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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. Are amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients cognitively normal?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2003-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This study suggests that frontal executive deficits are present in half of ALS patients, many of whom meet strict research criteria for FTLD.

  2. Dementia associated with Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2003-04-01 How common it is

    Dementia affects about 40% of patients with Parkinson's disease; the incidence of dementia in these patients is up to six times that in healthy people.

  3. Olfaction in neurodegenerative disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2003-04-01 Genetics

    There has been an increase of interest in olfactory dysfunction since it was realised that anosmia was a common feature of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer-type dementia (AD).

  4. Prevalence of essential tremor in three elderly populations of central Spain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2003-04-01 Disparities

    Although essential tremor (ET) is considered the most prevalent adult movement disorder, the available information on its prevalence and distribution worldwide is not completely understood.

  5. Prevalence and characteristics of dementia in Parkinson disease: an 8-year prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-03-01 Caregiving

    More than three quarters of this representative PD cohort developed dementia during the 8-year study period.

  6. Prevalence of PD and other types of parkinsonism in three elderly populations of central Spain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2003-03-01 Disparities

    The prevalence of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other types of parkinsonism in three elderly populations of central Spain was investigated using a door-to-door, two-phase approach.

  7. Dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Seminars in clinical neuropsychiatry 2003-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The objective was to summarize recent findings about the clinical features, diagnosis and investigation of dementia with Lewy (DLB) bodies, together with its neuropathology, neurochemistry and genetics.

  8. Progressive nonfluent aphasia and subsequent aphasic dementia associated with atypical progressive supranuclear palsy pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. European neurology 2003-01-01 Digital health tools

    We describe a right-handed man who developed progressive nonfluent aphasia and apraxia of speech beginning at age 71.

  9. Staging of brain pathology related to sporadic Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2002-12-28 Brain tissue and pathology

    This study traces the course of pathology in incidental and symptomatic Parkinson cases and proposes a staging procedure based upon the readily recognizable topographical extent of the lesions.

  10. Abnormality of gait as a predictor of non-Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2002-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    The presence of neurologic gait abnormalities in elderly persons without dementia at base line is a significant predictor of the risk of development of dementia, especially non-Alzheimer's dementia.

  11. Clinical correlates of selective pathology in the amygdala of patients with Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2002-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    The amygdala exhibits significant pathological changes in Parkinson's disease, including atrophy and Lewy body (LB) formation.

  12. [Corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy--biochemical marker]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology 2002-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    The diagnostic significance of tau proteins in cerebrospinal fluids (CSF) has been described in many cases of dementia of Alzheimer type (AD).

  13. Office of Rare Diseases neuropathologic criteria for corticobasal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2002-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    A working group supported by the Office of Rare Diseases of the National Institutes of Health formulated neuropathologic criteria for corticobasal degeneration (CBD) that were subsequently validated by an independent group of neuropathologists.

  14. Early and widespread cholinergic losses differentiate dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2002-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Reductions in cholinergic function occur in Alzheimer disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies and correlate with cognitive decline.

  15. Relative frequencies of Alzheimer disease, Lewy body, vascular and frontotemporal dementia, and hippocampal sclerosis in the State of Florida Brain Bank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2002-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common dementing illness in the elderly, but there is equivocal evidence regarding the frequency of other disorders such as Lewy body disease (LBD), vascular dementia (VaD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and hippocampal sclerosis (HS).

  16. The overlap of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2002-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with no known diagnosis of ALS or family history of ALS were clinically and electrophysiologically assessed for the presence of ALS.

  17. Novel antibodies to synuclein show abundant striatal pathology in Lewy body diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2002-08-01 Caregiving

    Intracytoplasmic inclusions composed of alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) are characteristic of neurodegenerative Lewy body disorders.

  18. Incidence and prediction of falls in Parkinson's disease: a prospective multidisciplinary study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2002-06-01 How common it is

    Falls are a common problem in PD and some of the major risk factors are potentially modifiable.

  19. Reduced frontotemporal functional connectivity in schizophrenia associated with auditory hallucinations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2002-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    Previous demonstrations of hypofrontality in schizophrenia may reflect particular task requirements.

  20. Where does parkinson disease pathology begin in the brain?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2002-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    The substantia nigra is not the induction site in the brain of the neurodegenerative process underlying Parkinson disease (PD).

  21. Guadeloupean parkinsonism: a cluster of progressive supranuclear palsy-like tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2002-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    An unusually high frequency of atypical Parkinson syndrome has been delineated over the last 5 years in the French West Indies.

  22. How common are complications of Parkinson's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2002-04-01 Clinical safety

    In contrast to clinic-based samples, the most frequently occurring complications of PD in this community-based sample were axial features such as postural instability with falls.

  23. Predictors of mortality among nursing home residents with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research 2002-04-01 Disparities

    Age, sex, functional and cognitive impairment and the diagnosis of pneumonia or congestive heart failure were the strongest predictors of death.

  24. Theory of mind in patients with frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: theoretical and practical implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2002-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    A key aspect of social cognition is the ability to infer other people's mental states, thoughts and feelings; referred to as 'theory of mind' (ToM).

  25. Age at onset in two common neurodegenerative diseases is genetically controlled

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2002-03-01 Genetics

    To identify genes influencing age at onset (AAO) in two common neurodegenerative diseases, a genomic screen was performed for AAO in families with Alzheimer disease (AD; n=449) and Parkinson disease (PD; n=174).

  26. Impact of coexistent Alzheimer pathology on the natural history of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2002-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    AD changes are frequently present in brains of demented PD patients.

  27. Visual hallucinations in Lewy body disease relate to Lewy bodies in the temporal lobe

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2002-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Consensus opinion characterizes dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) as a progressive dementing illness, with significant fluctuations in cognition, visual hallucinations and/or parkinsonism.

  28. Dependence, Dementia, Cerebellar Dysfunction, and Myopathy in Association With Chronic Isopropanol Ingestion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 24 out of 100. Psychopharmacology Bulletin 2002-01-01 Clinical safety

    Little is known about the chronic sequelae of isopropanol ingestion.

  29. Excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden-onset sleep in Parkinson disease: a survey by the Canadian Movement Disorders Group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA 2002-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Excessive daytime sleepiness was present overall in 327 (51%) of the 638 patients and in 213 (51%) of the 420 drivers.

  30. Neuropsychiatric features of frontotemporal dementia: evaluation of consensus criteria and review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2002-01-01 Digital health tools

    Neuropsychiatric features characterize frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  31. Parkinson disease neuropathology: later-developing dementia and loss of the levodopa response

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    We identified 13 patients with a clinical diagnosis of PD who experienced dementia at least 4 years after parkinsonism onset (mean, 10.5 years) and subsequently underwent postmortem examination.

  32. Patterns of brain atrophy in frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2002-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    Although FTD and SemD are associated with different overall patterns of brain atrophy, regions of gray matter tissue loss in the orbital frontal, insular, and anterior cingulate regions are present in both groups.

  33. Frequency and distribution of TUNEL-positive neurons in brains of dementia with Lewy bodies: comparison with those in brains of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology 2001-12-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The present study investigated the frequency and distribution of TUNEL-positive neurons in brains of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in comparison with those in brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Down syndrome (DS) and non-demented elderly persons.

  34. Topography of projections from amygdala to bed nuclei of the stria terminalis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain research. Brain research reviews 2001-12-01 Lewy body dementia

    A collection of 125 PHAL experiments in the rat has been analyzed to characterize the organization of projections from each amygdalar cell group (except the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract) to the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis, which surround the crossing of the anterior commissure.

  35. Clinical and pathological diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia: report of the Work Group on Frontotemporal Dementia and Pick's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2001-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    An international group of clinical and basic scientists participated in the Frontotemporal Dementia and Pick's Disease Criteria Conference at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md, on July 7, 2000, to reassess clinical and neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  36. Evidence for abnormal cortical functional connectivity during working memory in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2001-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Pronounced disruptions of distributed cooperative activity in schizophrenia were found.

  37. Improved accuracy of clinical diagnosis of Lewy body Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2001-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    The authors studied the accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic PD (IPD) in 100 consecutive clinically diagnosed cases that came to neuropathological examination.

  38. Alzheimer's disease versus dementia with Lewy bodies: cerebral metabolic distinction with autopsy confirmation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2001-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    Seeking antemortem markers to distinguish Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), we examined brain glucose metabolism of DLB and AD.

  39. Lewy bodies and parkinsonism in families with parkin mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2001-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    Previous work has established that compound mutations and homozygous loss of function of the parkin gene cause early-onset, autosomal recessive parkinsonism.

  40. Association of REM sleep behavior disorder and neurodegenerative disease may reflect an underlying synucleinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2001-07-01 Risk factors

    Our objective was to examine whether rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder occurs in disproportionally greater frequency in multiple system atrophy (MSA), Parkinson's disease (PD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), collectively known as the synucleinopathies, compared to other nonsynucleinopathy neurodegenerative disorders.

  41. Chemistry and biochemistry of oxidative stress in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Current medicinal chemistry 2001-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    The age-related neurodegenerative diseases exemplified by Alzheimer&hyp;s disease (AD), Lewy body diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Huntington&hyp;s disease are characterized by the deposition of abnormal forms of specific proteins in the brain.

  42. CNS manifestations of Nasu-Hakola disease: a frontal dementia with bone cysts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2001-06-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Nasu-Hakola disease or polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL) is a genetically heterogeneous disease characterized by a combination of systemic bone cysts and dementia.

  43. Prospective study of hallucinations and delusions in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2001-06-01 Clinical safety

    Visual hallucinations are common symptoms in Parkinson's disease and are most likely of multifactorial origin.

  44. Differential circadian rhythm disturbances in men with Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2001-04-01 Caregiving

    Patients with AD and patients with FTD show different disturbances in their rhythms of activity and temperature compared with each other and with normal elderly patients.

  45. Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism-dementia complex of the Kii Peninsula of Japan: clinical and neuropathological study and tau analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2001-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    We report the first case of neuropathologically verified parkinsonism-dementia complex of the Kii peninsula, together with the patient's brother, who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  46. Cognitive impairment in motor neuron disease with bulbar onset

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other motor neuron disorders : official publication of the World Federation of Neurology, Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases 2001-03-01 Digital health tools

    This study adds further arguments for a cognitive impairment in MND/ALS.

  47. Distinct behavioural profiles in frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2001-03-01 Lewy body dementia

    The findings confirm predictions regarding behavioural differences in frontotemporal and semantic dementia and point to differential roles of the frontal and temporal lobes in affect, social functioning, eating, and compulsive behaviour.

  48. Risk of dementia in Parkinson's disease: a community-based, prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2001-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Forty-three patients with PD were demented at follow-up evaluation, equivalent to an incidence rate of 95.3 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI, 68.2 to 122.0).

  49. Perception, attention, and working memory are disproportionately impaired in dementia with Lewy bodies compared with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2001-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Both patient groups performed equally poorly on tests of episodic and semantic memory with the exception of immediate and delayed story recall, which was worse in the AD group.

  50. Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies in a Japanese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2001-02-01 Disparities

    We studied the prevalence of dementing disorders in a rural town of Japan (Amino-cho), using a door-to-door two-phase design.

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