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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. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - frontotemporal spectrum disorder (ALS-FTSD): Revised diagnostic criteria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration 2017-01-05 Getting a diagnosis

    This article presents the revised consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) based on an international research workshop on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and ALS held in London, Canada in June 2015.

  2. Neuropathological and genetic correlates of survival and dementia onset in synucleinopathies: a retrospective analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-01-01 Caregiving

    These samples were graded on an ordinal scale and genotyped for variants associated with synucleinopathies.

  3. Associations of hippocampal subfields in the progression of cognitive decline related to Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2016-12-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    The findings from this study add to the anatomical knowledge of hippocampal subregions in PD, allowing us to understand the unique functional contribution of each subfield.

  4. Clinical variables and biomarkers in prediction of cognitive impairment in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease: a cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2016-11-18 Getting a diagnosis

    In multivariate analyses, baseline age, University of Pennsylvania Smell Inventory Test (UPSIT) scores, CSF amyloid - (Aβ 42 ) to t-tau ratio, and APOE status were associated with change in MoCA scores over time.

  5. TDP-43 stage, mixed pathologies, and clinical Alzheimer's-type dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We tested the hypotheses that TDP-43 with Alzheimer's disease pathology is a common mixed pathology; is related to increased likelihood of expressing clinical Alzheimer's-type dementia; and that TDP-43 pathologic stage is an important determinant of clinical Alzheimer's-type dementia.

  6. Visual dysfunction in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-11-01 Risk factors

    Patients with Parkinson's disease have a number of specific visual disturbances.

  7. Concomitant AD pathology affects clinical manifestation and survival in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2016-10-28 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We selected 111 patients with probable DLB and CSF available from the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort.

  8. Clinicopathological features of adult-onset neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-10-25 Getting a diagnosis

    Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by eosinophilic hyaline intranuclear inclusions in the central and peripheral nervous system, and also in the visceral organs.

  9. Cerebral glucose metabolism and cognition in newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease: ICICLE-PD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2016-10-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    FDG-PET was performed on a cohort of 79 patients with newly diagnosed PD (mean disease duration 8 months) and 20 unrelated controls.

  10. Association of GBA Mutations and the E326K Polymorphism With Motor and Cognitive Progression in Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    GBA mutations (β = 4.65; 95% CI, 1.72-7.58; P = .002), E326K (β = 3.42; 95% CI, 0.66-6.17; P = .02), and GBA variants combined as a single group (β = 4.01; 95% CI, 1.95-6.07; P = 1.5 × 10-4) were associated with a more rapid decline in MDS-UPDRS III score.

  11. Parkinson disease and cognitive impairment: Five new things

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology. Clinical practice 2016-10-01 Prevention trials

    Studies have yielded clues to the etiology and natural history of cognitive impairment in PD, but much remains unclear and effective therapies are needed.

  12. Serum neurofilament light chain protein is a measure of disease intensity in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2016-08-31 Lewy body dementia

    Higher concentrations may reflect the intensity of the disease in FTD and are associated with more rapid atrophy of the frontal lobes.

  13. TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2016-08-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    Intracellular inclusions consisting of TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43 pathology) are present in up to 57% of Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases and follow a distinct topographical pattern of progression described in the TDP-43 in AD staging scheme.

  14. Molecular neuropathology of frontotemporal dementia: insights into disease mechanisms from postmortem studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2016-06-15 Brain tissue and pathology

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

  15. Argyrophilic Grain Disease: Demographics, Clinical, and Neuropathological Features From a Large Autopsy Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2016-06-09 Disease mechanisms

    Argyrophilic grain disease (AGD) is a frequent late-onset, 4-repeat tauopathy reported in Caucasians with high educational attainment.

  16. Defining the spectrum of frontotemporal dementias associated with TARDBP mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology. Genetics 2016-05-26 Disparities

    We describe the largest series of patients with TARDBP mutations presenting with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and review the cases in the literature to precisely characterize FTD diseases associated with this genotype.

  17. Association of Antipsychotic Use With Mortality Risk in Patients With Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-05-01 Clinical safety

    The use of APs by patients with dementia in the general population is associated with increased mortality, but whether this risk extends to patients with PD remains unknown.

  18. Trends in the Incidence of Parkinson Disease in the General Population: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2016-04-29 Long-term cohort studies

    We investigated trends in the incidence of parkinsonism and Parkinson disease (PD) by comparing data from the first 2 subcohorts of the Rotterdam Study, a prospective, population-based cohort study (first subcohort: baseline 1990 with 10 years of follow-up; second subcohort, baseline 2000 with 10 years of follow-up).

  19. There has been an awakening: Emerging mechanisms of C9orf72 mutations in FTD/ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2016-04-06 Clinical safety

    The discovery of C9orf72 mutations as the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has awakened a surge of interest in deciphering how mutations in this mysterious gene cause disease and what can be done to stop it.

  20. Prevalence, characteristics, and survival of frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2016-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Key features of this study include the revised diagnostic criteria with improved specificity and sensitivity, an unrestricted age range, and simultaneous assessment of multiple FTLD syndromes.

  21. The Prevalence and Incidence of Dementia with Lewy Bodies: a Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques 2016-04-01 Caregiving

    DLB becomes more common with increasing age and accounts for about 5% of all dementia cases in older populations.

  22. Oligomeropathies and pathogenesis of Alzheimer and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2016-03-31 Disease mechanisms

    The term oligomeropathies defines the neurodegenerative disorders associated with protein misfolding, where small soluble aggregates (oligomers 4-200 KDa) are the cause of neuronal dysfunction and are responsible for spreading the pathology.

  23. The frontotemporal dementia-motor neuron disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2016-03-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Early reports of cognitive and behavioural deficits in motor neuron disease might have been overlooked initially, but the concept of a frontotemporal dementia-motor neuron disease continuum has emerged during the past decade.

  24. Olfactory impairment predicts cognitive decline in early Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2016-02-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    At baseline, worse olfaction (lowest tertile) was associated with more severe NMS, including anxiety and autonomic symptoms.

  25. Parkinsonism, movement disorders and genetics in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2016-02-19 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) refers to a group of clinically and genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders that are a common cause of adult-onset behavioural and cognitive impairment.

  26. Deficits in cholinergic neurotransmission and their clinical correlates in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2016-02-18 Clinical safety

    In view of its ability to explain the most frequent motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease (PD), degeneration of dopaminergic neurons has been considered one of the disease's main pathophysiological features.

  27. There's Something Wrong with my MAM; the ER-Mitochondria Axis and Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2016-02-15 Lewy body dementia

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with associated frontotemporal dementia (ALS/FTD) are major neurodegenerative diseases for which there are no cures.

  28. MMSE and MoCA in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: a multicenter 1-year follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2016-02-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) are the most commonly used scales to test cognitive impairment in Lewy body disease (LBD), but there is no consensus on which is best suited to assess cognition in clinical practice and most sensitive to cognitive decline.

  29. Dark microglia: A new phenotype predominantly associated with pathological states

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Glia 2016-02-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The past decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of microglia.

  30. Molecular Pathological Classification of Neurodegenerative Diseases: Turning towards Precision Medicine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2016-02-02 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are characterized by selective dysfunction and loss of neurons associated with pathologically altered proteins that deposit in the human brain but also in peripheral organs.

  31. The Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Atypical Parkinsonism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Deutsches Arzteblatt international 2016-02-01 Clinical safety

    Causal treatments for neurodegenerative diseases are now being developed and tested, and thus a molecular diagnosis is desirable.

  32. Profiling Speech and Pausing in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2016-01-20 Digital health tools

    This study demonstrated the use of speech measures in the identification of those with an oral-motor deficit, and showed the usefulness of performing a relatively simple reading test to assess speech versus pause behaviors across the ALS-FTD disease continuum.

  33. The Language Profile of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Digital health tools

    Relative to healthy controls, and after accounting for nonverbal executive performance, patients with bvFTD showed deficits of noun and verb naming and single word comprehension, diminished spontaneous propositional speech, and deterioration in naming performance over time.

  34. The Long Non-Coding RNAs in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Novel Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2016-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Long-non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), RNA molecules longer than 200 nucleotides, have been involved in several biological processes and in a growing number of diseases, controlling gene transcription, pre-mRNA processing, the transport of mature mRNAs to specific cellular compartments, the regulation of mRNA stability, protein translation and turnover.

  35. Two insular regions are differentially involved in behavioral variant FTD and nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2015-11-14 Digital health tools

    The non-fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) and the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) are focal neurodegenerative disorders belonging to the FTD-spectrum clinical syndromes.

  36. Comorbidities of epilepsy: current concepts and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2015-11-06 Caregiving

    The burden of comorbidity in people with epilepsy is high.

  37. Cognitive training in Parkinson disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Neurology 2015-10-30 Prevention trials

    Though still small, the current body of RCT evidence indicates that CT is safe and modestly effective on cognition in patients with mild to moderate PD.

  38. A systematic literature review and meta-analyses (where appropriate) were performed and the GRADE approach was used to update the previous American Academy of Sleep Medicine Practice Parameters on the treatment of intrinsic circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders.

  39. Lewy body dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2015-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The broad importance of dementia is undisputed, with Alzheimer's disease justifiably getting the most attention.

  40. MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Movement Disorders 2015-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This document presents the Movement Disorder Society Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson's disease (PD).

  41. Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2015-09-21 Prevention trials

    Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) share clinical and pathological similarities.

  42. Eating behavior in frontotemporal dementia: Peripheral hormones vs hypothalamic pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2015-09-16 Brain scans and imaging

    In bvFTD, they are in part related to hypothalamic degeneration, with potential disintegration of the network connections between the hypothalamus and orbitofrontal cortex/reward pathways.

  43. Longitudinal study of normal cognition in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2015-09-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    The cumulative incidence of cognitive impairment was 8.5% at year 1, increasing to 47.4% by year 6.

  44. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and biomarkers of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2015-09-02 Brain scans and imaging

    T2DM may promote neurodegeneration independent of AD dementia diagnosis, and its effect may be driven by tau phosphorylation.

  45. Dynamic reconfiguration of frontal brain networks during executive cognition in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015-08-31 Lewy body dementia

    The brain is an inherently dynamic system, and executive cognition requires dynamically reconfiguring, highly evolving networks of brain regions that interact in complex and transient communication patterns.

  46. GBA Variants are associated with a distinct pattern of cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2015-08-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Loss-of-function mutations in the GBA gene are associated with more severe cognitive impairment in PD, but the nature of these deficits is not well understood and whether common GBA polymorphisms influence cognitive performance in PD is not yet known.

  47. Functional Significance of TDP-43 Mutations in Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Advances in genetics 2015-08-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    At present, there are very few therapeutic options for patients affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  48. New Clinical Subtypes of Parkinson Disease and Their Longitudinal Progression: A Prospective Cohort Comparison With Other Phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The best cluster solution found was based on orthostatic hypotension, mild cognitive impairment, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), depression, anxiety, and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part II and Part III scores at baseline.

  49. Navigate PD was an educational program established to supplement existing guidelines and provide recommendations on the management of Parkinson's disease (PD) refractory to oral/transdermal therapies.

  50. Baseline and longitudinal grey matter changes in newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease: ICICLE-PD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-07-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease is associated with progression to dementia (Parkinson's disease dementia) in a majority of patients.

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