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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. Expression of Nrf2 in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2007-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    In response to oxidative stress, the nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) transcription factor translocates from the cytoplasm into the nucleus and transactivates expression of genes with antioxidant activity.

  2. Oxidative stress and the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International review of neurobiology 2007-01-01 How common it is

    Microglia-derived inflammatory neurotoxins play a principal role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and HIV-associated dementia; chief among these is reactive oxygen species.

  3. Progression of tremor and ataxia in male carriers of the FMR1 premutation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2007-01-01 Clinical safety

    Premutation alleles of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene give rise to a late-onset movement disorder, fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS), characterized by progressive intention tremor and gait ataxia, with associated dementia and global brain atrophy.

  4. Progressive increase of frontostriatal brain activation from childhood to adulthood during event-related tasks of cognitive control

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2006-12-01 Lewy body dementia

    Higher cognitive inhibitory and attention functions have been shown to develop throughout adolescence, presumably concurrent with anatomical brain maturational changes.

  5. Stanley Fahn Lecture 2005: The staging procedure for the inclusion body pathology associated with sporadic Parkinson's disease reconsidered

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2006-12-01 Lewy body dementia

    The synucleinopathy known as sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multisystem disorder that severely damages predisposed nerve cell types in circumscribed regions of the human nervous system.

  6. Survival and mortality differences between dementia with Lewy bodies vs Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2006-12-01 Genetics

    Patients with DLB had an increased risk of mortality vs patients with AD (hazard ratio [HR] 1.88, 95% CI: 1.4 to 2.5).

  7. Neurofibrillary tangle-predominant dementia: comparison with classical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2006-11-07 Genetics

    Neurofibrillary tangle predominant dementia (NFTPD) is a subset of late onset dementia, clinically different from traditional "plaque and tangle" Alzheimer disease (AD): later onset, shorter duration, less severe cognitive impairment, and almost absence of ApoE epsilon4.

  8. Vitamin B12, folic acid, and the nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2006-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    There are many reasons for reviewing the neurology of vitamin-B12 and folic-acid deficiencies together, including the intimate relation between the metabolism of the two vitamins, their morphologically indistinguishable megaloblastic anaemias, and their overlapping neuropsychiatric syndromes and neuropathology, including their related inborn errors of metabolism.

  9. Mechanisms of Parkinson's disease linked to pathological alpha-synuclein: new targets for drug discovery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuron 2006-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Classic Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by fibrillar alpha-synuclein inclusions known as Lewy bodies in the substantia nigra, which are associated with nigrostriatal degeneration.

  10. Structural anatomy of empathy in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-09-28 Lewy body dementia

    Empathy is a complex social behaviour mediated by a network of brain structures.

  11. Phenotype associated with APP duplication in five families

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-09-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    Different duplications of the APP locus have been identified in five families with autosomal dominant early onset Alzheimer's disease (ADEOAD) and Abeta-related cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  12. Fracture risk after the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease: Influence of concomitant dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2006-09-01 Clinical safety

    In an inception cohort of 196 Olmsted County, Minnesota, residents with Parkinson's disease (PD) first recognized in 1976 to 1995, we tested whether the increased risk of bone fractures is associated with concomitant dementia.

  13. Longitudinal course and neuropathologic outcomes in original vs revised MCI and in pre-MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2006-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment as originally and currently defined is usually early stage Alzheimer disease, which can begin with a cognitive deficit other than memory.

  14. Reasons for admission to hospital for Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Internal medicine journal 2006-08-01 Clinical safety

    The management of Parkinson's disease (PD) tends to focus on the presenting motor syndrome; yet, in the long term, nonmotor complications of the illness and complications of treatment become increasingly troublesome.

  15. Serum neurotrophins--a study on the time course and influencing factors in a large old age sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2006-08-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The neurotrophins nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are important mediators of brain and neuronal development, the maintenance of homeostatic conditions in the adult nervous system, and the complex interplay of central and peripheral physiological and pathophysiological factors.

  16. Alzheimer disease with amygdala Lewy bodies: a distinct form of alpha-synucleinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2006-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    Lewy bodies (LBs) are alpha-synuclein-immunoreactive neuronal inclusions with a predilection for specific cortical and subcortical regions, including the amygdala.

  17. Dietary folate, vitamin B12, and vitamin B6 and the risk of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2006-07-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Increased homocysteine levels might accelerate dopaminergic cell death in Parkinson disease (PD), through neurotoxic effects.

  18. Rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder as an early marker for a neurodegenerative disorder: a descriptive study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2006-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    20 (45%) patients developed a neurological disorder after a mean of 11.5 years from the reported onset of RBD and a mean follow-up of 5.1 years from the diagnosis of idiopathic RBD at our sleep centre.

  19. Cognitive decline correlates with neuropathological stage in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2006-06-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Recently, the relationship between cognitive status and the neuropathological stages of a newly proposed staging procedure for Parkinson's disease (PD) was assessed in a cohort of 88 individuals.

  20. The "posture second" strategy: a review of wrong priorities in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2006-06-27 Clinical safety

    Falls are common in Parkinson's disease.

  21. Neuropathology of older persons without cognitive impairment from two community-based studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2006-06-26 Brain tissue and pathology

    Two (1.5%) persons met NIA-Reagan criteria for high likelihood AD, and 48 (35.8%) met criteria for intermediate likelihood; 29 (21.6%) had cerebral infarctions, and 18 (13.4%) had Lewy bodies.

  22. Differential expression of synaptic proteins in the frontal and temporal cortex of elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2006-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alterations in synaptic protein stoichiometry may contribute to neocortical synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  23. Frontotemporal dementia: clinicopathological correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2006-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Clinical and neuropsychological features contribute to delineating the spectrum of pathology underlying a patient diagnosed with FTLD, but biomarkers are needed that, together with the clinical phenotype, can predict the underlying neuropathology.

  24. Mechanisms of homocysteine neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative diseases with special reference to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. FEBS letters 2006-05-06 Risk factors

    Mild to moderate hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases.

  25. Differences between Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: an fMRI study of task-related brain activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-05-02 Brain scans and imaging

    We investigated whether previously reported differences between Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in resting occipital activity lead to activation differences within functionally specialized visual cortical areas and deactivation differences in the default network.

  26. Evolution of Parkinson's disease during 4 years of bilateral deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2006-05-01 Digital health tools

    Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) and motor complications can obtain significant symptom improvement by deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN).

  27. Motor subtype and cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's disease with dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2006-05-01 How common it is

    Most of PDD and DLB participants were PIGD subtype at baseline assessment.

  28. Rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder and neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2006-05-01 Risk factors

    Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is characterised by loss of muscular atonia and prominent motor behaviours during REM sleep.

  29. Clinicopathological and imaging correlates of progressive aphasia and apraxia of speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-04-13 Lewy body dementia

    Apraxia of speech (AOS) is a motor speech disorder characterized by slow speaking rate, abnormal prosody and distorted sound substitutions, additions, repetitions and prolongations, sometimes accompanied by groping, and trial and error articulatory movements.

  30. Atypical progressive supranuclear palsy with corticospinal tract degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2006-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), sporadic multisystem tauopathy, and some forms of frontotemporal dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 are characterized by neuronal and glial lesions accumulating tau protein containing 4 conserved repeats in microtubule-binding domain (4R tau).

  31. Locus coeruleus neurofibrillary degeneration in aging, mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2006-03-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Neurofibrillary degeneration in the nucleus basalis and a loss of its cortical cholinergic projections are prominent components of the neuropathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. Biochemical staging of synucleinopathy and amyloid deposition in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2006-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    The primary feature of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the aggregation of alpha-synuclein into characteristic lesions: Lewy bodies (LBs) and Lewy neurites.

  33. Apolipoprotein E and dementia in Parkinson disease: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-02-01 Genetics

    The APOE epsilon4 allele appears to be associated with a higher prevalence of dementia in PD.

  34. Subjective complaints precede Parkinson disease: the rotterdam study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-01-09 Long-term cohort studies

    Neuronal degeneration and dopamine loss in the preclinical phase of Parkinson disease may produce subtle complaints before clinically recognizable symptoms emerge.

  35. What best differentiates Lewy body from Alzheimer's disease in early-stage dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-01-09 Disparities

    To determine which clinical feature(s) [among visual hallucinations (VH), extrapyramidal signs (EPS) and visuospatial impairment] in the earliest stages of disease best predicted a diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) at autopsy, first-visit data of 23 pathologically proven DLB and 94 Alzheimer's disease cases were compared.

  36. Clinicopathologic analysis of frontotemporal and corticobasal degenerations and PSP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2006-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) have overlapping clinical features.

  37. 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 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2006-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) was considered to be an uncommon cause of dementia until improved neuropathological staining methods for ubiquitin were developed in the late 1980's. Subsequent recognition that 10-15% of dementia cases in older people were associated with Lewy body pathology led to the publication in 1996 of Consensus clinical and pathological diagnostic criteria for the disorder.

  38. Parkinson's disease alpha-synuclein transgenic mice develop neuronal mitochondrial degeneration and cell death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    Alpha-synuclein (alpha-Syn) is enriched in nerve terminals.

  39. The diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2006-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The correct diagnosis of Parkinson's disease is important for prognostic and therapeutic reasons and is essential for clinical research.

  40. Frontotemporal and dopaminergic control of idea generation and creative drive

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of comparative neurology 2005-12-01 Digital health tools

    This article presents a three-factor anatomical model of human idea generation and creative drive, focusing on interactions between the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, and limbic system.

  41. Association of psychiatric disorders and sleep apnea in a large cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Sleep 2005-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Study objectives We conducted the present study to determine whether psychiatric disorders are commonly associated with sleep apnea in Veterans Health Administration beneficiaries.

  42. Excessive daytime sleepiness and subsequent development of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2005-11-01 Risk factors

    Excessive daytime sleepiness may be associated with an increased risk of developing Parkinson disease.

  43. Frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2005-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a focal clinical syndrome characterised by profound changes in personality and social conduct and associated with circumscribed degeneration of the prefrontal and anterior temporal cortex.

  44. Neuropathology of dementia in Parkinson's disease: a prospective, community-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2005-11-01 Clinical safety

    Twenty-two patients with Parkinson's disease drawn from a community-based study were followed prospectively until their deaths.

  45. Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: third report of the DLB Consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2005-10-19 Getting a diagnosis

    The dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) Consortium has revised criteria for the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB incorporating new information about the core clinical features and suggesting improved methods to assess them.

  46. A systematic review of prevalence studies of dementia in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2005-10-01 How common it is

    Substantial variation in the prevalence of dementia in Parkinson's disease (PDD) has been reported.

  47. Delayed neurotoxicity in primary central nervous system lymphoma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-10-01 Prevention and risk

    The 5-year cumulative incidence of neurotoxicity was 24%; this incidence increases over time.

  48. In vivo imaging of microglial activation with [11C](R)-PK11195 PET in idiopathic Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2005-09-21 Lewy body dementia

    Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with akinesia, tremor and rigidity.

  49. Clinical characteristics in early Parkinson's disease in a central California population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2005-09-01 Disparities

    There is considerable variation in the phenotypic appearance of individuals with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), which may translate into differences in disease progression in addition to underlying disease etiology.

  50. Early environmental origins of neurodegenerative disease in later life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2005-09-01 Disparities

    Parkinson disease (PD) and Alzheimer disease (AD), the two most common neurodegenerative disorders in American adults, are of purely genetic origin in a minority of cases and appear in most instances to arise through interactions among genetic and environmental factors.

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