Clinical neurology and epidemiology of the major neurodegenerative diseases

MG Erkkinen, MO Kim… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are a common cause of morbidity and cognitive impairment in
older adults. Most clinicians who care for the elderly are not trained to diagnose these …

Concepts and classification of neurodegenerative diseases

GG Kovacs - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases are disorders characterized by progressive loss of neurons
associated with deposition of proteins showing altered physicochemical properties in the …

Molecular pathology of neurodegenerative diseases: principles and practice

GG Kovacs - Journal of clinical pathology, 2019 - jcp.bmj.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by selective dysfunction and progressive
loss of synapses and neurons associated with pathologically altered proteins that deposit …

Genetics of neurodegenerative diseases: an overview

L Pihlstrøm, S Wiethoff, H Houlden - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
Genetic factors are central to the etiology of neurodegeneration, both as monogenic causes
of heritable disease and as modifiers of susceptibility to complex, sporadic disorders. Over …

Overlap between neurodegenerative disorders

RA Armstrong, PL Lantos, NJ Cairns - Neuropathology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the formation of distinct pathological
changes in the brain, including extracellular protein deposits, cellular inclusions, and …

Non-Alzheimer neurodegenerative pathologies and their combinations are more frequent than commonly believed in the elderly brain: a community-based autopsy …

GG Kovacs, I Milenkovic, A Wöhrer, R Höftberger… - Acta …, 2013 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by neuronal loss and cerebral deposition of
proteins with altered physicochemical properties. The major proteins are amyloid-β (Aβ), tau …

[HTML][HTML] Series Introduction: Neurodegeneration: What is it and where are we?

S Przedborski, M Vila… - The Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The number of neurodegenerative diseases is currently estimated to be a few hundred, and,
among these, many appear to overlap with one another clinically and pathologically …

Four decades of neurodegenerative disease research: how far we have come!

AB Young - Journal of Neuroscience, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
My patients frequently ask,“Why does research take so long?”,“Why is progress so slow?”,
and “Why don't we have effective therapies for these devastating diseases?” At first thought …

Current concepts of mixed pathologies in neurodegenerative diseases

SL Forrest, GG Kovacs - Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2023 - cambridge.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are a pathologically, clinically and genetically diverse group of
disorders without effective disease-modifying therapies. Pathologically, these disorders are …

New order from neurological disorders

DL Price - NATURE-LONDON-, 1999 - nature.com
The neurological diseases described in this review supplement impact across a wide
spectrum of the population. Here, their similarities and differences are highlighted, and …