopathy, and one argyrophilic grain disease); FTLD-TDP (55 patients: nine type A including one with motor neuron disease, 27 type B including 21 with motor neuron disease, eight type C with right temporal lobe presentations, and 11 unclassifiable including eight with motor neuron disease), FTLD-FUS (eight patients), and one patient with FTLD-ubiquitin proteasome system positive inclusions (FTLD-UPS) that stained negatively for tau, TDP-43, and FUS.

  24. Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder and neurodegeneration - an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2017-11-24 Risk factors

    So-called idiopathic rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), formerly seen as a rare parasomnia, is now recognized as the prodromal stage of an α-synucleinopathy.

  25. Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP): Integrating the literature on hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) and pigmentary orthochromatic leukodystrophy (POLD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2017-11-06 Inflammation and the immune system

    Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a progressive degenerative white matter disorder.

  26. The limbic and neocortical contribution of α-synuclein, tau, and amyloid β to disease duration in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-10-31 Digital health tools

    In DLB, α-synuclein is an important predictor of disease duration, both independently and synergistically with tau and Aβ.

  27. Evolving Notions of Schizophrenia as a Developmental Neurocognitive Disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2017-10-01 Disparities

    We review the changing conceptions of schizophrenia over the past 50 years as it became understood as a disorder of brain function and structure in which neurocognitive dysfunction was identified at different illness phases.

  28. Brain network connectivity differs in early-onset neurodegenerative dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2017-09-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Disease-specific patterns of functional network topology and connectivity alterations were observed in patients with EOAD and bvFTD.

  29. Motor speech signature of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: Refining the phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2017-07-21 Digital health tools

    One in 8 patients presented with moderate speech timing deficits with a further two-thirds rated as mild or subclinical.

  30. Social inappropriateness in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2017-07-10 Digital health tools

    Through various manifestations, social inappropriateness is frequently the first clinical sign of a neurodegenerative process, especially in AD and bvFTD, years before noticeable impairment on classical neuropsychological assessment and brain atrophy on imaging.

  31. Pathology of Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 2017-07-05 Lewy body dementia

    Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by progressive loss of selectively vulnerable populations of neurons, which contrasts with select static neuronal loss because of metabolic or toxic disorders.

  32. Assessment of neuroinflammation in patients with idiopathic rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder: a case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-07-03 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation in the form of microglial activation is present in synucleinopathies and is a potential therapeutic target to halt or delay the neurodegenerative process.

  33. [P2–526]: GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS IN DIAGNOSTIC RATES FOR DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES IN CLINICAL SERVICES

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2017-07-01 Risk factors

    Clinical and population-based epidemiological studies report variation in the observed prevalence and incidence of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  34. Prediction of cognition in Parkinson's disease with a clinical-genetic score: a longitudinal analysis of nine cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-06-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive decline is a debilitating manifestation of disease progression in Parkinson's disease.

  35. Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Fourth consensus report of the DLB Consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2017-06-07 Getting a diagnosis

    The Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) Consortium has refined its recommendations about the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB, updating the previous report, which has been in widespread use for the last decade.

  36. Cognitive Training and Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for Cognition in Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair 2017-06-05 Prevention trials

    The results suggest that standard and tailored cognitive training may improve executive function, attention/working memory, and memory in PD.

  37. Clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy: The movement disorder society criteria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Movement Disorders 2017-05-03 Getting a diagnosis

    Here, we present new criteria aimed to optimize early, sensitive, and specific clinical diagnosis of PSP on the basis of currently available evidence. © 2017 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

  38. Interactions of pathological proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2017-04-11 Lewy body dementia

    Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTD), Lewy body disease (LBD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have in common that protein aggregates represent pathological hallmark lesions.

  39. Motor Speech Phenotypes of Frontotemporal Dementia, Primary Progressive Aphasia, and Progressive Apraxia of Speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2017-04-01 Digital health tools

    Our review identified several measures of speech which may assist with diagnosis and classification, and consolidated the brain-behavior associations relating to speech in FTD, PPA, and progressive apraxia of speech.

  40. The prognosis of dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-03-22 Caregiving

    Dementia with Lewy bodies is the second most common form of neurodegenerative dementia, yet scarce evidence is available about its prognosis and natural history, which are crucial to inform clinical practice and research.

  41. Typical and atypical pathology in primary progressive aphasia variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-03-20 Lewy body dementia

    Each PPA clinical variant is associated with a typical and most frequent cognitive, neuroimaging, and neuropathological profile.

  42. A data-driven approach links microglia to pathology and prognosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2017-03-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that lacks a predictive and broadly applicable biomarker.

  43. Cognitive decline in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2017-03-03 Genetics

    Dementia is a frequent problem encountered in advanced stages of Parkinson disease (PD).

  44. Consensus classification of posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-03-02 Lewy body dementia

    There was strong agreement regarding the definition of the core clinico-radiological syndrome, meaning that the current consensus statement should be regarded as a refinement, development, and extension of previous single-center PCA criteria rather than any wholesale alteration or redescription of the syndrome.

  45. Regional Overlap of Pathologies in Lewy Body Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2017-03-01 Genetics

    Lewy body disorders (LBD) are common neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the presence of aggregated α-synuclein in Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in the central and peripheral nervous systems.

  46. Deconstructing empathy: Neuroanatomical dissociations between affect sharing and prosocial motivation using a patient lesion model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2017-02-14 Long-term cohort studies

    Affect sharing and prosocial motivation are integral parts of empathy that are conceptually and mechanistically distinct.

  47. Narrative Organization Deficit in Lewy Body Disorders Is Related to Alzheimer Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2017-02-08 Tau biomarkers

    Mildly demented LBD patients had a significant deficit judging narratives compared to non-demented patients, but this deficit was not correlated with MMSE.

  48. Predicting behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia with pattern classification in multi-center structural MRI data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2017-02-06 Digital health tools

    Our study demonstrates that MRI, a widespread imaging technology, can individually identify bvFTD with high accuracy in multi-center imaging data, paving the road to personalized diagnostic approaches in the future.

  49. Epidemiology of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2017-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    Parkinson's disease (PD) affects 1-2 per 1000 of the population at any time.

  50. Quantitative EEG (QEEG) Measures Differentiate Parkinson's Disease (PD) Patients from Healthy Controls (HC)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-01-23 Digital health tools

    Random Forest and LASSO were found to be optimal methods for feature selection.

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