Alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies: from overt neurodegeneration back to early synaptic dysfunction

P Calabresi, A Mechelli, G Natale… - Cell death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Although the discovery of the critical role of α-synuclein (α-syn) in the pathogenesis of
Parkinson's disease (PD) is now twenty-five years old, it still represents a milestone in PD …

Genetics and pathogenesis of Parkinson's syndrome

H Ye, LA Robak, M Yu, M Cykowski… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is clinically, pathologically, and genetically heterogeneous,
resisting distillation to a single, cohesive disorder. Instead, each affected individual develops …

Challenges in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

E Tolosa, A Garrido, SW Scholz, W Poewe - The Lancet Neurology, 2021 - thelancet.com
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and its
prevalence has been projected to double over the next 30 years. An accurate diagnosis of …

Prodromal Parkinson disease subtypes—key to understanding heterogeneity

D Berg, P Borghammer, SM Fereshtehnejad… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
In Parkinson disease (PD), pathological processes and neurodegeneration begin long
before the cardinal motor symptoms develop and enable clinical diagnosis. In this prodromal …

Diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson disease: a review

MJ Armstrong, MS Okun - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Parkinson disease is the most common form of parkinsonism, a group of
neurological disorders with Parkinson disease–like movement problems such as rigidity …

REM sleep behaviour disorder

Y Dauvilliers, CH Schenck, RB Postuma… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2018 - nature.com
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia that is
characterized by loss of muscle atonia during REM sleep (known as REM sleep without …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease–a key disease hallmark with therapeutic potential

MT Henrich, WH Oertel, DJ Surmeier… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Mitochondrial dysfunction is strongly implicated in the etiology of idiopathic and genetic
Parkinson's disease (PD). However, strategies aimed at ameliorating mitochondrial …

Evolution of prodromal Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: a prospective study

SM Fereshtehnejad, C Yao, A Pelletier, JY Montplaisir… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease has a long prodromal stage with various subclinical motor and non-
motor manifestations; however, their evolution in the years before Parkinson's disease is …

Motor and non-motor circuit disturbances in early Parkinson disease: which happens first?

J Blesa, G Foffani, B Dehay, E Bezard… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
For the last two decades, pathogenic concepts in Parkinson disease (PD) have revolved
around the toxicity and spread of α-synuclein. Thus, α-synuclein would follow caudo-rostral …

Parkinson disease and the gut: new insights into pathogenesis and clinical relevance

RA Travagli, KN Browning, M Camilleri - … Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2020 - nature.com
The classic view portrays Parkinson disease (PD) as a motor disorder resulting from loss of
substantia nigra pars compacta dopaminergic neurons. Multiple studies, however, describe …