^○Yasumasa Kokubo¹, Satoru Morimoto², Ryogen Sasaki³, Kazuaki Kanai⁴, Kazushi Okamoto⁵, Tameko Kihira⁶, Shigeki Kuzuhara⁷ (1.Kii ALS/PDC Research Center, Mie University, Graduate School of Regional Innovation Studies, 2.Department of Oncologic Pathology, Mie University, Graduate School of Medicine, 3.Department of Neurologyy, National Mie Hospital, 4.Department of Neurology, Juntendo University Hospital, 5.School of Nursing & Health, Graduate School of Nursing & Health, Aichi Prefectural University, 6.Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kansai University of Health Sciences, 7.Department of Neurology and Medicine, School of Nursing, Suzuka University of Medical Science)

^○Yugo Narita^1,2 (1.Department of Neurology, Mie University Hospital, 2.department of fundamental nursing, school of nursing, faculty of medicine, Mie university)

^○Takashi Kurashige, Naoko Sumi, Saki Tasaka, Tomohito Sugiura, Tsuyoshi Torii (Department of Neurology, NHO Kure Medical Center)

^○Maya Mimuro¹, Mari Yoshida¹, Ryogen Sasaki², Keita Sakurai³, Masato Hasegawa⁴, Shigeki Kuzuhara⁵, Yasumasa Kokubo⁶ (1.Department of Neuropathology, Institute for Medical Science of Aging, Aichi Medical University, 2.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Mie Hospital, 3.Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Center of Gerontology, 4.Department of Dementia and Higher Brain Function, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 5.School of Nursing, Suzuka University of Medical Science, 6.Graduate School of Regional Innovation Studies, Mie University)

^○Takuya Ohkubo^1,2, Shahram Saberi^1,3, Sandra Diaz Garcia¹, Maria Rodriguez¹, John Ravits¹ (1.Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA, 2.Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, 3.Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA)

^○Hongfei Tai¹, Liying Cui^1,2, Mingsheng Liu¹, Yuzhou Guan¹, Dongchao Shen¹, Kang Zhang¹, Shuangwu Liu¹ (1.Department of Neurology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China, 2.Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, China)