Negin Holland, George Savulich, P Simon Jones, David J Whiteside, Duncan Street, Peter Swann, Michelle Naessens, Maura Malpetti, Young T Hong, Tim D Fryer, Timothy Rittman, Eoin Mulroy, Franklin I Aigbirhio, Kailash P Bhatia, John T O'Brien, James B Rowe
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is a complex asymmetric movement disorder, with cognitive impairment. Although commonly associated with the primary 4-repeat-tauopathy of corticobasal degeneration, clinicopathological correlation is poor, and a significant proportion is due to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Synaptic loss is a pathological feature of many clinical and preclinical tauopathies. We therefore measured the degree of synaptic loss in patients with CBS and tested whether synaptic loss differed according to β-amyloid status...
April 26, 2024: Movement Disorders: Official Journal of the Movement Disorder Society