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Molecular diagnostics of neurodegenerative disorders

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Agrawal, Megha, Biswas, Abhijit·2015·Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

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Molecular diagnostics provide a powerful method to detect and diagnose various neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The confirmation of such diagnosis allows early detection and subsequent medical counseling that help specific patients to undergo clinically important drug trials. This provides a medical pathway to have better insight of neurogenesis and eventual cure of the neurodegenerative diseases. In this short review, we present recent advances in molecular diagnostics especially biomarkers and imaging spectroscopy for neurological diseases. We describe advances made in Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Huntington's disease (HD), and finally present a perspective on the future directions to provide a framework for further developments and refinements of molecular diagnostics to combat neurodegenerative disorders.

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  • Diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases is usually based on subjective cognitive tests in combination with neuroimaging, but the current techniques are not able to successfully diagnose these diseases in their earlier stages, when the pathology is already present but does not cause symptoms yet.

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Authors
Agrawal, M., & Biswas, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock (US)
  • University of Notre Dame (US)
Corresponding author
Agrawal, Megha
Venue
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Published
2015-09-22
Volume
2
Pages
54-54
ISSN
2296-889X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1811596609
Cited by
164
References
77
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1.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
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cc-by
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
Keywords
molecular diagnosis, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, biomarkers, hyperspectral imaging, early diagnosis, neurogenesis

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