A paper titled “Awaji Criteria Improves the Diagnostic Sensitivity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: a Systematic Review Using Individual Patient Data” has been published in Clinical Neurophysiology. This research was supported by JPND through the STRENGTH project, which was selected in the 2012 risk factors call.
Category Archives: JPND Publications
A paper titled “Case report of concurrent Fabry disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis supports a common pathway of pathogenesis” has been published in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. This research was supported by JPND through the SOPHIA, STRENGTH and ALS-CarE projects.
A paper titled “The selective anatomical vulnerability of ALS: ‘disease-defining’ and ‘disease-defying’ brain regions” has been published in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. The research group of Orla Hardiman received support from JPND through the SOPHIA project, which was selected for support in the 2011 biomarkers call.
A new paper titled “C9orf72 is differentially expressed in the central nervous system and myeloid cells and consistently reduced in C9orf72, MAPT and GRN mutation carriers” has been published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications. It was partly funded by JPND through the RiMod-FTD project, which was selected for support in the 2012 call for research projects for the identification of genetic, epigenetic and environmental risk and protective factors for neurodegenerative diseases.
A new paper titled “Identification of new molecular alterations in Fatal Familial Insomnia” has been published in Human Molecular Genetics. It was in part funded by JPND through the DEMTEST project, which was selected for support in the 2011 biomarkers call.
A new paper titled “Structural and functional properties of prefibrillar α-synuclein oligomers” has been published in Scientific Reports. It was partly funded by JPND through the NeuTARGETs project, which was selected for support in the 2013 call for research projects for cross-disease analysis of pathways related to neurodegenerative diseases.

