A Population-Based Approach to the Argument on Brain-First and Body-First Pathogenesis of Lewy Body Disease.
Emanuele CamerucciAidan F MullanPierpaolo TurcanoCole D StangJames BowerEduardo E BenarrochBradley F BoeveRodolfo SavicaPublished in: Annals of neurology (2024)
Our findings do not support the dichotomous classification of body-first and brain-first LBD with the currently proposed definition. Biological exposures resulting in PD and DLB are unlikely to converge on a binary classification of top-down or bottom-up synuclein pathology. ANN NEUROL 2024;96:551-559.