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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. Development of methodology for conducting clinical trials in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2008-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    To design clinical trials for the frontotemporal lobar degenerations (FTLD), knowledge about measurement of disease progression is needed to estimate power and enable the choice of optimal outcome measures.

  2. Prevalence of vitamin d insufficiency in patients with Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-10-01 Genetics

    This report of 25(OH)D concentrations in a predominantly white PD cohort demonstrates a significantly higher prevalence of hypovitaminosis in PD vs both healthy controls and patients with AD.

  3. White matter tauopathy with globular glial inclusions: a distinct sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2008-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Frontotemporal lobar degenerations are a group of disorders characterized by circumscribed degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes and diverse histopathologic features.

  4. Novel mutations in TARDBP (TDP-43) in patients with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. PLoS genetics 2008-09-19 Lewy body dementia

    The TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) has been identified as the major disease protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin inclusions (FTLD-U), defining a novel class of neurodegenerative conditions: the TDP-43 proteinopathies.

  5. VCP disease associated with myopathy, Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia: review of a unique disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2008-09-18 Brain tissue and pathology

    Inclusion body myopathy (IBM) associated with Paget disease of the bone (PDB) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) (now called IBMPFD), is a progressive autosomal dominant disorder that was recently identified as being caused by mutations in the VCP (p97 or CDC48) gene which plays a key role in the ubiquitin-proteasome dependent degradation of cytosolic proteins and in the retro translocation of misfolded proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum into the cytoplasm.

  6. Neurodegeneration associated with genetic defects in phospholipase A(2)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2008-09-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Defects in phospholipase A(2) lead to a range of phenotypes.

  7. Cholinergic deficiency hypothesis in delirium: a synthesis of current evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2008-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Deficits in cholinergic function have been postulated to cause delirium and cognitive decline.

  8. Physical activity and risk of neurodegenerative disease: a systematic review of prospective evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2008-06-23 Getting a diagnosis

    We calculated pooled relative risk (RR) using a random effects model.

  9. Alzheimer and frontotemporal pathology in subsets of primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-06-01 Risk factors

    Subtyping PPA helps to predict AD versus frontotemporal lobar degeneration pathology at the group level.

  10. Emotion recognition in Huntington's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2008-05-02 Disparities

    A well-documented feature of Huntington's disease (HD) is disproportionate impairment in the ability to recognise the emotional expression of disgust.

  11. Parkinson's disease-cognitive rating scale: a new cognitive scale specific for Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2008-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Cognitive defects associated with cortical pathology may be a marker of dementia in Parkinson's disease (PD).

  12. The ALS/PDC syndrome of Guam and the cycad hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 2008-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    There is a high incidence on Guam of a severe tauopathy known as the Parkinson- dementia complex (PDC).

  13. TARDBP mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with TDP-43 neuropathology: a genetic and histopathological analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2008-04-07 Lewy body dementia

    We identified two variants in TARDBP, which would encode Gly290Ala and Gly298Ser forms of TDP-43, in two kindreds with familial ALS.

  14. Lewy body-like pathology in long-term embryonic nigral transplants in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 2008-04-06 Lewy body dementia

    Fourteen years after transplantation into the striatum of an individual with Parkinson's disease, grafted nigral neurons were found to have Lewy body-like inclusions that stained positively for alpha-synuclein and ubiquitin and to have reduced immunostaining for dopamine transporter.

  15. Parkinson's disease: clinical features and diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2008-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    A thorough understanding of the broad spectrum of clinical manifestations of PD is essential to the proper diagnosis of the disease.

  16. Refining frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17: introducing FTDP-17 (MAPT) and FTDP-17 (PGRN)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism (FTDP) is a major neurodegenerative syndrome, particularly for those with symptoms beginning before age 65 years.

  17. TARDBP mutations in individuals with sporadic and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature Genetics 2008-03-30 Risk genes beyond APOE

    This study investigated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an adult-onset neurological disorder that leads to the degeneration of motor neurons and involves TDP-43 as a key component of ubiquitinated aggregates.

  18. Metabolic abnormalities associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2008-03-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    The quantification of these alterations with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET may allow for the objective assessment of the progression and treatment of this disease manifestation.

  19. Dementia and survival in Parkinson disease: a 12-year population study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2008-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia is a key part of survival in Parkinson disease and must be planned for in services for this condition.

  20. The Sydney multicenter study of Parkinson's disease: The inevitability of dementia at 20 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Movement Disorders 2008-02-28 Lewy body dementia

    After 20 years follow-up of newly diagnosed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), 100 of 136 (74%) have died.

  21. Prevalence and impact of vascular and Alzheimer pathologies in Lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2008-02-14 Genetics

    Whereas the prevalence and impact of vascular pathology in Alzheimer diease (AD) are well established, the role of vascular and Alzheimer pathologies in the progression of neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease (PD) is under discussion.

  22. Association of olfactory dysfunction with risk for future Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Although olfactory dysfunction is commonly associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), it is not known whether such dysfunction can predate the onset of clinical PD in a community-based population.

  23. Frontal paralimbic network atrophy in very mild behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-02-01 How common it is

    Very mild bvFTD targets a specific subset of frontal and insular regions.

  24. The progression of pathology in longitudinally followed patients with Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2008-01-30 Lewy body dementia

    The present study describes the pathological progression of longitudinally followed cases with levodopa-responsive Parkinson's disease who came to autopsy during the Sydney Multicenter Study of Parkinson's disease.

  25. Using established clinical diagnostic standards for dementia the overall rate on routine outpatient neurological care is 28.6%, but using more sensitive neuropsychological measures, rates for cognitive impairment might be up to 2-fold higher.

  26. EEG comparisons in early Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia patients with a 2-year follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2008-01-17 Getting a diagnosis

    Although it has been suggested that variations in mean EEG frequency are greater in the former, the existence of meaningful differences remains controversial.

  27. Progressive aphasia secondary to Alzheimer disease vs FTLD pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2008-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A temporoparietal pattern of atrophy on MRI in patients with progressive fluent aphasia and relatively preserved processing speed is suggestive of underlying Alzheimer disease pathology rather than frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-only immunoreactive changes.

  28. The clinical spectrum of freezing of gait in atypical parkinsonism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2008-01-01 Digital health tools

    Freezing of gait (FOG), commonly seen in advanced Parkinson's disease (PD), has been classified as its fifth cardinal feature.

  29. The two faces of protein misfolding: gain- and loss-of-function in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2008-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    The etiologies of neurodegenerative diseases may be diverse; however, a common pathological denominator is the formation of aberrant protein conformers and the occurrence of pathognomonic proteinaceous deposits.

  30. Diagnostic procedures for Parkinson's disease dementia: recommendations from the movement disorder society task force

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2007-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    A preceding article described the clinical features of Parkinson's disease dementia (PD-D) and proposed clinical diagnostic criteria for "probable" and "possible" PD-D. The main focus of this article is to operationalize the diagnosis of PD-D and to propose practical guidelines based on a two level process depending upon the clinical scenario and the expertise of the evaluator involved in the assessment.

  31. Neuropathological changes in essential tremor: 33 cases compared with 21 controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-11-19 Lewy body dementia

    Despite its being one of the most commonly observed neurological disorders, neuropathological studies of essential tremor (ET) are rare.

  32. Synaptic proteins, neuropathology and cognitive status in the oldest-old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2007-11-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    An increasing number of individuals in our population are surviving to over 90 years and a subset is at risk for developing dementia.

  33. Amnestic syndrome of the medial temporal type identifies prodromal AD: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2007-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The amnestic syndrome of the medial temporal type, defined by the Free and Cued Selective Recall Reminding Test, is able to distinguish patients at an early stage of Alzheimer disease from mild cognitive impairment non-converters.

  34. Cognitive impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2007-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron disease that has sporadic and inherited forms.

  35. Distinct antemortem profiles in patients with pathologically defined frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Clinical, neuropsychological, and imaging profiles can contribute to accurate antemortem diagnosis in FTD.

  36. Pure akinesia with gait freezing: a third clinical phenotype of progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2007-11-01 Digital health tools

    The clinical syndrome of pure akinesia has most often been associated with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and is characterized by difficulty initiating gait and "freezing" during walking, writing and speaking.

  37. Divergent social functioning in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease: reciprocal networks and neuronal evolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2007-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) disrupts our most human social and emotional functions.

  38. Potassium channel antibody associated encephalopathy presenting with a frontotemporal dementia like syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-10-01 Digital health tools

    An 82-year-old man presented with progressive changes in personality, social conduct, and executive function with preservation of memory, deteriorating from baseline to requiring acute hospitalization within 6 months.

  39. The Lewy body in Parkinson's disease: molecules implicated in the formation and degradation of alpha-synuclein aggregates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology 2007-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    The histological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the presence of fibrillar aggregates called Lewy bodies (LBs).

  40. Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2007-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia has been increasingly more recognized to be a common feature in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), especially in old age.

  41. Gray matter atrophy in Parkinson disease with dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2007-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that despite a similar severity of dementia, patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) had more cortical atrophy than patients with Parkinson disease with dementia (PDD), indicating different brain substrates underlying dementia in the two syndromes.

  42. Co-morbidity of TDP-43 proteinopathy in Lewy body related diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2007-07-25 How common it is

    Here, we investigated if TAR-DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43), the disease protein in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and ubiquitin inclusions with or without motor neuron disease as well as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also formed inclusions in Lewy body (LB) disorders including Parkinson's disease (PD) without or with dementia (PDD), and dementia with LBs (DLB) alone or in association with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  43. Neuropathologic diagnostic and nosologic criteria for frontotemporal lobar degeneration: consensus of the Consortium for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2007-06-20 Getting a diagnosis

    Molecular genetic studies of familial cases of FTLD-U have shown that mutations in the progranulin (PGRN) gene are a major genetic cause of FTLD-U. Thus, familial TDP-43 proteinopathy is associated with defects in multiple genes, and molecular genetics is required in these cases to correctly identify the causative gene defect.

  44. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: clinical and pathological relationships

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2007-06-14 Brain tissue and pathology

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) encompasses a heterogeneous group of clinical syndromes that include frontotemporal dementia (FTD), frontotemporal dementia with motor neurone disease (FTD/MND), progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA), semantic dementia (SD) and progressive apraxia (PAX).

  45. Evolution of cognitive dysfunction in an incident Parkinson's disease cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-05-29 Getting a diagnosis

    We have previously performed detailed clinical and neuropsychological assessments in a community-based cohort of patients with newly diagnosed parkinsonism, and through analysis of a subcohort with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), we have demonstrated that cognitive dysfunction occurs even at the time of PD diagnosis and is heterogeneous.

  46. Pathological TDP-43 distinguishes sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with SOD1 mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2007-05-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a common, fatal motor neuron disorder with no effective treatment.

  47. TDP-43 is deposited in the Guam parkinsonism-dementia complex brains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-04-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    TDP-43, a nuclear factor that functions in regulating transcription and alternative splicing, was recently identified as a component of the ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions specific for frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  48. Pathophysiology of REM sleep behaviour disorder and relevance to neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-04-05 Risk factors

    REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by the loss of normal skeletal muscle atonia during REM sleep with prominent motor activity accompanying dreaming.

  49. Sensitivity and specificity of dopamine transporter imaging with 123I-FP-CIT SPECT in dementia with Lewy bodies: a phase III, multicentre study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2007-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    A mean value of 85.7% was achieved for overall diagnostic accuracy, 82.4% for positive predictive value, and 87.5% for negative predictive value.

  50. Different regional patterns of cortical thinning in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-03-12 Lewy body dementia

    Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be difficult to differentiate clinically because of overlapping symptoms.

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