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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. A case report of late-onset schizophrenia differentiated from a dementing disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Neurocase 2021-12-23 Tau biomarkers

    We report a case of late-onset schizophrenia that required differentiation from a dementing disorder.

  2. Neuropathology and molecular diagnosis of Synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-12-18 Getting a diagnosis

    Synucleinopathies are clinically and pathologically heterogeneous disorders characterized by pathologic aggregates of α-synuclein in neurons and glia, in the form of Lewy bodies, Lewy neurites, neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions, and glial cytoplasmic inclusions.

  3. Structure of pathological TDP-43 filaments from ALS with FTLD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature 2021-12-08 Lewy body dementia

    The abnormal aggregation of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43) in neurons and glia is the defining pathological hallmark of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple forms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) 1,2 .

  4. Dementia with Lewy bodies: association of Alzheimer pathology with functional connectivity networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-11-01 Biomarkers

    This was then correlated with overall cortical flortaucipir PET and PiB PET standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr).

  5. Human ALS/FTD brain organoid slice cultures display distinct early astrocyte and targetable neuronal pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2021-10-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis overlapping with frontotemporal dementia (ALS/FTD) is a fatal and currently untreatable disease characterized by rapid cognitive decline and paralysis.

  6. Speech and language impairments in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2021-10-19 Digital health tools

    Although behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is classically defined by behavioral and socio-emotional changes, impairments often extend to other cognitive functions.

  7. Neurofilament light chain and α-synuclein RT-QuIC as differential diagnostic biomarkers in parkinsonisms and related syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2021-10-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) and α-synuclein oligomeric seeds (α-syn-s) are promising biomarkers for patients with parkinsonism.

  8. Elucidating the Role of Cerebellar Synaptic Dysfunction in C9orf72-ALS/FTD - a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Cerebellum (London, England) 2021-09-07 Disease mechanisms

    A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the C9orf72 gene is the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with synaptic dysfunction identified as an early pathological hallmark.

  9. The spectrum of neurodevelopmental, neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders due to defective autophagy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Autophagy 2021-08-19 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Primary dysfunction of autophagy due to Mendelian defects affecting core components of the autophagy machinery or closely related proteins have recently emerged as an important cause of genetic disease.

  10. Basal forebrain cholinergic system in the dementias: Vulnerability, resilience, and resistance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2021-08-06 Disease mechanisms

    The basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCN) provide the primary source of cholinergic innervation of the human cerebral cortex.

  11. Discovery of Parkinson's disease states and disease progression modelling: a longitudinal data study using machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Digital health 2021-07-29 Digital health tools

    The results were validated in an independent sample of 610 patients with Parkinson's disease from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program (PDBP).

  12. An Update on Medical and Surgical Treatments of Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Aging and disease 2021-07-01 Digital health tools

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta and other neuronal populations.

  13. Parkinson disease-associated cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature reviews. Disease primers 2021-07-01 How common it is

    Parkinson disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting >1% of the population ≥65 years of age and with a prevalence set to double by 2030.

  14. Characterizing the Clinical Features and Atrophy Patterns of MAPT-Related Frontotemporal Dementia With Disease Progression Modeling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2021-06-22 Digital health tools

    Our results demonstrate that different MAPT mutations give rise to distinct atrophy patterns and clinical phenotype, providing insights into the underlying disease biology and potential utility for patient stratification in therapeutic trials.

  15. Molecular mechanisms underlying nucleotide repeat expansion disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 2021-06-17 Lewy body dementia

    The human genome contains over one million short tandem repeats.

  16. A multicentre validation study of the diagnostic value of plasma neurofilament light

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-07 Lewy body dementia

    Increased cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light (NfL) is a recognized biomarker for neurodegeneration that can also be assessed in blood.

  17. Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease: Epidemiology, Clinical Profile, Protective and Risk Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-05-13 Prevention trials

    Cognitive impairment is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and an important source of patient disability and caregiver burden.

  18. Reduced Synaptic Density in Patients with Lewy Body Dementia: An [11 C]UCB-J PET Imaging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2021-04-25 Disease mechanisms

    Widespread cortical reduction of synaptic density was documented in a cohort of DLB/PDD subjects using in vivo [11C]UCB-J PET.

  19. Plasma Neurofilament Light for Prediction of Disease Progression in Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurology 2021-04-07 Long-term cohort studies

    We tested the hypothesis that plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) identifies asymptomatic carriers of familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)-causing mutations at risk of disease progression.

  20. Lysosome dysfunction as a cause of neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2021-03-31 Brain tissue and pathology

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are fatal neurodegenerative disorders that are thought to exist on a clinical and pathological spectrum.

  21. Cognitive and Behavioral Manifestations in ALS: Beyond Motor System Involvement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-03-30 Digital health tools

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has long been considered to be a purely motor disorder.

  22. Characteristics of Parkinson’s Disease in Patients with and without Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson s Disease 2021-03-12 Health systems and care delivery

    Comorbidity indices for patients with cognitive impairment increased during the 6-year study period, especially after the index.

  23. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration proteinopathies have disparate microscopic patterns of white and grey matter pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2021-02-23 Digital health tools

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration proteinopathies with tau inclusions (FTLD-Tau) or TDP-43 inclusions (FTLD-TDP) are associated with clinically similar phenotypes.

  24. Associations among Cognitive Functions, Plasma DNA, and Diffusion Tensor Image along the Perivascular Space (DTI-ALPS) in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2021-02-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease associated with accumulation of misfolding proteins and increased neuroinflammation, which may further impair the glymphatic system.

  25. Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature genetics 2021-02-15 Lewy body dementia

    The genetic basis of Lewy body dementia (LBD) is not well understood.

  26. Do ecological factors influence the clinical presentation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2021-02-09 Risk factors

    Since its first description by Charcot, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been classified as a single neurodegenerative disease involving motor neurons.

  27. Fine Particle Exposure and Clinical Aggravation in Neurodegenerative Diseases in New York State

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2021-02-09 Risk factors

    Adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases affect millions and negatively impact health care systems worldwide.

  28. Distinctive Oculomotor Behaviors in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-02-04 Digital health tools

    Oculomotor behavior can provide insight into the integrity of widespread cortical networks, which may contribute to the differential diagnosis between Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

  29. Blood-brain barrier opening with focused ultrasound in Parkinson's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-02-03 Caregiving

    MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), in combination with intravenous microbubble administration, has been applied for focal temporary BBB opening in patients with neurodegenerative disorders and brain tumors.

  30. MIND and Mediterranean Diets Associated with Later Onset of Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2021-01-06 Prevention trials

    This cross-sectional study found a strong correlation between age of onset of PD and dietary habits, suggesting that nutritional strategies may be an effective tool to delay PD onset.

  31. Neuropathological consensus criteria for the evaluation of Lewy pathology in post-mortem brains: a multi-centre study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-01-05 Getting a diagnosis

    The category of neocortical LP according to the LPC system was associated with a 5.9 OR (p < 0.0001) of dementia in the 134 NBTR cases and a 3.14 OR (p = 0.0001) in the 202 UPBB cases.

  32. Changes in Motor, Cognitive, and Behavioral Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment During the COVID-19 Lockdown

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2020-12-14 Digital health tools

    All groups showed a worsening of cognitive (39.6%), pre-existing (37.5%), and new (26%) behavioral symptoms, and motor symptoms (35.4%) during the COVID-19 lockdown, resulting in an increased caregiver burden in 26% of cases.

  33. Neuroinflammation and protein pathology in Parkinson's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2020-12-03 Digital health tools

    Parkinson's disease dementia is neuropathologically characterized by aggregates of α-synuclein (Lewy bodies) in limbic and neocortical areas of the brain with additional involvement of Alzheimer's disease-type pathology.

  34. A patient journey analysis: Identification and treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2020-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Percentages of patients with imaging tests, DLB symptoms, diagnoses and treatments for DLB increased as patients’ first DLB diagnosis neared and occurred at lower percentages 7‐12 months after initial diagnosis.

  35. Differential insular cortex sub-regional atrophy in neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2020-12-01 Digital health tools

    The insular cortex is proposed to function as a central brain hub characterized by wide-spread connections and diverse functional roles.

  36. TDP-43 proteinopathies: a new wave of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2020-11-11 Lewy body dementia

    Inclusions of pathogenic deposits containing TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) are evident in the brain and spinal cord of patients that present across a spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases.

  37. Glymphatic failure as a final common pathway to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Science 2020-10-02 Laboratory science

    This is a scientific review/perspective article, not a new experiment, that synthesizes evidence — largely from animal studies plus some human data — proposing that failure of the glymphatic system (the brain's sleep-dependent waste-clearance network) may be a shared underlying pathway across many forms of dementia.

  38. Approach to Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2020-10-01 Prevention trials

    Cognitive dysfunction is common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and predicts poor clinical outcomes.

  39. Glymphatic failure as a final common pathway to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020-10-01 Risk factors

    Sleep is evolutionarily conserved across all species, and impaired sleep is a common trait of the diseased brain.

  40. Parkinson's disease determinants, prediction and gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2020-10-01 Long-term cohort studies

    We identified individuals with an incident diagnosis of PD (n=1276) and controls (n=500 406) in UK Biobank.

  41. Rates of Brain Atrophy Across Disease Stages in Familial Frontotemporal Dementia Associated With MAPT, GRN, and C9orf72 Pathogenic Variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA network open 2020-10-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Several clinical trials are planned for familial forms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (f-FTLD).

  42. The Role of EEG in the Diagnosis, Prognosis and Clinical Correlations of Dementia with Lewy Bodies-A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-08-20 Digital health tools

    Despite improvements in diagnostic criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the ability to discriminate DLB from Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias remains suboptimal.

  43. Distinct clinicopathologic clusters of persons with TDP-43 proteinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2020-08-14 Long-term cohort studies

    To better understand clinical and neuropathological features of TDP-43 proteinopathies, data were analyzed from autopsied research volunteers who were followed in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) data set.

  44. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a clinical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2020-07-07 Getting a diagnosis

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting primarily the motor system, but in which extra-motor manifestations are increasingly recognized.

  45. The late stage of Parkinson's -results of a large multinational study on motor and non-motor complications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2020-05-21 Digital health tools

    These data suggest that current treatment of late stage parkinsonism in the community remains insufficiently effective to alleviate disabling symptoms in many patients.

  46. Progression of grey and white matter brain damage in Parkinson's disease: a critical review of structural MRI literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2020-05-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    The current review summarizes the current knowledge on longitudinal cortical and subcortical grey and white matter MRI findings assessed using T1-weighted and one-tensor diffusion-weighted MRI in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.

  47. Outpatient PC is associated with benefits among patients with PDRD compared with standard care alone.

  48. Neurophysiological Hallmarks of Neurodegenerative Cognitive Decline: The Study of Brain Connectivity as A Biomarker of Early Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2020-04-30 Digital health tools

    Neurodegenerative processes of various types of dementia start years before symptoms, but the presence of a "neural reserve", which continuously feeds and supports neuroplastic mechanisms, helps the aging brain to preserve most of its functions within the "normality" frame.

  49. Modeling Parkinson's Disease With the Alpha-Synuclein Protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2020-04-23 Lewy body dementia

    Alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology.

  50. Serum neuronal exosomes predict and differentiate Parkinson's disease from atypical parkinsonism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2020-04-09 Risk factors

    Increased α-synuclein egress in serum neuronal exosomes precedes the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, persists with disease progression and in combination with clusterin predicts and differentiates Parkinson's disease from atypical parkinsonism.

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