Andrea Calvo, Cristina Moglia, Antonio Canosa, Umberto Manera, Rosario Vasta, Maurizio Grassano, Margherita Daviddi, Filippo De Mattei, Enrico Matteoni, Salvatore Gallone, Maura Brunetti, Luca Sbaiz, Sara Cabras, Laura Peotta, Francesca Palumbo, Barbara Iazzolino, Gabriele Mora, Adriano Chiò
OBJECTIVE: While the cognitive-behavioral characteristics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients carrying C9orf72 pathological repeat expansion have been extensively studied, our understanding of those carrying SOD1 variants is mostly based on case reports. The aim of this paper is to extensively explore the cognitive-behavioral characteristics of a cohort of ALS patients carrying pathogenetic variants of SOD1 gene, comparing them to patients without pathogenetic variants of 46 ALS-related genes (wild-type [WT]-ALS) and healthy controls...
April 3, 2024: Annals of Neurology