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Newest in this topic

  1. Ocular Manifestations of Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Prospect of the Eye as a Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease 2018-07-30
  2. Visual and Ocular Manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease and Their Use as Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Progression 2016-04-19
  3. REM sleep behavior disorder and REM sleep without atonia as an early manifestation of degenerative neurological disease 2012-04-01

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5 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2018

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  • Archives of neurology 1
  • Current neurology and neuroscience reports 1
  • Frontiers in neurology 1
  • Journal of ophthalmology 1
  • Survey of ophthalmology 1

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  1. Ocular Manifestations of Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Prospect of the Eye as a Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of ophthalmology 2018-07-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), is a major disorder, leading to several ocular manifestations amongst the elderly population.

  2. Visual and Ocular Manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease and Their Use as Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2016-04-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting the growing aging population today, with prevalence expected to rise over the next 35 years.

  3. REM sleep behavior disorder and REM sleep without atonia as an early manifestation of degenerative neurological disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2012-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by repeated episodes of dream enactment behavior and REM sleep without atonia (RSWA) during polysomnography recording.

  4. The spectrum of parkinsonian manifestations associated with glucocerebrosidase mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In the homozygous and heterozygous states, GBA mutations are associated with a spectrum of parkinsonian phenotypes ranging from Parkinson disease, mostly of the akinetic type, to a less common phenotype characteristic of Lewy body dementia.

  5. Ophthalmologic manifestations of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Survey of ophthalmology 1989-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurologic disorder which may present with visual disturbance before the diagnosis is clearly established.

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