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 …

Developing the ATX (N) classification for use across the Alzheimer disease continuum

H Hampel, J Cummings, K Blennow, P Gao… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in the development of highly accurate fluid and neuroimaging biomarkers
have catalysed the conceptual transformation of Alzheimer disease (AD) from the traditional …

Assessment of heterogeneity among participants in the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative cohort using α-synuclein seed amplification: a cross-sectional study

A Siderowf, L Concha-Marambio, DE Lafontant… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Emerging evidence shows that α-synuclein seed amplification assays (SAAs)
have the potential to differentiate people with Parkinson's disease from healthy controls. We …

Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup

CR Jack Jr, JS Andrews, TG Beach… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association convened three
separate work groups in 2011 and single work groups in 2012 and 2018 to create …

Propagative α-synuclein seeds as serum biomarkers for synucleinopathies

A Okuzumi, T Hatano, G Matsumoto, S Nojiri, S Ueno… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Abnormal α-synuclein aggregation is a key pathological feature of a group of
neurodegenerative diseases known as synucleinopathies, which include Parkinson's …

Neuropathology and molecular diagnosis of Synucleinopathies

S Koga, H Sekiya, N Kondru, OA Ross… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Synucleinopathies are clinically and pathologically heterogeneous disorders characterized
by pathologic aggregates of α-synuclein in neurons and glia, in the form of Lewy bodies …

Detection of neuron-derived pathological α-synuclein in blood

A Kluge, J Bunk, E Schaeffer, A Drobny, W Xiang… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
To date, no reliable clinically applicable biomarker has been established for Parkinson's
disease. Our results indicate that a long anticipated blood test for Parkinson's disease may …

Discriminating α-synuclein strains in Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy

M Shahnawaz, A Mukherjee, S Pritzkow, N Mendez… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Synucleinopathies are neurodegenerative diseases that are associated with the misfolding
and aggregation of α-synuclein, including Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies …

Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Detection of α-synuclein in CSF by RT-QuIC in patients with isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder: a longitudinal observational study

A Iranzo, G Fairfoul, ACN Ayudhaya… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Isolated rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (IRBD) can be
part of the prodromal stage of the α-synucleinopathies Parkinson's disease and dementia …