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Menéndez-González M, Clarimón J, Rosas-Allende I, Blázquez M, San Martín ES, García-Fernández C, Lleó A, Dols-Icardo O, Illán-Gala I, Morís G, Ribacoba R, Álvarez V, Martínez C. HTT gene intermediate alleles in neurodegeneration: evidence for association with Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2019 Apr;76:215.e9-215.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.11.014. Epub 2018 Nov 28. PubMed PMID: 30583877.
Kia DA, Sabir MS, Ahmed S, Trinh J, Bandres-Ciga S. LRP10 in α-synucleinopathies. Lancet Neurol. 2018 Dec;17(12):1032. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30401-0. Epub 2018 Nov 13. PubMed PMID: 30507383.
Wyman-Chick KA, Martin PK, Minár M, Menéndez-González M, Erickson LO, Álvarez-Avellón T, Schroeder RW. Neuropsychological Test Performance in Parkinsonism Without Dopaminergic Deficiency on [123I]-FP-CIT SPECT Imaging. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2018 Jul;24(6):646-651. doi: 10.1017/S1355617718000164. Epub 2018 Apr 19. PubMed PMID: 29669609.
Menéndez-González M, Álvarez-Avellón T, Salas-Pacheco JM, de Celis-Alonso B, Wyman-Chick KA, Arias-Carrión O. Frontotemporal Lobe Degeneration as Origin of Scans Without Evidence of Dopaminergic Deficit. Front Neurol. 2018;9:335. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00335. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 29881367; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5976748.
Menendez-Gonzalez M, Padilla-Zambrano HS, Alvarez G, Capetillo-Zarate E, Tomas-Zapico C, Costa A. Targeting Beta-Amyloid at the CSF: A New Therapeutic Strategy in Alzheimer's Disease. Front Aging Neurosci. 2018;10:100. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00100. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 29713273; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5911461.
Menéndez-González M, Padilla-Zambrano HS, Tomás-Zapico C, García BF. Clearing Extracellular Alpha-Synuclein from Cerebrospinal Fluid: A New Therapeutic Strategy in Parkinson's Disease. Brain Sci. 2018 Mar 23;8(4). doi: 10.3390/brainsci8040052. PubMed PMID: 29570693; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5924388.
Aller-Alvarez JS, Menéndez-González M, Ribacoba-Montero R, Salvado M, Vega V, Suárez-Moro R, Sueiras M, Toledo M, Salas-Puig J, Álvarez-Sabin J. Myoclonic epilepsy in Down syndrome and Alzheimer disease. Neurologia. 2017 Mar;32(2):69-73. doi: 10.1016/j.nrl.2014.12.008. Epub 2015 Feb 7. PubMed PMID: 25661268.
Menéndez González M. Mechanical Dilution of Beta-amyloid Peptide and Phosphorylated Tau Protein in Alzheimer's Disease: Too Simple to be True?. Cureus. 2017 Feb 28;9(2):e1062. doi: 10.7759/cureus.1062. PubMed PMID: 28382239; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5370200.
Menéndez González M. Implantable Systems for Continuous Liquorpheresis and CSF Replacement. Cureus. 2017 Feb 10;9(2):e1022. doi: 10.7759/cureus.1022. PubMed PMID: 28413734; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5388363.
Menendez-Gonzalez M. Association between naturally occurring antiamyloid β autoantibodies and medial temporal lobe atrophy in Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017 Feb;88(2):96-97. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2016-314136. Epub 2016 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 27486155.
Arce-Varas N, Abate G, Prandelli C, Martínez C, Cuetos F, Menéndez M, Marziano M, Cabrera-García D, Fernández-Sánchez MT, Novelli A, Memo M, Uberti D. Comparison of Extracellular and Intracellular Blood Compartments Highlights Redox Alterations in Alzheimer's and Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2017;14(1):112-122. doi: 10.2174/1567205013666161010125413. PubMed PMID: 27748187.
Cordero-Arreola J, West RM, Mendoza-Torreblanca J, Mendez-Hernandez E, Salas-Pacheco J, Menendez-Gonzalez M, Freire RC, Machado S, Murillo-Rodriguez E, Nardi AE, Arias-Carrion O. The Role of Innate Immune System Receptors in Epilepsy Research. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2017;16(7):749-762. doi: 10.2174/1871527316666170725145549. Review. PubMed PMID: 28745241.
Villar JR, Vergara P, Menéndez M, de la Cal E, González VM, Sedano J. Generalized Models for the Classification of Abnormal Movements in Daily Life and its Applicability to Epilepsy Convulsion Recognition. Int J Neural Syst. 2016 Sep;26(6):1650037. doi: 10.1142/S0129065716500374. Epub 2016 Apr 26. PubMed PMID: 27354194.
Menéndez González M, Suárez-Sanmartin E, García C, Martínez-Camblor P, Westman E, Simmons A. Manual Planimetry of the Medial Temporal Lobe Versus Automated Volumetry of the Hippocampus in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Cureus. 2016 Mar 26;8(3):e544. doi: 10.7759/cureus.544. PubMed PMID: 27433401; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4934791.
Santos-García D, Mir P, Cubo E, Vela L, Rodríguez-Oroz MC, Martí MJ, Arbelo JM, Infante J, Kulisevsky J, Martínez-Martín P. COPPADIS-2015 (COhort of Patients with PArkinson's DIsease in Spain, 2015), a global--clinical evaluations, serum biomarkers, genetic studies and neuroimaging--prospective, multicenter, non-interventional, long-term study on Parkinson's disease progression. BMC Neurol. 2016 Feb 25;16:26. doi: 10.1186/s12883-016-0548-9. PubMed PMID: 26911448; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4766717.
Menéndez-González M, Álvarez-Avellón T. Editorial: Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry of Neurodegenerative Disorders. Front Aging Neurosci. 2015;7:227. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00227. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26733862; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4679848.
Oreja-Guevara C, Río J, Gobartt AL. [Compliance of the guidelines of the Spanish Neurology Society in the treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis]. Rev Neurol. 2015 Aug 16;61(4):145-52. PubMed PMID: 26204085.
Menendez M, Arias-Carrión O. Indices of Regional Brain Atrophy: Formulae and Nomenclature. Cureus. 2015 Aug;7(8):e295. doi: 10.7759/cureus.295. eCollection 2015 Aug. PubMed PMID: 26261753; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4529332.
de Celis Alonso B, Hidalgo-Tobón SS, Menéndez-González M, Salas-Pacheco J, Arias-Carrión O. Magnetic Resonance Techniques Applied to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease. Front Neurol. 2015;6:146. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00146. eCollection 2015. Review. PubMed PMID: 26191037; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4490248.
Villar LM, Costa-Frossard L, Masterman T, Fernandez O, Montalban X, Casanova B, Izquierdo G, Coret F, Tumani H, Saiz A, Arroyo R, Fink K, Leyva L, Espejo C, Simó-Castelló M, García-Sánchez MI, Lauda F, Llufriú S, Álvarez-Lafuente R, Olascoaga J, Prada A, Oterino A, de Andrés C, Tintoré M, Ramió-Torrentà L, Rodríguez-Martín E, Picón C, Comabella M, Quintana E, Agüera E, Díaz S, Fernandez-Bolaños R, García-Merino JA, Landete L, Menéndez-González M, Navarro L, Pérez D, Sánchez-López F, Serrano-Castro PJ, Tuñón A, Espiño M, Muriel A, Bar-Or A, Álvarez-Cermeño JC. Lipid-specific immunoglobulin M bands in cerebrospinal fluid are associated with a reduced risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy during treatment with natalizumab. Ann Neurol. 2015 Mar;77(3):447-57. doi: 10.1002/ana.24345. Epub 2015 Jan 30. PubMed PMID: 25581547.
Menéndez-González M, de Celis Alonso B, Salas-Pacheco J, Arias-Carrión O. Structural Neuroimaging of the Medial Temporal Lobe in Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials. J Alzheimers Dis. 2015;48(3):581-9. doi: 10.3233/JAD-150226. Review. PubMed PMID: 26402089.
Cardo LF, Coto E, Ribacoba R, Menéndez M, Moris G, Suárez E, Alvarez V. MiRNA profile in the substantia nigra of Parkinson's disease and healthy subjects. J Mol Neurosci. 2014 Dec;54(4):830-6. doi: 10.1007/s12031-014-0428-y. Epub 2014 Oct 5. PubMed PMID: 25284245.
Conejo Bayón F, Maese J, Fernandez Oliveira A, Mesas T, Herrera de la Llave E, Alvarez Avellón T, Menéndez-González M. Feasibility of the Medial Temporal lobe Atrophy index (MTAi) and derived methods for measuring atrophy of the medial temporal lobe. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014;6:305. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00305. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 25414666; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4220710.
Menéndez-González M. Biomarkers in neurodegenerative disorders: translating research into clinical practice. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014;6:281. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00281. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 25374540; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4204519.
Menéndez-González M, Salas-Pacheco JM, Arias-Carrión O. The yearly rate of Relative Thalamic Atrophy (yrRTA): a simple 2D/3D method for estimating deep gray matter atrophy in Multiple Sclerosis. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014;6:219. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00219. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 25206331; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4144089.
Arias-Carrión O, Caraza-Santiago X, Salgado-Licona S, Salama M, Machado S, Nardi AE, Menéndez-González M, Murillo-Rodríguez E. Orquestic regulation of neurotransmitters on reward-seeking behavior. Int Arch Med. 2014;7:29. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-7-29. eCollection 2014. Review. PubMed PMID: 25061480; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4108978.
Cardo LF, Coto E, Ribacoba R, Mata IF, Moris G, Menéndez M, Alvarez V. The screening of the 3'UTR sequence of LRRK2 identified an association between the rs66737902 polymorphism and Parkinson's disease. J Hum Genet. 2014 Jun;59(6):346-8. doi: 10.1038/jhg.2014.26. Epub 2014 Apr 24. PubMed PMID: 24758914.
Menéndez-González M. Routine lumbar puncture for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Is it safe?. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014;6:65. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00065. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 24782762; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3988385.
Menéndez-González M, Tavares F, Zeidan N, Salas-Pacheco JM, Arias-Carrión O. Diagnoses behind patients with hard-to-classify tremor and normal DaT-SPECT: a clinical follow up study. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014;6:56. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00056. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 24744729; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3978325.
Menéndez-González M, López-Muñiz A, Vega JA, Salas-Pacheco JM, Arias-Carrión O. MTA index: a simple 2D-method for assessing atrophy of the medial temporal lobe using clinically available neuroimaging. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014;6:23. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00023. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 24715861; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3970022.
Menéndez-González M. The many questions on the use of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases in clinical practice. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014;6:45. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00045. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 24672480; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3957090.
Lattari E, Arias-Carrión O, Monteiro-Junior RS, Mello Portugal EM, Paes F, Menéndez-González M, Silva AC, Nardi AE, Machado S. Implications of movement-related cortical potential for understanding neural adaptations in muscle strength tasks. Int Arch Med. 2014 Mar 6;7(1):9. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-7-9. PubMed PMID: 24602228; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3946007.
Cardo LF, Coto E, de Mena L, Ribacoba R, Mata IF, Menéndez M, Moris G, Alvarez V. Alpha-synuclein transcript isoforms in three different brain regions from Parkinson's disease and healthy subjects in relation to the SNCA rs356165/rs11931074 polymorphisms. Neurosci Lett. 2014 Mar 6;562:45-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.01.009. Epub 2014 Jan 10. PubMed PMID: 24418406.
Carvalho D, Teixeira S, Lucas M, Yuan TF, Chaves F, Peressutti C, Machado S, Bittencourt J, Menéndez-González M, Nardi AE, Velasques B, Cagy M, Piedade R, Ribeiro P, Arias-Carrión O. The mirror neuron system in post-stroke rehabilitation. Int Arch Med. 2013 Oct 17;6(1):41. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-6-41. PubMed PMID: 24134862; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4016580.
Lucas M, Chaves F, Teixeira S, Carvalho D, Peressutti C, Bittencourt J, Velasques B, Menéndez-González M, Cagy M, Piedade R, Nardi AE, Machado S, Ribeiro P, Arias-Carrión O. Time perception impairs sensory-motor integration in Parkinson's disease. Int Arch Med. 2013 Oct 16;6(1):39. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-6-39. PubMed PMID: 24131660; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3856585.
Salama M, Yuan TF, Machado S, Murillo-Rodríguez E, Vega JA, Menéndez-González M, Nardi AE, Arias-Carrión O. Co-enzyme Q10 to treat neurological disorders: basic mechanisms, clinical outcomes, and future research direction. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2013 Aug;12(5):641-64. doi: 10.2174/18715273113129990071. Review. PubMed PMID: 23574157.
de Mena L, Samaranch LL, Coto E, Cardo LF, Ribacoba R, Lorenzo-Betancor O, Pastor P, Wang L, Irigoyen J, Mata IF, Díaz M, Moris G, Menéndez M, Corao AI, Lorenzo E, Alvarez V. Mutational screening of PARKIN identified a 3' UTR variant (rs62637702) associated with Parkinson's disease. J Mol Neurosci. 2013 Jun;50(2):264-9. doi: 10.1007/s12031-012-9942-y. Epub 2012 Dec 30. PubMed PMID: 23275044.
Cardo LF, Coto E, de Mena L, Ribacoba R, Moris G, Menéndez M, Alvarez V. Profile of microRNAs in the plasma of Parkinson's disease patients and healthy controls. J Neurol. 2013 May;260(5):1420-2. doi: 10.1007/s00415-013-6900-8. Epub 2013 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 23543376.
Calavia M, Viña E, Menéndez-González M, López-Muñiz A, Alonso-Guervós M, Cobo J, Otero J, Arias-Carrión O, Vega JA, García-Suárez O. Evidence of nestin-positive cells in the human cutaneus Meissner and Pacinian corpuscles. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2012 Nov 1;11(7):869-77. doi: 10.2174/1871527311201070869. PubMed PMID: 23131160.
Vega JA, López-Muñiz A, Calavia MG, García-Suárez O, Cobo J, Otero J, Arias-Carrión O, Pérez-Piñera P, Menéndez-González M. Clinical implication of Meissner`s corpuscles. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2012 Nov 1;11(7):856-68. doi: 10.2174/1871527311201070856. Review. PubMed PMID: 23131158.
Cardo LF, Coto E, de Mena L, Ribacoba R, Lorenzo-Betancor O, Pastor P, Samaranch L, Mata IF, Díaz M, Moris G, Menéndez M, Corao AI, Alvarez V. A search for SNCA 3' UTR variants identified SNP rs356165 as a determinant of disease risk and onset age in Parkinson's disease. J Mol Neurosci. 2012 Jul;47(3):425-30. doi: 10.1007/s12031-011-9669-1. Epub 2011 Nov 11. PubMed PMID: 22076805.
Silva F, Arias-Carrión O, Teixeira S, Velasques B, Peressutti C, Paes F, Basile LF, Menéndez-González M, Murillo-Rodríguez E, Cagy M, Piedade R, Nardi AE, Machado S, Ribeiro P. Functional coupling of sensorimotor and associative areas during a catching ball task: a qEEG coherence study. Int Arch Med. 2012 Feb 24;5:9. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-5-9. PubMed PMID: 22364485; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3353194.
Coto E, Gómez J, Alonso B, Corao AI, Díaz M, Menéndez M, Martínez C, Calatayud MT, Morís G, Álvarez V. Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is associated with mitochondrial DNA 7028C/haplogroup H and D310 poly-C tract heteroplasmy. Neurogenetics. 2011 Nov;12(4):345-6. doi: 10.1007/s10048-011-0295-4. Epub 2011 Aug 7. PubMed PMID: 21822896.
Miar A, Alvarez V, Corao AI, Díaz M, Alonso B, Martínez C, Calatayud MT, Menéndez M, Morís G, Coto E. Amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) variation in late-onset Alzheimer's disease. J Mol Neurosci. 2011 Sep;45(1):5-9. doi: 10.1007/s12031-011-9510-x. Epub 2011 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 21424791.
McEvoy LK, Holland D, Hagler DJ Jr, Fennema-Notestine C, Brewer JB, Dale AM. Mild cognitive impairment: baseline and longitudinal structural MR imaging measures improve predictive prognosis. Radiology. 2011 Jun;259(3):834-43. doi: 10.1148/radiol.11101975. Epub 2011 Apr 6. PubMed PMID: 21471273; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3099042.
Miar A, Alvarez V, Corao AI, Alonso B, Díaz M, Menéndez M, Martínez C, Calatayud M, Morís G, Coto E. Lack of association between protocadherin 11-X/Y (PCDH11X and PCDH11Y) polymorphisms and late onset Alzheimer's disease. Brain Res. 2011 Apr 6;1383:252-6. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.01.054. Epub 2011 Jan 27. PubMed PMID: 21276771.
Tosun D, Schuff N, Mathis CA, Jagust W, Weiner MW. Spatial patterns of brain amyloid-beta burden and atrophy rate associations in mild cognitive impairment. Brain. 2011 Apr;134(Pt 4):1077-88. doi: 10.1093/brain/awr044. Epub 2011 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 21429865; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3069703.
Menendez-Gonzalez M, Garcia-Garcia J, Calleja S, Rojo J, Ribacoba R. Vasomotor reactivity is similarly impaired in patients with Alzheimer's disease and patients with amyloid hemorrhage. J Neuroimaging. 2011 Apr;21(2):e83-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2009.00438.x. PubMed PMID: 19912480.
Paes F, Machado S, Arias-Carrión O, Domingues CA, Teixeira S, Velasques B, Cunha M, Minc D, Basile LF, Budde H, Cagy M, Piedade R, Kerick S, Menéndez-González M, Skaper SD, Norwood BA, Ribeiro P, Nardi AE. Effects of Methylphenidate on performance of a practical pistol shooting task: a quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) study. Int Arch Med. 2011 Feb 4;4(1):6. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-4-6. PubMed PMID: 21294887; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3042013.
Menéndez-González M, Pérez-Piñera P, Martínez-Rivera M, Muñiz AL, Vega JA. Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: rational basis in ongoing clinical trials. Curr Pharm Des. 2011;17(5):508-20. doi: 10.2174/138161211795164112. Review. PubMed PMID: 21375481.
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