A biological definition of neuronal α-synuclein disease: towards an integrated staging system for research

T Simuni, LM Chahine, K Poston, M Brumm… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies are currently defined by their clinical
features, with α-synuclein pathology as the gold standard to establish the definitive …

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 …

Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease-dementia: current concepts and controversies

KA Jellinger - Journal of neural transmission, 2018 - Springer
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease-dementia (PDD), although
sharing many clinical, neurochemical and morphological features, according to DSM-5, are …

Proposal for a biologic staging system of Parkinson's disease

LM Chahine, K Merchant, A Siderowf… - Journal of …, 2023 - content.iospress.com
The Parkinson's disease (PD) research field has seen the advent of several promising
biomarkers and a deeper understanding of the clinical features of the disease from the …

Revising the definition of Alzheimer's disease: a new lexicon

B Dubois, HH Feldman, C Jacova… - The Lancet …, 2010 - thelancet.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is classically defined as a dual clinicopathological entity. The
recent advances in use of reliable biomarkers of AD that provide in-vivo evidence of the …

Alpha-synuclein biology in Lewy body diseases

WS Kim, K Kågedal, GM Halliday - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2014 - Springer
Abstract α-Synuclein is an abundantly expressed neuronal protein that is at the center of
focus in understanding a group of neurodegenerative disorders called α-synucleinopathies …

Neuroimaging advances in Parkinson's disease and atypical Parkinsonian syndromes

U Saeed, AE Lang, M Masellis - Frontiers in neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) and atypical Parkinsonian syndromes are progressive
heterogeneous neurodegenerative diseases that share clinical characteristic of …

Imaging biomarkers in Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonian syndromes: current and emerging concepts

U Saeed, J Compagnone, RI Aviv, AP Strafella… - Translational …, 2017 - Springer
Two centuries ago in 1817, James Parkinson provided the first medical description of
Parkinson's disease, later refined by Jean-Martin Charcot in the mid-to-late 19th century to …

Lewy body dementias

Z Walker, KL Possin, BF Boeve, D Aarsland - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
The broad importance of dementia is undisputed, with Alzheimer's disease justifiably getting
the most attention. However, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia …

The use of PET in Alzheimer disease

A Nordberg, JO Rinne, A Kadir… - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
In Alzheimer disease (AD), which is the most common cause of dementia, the underlying
disease pathology most probably precedes the onset of cognitive symptoms by many years …