Revisiting protein aggregation as pathogenic in sporadic Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases

Alberto J Espay¹, Joaquin A Vizcarra², Luca Marsili²+24

• ¹From the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and Gardner Family Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders (A.J.E., J.A.V., L.M., A.M.), Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati, OH; Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease and the Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic (A.E.L., A.F.), Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto; Krembil Research Institute (A.E.L., A.F.), Toronto, Canada; Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center (D.K.S.), Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; College of Medicine (K.A.J.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Institute of Molecular and Clinical Sciences (F.M.), St George's University of London, UK; Division of Movement Disorders (R.S.), Department of Neurology and Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN; Department of Neurology and the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (J.T.G., F.C.), University of Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Neurology (T.R.Y.), University of Kentucky, Lexington; Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center (C.M.T.), Neurology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Department of Neurology (C.M.T.), University of California-San Francisco; Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, and Department of Human Genetics (Z.G.-O.), McGill University, Canada; Parkinson & Other Movement Disorders Center UC San Diego (I.L.), Department of Neurosciences, Altman Clinical Translational Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Department of Neurology (I.F.M., CP.Z.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurology (I.F.M.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Center for Neurodegenerative Science (P.B.), Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI; Center for Neurological Restoration (H.H.F.) and Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Neurological Institute (J.B.L.), Cleveland Clinic, OH; Department of Neurology (D.G.S.), University of Alabama at Birmingham; Consultorio y Laboratorio de Neurogenética (M.A.K.), Centro Universitario de Neurología "José María Ramos Mejía" y División Neurología, Hospital JM Ramos Mejía, Facultad de Medicina, UBA; Programa de Medicina de Precision y Genomica Clinica (M.A.K.), Instituto de Investigaciones en Medicina Traslacional, Facultad de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Austral-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Neurology (M.A.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Division of Neuroscience (S.P.S.), Sanofi-Genzyme, Framingham, MA; Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (T.S.), New York, NY; and College of Sciences (G.P.), University of Texas at San Antonio. alberto.espay@uc.edu.+1