Recent advances in the diagnosis and prognosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SA Goutman, O Hardiman, A Al-Chalabi… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis can be challenging due to its heterogeneity in
clinical presentation and overlap with other neurological disorders. Diagnosis early in the …

[HTML][HTML] Structural magnetic resonance imaging findings and histopathological correlations in motor neuron diseases—A systematic review and meta-analysis

C Zejlon, D Nakhostin, S Winklhofer, A Pangalu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives The lack of systematic evidence on neuroimaging findings in motor neuron
diseases (MND) hampers the diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Thus …

A prospective harmonized multicenter DTI study of cerebral white matter degeneration in ALS

S Kalra, HP Müller, A Ishaque, L Zinman, L Korngut… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To evaluate progressive white matter (WM) degeneration in amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS). Methods Sixty-six patients with ALS and 43 healthy controls were enrolled …

Voxelhop: Successive subspace learning for als disease classification using structural mri

X Liu, F Xing, C Yang, CCJ Kuo, S Babu… - IEEE journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has great potential for accurate detection and classification of diseases with
medical imaging data, but the performance is often limited by the number of training datasets …

Head-to-head comparison of tau-PET radioligands for imaging TDP-43 in post-mortem ALS brain

AC Knight, CD Morrone, C Varlow, WH Yu… - Molecular Imaging and …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose In vivo detection of transactivation response element DNA binding protein-43 kDa
(TDP-43) aggregates through positron emission tomography (PET) would impact the ability …

[HTML][HTML] Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with SOD1 mutations shows distinct brain metabolic changes

A Canosa, A Calvo, C Moglia, R Vasta… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Neuropathological data suggest that ALS with SOD1 mutations (SOD1-ALS) is a
distinct form of ALS. We evaluated brain metabolic changes characterizing SOD1-ALS as …

[HTML][HTML] Lower and upper motor neuron involvement and their impact on disease prognosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MN Zakharova, AA Abramova - Neural regeneration research, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by
progressive muscle wasting, breathing and swallowing difficulties resulting in patient's death …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal hyperexcitability and free radical toxicity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Established and future targets

K Shibuya, R Otani, Y Suzuki, S Kuwabara… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating disease with evidence of degeneration
involving upper and lower motor neuron compartments of the nervous system. Presently, two …

Advanced neuroimaging approaches in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: refining the clinical diagnosis

J Kassubek, HP Müller - Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: In the last decade, multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has
achieved tremendous advances in applications to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to …

FDG-PET shows weak correlation between focal motor weakness and brain metabolic alterations in ALS

S Sennfält, M Pagani, F Fang, I Savitcheva… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a clinically heterogenous disease, typically
presenting with focal motor weakness that eventually generalizes. Weather there is a …