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Effect of Music Therapy Versus Recreational Activities on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Elderly Adults with DementiA: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial.

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Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in elderly adults with dementia receiving cholinesterase inhibitors: a population-based cohort study.

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What’s the FUS About? New ALS Mouse Model Thickens the Plot

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Maggie Pound

San Diego, United States

Zhenyu Yue on Unbiased screen for interactors of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 supports a common pathway for sporadic and familial Parkinson disease.

COMMENT With increasing numbers of genetic risk factors for PD being identified, critical questions are whether these genes are connected, function in the same cellular pathways, or whether a common pathway exists for the majority of PD cases. Using large-scale s

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Zhenyu Yue

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, United States