Current Practice and Future Perspectives of Neurological Conditions Caused by Neurodegeneration, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1160
Special Issue Editor
Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; multiple sclerosis; Parkinson's disease; Alzheimer's disease; Huntington's disease; multiple system atrophy; prion diseases; stroke
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Current Practice and Future Perspectives of Neurological Conditions Caused by Neurodegeneration, 2nd Edition”. In our previous Special Issue, entitled “Current Practice and Future Perspectives of Neurological Conditions Caused by Neurodegeneration”, we collected high-quality papers covering a wide range of topics. This is a continuation of the previous series.
In recent decades, researchers have been trying to enhance the development of reliable biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases, while medical practice has been moving toward precision medicine. However, there is still an urgent need to identify disease-specific biomarkers to improve early diagnostic workups, favor clinical classification and prognostic models, and facilitate the development of effective disease-modifying therapies. Most neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, have a late onset, meaning that, for each of these diseases, there are some factors which change as a person ages. One constant factor is that, in each disease, neurons gradually lose function as the disease progresses with age. About 20–40% of healthy people between 60 and 78 years of age experience discernable decrements in cognitive performance in several domains, including working, spatial, and episodic memory and processing speed.
This Special Issue aims to highlight current knowledge regarding neurodegeneration’s pathogenic mechanisms and underline possible current practices and future perspectives in neurodegenerative diseases.
In this Special Issue, original articles and reviews are welcome. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Lilla Bonanno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neurodegenerative diseases
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson's disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Huntington's disease
- multiple-system atrophy
- prion diseases
- stroke
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