Journal of Neurology

Preface

Familial Parkinson’s disease: a hint to elucidate the mechanisms of nigral degeneration

Nobutaka Hattori, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Yasuko Sasaki-Hatano, Kenichi Sato, Yoshikuni Mizuno

Aggregation of α-synuclein in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease

Takeshi Iwatsubo

New insights into Parkinson’s disease

Kenny K. K. Chung, Valina L. Dawson, Ted M. Dawson

Pael receptor, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and Parkinson’s disease

Ryosuke Takahashi, Yuzuru Imai

Environmental, life-style, and physical precursors of clinical Parkinson’s disease: recent findings from the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study

Robert D. Abbott, G. Webster Ross, Lon R. White, Wayne T. Sanderson, Cecil M. Burchfiel, Michael Kashon, Dan S. Sharp, Kamal H. Masaki, J. David Curb, Helen Petrovitch

Toward identification of susceptibility genes for sporadic Parkinson’s disease

Tatsushi Toda, Yoshio Momose, Miho Murata, Gen Tamiya, Mitsutoshi Yamamoto, Nobutaka Hattori, Hidetoshi Inoko

Do patients with Parkinson’s disease benefit from embryonic dopamine cell transplantation?

Curt R. Freed, Maureen A. Leehey, Michael Zawada, Kimberly Bjugstad, Laetitia Thompson, Robert E. Breeze

Does transcranial magnetic stimulation improve the motor symptoms of Parkinson disease?

Sadatoshi Tsuji, Naoki Akamatsu