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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. Accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration: a clinicopathologic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 1997-01-01 Digital health tools

    The accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is unknown.

  2. Diagnostic guidelines in central nervous system Whipple's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 1996-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Many cases of central nervous system (CNS) Whipple's disease are not diagnosed until postmortem.

  3. Follow-up study of risk factors in progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1996-07-01 Risk factors

    The cause of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is not known and has been little studied.

  4. Risk factors for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a reanalysis of case-control studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 1996-05-01 Risk factors

    To review the evidence for risk factors of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), we pooled and reanalyzed the raw data of three case-control studies.

  5. Neuropathological diagnostic criteria for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 1995-10-01 Risk factors

    Neuropathological diagnostic criteria for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases) are proposed for the following disease entities: CJD--sporadic, iatrogenic (recognised risk) or familial (same disease in 1st degree relative): spongiform encephalopathy in cerebral and/or cerebellar cortex and/or subcortical grey matter; or encephalopathy with prion protein (PrP) immunoreactivity (plaque and/or diffuse synaptic and/or patchy/perivacuolar types).

  6. Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1995-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    There have been 87 cases of superficial siderosis of the CNS reported in the world literature and 63 cases had developed the clinical syndrome with sufficient details to be reviewed.

  7. The Predictive Value of Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamic Tests in Patients With the Idiopathic Adult Hydrocephalus Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 1995-08-01 Digital health tools

    Gait was improved in 25 (72%) of the 35 patients, whereas the Bartel index remained unchanged.

  8. Autosomal dominant cerebellar phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1995-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The dominantly inherited ataxias comprise a series of clinical phenotypes that include ataxia, dysarthria, dysmetria, and intention tremor resulting from the involvement of the cerebellum and its afferent and efferent pathways.

  9. Preliminary NINDS neuropathologic criteria for Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome (progressive supranuclear palsy)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1994-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    We present the preliminary neuropathologic criteria for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) as proposed at a workshop held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, April 24 and 25, 1993.

  10. Unstable expansion of CAG repeat in hereditary dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature genetics 1994-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Hereditary dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is an autosomal dominant neurologic disorder characterized by variable combinations of myoclonus, epilepsy, cerebellar ataxia, choreoathetosis and dementia.

  11. Autosomal dominant syndrome with strokelike episodes and leukoencephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Stroke 1991-10-01 Risk factors

    There appears to be a new syndrome in this family that is characterized by recurrent subcortical strokelike episodes, leukoencephalopathy, immunologic anomalies, muscular lipidosis, and an autosomal dominant pattern of transmission.

  12. Marked cerebrospinal fluid void: indicator of successful shunt in patients with suspected normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Radiology 1991-02-01 Digital health tools

    The authors blindly reviewed the charts of 20 patients with normal-pressure hydrocephalus (a disease of unknown cause characterized radiologically as chronic communicating hydrocephalus and clinically by gait apraxia, dementia, and incontinence) who had undergone creation of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt.

  13. Quinolinic acid in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in HIV-1 infection: relationship to clinical and neurological status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1991-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Quinolinic acid is an "excitotoxic" metabolite and an agonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.

  14. Association of deep white matter infarction with chronic communicating hydrocephalus: implications regarding the possible origin of normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PubMed Central 1991-01-01 Digital health tools

    The coexistence of cerebrovascular disease leading to deep white matter infarction and normal-pressure hydrocephalus has been noted previously in clinical studies, as both diseases can present with the triad of gait disturbance, dementia, and incontinence.

  15. Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Annals of Internal Medicine 1988-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Section I: Pathophysiology of Stroke. Epidemiology of Stroke.

  16. The AIDS dementia complex: II. Neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1986-06-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    In order to define the histopathological substrate of the dementia that frequently complicates the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), we analyzed the neuropathological findings in 70 autopsied adult AIDS patients, 46 of whom had suffered clinically overt dementia.

  17. Isolation of HTLV-III from cerebrospinal fluid and neural tissues of patients with neurologic syndromes related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 1985-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    We conducted virus-isolation studies on 56 specimens from the nervous system of 45 patients in order to determine whether human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type III (HTLV-III) is directly involved in the pathogenesis of the neurologic disorders frequently encountered in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the AIDS-related complex.

  18. Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy (Binswanger's Disease)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 1985-10-01 Digital health tools

    Twenty-three elderly patients were found to have a consistent pattern of leukoencephalopathy by computed tomography and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

  19. Tumor diagnosis by intermediate filament typing: a novel tool for surgical pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 1983-04-01 Biomarkers

    In most cell types intermediate or 10-mm filaments (IF) are a major cytoskeletal organization and, thus, directly or indirectly influence the structural appearance of the cytoplasm.

  20. The predictive value of conductance to outflow of CSF in normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1982-03-01 Digital health tools

    Conductance to outflow of CSF was measured in a prospective study of 80 patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus.

  21. Delayed radiation necrosis of the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurosurgery 1977-09-01 Risk factors

    The cases of six patients are presented to delineate the clinical profile of delayed radiation necrosis of the brain.

  22. Colloid cysts of the third ventricle

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurosurgery 1974-02-01 Digital health tools

    ✓ Thirty-eight cases of colloid cyst of the third ventricle are reviewed.

  23. Ophthalmoplegia Plus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 1968-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    CONSIDERABLE interest has been focused on the entity of progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO) since the report of Kiloh and Nevin in 1951.1These authors were primarily concerned with the pathogenesis of the ocular muscle weakness, concluding that it was virtually always the result of a myopathic process.

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