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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

1,027 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1967 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 107
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 71
  • Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 53
  • Annals of neurology 34
  • The Lancet. Neurology 34

315 journals in all.

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  1. A major difference in the revised diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the incorporation of biomarkers to support a clinical diagnosis and allow the identification of preclinical AD due to AD neuropathological processes.

  2. Functional Significance of TDP-43 Mutations in Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Advances in genetics 2015-08-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    At present, there are very few therapeutic options for patients affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  3. New Clinical Subtypes of Parkinson Disease and Their Longitudinal Progression: A Prospective Cohort Comparison With Other Phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The best cluster solution found was based on orthostatic hypotension, mild cognitive impairment, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), depression, anxiety, and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part II and Part III scores at baseline.

  4. Navigate PD was an educational program established to supplement existing guidelines and provide recommendations on the management of Parkinson's disease (PD) refractory to oral/transdermal therapies.

  5. Baseline and longitudinal grey matter changes in newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease: ICICLE-PD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-07-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease is associated with progression to dementia (Parkinson's disease dementia) in a majority of patients.

  6. Nursing home and end-of-life care in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2015-07-02 Disparities

    A large proportion of the Medicare PD population resides in an LTCF.

  7. Pharmacological Management of Lewy Body Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2015-06-18 Caregiving

    High-level evidence related to pharmacological strategies for managing Lewy body dementia is rare.

  8. Syntax, action verbs, action semantics, and object semantics in Parkinson's disease: Dissociability, progression, and executive influences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2015-06-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    Several studies have recently shown that basal ganglia (BG) deterioration leads to distinctive impairments in the domains of syntax, action verbs, and action semantics.

  9. Disease-related microglia heterogeneity in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and hippocampal sclerosis of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2015-05-23 Digital health tools

    We conclude that variations in morphologies among microglial cells, and cells of macrophage lineage, can help guide future work connecting neuroinflammatory mechanisms with specific neurodegenerative disease subtypes.

  10. Hippocampal sclerosis and TDP-43 pathology in aging and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-04-22 Brain tissue and pathology

    Diagnoses of dementia, probable AD, and MCI in 636 autopsied subjects from the Religious Order Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project were based on clinical evaluation and cognitive performance tests.

  11. Amyloid deposition in Parkinson's disease and cognitive impairment: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2015-04-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Substantial variability occurs in the prevalence of "PiB-positive" studies in subjects with Parkinsonism and cognitive impairment.

  12. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and caregiver's burden in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2015-04-09 Caregiving

    The most frequent NPS were depression (in 66% of the sample), anxiety (65%) and mental fatigue (57%).

  13. Traumatic brain injury in later life increases risk for Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-03-28 Risk factors

    Among patients aged ≥55 years presenting to inpatient/ED settings with trauma, TBI is associated with a 44% increased risk of developing PD over 5 to 7 years that is unlikely to be due to confounding or reverse causation.

  14. Diagnostic accuracy of 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine myocardial scintigraphy in dementia with Lewy bodies: a multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. PloS one 2015-03-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) needs to be distinguished from Alzheimer's disease (AD) because of important differences in patient management and outcome.

  15. Glucocerebrosidase and Parkinson disease: Recent advances

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular and cellular neurosciences 2015-03-20 Caregiving

    Mutations of the glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene are the most important risk factor yet discovered for Parkinson disease (PD).

  16. Risk factors for neurodegeneration in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-03-13 Prevention and risk

    Of 305 patients, follow-up information was available for 279, of whom 93 (33.3%) developed defined neurodegenerative disease.

  17. Neuropathologically mixed Alzheimer's and Lewy body disease: burden of pathological protein aggregates differs between clinical phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-03-11 Caregiving

    Multiple different pathological protein aggregates are frequently seen in human postmortem brains and hence mixed pathology is common.

  18. Cognitive performance and neuropsychiatric symptoms in early, untreated Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2015-03-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    Baseline data of 423 PD patients and 196 HCs yielded no between-group differences in demographic characteristics.

  19. Parkinson risk in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder: preparing for neuroprotective trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2015-02-13 How common it is

    Using stratification with simply assessed markers, it is now not only possible, but practical to include patients with RBD in neuroprotective trials against Parkinson disease, multiple system atrophy, and dementia with Lewy bodies.

  20. For neuropsychology measures, we noted the earliest significant differences between mutation carriers and non-carriers 5 years before expected onset, when differences were significant for all measures except for tests of immediate recall and verbal fluency.

  21. Nucleus basalis of Meynert revisited: anatomy, history and differential involvement in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-01-30 Lewy body dementia

    It has been well established that neuronal loss within the cholinergic nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM) correlates with cognitive decline in dementing disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Clinical correlations with Lewy body pathology in LRRK2-related Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    However, LB pathology in LRRK2-related PD may be a marker for a broader parkinsonian symptom complex including cognitive impairment.

  23. Longitudinal EEG changes correlate with cognitive measure deterioration in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's disease 2015-01-01 Digital health tools

    Changes in delta bandpower showed the highest and most consistent pattern of correlations with longitudinal changes in neuropsychological testing.

  24. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: defining phenotypic diversity through personalized medicine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-12-31 Brain tissue and pathology

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) comprises two main classes of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by neuronal/glial proteinaceous inclusions (i.e., proteinopathies) including tauopathies (i.e., FTLD-Tau) and TDP-43 proteinopathies (i.e., FTLD-TDP) while other very rare forms of FTLD are known such as FTLD with FUS pathology (FTLD-FUS).

  25. Priority setting partnership to identify the top 10 research priorities for the management of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. BMJ open 2014-12-14 Clinical safety

    These research priorities identify crucial gaps in the existing evidence to address everyday practicalities in the management of the complexities of PD.

  26. Prevalence of mixed pathologies in the aging brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-11-21 Lewy body dementia

    The spectrum of mixed brain pathologies expands beyond accompanying vascular pathology in brains with Alzheimer's disease-related pathology.

  27. The phenotypic variability of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2014-10-14 Lewy body dementia

    Classic textbook neurology teaches that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disease that selectively affects upper and lower motor neurons and is fatal 3-5 years after onset--a description which suggests that the clinical presentation of ALS is very homogenous.

  28. Brain connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases--from phenotype to proteinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2014-10-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Functional and structural connectivity measures, as assessed by means of functional and diffusion MRI, are emerging as potential intermediate biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD) and other disorders.

  29. ALS and other motor neuron diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2014-10-01 Digital health tools

    TAR DNA binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43), for instance, has been shown to cause frontotemporal dementia as well as some cases of familial ALS, and is associated with frontotemporal dysfunction in ALS.

  30. Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2014-09-30 Getting a diagnosis

    Neurocognitive disorders--including delirium, mild cognitive impairment and dementia--are characterized by decline from a previously attained level of cognitive functioning.

  31. The brainstem pathologies of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2014-09-12 Clinical safety

    Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are among the human synucleinopathies, which show alpha-synuclein immunoreactive neuronal and/or glial aggregations and progressive neuronal loss in selected brain regions (eg, substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, pedunculopontine nucleus).

  32. Predictors of dementia in Parkinson disease: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2014-08-29 How common it is

    Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction, REM sleep behavior disorder, color discrimination ability, and gait dysfunction strongly predict development of dementia in Parkinson disease.

  33. Microglial phenotypes and toll-like receptor 2 in the substantia nigra and hippocampus of incidental Lewy body disease cases and Parkinson's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2014-08-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Next to α-synuclein deposition, microglial activation is a prominent pathological feature in the substantia nigra (SN) of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.

  34. Pathological alpha-synuclein propagates through neural networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2014-08-06 Brain tissue and pathology

    α-Synuclein is the major component of filamentous inclusions that constitute the defining characteristic of Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy, so-called α-synucleinopathies.

  35. Astrocytic modulation of blood brain barrier: perspectives on Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2014-08-04 Inflammation and the immune system

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a tightly regulated interface in the Central Nervous System (CNS) that regulates the exchange of molecules in and out from the brain thus maintaining the CNS homeostasis.

  36. Serotonin in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2014-07-31 Risk factors

    Parkinson's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the motor symptoms of bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity and postural instability.

  37. Atrophy of the cholinergic basal forebrain in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2014-07-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Similar to Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is characterized by a profound degeneration of cortically-projecting cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain (BF) and associated depletion of cortical cholinergic activity.

  38. Natural history of falls in a population-based cohort of patients with Parkinson's disease: an 8-year prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2014-07-09 Digital health tools

    Nearly ¾ of the PD cohort reported falling after 8 years of follow-up.

  39. Perforant path synaptic loss correlates with cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease in the oldest-old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-07-09 Disease mechanisms

    All measures distinguished the dementia and control groups and all markers associated with the cognitive test scores.

  40. Frontotemporal dementia and its subtypes: a genome-wide association study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2014-07-01 How common it is

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a complex disorder characterised by a broad range of clinical manifestations, differential pathological signatures, and genetic variability.

  41. Lewy body compared with Alzheimer dementia is associated with decreased functional connectivity in resting state networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2014-06-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure whole brain functional connectivity within specific networks hypothesised to be more affected in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (a disease characterised by prominent attentional deficits, spontaneous motor features of parkinsonism and depression) than in Alzheimer׳s disease (AD) and controls.

  42. Widespread grey matter pathology dominates the longitudinal cerebral MRI and clinical landscape of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-06-20 Caregiving

    Longitudinal analysis revealed progressive and widespread changes in the grey matter, notably including the basal ganglia.

  43. The role of FUS gene variants in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2014-05-20 Lewy body dementia

    The neurodegenerative diseases are a diverse group of disorders characterized by progressive loss of specific groups of neurons.

  44. Initial cognitive decline is associated with cortical thinning in early Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2014-05-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings confirm that MCI is associated with widespread cortical atrophy.

  45. Pharmacological treatment of Parkinson disease: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA 2014-04-01 Risk factors

    Although levodopa is the most effective medication available for treating the motor symptoms of Parkinson disease, in certain instances (eg, mild symptoms, tremor as the only or most prominent symptom, aged Conclusions and relevance Strong evidence supports using levodopa and dopamine agonists for motor symptoms at all stages of Parkinson disease.

  46. Time to redefine PD? Introductory statement of the MDS Task Force on the definition of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2014-03-11 Getting a diagnosis

    With advances in knowledge disease, boundaries may change.

  47. Treatment of psychosis and dementia in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current treatment options in neurology 2014-03-01 Clinical safety

    Opinion statement Parkinson's disease (PD) has been increasingly recognized as having a multitude of nonmotor symptoms including psychosis, cognitive impairment and dementia, mood disturbances, fatigue, apathy, and sleep disorders.

  48. Logopenic and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia are differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PloS one 2014-02-28 Digital health tools

    Differentiation of logopenic (lvPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA) variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia is important yet remains challenging since it hinges on expert based evaluation of speech and language production.

  49. Neurodegenerative disorder risk in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder: study in 174 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. PloS one 2014-02-26 Getting a diagnosis

    In a large IRBD cohort diagnosed in a tertiary referal sleep center, prolonged follow-up indicated that the majority of patients are eventually diagnosed with the synucleinopathies PD, DLB and less frequently MSA.

  50. Asymmetry and heterogeneity of Alzheimer's and frontotemporal pathology in primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-02-25 Genetics

    The most common and distinctive feature for all pathologies associated with primary progressive aphasia was the asymmetric prominence of atrophy, neuronal loss, and disease-specific proteinopathy in the language-dominant (mostly left) hemisphere.

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