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  1. Five Decades of Infusion Testing in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Biomarker in Search of a Gold Standard 2026-09-01
  2. Reduced Dementia Incidence Following Neck Dissection: A Population-based Matched Cohort Study 2026-08-31
  3. Effectiveness of Modern Diagnostic and Therapeutic Interventions for Major Neurological Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review 2026-08-12

Studies

73 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1968 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 7
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 5
  • Journal of neurosurgery 5
  • Archives of Neurology 3
  • Research Square 3

45 journals in all.

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  1. Five Decades of Infusion Testing in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Biomarker in Search of a Gold Standard

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-09-01 Digital health tools

    Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a potentially reversible cause of gait impairment, cognitive decline, and urinary dysfunction in older adults, yet identifying patients most likely to benefit from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion remains a major diagnostic challenge.

  2. Reduced Dementia Incidence Following Neck Dissection: A Population-based Matched Cohort Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-31 Digital health tools

    Among 9,386 propensity score-matched pairs of ND patients and controls, covariates were well balanced.

  3. Effectiveness of Modern Diagnostic and Therapeutic Interventions for Major Neurological Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-12 Treatments

    From 464 identified records, 30 peer-reviewed primary studies met all eligibility criteria following the exclusion of low-quality sources and unindexed preprints.

  4. Rhabdomyolysis Secondary to Reactivated Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Coinfected with Klebsiella pneumoniae in an Elderly Patient: A Case Report

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-10 Prevention and risk

    Rhabdomyolysis is a common syndrome involving the breakdown of muscle tissue.

  5. Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2024-03-14 How common it is

    As the leading cause of overall disease burden in the world, with increasing global DALY counts, effective prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation strategies for disorders affecting the nervous system are needed.

  6. Peripherin is a biomarker of axonal damage in peripheral nervous system disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-11-01 Biomarkers

    We demonstrated that peripherin is distributed in sciatic nerve, and to a lesser extent spinal cord tissue lysates, but not in brain or extra-neural tissues.

  7. Association between ventricular CSF biomarkers and outcome after shunt surgery in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Fluids and barriers of the CNS 2023-10-25 Biomarkers

    The neurogranin concentration was higher in improved (68%) compared to unimproved patients (median 365 ng/L (IQR 186-544) vs 330 (205-456); p = 0.046).

  8. Cerebral small-vessel disease at high altitude: A comparison of patients from plateau and plain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-03-09 Vascular contributions

    A total of 169 patients in Tibet (high altitude) and 310 patients in Beijing (low altitude) were enrolled.

  9. Susac syndrome: challenges in the diagnosis and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-04-29 Risk factors

    Third, in many cases, Susac syndrome is diagnosed and treated late, with significant irreversible sequelae including dementia, blindness and hearing loss.

  10. Carotid Arterial Compliance and Aerobic Exercise Training in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation 2021-09-23 Prevention trials

    Relative to HC, the participants with cTBI had lower CAC (0.10 ± 0.03 vs 0.12 ± 0.03 mm 2 /mm Hg, P = .046) and higher CVR (0.17 ± 0.03 vs 0.15 ± 0.03 mm Hg/mL/min, P = .028).

  11. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers to Differentiate Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus from Subcortical Ischemic Vascular Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Tau biomarkers

    Lower levels of NFL, NG, Aβ42, and t-tau were found in patients with iNPH versus SIVD, while YKL-40 and p-tau were similar in the two diseases.

  12. Neurobiology of COVID-19

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Risk factors

    Anosmia, stroke, paralysis, cranial nerve deficits, encephalopathy, delirium, meningitis, and seizures are some of the neurological complications in patients with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) which is caused by acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov2).

  13. Prevalence of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: A prospective, population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. PloS one 2019-05-29 Digital health tools

    In this prospective, population-based study the prevalence of iNPH was 3.7% among individuals 65 years and older, and more common in the higher age group, 80 years and above.

  14. Comparison of 18F-florbetaben quantification results using the standard Centiloid, MR-based, and MR-less CapAIBL® approaches: Validation against histopathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-05-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Against combined Bielschowsky silver staining and immunohistochemistry histopathological scores, statistical parametric mapping had 96% sensitivity, 96% specificity, and 95% accuracy, whereas magnetic resonance-less CapAIBL standardized uptake value ratioWhole Cerebellum had 94% sensitivity, 96% specificity, and 95% accuracy.

  15. Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-03-14 How common it is

    For the combined neurological disorders, age-standardised DALY rates were significantly higher in males than in females (male-to-female ratio 1·12 [1·05-1·20]), but migraine, multiple sclerosis, and tension-type headache were more common and caused more burden in females, with male-to-female ratios of less than 0·7.

  16. Neurofilament Light in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid of Hip Fracture Patients with Delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2018-12-06 Biomarkers

    Our findings support an association between neuroaxonal injury and delirium.

  17. Steroid-responsive encephalopathy with a peculiar CSF biomarker profile in an 89-year-old man

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Oxford medical case reports 2018-09-24 Tau biomarkers

    Being treatable, steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT), or Hashimoto's encephalopathy, should be distinguished from untreatable conditions.

  18. A new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for neurofilament light in cerebrospinal fluid: analytical validation and clinical evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2018-01-23 Biomarkers

    Our new NfL ELISA showed a good analytical performance (inter-plate coefficient of variation (CV) < 13%), with no cross-reactivity with neurofilament medium and heavy (NfM and NfH).

  19. Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy in Chinese patients: a retrospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2018-01-19 Biomarkers

    The present patients with positive GFAP-immunoglobulin G are highly similar to autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy, described in a recent report.

  20. Cortical influences drive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2017-07-14 Digital health tools

    The early motor manifestations of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), while rarely documented, reflect failure of adaptive complex motor skills.

  21. Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JAMA 2017-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    In a convenience sample of deceased football players who donated their brains for research, a high proportion had neuropathological evidence of CTE, suggesting that CTE may be related to prior participation in football.

  22. Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2016-10-29 Risk factors

    A group of European experts was commissioned by the European Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology to gather knowledge about the state of the art of the therapeutic use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) from studies published up until September 2016, regarding pain, Parkinson's disease, other movement disorders, motor stroke, poststroke aphasia, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, consciousness disorders, Alzheimer's disease, tinnitus, depression, schizophrenia, and craving/addiction.

  23. Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease): current insights

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Degenerative neurological and neuromuscular disease 2016-08-01 Risk factors

    The present review is focused on juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL; Batten disease) due to a mutation in CLN3 .

  24. Accumulation of dipeptide repeat proteins predates that of TDP ‐43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration associated with hexanucleotide repeat expansions in C9ORF72 gene

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2015-04-30 Lewy body dementia

    Three Newcastle patients bearing an expansion in C9ORF72 were identified.

  25. Cerebrolysin Asian Pacific Trial in Acute Brain Injury and Neurorecovery: Design and Methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Neurotrauma 2015-04 Clinical trials

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of injury-related death.

  26. Prevalence of epilepsy among people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Seizure 2015-03-30 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Epilepsy is highly prevalent in people with intellectual disabilities.

  27. The psychological and neurocognitive consequences of critical illness. A pragmatic review of current evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the Intensive Care Society 2015-01-26 Clinical safety

    Mortality rates alone are no longer a sufficient guide to quality of care.

  28. Recommendations for optimal ICD codes to study neurologic conditions: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2012-08-22 Digital health tools

    Thirty full-text articles met the eligibility criteria.

  29. Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: second edition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurologia medico-chirurgica 2012-01-01 Digital health tools

    Among the various disorders manifesting dementia, gait disturbance, and urinary incontinence in the elderly population, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is becoming of great importance.

  30. Susac's Syndrome--update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2010-09-19 Risk factors

    Susac's Syndrome (SS) consists of the clinical triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO), and hearing loss (HL).

  31. Does corticobasal degeneration exist? A clinicopathological re-evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-07-01 Risk factors

    The pathological findings of corticobasal degeneration are associated with several distinct clinical syndromes, and the corticobasal syndrome has been linked with a number of diverse pathologies.

  32. Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurologia medico-chirurgica 2008-01-01 Digital health tools

    With the rapid aging of Japanese society, medical care of the elderly has become an important social issue.

  33. Treatment of Susac's Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current treatment options in neurology 2008-01-01 Risk factors

    Susac's syndrome (SS) consists of the triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusions (BRAO), and hearing loss.

  34. Susac's syndrome: 1975-2005 microangiopathy/autoimmune endotheliopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2007-02-28 Risk factors

    Susac's syndrome (SS) consists of the clinical triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusions (BRAO) and hearing loss.

  35. How common are the "common" neurologic disorders?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2007-01-01 How common it is

    Using the best available data, our survey of a limited number of disorders shows that the burden of neurologic illness affects many millions of people in the United States.

  36. Cockayne syndrome in adults: review with clinical and pathologic study of a new case

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of child neurology 2006-11-01 Risk factors

    Cockayne syndrome and xeroderma pigmentosum-Cockayne syndrome complex are rare autosomal recessive disorders with poorly understood biology.

  37. Heterogeneity of ubiquitin pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: classification and relation to clinical phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2006-09-26 Brain scans and imaging

    We have investigated the extent and pattern of immunostaining for ubiquitin protein (UBQ) in 60 patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions (FTLD-U), 37 of whom were ascertained in Manchester UK and 23 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK.

  38. Somatic comorbidity of epilepsy in the general population in Canada

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Epilepsia 2005-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Multivariate analyses assessed the strength of association of comorbid conditions with epilepsy as compared with the general population.

  39. Diagnosis, treatment, and analysis of long-term outcomes in idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurosurgery 2005-10-01 Digital health tools

    INPH can be diagnosed accurately with CSF pressure monitoring and CSF drainage via a spinal catheter.

  40. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurosurgery 2005-07-01 Genetics

    This case highlights potential long-term neurodegenerative outcomes in retired professional National Football League players subjected to repeated mild traumatic brain injury.

  41. Management of referred deep brain stimulation failures: a retrospective analysis from 2 movement disorders centers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-06-13 Treatments

    An increasing number of patients come to experienced DBS centers after unsatisfactory results from DBS surgery.

  42. Diagnosis and management of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus: a prospective study in 151 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurosurgery 2005-06-01 Digital health tools

    Object The diagnosis and management of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) remains controversial, particularly in selecting patients for shunt insertion.

  43. Vagal nerve stimulation: a review of its applications and potential mechanisms that mediate its clinical effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2005-05-01 Risk factors

    Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) is an approved treatment for epilepsy and is currently under investigation as a therapy for other disorders, including depression, anxiety and Alzheimer's disease.

  44. The epidemiology of the comorbidity of epilepsy in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Epilepsia 2004-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The prevalence ratio of many common psychiatric and somatic conditions is increased in adults with epilepsy who consult a primary care physician in the U.K. These findings may have implications in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy and coexisting conditions, as well as in health care provision.

  45. CRMP-5 neuronal autoantibody: Marker of lung cancer and thymoma-related autoimmunity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2001-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    We have defined a new paraneoplastic immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibody specific for CRMP-5, a previously unknown 62-kd neuronal cytoplasmic protein of the collapsin response-mediator family.

  46. CSF spaces in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: morphology and volumetry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PubMed Central 1998-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In patients with idiopathic NPH, the CSF volume was significantly increased in the ventricles and decreased in the superior convexity and medial subarachnoid spaces as compared with patients with other dementias.

  47. Dutch Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus Study: randomized comparison of low- and medium-pressure shunts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurosurgery 1998-03-01 Digital health tools

    Outcome was better for patients who had an LPV shunt than for those with an MPV shunt, although most differences were not statistically significant.

  48. Susac syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Medicine 1998-01-01 Risk factors

    Susac syndrome is an occlusive arteriolar disease that provokes infarcts in the cochlea, retina, and brain of young subjects, mostly women.

  49. Dutch normal-pressure hydrocephalus study: prediction of outcome after shunting by resistance to outflow of cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurosurgery 1997-11-01 Digital health tools

    The authors examined whether measurement of resistance to outflow of cerebrospinal fluid (Rcsf) predicts outcome after shunting for patients with normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH).

  50. Whipple disease. Clinical review of 52 cases. The SNFMI Research Group on Whipple Disease. Société Nationale Française de Médecine Interne

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Medicine 1997-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    These results are discussed in the light of previously published series and case reports of Whipple disease.

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