Concepedia

Epidemiology of motor neuron disease in the Kii Peninsula of Japan, 1989–1993: Active or disappearing focus?

Sohei Yoshida, Y Uebayashi, Tameko Kihira, Junko Kohmoto, Ikuro WAKAYAMA, Seiichiro Taguchi, Y Yase

Journal of the Neurological Sciences · 1998 · 53 citations · 34 references

Concepts

MedicineNeurologyNeurodegenerationNeuromuscular DisordersMotor DisordersMotor Neuron DiseasesMotor Neuron DisordersMotor NeuropathyNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeurodegenerative DisordersMotor Neuron LossMotor Neuron PathophysiologyNeurodegenerative Disease EpidemiologySporadic Motor Neuron Disease

References

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Human motor neuron diseases.

Lewis P. Rowland · PubMed · 1982 · 351 citations

Medicine, Neurology, Neuroscience +12

Disappearance of high‐incidence amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism‐dementia on Guam

Ralph M. Garruto, Richard Yanagihara, D. Carleton Gajdusek · Neurology · 1985 · 222 citations

Medicine, Neurology, Neuroscience +17

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS AND PARKINSONISM-DEMENTIA ON GUAM, 1945–1972

Dwayne Reed, Jacob A. Brody · American Journal of Epidemiology · 1975 · 168 citations

Medicine, Neurology, Dementia +16

Epidemiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

J. F. Kurtzke · PubMed · 1982 · 167 citations

Medicine, Neurology, Neuroscience +16

Adult onset motor neuron disease: worldwide mortality, incidence and distribution since 1950.

Andrew Chancellor, Charles Warlow · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry · 1992 · 159 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neurology, Neuromuscular Disorders +10