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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. The genetics and neuropathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2012-08-02 Lewy body dementia

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of motor neurons leading to death from respiratory failure within about 3 years of symptom onset.

  2. Cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease: diagnosis, biomarkers, and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2012-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia is one of the most common and important aspects of Parkinson's disease and has consequences for patients and caregivers, and has health-related costs.

  3. In vivo microglia activation in very early dementia with Lewy bodies, comparison with Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2012-07-26 Inflammation and the immune system

    Reactive microgliosis, hallmark of neuroinflammation, may contribute to neuronal degeneration, as shown in several neurodegenerative diseases.

  4. Focal atrophy on MRI and neuropathologic classification of dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2012-07-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with high likelihood DLB typically have normal hippocampal volumes but have atrophy in the dorsal mesopontine GM nuclei.

  5. Late-stage Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2012-07-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    The cardinal symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD) are asymmetrical bradykinesia, rigidity, resting tremor and postural instability.

  6. Locus-specific mutation databases for neurodegenerative brain diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Human mutation 2012-07-02 Getting a diagnosis

    The Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal dementia (AD&FTLD) and Parkinson disease (PD) Mutation Databases make available curated information of sequence variations in genes causing Mendelian forms of the most common neurodegenerative brain disease AD, frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and PD.

  7. Gene expression profiles in Parkinson disease prefrontal cortex implicate FOXO1 and genes under its transcriptional regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2012-06-28 Genetics

    Parkinson disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with largely unknown genetic mechanisms.

  8. Advances in understanding the molecular basis of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2012-06-26 Disparities

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a clinical syndrome with a heterogeneous molecular basis.

  9. Micrographia and related deficits in Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMJ open 2012-06-25 Digital health tools

    Micrographia was found in nearly half of the PD cohort.

  10. The somatic comorbidity of epilepsy: a weighty but often unrecognized burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Epilepsia 2012-06-12 Prevention and risk

    A range of medical and neurologic disorders occurs more frequently in people with epilepsy than in the general population and constitutes its somatic comorbidity.

  11. The Lewy body in Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2012-05-24 Lewy body dementia

    The histopathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the presence of fibrillar aggregates referred to as Lewy bodies (LBs), in which α-synuclein is a major constituent.

  12. The neurobiology of depression in later-life: clinical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and pathophysiological features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2012-05-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    As the population ages, the economic and societal impacts of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders are expected to rise sharply.

  13. Olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2012-05-15 Getting a diagnosis

    Olfactory dysfunction is among the earliest nonmotor features of Parkinson disease (PD).

  14. Heterogeneity of cholinergic denervation in Parkinson's disease without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2012-05-09 Clinical safety

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multisystem neurodegenerative disorder.

  15. How does parkinsonism start? Prodromal parkinsonism motor changes in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2012-05-04 Risk factors

    Their results on motor testing from the preceding years were plotted, and then assessed with regression analysis, to determine when markers first deviated from normal values.

  16. Predictors of survival in patients with Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-05-01 Disparities

    Demographic and clinical factors impact PD survival.

  17. Dementia in Parkinson's Disease Correlates with α-Synuclein Pathology but Not with Cortical Astrogliosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Parkinson's disease 2012-04-22 Biomarkers

    Dementia is a common feature in Parkinson's disease (PD) and is considered to be the result of limbic and cortical Lewy bodies and/or Alzheimer changes.

  18. The characteristic features of auditory verbal hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups: state-of-the-art overview and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Schizophrenia bulletin 2012-04-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Despite a growing interest in auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) in different clinical and nonclinical groups, the phenomenological characteristics of such experiences have not yet been reviewed and contrasted, limiting our understanding of these phenomena on multiple empirical, theoretical, and clinical levels.

  19. Symptoms of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder are associated with cholinergic denervation in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2012-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is common in Parkinson disease (PD), but its relationship to the varied neurotransmitter deficits of PD and prognostic significance remain incompletely understood.

  20. Characterization of frontotemporal dementia and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with the GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9ORF72

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2012-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Incomplete penetrance was suggested in two kindreds, and the youngest generation had significantly earlier age of onset (>10 years) compared with the next oldest generation in 11 kindreds.

  21. Clinico-pathological features in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with expansions in C9ORF72

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2012-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Intronic expansion of the GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat within the C9ORF72 gene causes frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease in both familial and sporadic cases.

  22. Frontotemporal dementia with the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: clinical, neuroanatomical and neuropathological features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2012-03-01 How common it is

    The neuroimaging profile of the C9ORF72 expansion was significantly more symmetrical than progranulin mutations with significantly less temporal lobe involvement than microtubule-associated protein tau mutations.

  23. Neuroimaging signatures of frontotemporal dementia genetics: C9ORF72, tau, progranulin and sporadics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2012-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We aimed to determine the regional pattern of brain atrophy associated with the C9ORF72 gene mutation, and to determine which regions best differentiate C9ORF72 from subjects with mutations in tau and progranulin, and from sporadic frontotemporal dementia.

  24. Interregional correlations in Parkinson disease and Parkinson-related dementia with resting functional MR imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Radiology 2012-02-27 Brain scans and imaging

    PRD was associated with selective disruption of corticostriatal resting functional MR imaging correlations, which suggests that resting functional MR imaging analyzed in subject-native space may be a useful biomarker in this disease.

  25. Ten year survival and outcomes in a prospective cohort of new onset Chinese Parkinson's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2012-02-22 Digital health tools

    10 years into PD, a significant proportion of patients developed dopa resistant motor and non-motor features.

  26. Cognitive and clinical characteristics of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carrying a C9orf72 repeat expansion: a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2012-02-03 How common it is

    Patients with the repeat expansion had significantly more co-morbid FTD than patients without the repeat (50%vs 12%), and a distinct pattern of non-motor cortex changes on high-resolution 3 T magnetic resonance structural neuroimaging.

  27. Distinct clinical and pathological characteristics of frontotemporal dementia associated with C9ORF72 mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2012-02-02 How common it is

    There was, as expected, a significant association between C9ORF72 mutations and presence of motor neuron disease.

  28. Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2012-01-24 Getting a diagnosis

    Mild cognitive impairment is common in nondemented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and may be a harbinger of dementia.

  29. Autopsy-proven progressive supranuclear palsy presenting as behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurocase 2011-12-20 Digital health tools

    In these, at least one cardinal symptom or sign of PSP later emerges, associated with smaller midbrain volume and increased pons/midbrain ratio.

  30. A locus on chromosome 9p21 has been associated with both disorders, and we aimed to identify the causal gene within this region.

  31. Neurodegeneration across stages of cognitive decline in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal atrophy is a biomarker of initial cognitive decline in PD, including impaired memory encoding and storage, suggesting heterogeneity in the neural substrate of memory impairment.

  32. Impairments of speech fluency in Lewy body spectrum disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Brain and language 2011-11-17 Digital health tools

    Few studies have examined connected speech in demented and non-demented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).

  33. Clinical diagnosis and management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2011-10-11 Getting a diagnosis

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that results in progressive loss of bulbar and limb function.

  34. The Movement Disorder Society Evidence-Based Medicine Review Update: Treatments for the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2011-10-01 Risk factors

    As none of the studies exceeded a duration of 6 months, the recommendations given are for the short-term management of the different non-motor symptoms.

  35. The seeds of neurodegeneration: prion-like spreading in ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Cell 2011-10-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Misfolded proteins accumulating in several neurodegenerative diseases (including Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington diseases) can cause aggregation of their native counterparts through a mechanism similar to the infectious prion protein's induction of a pathogenic conformation onto its cellular isoform.

  36. What genetics tells us about the causes and mechanisms of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Physiological reviews 2011-10-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common motor disorder of mysterious etiology.

  37. The interplay of cholinergic function, attention, and falls in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2011-09-06 Clinical safety

    Dopamine loss in the substantia nigra causes several of the motor signs seen in Parkinson's disease, but there is now increasing evidence highlighting the importance of cholinergic loss in the pathophysiology of nonmotor symptoms.

  38. Parkinsonism and frontotemporal dementia: the clinical overlap

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 2011-09-03 Digital health tools

    Frontotemporal dementia is commonly associated with parkinsonism in several sporadic (i.e., progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration) and familial neurodegenerative disorders (i.e., frontotemporal dementia associated with parkinsonism and MAPT or progranulin mutations in chromosome 17).

  39. Clinical and neuroanatomical signatures of tissue pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2011-09-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Relating clinical symptoms to neuroanatomical profiles of brain damage and ultimately to tissue pathology is a key challenge in the field of neurodegenerative disease and particularly relevant to the heterogeneous disorders that comprise the frontotemporal lobar degeneration spectrum.

  40. Comprehension of insincere communication in neurodegenerative disease: lies, sarcasm, and theory of mind

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2011-09-01 Digital health tools

    Comprehension of insincere communication is an important aspect of social cognition requiring visual perspective taking, emotion reading, and understanding others' thoughts, opinions, and intentions.

  41. The syndrome of cognitive impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2011-08-11 Getting a diagnosis

    Co-morbid dementia occurs in approximately 14% of patients with a new diagnosis of ALS.

  42. Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2011-08-02 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients who failed to meet revised criteria were significantly older and most had atypical presentations with marked memory impairment.

  43. Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    CBD was associated with 4 clinical syndromes: progressive nonfluent aphasia (n = 5), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 5), executive-motor (n = 7), and posterior cortical atrophy (n = 1).

  44. Convergent grey and white matter evidence of orbitofrontal cortex changes related to disinhibition in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2011-07-23 Caregiving

    Disinhibition is a common behavioural symptom in frontotemporal dementia but its neural correlates are still debated.

  45. Functional network disruption in the degenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2011-07-21 Getting a diagnosis

    Despite advances towards understanding the molecular pathophysiology of the neurodegenerative dementias, the mechanisms linking molecular changes to neuropathology and neuropathological changes to clinical symptoms remain largely obscure.

  46. GBA-associated PD presents with nonmotor characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2011-07-06 Risk factors

    Especially nonmotor symptoms seem to be very common in GBA-PD.

  47. A mutation in VPS35, encoding a subunit of the retromer complex, causes late-onset Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2011-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    To identify rare causal variants in late-onset Parkinson disease (PD), we investigated an Austrian family with 16 affected individuals by exome sequencing.

  48. Does vigorous exercise have a neuroprotective effect in Parkinson disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2011-07-01 Prevention and risk

    Parkinson disease (PD) is progressive, with dementia and medication-refractory motor problems common reasons for late-stage nursing-home placement.

  49. Neuropathology of frontotemporal lobar degeneration-tau (FTLD-tau)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 2011-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    A clinically and pathologically heterogeneous type of frontotemporal lobar degeneration has abnormal tau pathology in neurons and glia (FTLD-tau).

  50. Neuropathology underlying clinical variability in patients with synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2011-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Abnormal aggregates of the synaptic protein, α-synuclein, are the dominant pathology in syndromes known as the synucleinopathies.

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