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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

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  • 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. Sex Differences in Associations of Lewy Body Disease with Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-07-11 Lewy body dementia

    In the Rush dataset, we included 1,277 women and 579 men.

  2. Frontotemporal Lobar degeneration with TDP-43 presenting as progressive supranuclear palsy syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2025-07-09 Brain tissue and pathology

    The most common clinical symptoms in FTLD-TDP-PSP were memory loss (100%) followed by parkinsonism (80%), early falls (60%), and behavioral variant FTD (60%).

  3. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Alzheimer Disease, Parkinson Disease and Lewy Body Dementia: Genetic, Clinical and Therapeutic Overlaps

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Advances in Geriatric Medicine and Research 2025-07-07 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E-4 (APOE-4), serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4), and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of glucocerebrosidase (GBA) are some of the main altered genes in AD, PDD and DLB.

  4. Accuracy of blood-based neurofilament light to different genetic frontotemporal dementia from primary psychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-07-02 Getting a diagnosis

    NfL holds potential as a blood-based biomarker for symptomatic genetic FTD carriers, with moderate accuracy to distinguish PPD from mild forms including C9orf72 .

  5. Survival rates in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurodegenerative Disease Management 2025-07-02 Lewy body dementia

    Median survival from symptom onset was longest in SD (11.9 years) and shortest in LPA (7 years).

  6. A common outcome set for trials in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB COS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2025-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    Forty-nine outcomes were presented to survey respondents.

  7. Alpha-synuclein seeding amplification assays in Lewy body dementia: a brief review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Lewy body dementia (LBD), which includes dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), is characterized by cognitive decline, sleep disturbances, motor dysfunction, and other debilitating clinical symptoms.

  8. Current strategies in the management of dementia with lewy bodies and future directions based on disease pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is thought to be the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, and is characterised by a combination of cognitive, neuropsychiatric and motor symptoms.

  9. Implications and opportunities regarding biological frameworks in overt and prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), a progressive neurodegenerative disease with heterogeneous clinical presentations, greatly impacts patients, caregivers, and society.

  10. Profiling complement dysregulation in frontotemporal dementia using cerebrospinal fluid, plasma, and exosomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Immunobiology 2025-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    In plasma, most complement analytes were not significantly different between spFTD and HC; the exceptions were C4 and FB, significantly decreased in spFTD vs HC ( p = 0.0192 and p = 0.0181, respectively), suggesting complement consumption in classical and alternative pathways.

  11. Seeing the trees in the wood: the importance of co-pathologies in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain 2025-07-01 Clinical safety

    In contrast, patients with LB pathology alone, in the absence of AD biomarker positivity, had less overall cognitive impairment but more focal dysexecutive and visuospatial deficits.

  12. Utilization Patterns and Clinical Factors Associated With Hospitalization in Early‐Stage Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-07-01 Clinical safety

    Patients with DLB had significantly greater rates of hospitalization and ED visits compared to patients with AD (Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR): 1.46, 95% CI 1.24, 1.73, IRR: 1.46, 95% CI 1.29, 1.77, respectively) and controls (IRR: 1.77, 95% CI 1.46, 2.14, IRR: 2.21, 95% CI 1.82, 2.69, respectively) and ED visits compared to those with VD (IRR: 1.24, 95% CI 1.03, 1.50).

  13. Quantification of Lewy body pathology by cerebrospinal fluid endpoint dilution RT-QuIC in a neuropathological autopsy cohort of clinically heterogeneous participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2025-06-23 Lewy body dementia

    The identification of biomarkers predicting the burden of brain alpha-synuclein (α-syn) pathology in vivo represents a research priority in Lewy body disease (LBD).

  14. Substantia Nigra Iron Deposition in Lewy Body Disease: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neuropathology Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Movement Disorders 2025-06-23 Lewy body dementia

    The LBD-present group had higher QSM values in the SNc (P = 0.008) than the LBD-absent group with no differences in SNr.

  15. Prevalence, timing and characteristics of delirium preceding dementia with Lewy bodies: a retrospective case series

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Neurology 2025-06-21 Clinical safety

    26% of the participants experienced delirium prior to diagnosis of DLB, with one participant experiencing multiple episodes in the 24 months before diagnosis.

  16. Blood α‐Synuclein Separates Parkinson's Disease from Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-06-16 Lewy body dementia

    Surprisingly, levels of strain A and B aSyn species were higher in plasma from individuals with PD compared to DLB in 2 independent cohorts.

  17. Safety, Cognitive, and Behavioral Outcomes in Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies Treated with Nilotinib

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025-06-14 Lewy body dementia

    Of 43 individuals enrolled, 14 were women (33%); age (mean ± SD) was 73 ± 8.5 years.

  18. Higher neighborhood deprivation is associated with accelerated disease progression in behavioral-variant frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia. Behavior & socioeconomics of aging 2025-06-04 Risk factors

    Neighborhood deprivation is associated with shorter survival, cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration in aging and Alzheimer's disease.

  19. Prevalence of Epilepsy in Frontotemporal Dementia and Timing of Dementia Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-06-02 How common it is

    The study cohort included 245 patients with FTD (121 female [49.4%], 124 male [50.6%]; mean [SD] age, 65.2 [8.7] years), 2416 matched HCs (1190 female [49.3%], 1226 male [50.7%]; mean [SD] age, 65.0 [8.5] years), and 1326 patients with AD (777 female [58.6%], 549 male [41.4%]; mean [SD] age, 71.7 [9.8] years).

  20. A hypothesis explaining Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and dementia with Lewy bodies overlap

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    Lewy body-involving diseases (LBD) are commonly associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) featuring voluntary movement inhibition, due to dopaminergic neuron dysfunction in the substantia nigra.

  21. Comparing clinical features of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease using network analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    = 62.87, SD = 9.46, 36.52% female). Both networks were densely connected, reflecting comorbidity between neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognitive scores.

  22. Sublingual Crushed Levodopa for Parkinson’s Disease Management of a Lewy Body Dementia Patient With Dysphagia: A Case Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Cureus 2025-05-29 Clinical safety

    Levodopa/carbidopa is the cornerstone treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD), but in patients with dysphagia, there are limited options for the routes of administration.

  23. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy in patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies: A clinical and hippocampal morphology study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2025-05-26 Brain tissue and pathology

    87 DLB patients (77.5 ± 7.2yo; 34.5 % females) were included.

  24. Impact of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms on Caregiver Burden of People With Dementia With Lewy Bodies: A Multicentre Prospective Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics 2025-05-19 Caregiving

    At the initial visit, the mean age of individuals with DLB was 80.8 (5.8) years; their mean Mini-Mental State Examination score was 20.6 (5.1).

  25. Predicting dementia in people with Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2025-05-13 How common it is

    Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibits a variety of symptoms, with approximately 25% of patients experiencing mild cognitive impairment and 45% developing dementia within ten years of diagnosis.

  26. Cortical microstructural abnormalities in dementia with Lewy bodies and their associations with Alzheimer’s disease copathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2025-05-12 Lewy body dementia

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) frequently coexists with Alzheimer's disease pathology, yet the pattern of cortical microstructural injury and its relationship with amyloid, tau, and cerebrovascular pathologies remains unclear.

  27. Data-driven characterization of distinct cognitive subtypes in Parkinson’s disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2025-05-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Individual cognitive profiles of patients with Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) are highly heterogeneous, suggesting possible biological subtypes.

  28. Common neuropathologic change drivers of hippocampal sclerosis of ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain 2025-05-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    The aetiology of HS-A is heterogeneous, but HS-A is strongly associated with limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy NC (LATE-NC).

  29. Dysphagia Symptoms Contribute to Greater Care Partner Burden in Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2025-05-05 Clinical safety

    Higher general burden was associated with female caregivers (β = −.19, p = .05), higher education (β = .16, p = .03), caring for someone with dementia (β = .36, p = .01), and greater dysphagia-related burden (β = .33, p = .01).

  30. Association between visual hallucinations and cognitive performance in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2025-05-04 Cognitive tests and assessment

    DLB patients had a higher prevalence of VH than AD patients (p < 0.01).

  31. Abundant non-inclusion α-synuclein pathology in Lewy body-negative LRRK2-mutant cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2025-05-02 Lewy body dementia

    Lewy body diseases are common neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies, which lead to both motor and non-motor symptoms.

  32. Neuroimaging and plasma biomarker differences and commonalities in Lewy body dementia subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    We show reduced fiber cross-section in LBD versus PD, and increased concentrations of plasma neurofilament light chain and p-tau217; with p-tau217 and fiber cross-section associated with cognition.

  33. Profile of impairments in social and non-social cognition in vascular dementia compared to Alzheimer’s disease and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2025-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    < .01). All patient groups were also impaired on AVLT encoding, TMT-B and TMT B/A. Social and non-social neurocognitive functions differed between groups, with specific impairments in processing speed in VaD, emotion recognition in bv-FTD and memory retrieval in AD, and memory encoding and cognitive control impaired in all three groups.

  34. Sex differences in prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies using the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    Males were more likely than females to present with two or more core DLB clinical features 2 years prior to obtaining a diagnosis of dementia.

  35. Clinical Evolution of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia With Lewy Bodies in a Post‐Mortem Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-04-28 How common it is

    Early onset hallucinations were significantly more common in pLBD than pAD (OR 0.069 [95% CI 0.012-0.397], p = 0.003) or mixed AD+LBD (OR 0.09 [95% CI 0.010-0.771], p = 0.028) and there was a greater increase in the odds of hallucinations over time in pAD and AD+LBD than pLBD such that there was was no difference in the prevalence of late-onset hallucinations between pLBD, pAD or AD+LBD.

  36. Deciphering distinct genetic risk factors for FTLD-TDP pathological subtypes via whole-genome sequencing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-04-25 Risk factors

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with neuronal inclusions of the TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (FTLD-TDP) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder with only a limited number of risk loci identified.

  37. Development of a simplified smell test to identify Parkinson’s disease using multiple cohorts, machine learning and item response theory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2025-04-23 Digital health tools

    To develop a simplified smell test for identifying patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), we reevaluated the Sniffin'-Sticks-Identification-Test (SST-ID) and University-of-Pennsylvania-Smell-Identification-Test (UPSIT), using three case-control studies.

  38. Research models to study lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-04-23 Lewy body dementia

    Lewy body dementia (LBD) encompasses neurodegenerative dementias characterized by cognitive fluctuations, visual hallucinations, and parkinsonism.

  39. White matter hyperintensity tissue property spatial variations as a function of cognitive status in Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. NeuroImage 2025-04-23 Vascular contributions

    • Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and cognitive impairment demonstrated a significantly greater burden of white matter hyperintensities (WMH), with the highest burden observed in those with PD dementia.

  40. Disease-modifying effects of TMEM106B in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal GENFI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain 2025-04-22 Lewy body dementia

    Common variants within TMEM106B are associated with risk for frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology (FTLD-TDP).

  41. Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Bilingualism Language and Cognition 2025-04-22 Lewy body dementia

    The results showed that bilinguals had reduced thalamic volume compared to monolinguals despite having similar cognitive performance.

  42. Lewy Body Dementia Research in Latin America: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice 2025-04-21 Lewy body dementia

    Of the 1388 studies identified, 70 met the inclusion criteria for this review.

  43. Neurodegenerative disorders: A Holistic study of the explainable artificial intelligence applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2025-04-18 Digital health tools

    Neuro Degenerative Disorders (NDDs) involve progressive nerve cell loss, impacting functions like sensation, movement, memory, and cognition, posing life-threatening risks.

  44. Brain network connectivity underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in prodromal Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2025-04-17 Lewy body dementia

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are prevalent, emerge early, and are associated with poorer outcomes in Lewy body dementia (LBD).

  45. Visual Hallucinations in Serotonergic Psychedelics and Lewy Body Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2025-04-17 Lewy body dementia

    Both LBDs and SPs exhibit distinct visual aberrations, ranging from minor metamorphopsias to complex hallucinations.

  46. UNC13A Polymorphism Influences Survival in Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-04-11 Lewy body dementia

    UNC13A (rs12608932-CC) is associated with both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and shortens survival in ALS.

  47. Unraveling the Link Between Bullous Pemphigoid and Neurological Disease: A Single-center Study of 257 Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Actas dermo-sifiliograficas 2025-04-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Our case series highlighted the relevance of neurological comorbidities in BP patients; although the pathogenesis is still to be elucidated, the neuroinflammation present in neurodegenerative diseases could explain the neurocutaneous link and the chronological relationship between these entities.

  48. Does Midbrain Atrophy Distinguish Progressive Supranuclear Palsy from Frontotemporal Dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice 2025-04-02 Lewy body dementia

    Compared to controls, PSP and bvFTD had lower values of midbrain area, HBS-RS and GMA, and higher MRPI and MRPI 2.0.

  49. Ethics of disclosure of onset‐predictive biomarker test results for genetic frontotemporal dementia in the research context

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    Onset-predictive biomarker tests (OPBTs) for genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD) may predict symptom onset in coming years.

  50. Human MAPT knockin mouse models of frontotemporal dementia for the neurodegenerative research community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Cell Reports Methods 2025-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    Existing models of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) may not fully recapitulate the pathophysiology of the disease.

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