Special Issue "Novel Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Disorders"
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Endocrinology and Clinical Metabolic Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 997
Special Issue Editors

2. Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: dementia; stroke; Alzheimer’s disease; blood–brain barrier; cerebrovasculature; perivascular spaces; magnetic resonance imaging

Interests: metabolomics; mass spectrometry; psychiatric diseases; neuroinflammation; kynurenine pathway
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, the advancement in neuroimaging and omics fields, including metabolomics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, lipidomics and radiomics, has made it possible to significantly increase the knowledge about the biological mechanisms underlying healthy aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. In particular, the integration of multiple omics approaches made it possible to gain insights into the metabolic processes characterizing specific stages of the investigated diseases, and how they are affected by certain treatments. From a clinical perspective, this knowledge is particularly important not only for the development of strategies for the treatment and prevention of these pathologies, but also for the identification of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases, which may ultimately lead to the optimization of the current diagnostic frameworks and clinical management of patients.
This Special Issue aims to include preclinical, population-based, and clinical studies that investigate biological processes underlying neurodegenerative diseases for the identification of novel biomarkers. Investigations integrating different types of technologies with one or more omics approaches are particularly encouraged. Methodological articles presenting novel strategies for biomarker discoveries and validation will also be highly considered.
Dr. Giuseppe Barisano
Dr. Silvia Alboni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neurodegenerative diseases
- Alzheimer’s disease
- dementia
- Parkinson’s disease
- neuroimaging
- metabolomics
- proteomics
- lipidomics
- transcriptomics
- genomics