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  1. The value of a family history to distinguish monogenic from polygenic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2026-09-22
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  3. Diagnostic Value of Large Language Model-Extracted Gross Brain Findings in Neurodegenerative Diseases 2026-09-14

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1,027 studies carry this tag.

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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Progression of dysarthria and dysphagia in postmortem-confirmed parkinsonian disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2001-02-01 Clinical safety

    Latency to onset of dysarthria and dysphagia clearly differentiated PD from the APDs, but did not help distinguish different APDs.

  7. Neuropathological analysis of pathological forms of astroglia in Wilson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Folia neuropathologica 2001-01-01 Biomarkers

    A neuropathological study of Alzheimer type I (Alz I) and Alzheimer type II (Alz II) as well as Opalski (Opl) cells was performed serially on brain tissue from nine autopsied Wilson's disease (WD) cases.

  8. Proteasomal function is impaired in substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2001-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    The accumulation of alpha-synuclein, ubiquitin and other proteins in Lewy bodies in degenerating dopaminergic neurones in substantia nigra in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) suggest that inhibition of normal/abnormal protein degradation may contribute to neuronal death.

  9. Welding-related parkinsonism: clinical features, treatment, and pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2001-01-01 Risk factors

    Welders were exposed to a mean of 47,144 welding hours.

  10. A comparison of sleep profiles in patients with dementia with lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2000-11-01 Clinical safety

    Both groups have extensive sleep problems.

  11. Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in a longitudinal study: two-fold higher incidence in men. ILSA Working Group. Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2000-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Incidence of parkinsonism and PD increased with age, PD was the most common type of parkinsonism, and men had a risk of developing PD twice that of women.

  12. Repetitive speech phenomena in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2000-09-01 Digital health tools

    Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease had a significantly higher disease impairment, longer disease duration, and an unstable motor response to levodopa with frequent on-off fluctuations.

  13. Motor impairment in PD: relationship to incident dementia and age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2000-08-01 Digital health tools

    Of 173 patients followed for at least 1 year, 50 became demented according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, revised 3rd edition (DSM III-R) criteria (mean follow-up, 3.6 +/- 2. 2 years).

  14. Neuropathology in mice expressing human alpha-synuclein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2000-08-01 Lewy body dementia

    The presynaptic protein alpha-synuclein is a prime suspect for contributing to Lewy pathology and clinical aspects of diseases, including Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and a Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease. alpha-Synuclein accumulates in Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, and two missense mutations (A53T and A30P) in the alpha-synuclein gene are genetically linked to rare familial forms of Parkinson's disease.

  15. Which neuropsychiatric and behavioural features distinguish frontal and temporal variants of frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2000-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Factor analysis showed four robust and meaningful symptom clusters: factor 1-stereotypic and eating behaviour; factor 2-executive dysfunction and self care; factor 3-mood changes; factor 4-loss of social awareness.

  16. Alpha-synuclein inclusions in amygdala in the brains of patients with the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2000-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    We investigated by immunohistochemistry the deposition of alpha-synuclein in the brains of deceased patients with the parkinsonism-dementia complex (PDC) of Guam.

  17. Familial Parkinson disease gene product, parkin, is a ubiquitin-protein ligase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature genetics 2000-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP), one of the most common familial forms of Parkinson disease, is characterized by selective dopaminergic neural cell death and the absence of the Lewy body, a cytoplasmic inclusion body consisting of aggregates of abnormally accumulated proteins.

  18. Lewy Bodies in Alzheimer's Disease: A Neuropathological Review of 145 Cases Using α‐Synuclein Immunohistochemistry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain Pathology 2000-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Antibodies to alpha-synuclein (AS) now provide a sensitive and specific method for the detection of Lewy bodies (LBs) and their use will allow a more accurate determination of the prevalence of LBs in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  19. Nonapoptotic neurodegeneration in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2000-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by personality changes, motor impairment, and subcortical dementia.

  20. Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: neurological symptoms, immunological findings and tumour association in 50 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2000-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with anti-Ta (also called anti-Ma2) antibodies were young men with testicular tumours (100%), frequent hypothalamic involvement (70%) and a poor neurological outcome.

  21. Differentiating frontal and temporal variant frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2000-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The double dissociation in performance on semantic memory and attention/executive function clearly separated the temporal and frontal variants of FTD and aids the early differentiation of FTD from AD.

  22. Alpha-synuclein cortical Lewy bodies correlate with dementia in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2000-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    CLBs detected by alpha-synuclein antibodies in patients with PD are a more sensitive and specific correlate of dementia than the presence of Alzheimer's pathology, which was present in a minority of the cases in this series.

  23. A 10-year study of the incidence of and factors predicting dementia in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2000-04-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The authors recruited 83 patients with PD and 50 controls, all without dementia at initial assessment, and assessed them at regular intervals over a maximum period of 122 months.

  24. What clinical features are most useful to distinguish definite multiple system atrophy from Parkinson's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2000-04-01 Digital health tools

    Predictive models may help differentiate MSA and PD premortem.

  25. Prospective validation of consensus criteria for the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2000-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The Consensus criteria for DLB performed as well in this prospective study as those for AD and VaD, with a diagnostic sensitivity substantially higher than that reported by previous retrospective studies.

  26. The quality of life in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2000-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The objective of this study was to examine the quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) in a community-based sample (n = 228 patients) using a Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) as a measure.

  27. Rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder: demographic, clinical and laboratory findings in 93 cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2000-02-01 Risk factors

    We describe demographic, clinical, laboratory and aetiological findings in 93 consecutive patients with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), which consists of excessive motor activity during dreaming in association with loss of skeletal muscle atonia of REM sleep.

  28. Atypical parkinsonism in Afro-Caribbean and Indian origin immigrants to the UK

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2000-01-01 Disparities

    This article reviews evidence for the occurrence of atypical parkinsonism in Afro-Caribbean and Indian ethnic minority subjects living in western countries, particularly the UK.

  29. Bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation in a parkinsonian patient with preoperative deficits in speech and cognition: persistent improvement in mobility but increased dependency: a case study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2000-01-01 Digital health tools

    We report a patient with advanced Parkinson's disease, including severe and frequent off periods with freezing of gait, moderate dysphonia, and some cognitive impairment, who underwent bilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation.

  30. Cell death mechanisms in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2000-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    In 4 cases of Parkinson's disease (PD), 2 cases of Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and 3 age-matched controls, the TUNEL/ISEL method was used to detect DNA fragmentation in substantia nigra locus coeruleus and cerebral cortex [method by Gold et al. In addition, immunohistochemistry was performed for an array of apoptosis-related proteins, i.e. the recently described apoptosis specific protein cJun/AP1 (ASP), the proto-oncogenes c-Jun, c-Jun AP1, Bcl2, Bax, Bcl-x, p53, CD 95 (Fas/Apo-1)

  31. Neuropsychiatry of Huntington's disease and other basal ganglia disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychosomatics 2000-01-01 Clinical safety

    Degenerative diseases of the basal ganglia, such as Huntington's disease (HD), Parkinson's disease, and Wilson's disease, are characterized by motor, cognitive, and psychiatric manifestations.

  32. Dementia as the most common presentation of cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1999-12-01 Disparities

    Dementia was the most common presentation of CBGD in this study.

  33. Axon pathology in Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia hippocampus contains alpha-, beta-, and gamma-synuclein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Pathogenic alpha-synuclein (alphaS) gene mutations occur in rare familial Parkinson's disease (PD) kindreds, and wild-type alphaS is a major component of Lewy bodies (LBs) in sporadic PD, dementia with LBs (DLB), and the LB variant of Alzheimer's disease, but beta-synuclein (betaS) and gamma-synuclein (gammaS) have not yet been implicated in neurological disorders.

  34. Progression of falls in postmortem-confirmed parkinsonian disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 1999-11-01 Clinical safety

    Although falls are known to occur in several parkinsonian disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), differences in the evolution of this feature have not been studied systematically in pathologically confirmed cases.

  35. Alpha-synuclein in Lewy body disease and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 1999-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Lewy body disease (LBD) are the most common causes of dementia in the elderly population.

  36. Clinical and quantitative pathologic correlates of dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1999-10-01 Clinical safety

    There is a consistent pattern of vulnerability to LB formation across subcortical, paralimbic, and neocortical structures that is similar for DLB cases with or without concomitant AD.

  37. Clinical features differentiating patients with postmortem confirmed progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurology 1999-09-01 Digital health tools

    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and cortocobasal degeneration (CBD) are often clinically confused with each other because they share a rapid disease progression, parkinsonism that responds poorly or transiently to levodopa therapy, and associated signs (e.g., ocular abnormalities, pyramidal signs and cognitive involvement).

  38. Report of the second dementia with Lewy body international workshop: diagnosis and treatment. Consortium on Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 1999-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Clinical management of DLB patients usually centers on the treatment of noncognitive features.

  39. Despite these good results in the CAPIT scores, one patient experienced a partially regressive corticobulbar syndrome with dysphagia, dysarthria, and increased drooling.

  40. alpha-synuclein fibrillogenesis is nucleation-dependent. Implications for the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 1999-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is pathologically characterized by the presence of intracytoplasmic Lewy bodies, the major components of which are filaments consisting of alpha-synuclein.

  41. Motor neuron disease-inclusion dementia presenting as cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 1999-07-01 Digital health tools

    The frontotemporal dementias are a group of relatively new and evolving clinical and pathologic entities.

  42. Psychiatric morbidity in dementia with Lewy bodies: a prospective clinical and neuropathological comparative study with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 1999-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Delusional misidentification and hallucinations in the early stages of dementia may improve differentiation between patients with dementia with Lewy bodies and those with Alzheimer's disease and have important treatment implications.

  43. Frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration in a family with a P301S mutation in tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1999-06-01 Lewy body dementia

    The tau gene has been found to be the locus of dementia with rigidity linked to chromosome 17.

  44. Incidence and distribution of parkinsonism in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1976-1990

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 1999-04-01 How common it is

    Parkinsonism is a common disease among the elderly; its incidence increases steeply with advancing age and is consistently higher in men.

  45. Structural maturation of neural pathways in children and adolescents: in vivo study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1999-03-01 Lewy body dementia

    Structural maturation of fiber tracts in the human brain, including an increase in the diameter and myelination of axons, may play a role in cognitive development during childhood and adolescence.

  46. Clinical correlates of vascular parkinsonism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1999-01-01 Vascular contributions

    These differences in clinical features suggest a different pathogenesis of parkinsonism in these 2 patient groups.

  47. Pathologic evaluation of the human suprachiasmatic nucleus in severe dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1999-01-01 Biomarkers

    Sleep disruption and other circadian rhythm disturbances are frequently seen in dementia patients.

  48. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 1998-12-01 Lewy body dementia

    The criteria ought to provide the foundation for research work into the neuropsychology, neuropathology, genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology of these important clinical disorders that account for a substantial proportion of cases of primary degenerative dementia occurring before the age of 65 years.

  49. Accelerated in vitro fibril formation by a mutant alpha-synuclein linked to early-onset Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 1998-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Two mutations in the gene encoding alpha-synuclein have been linked to early-onset Parkinson's disease (PD). alpha-Synuclein is a component of Lewy bodies, the fibrous cytoplasmic inclusions characteristic of nigral dopaminergic neurons in the PD brain.

  50. Cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1998-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a dementia syndrome characterized by peculiar behavioral changes arising from frontotemporal involvement and distinct from Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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