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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.

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1967 to 2026

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  • Neurology 106
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  • The Lancet. Neurology 34

313 journals in all.

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  1. Evidence for divergent cortical organisation in Parkinson’s disease and Lewy Body Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-11-25 Lewy body dementia

    Dementia is a defining feature of Lewy body disease: its timing and onset distinguish different clinical diagnoses, and its effect on quality of life is profound.

  2. Delineation of the cognitive and neuropsychiatric features of Pisa syndrome in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-11-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our study reveals that PS in DLB is associated with specific deficits in attention and visuospatial/executive function, alongside more severe neuropsychiatric symptoms.

  3. Dysfunctional default mode and visual networks underlie cognitive deficits in dementia with Lewy bodies: a resting-state fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-11-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    DLB is characterized by DMN and visual network dysfunction, disrupted local neural activity, and impaired global network integration.

  4. Preclinical and Prodromal Frontotemporal Dementia: Challenges and Opportunities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. International Journal of Translational Medicine 2025-11-15 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) represents a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders with overlapping clinical, pathological, and genetic characteristics.

  5. Higher neighborhood deprivation is associated with accelerated disease progression in behavioral‐variant frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging 2025-11-13 Risk factors

    Living in more deprived neighborhoods was associated with an accelerated disease course in bvFTD, highlighting an important socioeconomic disparity in disease prognosis.

  6. Refining the diagnostic accuracy of Parkinsonian disorders using metaphenomic annotation of the clinicopathological literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2025-11-10 Getting a diagnosis

    The diagnostic precision of Parkinsonian disorders is not accurate enough.

  7. Neuropathology of Lewy body dementia: Lewy-related pathology, α-synuclein oligomers, and comorbid pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-11-03 Digital health tools

    Lewy body dementia is the second most common form of neurodegenerative dementia, following Alzheimer's disease.

  8. Examining neuropsychiatric symptoms and functional decline in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International Review of Psychiatry 2025-10-31 Lewy body dementia

    Impairments in transactions (47%) and verbal communication (44%) were common at baseline, while impairments in self-care and incontinence ( 40%).

  9. Atrophy patterns of deep gray matter nuclei in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-10-29 Lewy body dementia

    BackgroundWhile cortical atrophy has been widely studied in dementia, emerging evidence highlights the role of subcortical degeneration, particularly in deep gray matter structures such as the thalamus, claustrum, and basal nuclei, in both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  10. Neuropathologic Changes in People With Essential Tremor With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2025-10-29 Disease mechanisms

    = 0.009). Other neuropathologies were similar across cognitive groups.

  11. Implication of dopamine transporter and electroencephalography biomarkers in dementia with lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-10-21 Lewy body dementia

    Dopamine transporter (DAT) imaging and electroencephalography (EEG) are recommended biomarkers for diagnosing dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  12. Characterizing the distinct neuroanatomical phenotypes, cognitive profiles, and transcriptomic signatures of brain structural subtypes in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of Disease 2025-10-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Two distinct subtypes emerged. Subtype 1 (n = 63) features localized supra-normal gray matter volume deviations in dorsolateral prefrontal regions, elevated free water indicating microstructural disruption, executive dysfunction, and transcriptional enrichment in metabolic dysfunction and neurodegenerative pathways.

  13. Sleep Disorders in Neurodegenerative Diseases with Dementia: A Comprehensive Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025-10-09 Risk factors

    Dementia is a growing problem of global relevance, currently affecting over 55 million people worldwide.

  14. Association between different types of lung cancer and neurodegenerative diseases: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Medicine 2025-10-03 Genetics

    Previous observational studies demonstrated that lung cancer and both Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD) may be related.

  15. Combined with multimodal medical imaging and artificial intelligence for early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-10-01 Digital health tools

    Epidemiological data show that both PD incidence rate and prevalence rate show a significant age-dependent growth trend [3].

  16. Towards optimizing the diagnosis of Lewy body dementia: Lessons from the NACC

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Diagnosis of LBD had high specificity but low sensitivity, with fewer than half of autopsy-confirmed cases having received an LBD diagnosis.

  17. White matter hyperintensities precede other biomarkers in GRN frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Symptomatic GRN carriers showed elevated WMHs, primarily in the frontal lobe, while no significant increase was observed in symptomatic C9orf72 or MAPT carriers.

  18. Frontotemporal dementia patient-derived iPSC neurons show cell pathological hallmarks and evidence for synaptic dysfunction and DNA damage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Molecular Psychiatry 2025-09-26 Disease mechanisms

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common cause of dementia in patients under 65 years, characterized by diverse clinical symptoms, neuropathologies, and genetic background.

  19. Frontotemporal dementia as a consequence of GRN mutations: From disease cause to models to therapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Pharmacological Research 2025-09-17 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) encompasses a broad, clinically and neuropathologically diverse group of neurodegenerative disorders associated with changes in personality, behaviour, and/or language due to the progressive degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.

  20. Acoustically Altered Speech Perception in Frontotemporal Dementia Syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2025-09-11 Lewy body dementia

    = 0.028). AAS perception stratifies FTD syndromes and constitutes a "real-world audiogram" in these diseases.

  21. Neurofilament Light Chain and Differentiation of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia From Psychiatric Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA Psychiatry 2025-09-10 Getting a diagnosis

    A total of 3828 titles and abstracts and 434 full-text articles were reviewed, yielding 12 articles meeting eligibility criteria.

  22. Changes in DTI-ALPS index and its associations with neuronal damage in Lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2025-09-04 Lewy body dementia

    DTI-ALPS values were significantly lower compared to HC in both DLB (Estimate = -0.084 [-0.14 to -0.03], p = 0.004) and MCI-LB (Estimate = -0.058 [-0.11 to -0.002], p = 0.047) DTI-ALPS was also significantly associated with both baseline (t[147] = 2.22, p = 0.028) and longitudinal decline (t[127] = 2.41,p = 0.017) in cognitive score.

  23. Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Science 2025-09-04 How common it is

    Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear.

  24. Quantitative susceptibility mapping reveals differences between subtypes of Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain 2025-09-03 Lewy body dementia

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) are subtypes of Lewy body dementia, and are considered two ends of a disease spectrum.

  25. Co‐pathology in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body disease and its association with neuropsychiatric symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    Co-existing neuropathology was frequent, even among individuals without clinical dementia.

  26. Distinctive Progression Patterns of Brain Structural Damage Aid Classification of Frontotemporal Dementia Variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. European Journal of Neurology 2025-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    At baseline, sbvFTD showed right-predominant temporal pole involvement associated with significant right frontal atrophy.

  27. Neural Basis of Anxiety in Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    Patients with DLB with anxiety had a significantly higher percentage of fluctuating cognition than those without anxiety.

  28. Plasma lipidome dysregulation in frontotemporal dementia reveals shared, genotype‐specific, and severity‐linked alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-09-01 Lewy body dementia

    FTD subjects exhibited increased plasma levels of gangliosides (GM3(d18:1_16:0), GM3(d18:1_24:1)), ceramide Cer(d18:1_23:0), and select polyunsaturated triacylglycerols.

  29. Rapidly Progressive Dementia After Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy: A Case of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in the Context of Chronic Ehrlichiosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Cureus 2025-08-27 End-of-life care

    Prion diseases are fatal neurological disorders characterized by the accumulation of abnormal proteins in the central nervous system, leading to rapid neurodegeneration.

  30. Inflammatory changes in early dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-08-26 Getting a diagnosis

    Our data show changes in innate immune cells in MCI-LB compared to healthy controls in this small exploratory study.

  31. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia as a model for understanding the cognitive and cerebral determinants of verbal creativity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Behavioral and Brain Functions 2025-08-23 Lewy body dementia

    We dissociated four key cognitive components underlying remote thinking: spontaneous associative thinking, inhibition of unoriginal responses, intentional remote associative thinking, and verbal initiation; and replicated them in three independent datasets.

  32. Early functional changes in lewy body dementia: roles of dynamics, locus coeruleus, and compensation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-08-23 Lewy body dementia

    We observed a nonlinear trajectory of two functional connectivity metrics-temporal variability (fluidity) and connectedness (average node strength)-across symptom severity, especially in the delta frequency band.

  33. The association between plasma and MRI biomarkers in dementia with lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-08-22 Lewy body dementia

    In DLB, plasma concentrations of GFAP and NfL were associated with MTA, GCA-F, and Fazekas scale; and the Aβ42/40 ratio was associated with PA and Fazekas.

  34. Fluid biomarkers in familial frontotemporal dementia: progress and prospects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-08-18 Lewy body dementia

    Familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a genetically heterogeneous disease with various clinical manifestations, making it difficult to diagnose.

  35. Novel approaches for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia: is there hope for the future?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics 2025-08-13 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) refers to a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized clinically by behavioral disturbances and pathologically by frontal and anterior temporal lobe neurodegeneration, resulting in brain atrophy.

  36. Lewy body dementia: exploring biomarkers and pathogenic interactions of amyloid β, tau, and α-synuclein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-08-12 Lewy body dementia

    Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a combination of progressive dementia and spontaneous parkinsonian symptoms.

  37. Comorbid Pathologies and Their Impact on Dementia with Lewy Bodies—Current View

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-08-08 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the second common primary degenerative neurocognitive disorder after Alzheimer disease (AD), frequently presents concurrent co-pathologies that impact clinical presentation and progression.

  38. Two-step detection of Lewy body pathology via smell-function testing and CSF α-synuclein seed amplification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-08-05 Getting a diagnosis

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) α-synuclein (α-syn) seed amplification assays (SAAs) can detect Lewy body pathology (LBP) with high accuracy but are invasive and costly.

  39. From data to dialogue in setting research priorities for Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. npj Dementia 2025-08-04 End-of-life care

    By combining AI-assisted topic modelling and community engagement, this study aimed to advance the research landscape for Lewy body dementia (LBD).

  40. Criminal Behavior in Frontotemporal Dementia: A Multimodal MRI Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Human Brain Mapping 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Recent work suggests that impairment in emotional processing, along with disinhibition, constitutes the necessary elements for CB in bvFTD.

  41. Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Frequently occurring copathology, most commonly with Alzheimer disease, leads to greater cognitive decline, increased likelihood of admission to a long-term care facility, and a higher risk of mortality.

  42. Fourteen years later: Reviewing the diagnostic criteria for behavioral‐variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    A total of 110 patients were identified.

  43. Glymphatic activity in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: Link with vascular function and astrocytic activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Glymphatic activity in bvFTD correlated strongly with vascular dysfunction and astrocytic activation, and was associated with brain changes and clinical severity.

  44. Impact of hippocampal α‐synuclein oligomers on cognitive trajectory in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    DLB with rapid cognitive decline showed greater CA1 αSYN oligomer burden (p = 0.029) and tau burden (p = 0.029) than DLB with slow decline.

  45. Multi-modal comparative phenotyping of knock-in mouse models of frontotemporal dementia/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Disease Models & Mechanisms 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are progressive adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases with overlapping pathological and genetic origins.

  46. Neurodevelopmental Vulnerability in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. European Journal of Neurology 2025-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    = 0.205; p = 0.651); and between typical (21%) and atypical (11%) subgroups (Fisher's test, p = 0.184).

  47. Interaction of metabolic and inflammatory dysregulation on central degeneration and cognitive function in behavioral variant Frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Neurology 2025-07-24 Lewy body dementia

    Forty bvFTD patients and 40 HC (56.25% female, mean age of 63.55 years) were involved.

  48. Decoding Parkinson's Disease: The interplay of cell death pathways, oxidative stress, and therapeutic innovations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Redox biology 2025-07-23 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Parkinson's disease (PD), a complex neurodegenerative disorder characterized by selective loss of substantia nigra (SN) dopaminergic neurons, pathological aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn), and chronic neuroinflammation, is fundamentally driven by redox imbalance and oxidative stress.

  49. Shared and disease-specific pathways in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2025-07-15 Lewy body dementia

    Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), exhibit distinct yet overlapping pathological mechanisms.

  50. TDP-43 proteinopathy: the complex biological and clinical findings in LATE-NC, LANS, and other mixed age-related major neurocognitive disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2025-07-15 Brain tissue and pathology

    Since the term limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) was coined in 2019, more than 200 articles addressing the subject were published.

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