Tauopathies: types

Classical tauopathies

• ALS/Parkinson-dementia complex of Guam
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
• Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
• Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
• Pick’s disease (PiD)
• Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
• Agyrophilic grain disease (AGD)

Other tauopathies

References

1. Tolnay M, Probst A. The neuropathological spectrum of neurodegenerative tauopathies. IUBMB Life 2003; 55:299-305. 
2. Ludolph AC, Kassubeck J, Landwehrmeyer BG, et al. Taupathies with parkinsonism: clinical spectrum, neuropathologic basis, biological markers, and treatment options. Eur J Neurol 2009; 16:1468-1331.
3. Williams DR. Tauopathies: classification and clinical update on neurodegenerative diseases associated with microtubule-associated protein tau. Intern Med J 2006; 36:652-660.
4. Irwin DJ. Tauopathies as clinicopathological entities. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2016; 22(Suppl 1):S29-S33.
5. Shi Y, Zhang W, Yang Y, et al. Structure-based classification of tauopathies. Nature 2021; 598:359-363.
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