Tracking a fast-moving disease: longitudinal markers, monitoring, and clinical trial endpoints in ALS

RH Chipika, E Finegan, S Li Hi Shing… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) encompasses a heterogeneous group of phenotypes
with different progression rates, varying degree of extra-motor involvement and divergent …

A systematic review of non-motor symptom evaluation in clinical trials for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

E Beswick, D Forbes, Z Hassan, C Wong, J Newton… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is increasingly recognised as a multi-
system disorder, presenting with common and impactful non-motor symptoms, such as …

Genotype-associated cerebellar profiles in ALS: focal cerebellar pathology and cerebro-cerebellar connectivity alterations

P Bede, RH Chipika, F Christidi… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective Cerebellar disease burden and cerebro-cerebellar connectivity alterations are
poorly characterised in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) despite the likely contribution of …

Pathological neural networks and artificial neural networks in ALS: diagnostic classification based on pathognomonic neuroimaging features

P Bede, A Murad, O Hardiman - Journal of neurology, 2021 - Springer
The description of group-level, genotype-and phenotype-associated imaging traits is
academically important, but the practical demands of clinical neurology centre on the …

Adaptive functional reorganization in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: coexisting degenerative and compensatory changes

M Abidi, G de Marco, A Couillandre… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Considerable functional reorganization takes place in
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in face of relentless structural degeneration. This study …

Hippocampal pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: selective vulnerability of subfields and their associated projections

F Christidi, E Karavasilis, M Rentzos, G Velonakis… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although hippocampal involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been
consistently highlighted by postmortem studies, memory impairment remains under …

[HTML][HTML] Amygdala pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis

RH Chipika, F Christidi, E Finegan, SLH Shing… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Elsevier
Temporal lobe studies in motor neuron disease overwhelmingly focus on white matter
alterations and cortical grey matter atrophy. Reports on amygdala involvement are …

“Switchboard” malfunction in motor neuron diseases: Selective pathology of thalamic nuclei in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis

RH Chipika, E Finegan, SLH Shing, MC McKenna… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020 - Elsevier
The thalamus is a key cerebral hub relaying a multitude of corticoefferent and corticoafferent
connections and mediating distinct extrapyramidal, sensory, cognitive and behavioural …

Spinal cord imaging in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: historical concepts—novel techniques

MM El Mendili, G Querin, P Bede, PF Pradat - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common adult onset motor neuron disease
with no effective disease modifying therapies at present. Spinal cord degeneration is a …

Clusters of anatomical disease-burden patterns in ALS: a data-driven approach confirms radiological subtypes

P Bede, A Murad, J Lope, O Hardiman, KM Chang - Journal of neurology, 2022 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is associated with considerable clinical heterogeneity
spanning from diverse disability profiles, differences in UMN/LMN involvement, divergent …