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  1. Large-scale head-to-head comparison of on- and off-target profiles of [18F]Tauvid and [18F]MK6240 tau-PET in aging and Alzheimer’s disease 2026-11-01
  2. Detection of tau spatial extent using MK6240 and flortaucipir PET 2026-10-28
  3. Soluble amyloid composition links proximal APP processing, fibrillar burden and the p-tau181 response 2026-10-22

Studies

319 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1995 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 37
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 21
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 18
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 17
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 15

105 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Large-scale head-to-head comparison of on- and off-target profiles of [18F]Tauvid and [18F]MK6240 tau-PET in aging and Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    [ 18 F]Tauvid and [ 18 F]MK6240 capture largely overlapping patterns of tau pathology, but differ notably in the magnitude of off-target binding.

  2. Detection of tau spatial extent using MK6240 and flortaucipir PET

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-28 Biomarkers

    TSE showed stronger unadjusted associations than SUVR in selected region- and outcome-specific comparisons, supporting its potential as a complementary measure.

  3. Soluble amyloid composition links proximal APP processing, fibrillar burden and the p-tau181 response

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-22 Biomarkers

    Amyloid biomarkers sample distinct levels of an open, kinetically coupled biochemical system, yet scalar summaries may obscure biologically relevant configuration.

  4. Performance boundaries of plasma-centred prediction across PET- and MRI-defined AT(N): QC-first internal validation in ADNI with separate axis-specific assessments

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Biomarkers

    ADNI identified task-dependent performance boundaries, particularly attenuated conditional T discrimination within A+.

  5. When Is Amyloid Really Cleared? Substantial Discordance Between Centiloid Quantitation and Visual Reads of Amyloid PET after Amyloid-Targeting Therapy

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    : Treated patients were 74±7 years old; 57% were female, 59% were apolipoprotein E ε4 carriers, and 78% had mild cognitive impairment (22% mild dementia).

  6. Tau-PET subtype modifies the association between plasma p-tau217 and memory in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-09-28 Biomarkers

    Tau-PET subtype modified the p-tau217–memory association, suggesting that the cognitive implications of plasma p-tau217 may vary with tau topography.

  7. MRI-derived periventricular diffusivity contextualizes plasma pTau217 associations with Alzheimer pathology: a discovery–validation study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-10 Brain scans and imaging

    PVeD reproducibly contextualized associations between plasma pTau217 and PET-defined Alzheimer pathology across cohorts with different participant composition, pTau217 assays, PET tracers, and cognitive measures.

  8. Elecsys pT181p immunoassay: Clinical performance for ruling out amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-09-08 Biomarkers

    At a care setting-agnostic cutoff of 0.934 pg/ml, high negative predictive value (NPV) (93.8%) and acceptable positive predictive value (PPV) (46.6%) were observed against amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET).

  9. Estimating amyloid-β deposition using brain perfusion SPECT in Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain perfusion SPECT revealed AD-typical hypoperfusion patterns and demonstrated modest potential to estimate the presence or absence of Aβ deposition with left parietal rCBF.

  10. Amyloid-Tau PET Fusion Reveals Covarying Network Territories Linked to Disease Stage, Cognition, and APOE4 in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Ninety-six non-artifactual Amyloid-Tau components were identified, of which 73 showed appreciable spatial correspondence between their paired Amyloid and Tau maps, while 17 were Tau-localized and 6 Amyloid-localized.

  11. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Diagnostic Performance of Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2026-08-14 Biomarkers

    Combining plasma p-tau with Aβ42 or the Aβ42/40 ratio reduced the intermediate zone.

  12. Mapping Amyloid-PET Uptake in the White Matter in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-07 Brain scans and imaging

    This study investigated whether WM measures derived from amyloid-PET are associated with AD biomarkers and to determine whether they offer added diagnostic and prognostic value beyond established biomarkers.

  13. Determining the metabolic profile measured using ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography associated with Beta Amyloid burden in the brain in individuals with mild cognitive impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-31 Brain scans and imaging

    As the world's population ages, Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is becoming more common.

  14. Biomarker Variability Limits Individualized Amyloid Time Estimation in Alzheimer Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-13 Brain scans and imaging

    DPM is fundamentally constrained by dynamic range, variability, and test–retest reliability of the biomarker of interest.

  15. Plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, and Aβ42 predict amyloid PET positivity in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-05-20 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 showed the strongest individual association with Aβ PET status (area under the curve [AUC], 0.85).

  16. Association of plasma biomarkers with amyloid and tau PET in pre-dementia stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-05 Biomarkers

    Comparing those having MCI, both CU and SCD participants had significantly lower amyloid PET standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) (p < 0.001; p = 0.005).

  17. Comparison of three plasma p-tau217 assays to detect PET-confirmed Alzheimer's pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-03-04 Biomarkers

    All assays distinguished amyloid-positive from -negative individuals with high accuracy (89%-95%).

  18. Measurement of tau protein and Aβ amyloid plaques in postmortem human brains of Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease by using [ 125 I]IPPI and [ 125 I]IBETA autoradiography

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-01-21 Drug development

    The accumulation of tau tangles and Aβ plaques are prominent neuropathologies that characterize Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down Syndrome (DS).

  19. Effect of prior traumatic brain injury on Alzheimer’s disease blood biomarkers in Vietnam Veterans

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-01-15 Biomarkers

    In this cross-sectional study (n=272), plasma pTau217/Aβ42 ratio test accuracy was 90% in Veterans without TBI history, but was significantly lower (63-78% accuracy) in Veterans with TBI history, with lowest accuracy in those with greater TBI severity.

  20. Defining patient-centered amyloid PET thresholds for the onset of tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found a consistent amyloid PET × age interaction on global tau PET increase in men (ADNI/A05: p = 0.0078/0.018), with younger men showing faster amyloid-associated tau accumulation.

  21. Plasma Aβ42/40 predicts progression from Aβ-amyloid negative to positive PET scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2026-01-01 Biomarkers

    At baseline, 283 were Plasma-/PET-, 97 Plasma+/PET-, 76 Plasma-/PETLow, and 51 Plasma+/PETLow.

  22. Immediate reactions to amyloid PET disclosure in Japanese older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2025-12-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty-six percent of participants were PET positive.

  23. MRI measures of cortical microstructural damage associate with tau accumulation in presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2025-12-16 Treatments

    NODDI-derived ODI is associated with tau PET signal, even in preclinical disease and may discriminate individuals with-and without tau beyond the MTL.

  24. Exploring Centiloid Robustness: Impact of Sample Size and Image Resolution on Centiloid Conversion Accuracy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2025-12-03 Brain scans and imaging

    In the smallest required sample of 15 cAD and 10 Aβ-negative participants, conversion error was 1.7 Centiloids at 25 Centiloids and 3.4 Centiloids at 100 Centiloids.

  25. The spectrum of Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025-11-19 Tau biomarkers

    While hippocampal (H) and inferior parietal lobule (IPL) atrophy are used routinely in Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnostics, the role of enlarged choroid plexus (ChP) remains unclear.

  26. Amygdalar and hippocampal volume loss in limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2025-11-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathological change (LATE-NC) refers to the aberrant accumulation of TDP-43 in the brains of ageing individuals either in isolation or in combination with neurodegenerative disease.

  27. Combining CSF MTBR-tau243 and plasma pTau217 ratio enhances the prediction of continuous regional tau PET burden in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Plasma pTau217R matched CSF eMTBR-tau243 and outperformed MTBR-tau243.

  28. Regional tau PET patterns predict prospective domain-specific cognitive decline in early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Differential FTP-PET signal patterns showed significant negative associations with domain-specific annual rates of decline.

  29. Body mass index and blood volume influence plasma biomarkers and positron emission tomography classification in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    Elevated BMI/BV associated with lower BBM concentrations, especially for p-Tau217 and NfL, independent of brain amyloid burden.

  30. Predicting cognitive decline with amyloid-PET, plasma p-tau217, Aβ42/40, and p-tau217/Aβ42 in a community-based cohort - relevance for clinical trial enrollment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    In the CU, using combined plasma Aβ42/40 and p-tau217 cut-offs for eligibility yielded the lowest sample size estimates for a comprehensive multidomain cognitive composite score, whereas sample sizes were higher for all other inclusion criteria based on single biomarkers.

  31. Combining Lumipulse p-tau217 and Aβ42/40 as confirmatory tests for Aβ positivity prior to disease-modifying therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-09 Biomarkers

    Testing an Alzheimer's disease continuum cohort, the area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for the p-tau217/Aβ42 ratio reached 0.961, 93%, 92%, and 93%, respectively.

  32. Comparison of amyloid PET acquired through standardized and unstandardized protocols

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Within each tracer, GMM-derived amyloid negative (A-) CL distributions were similar across cohorts.

  33. Portable platform for measuring amyloid beta 42/40 ratio via photooxidation-induced fluorescence amplification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Lab on a chip 2025-08-05 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious health condition that exacerbates with age.

  34. Tau PET positivity in individuals with and without cognitive impairment varies with age, amyloid-β status, APOE genotype and sex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2025-07-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau positron emission tomography (PET) imaging allows in vivo detection of tau proteinopathy in Alzheimer's disease, which is associated with neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.

  35. Effects of obesity on plasma biomarker and amyloid PET trajectories in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-07-03 Biomarkers

    Higher body mass index at baseline was correlated with lower levels of plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau)217, p-tau217 ratio, neurofilament light chain (NfL), glial fibrillary acidic protein, and CLs.

  36. Timing of Changes in Alzheimer's Disease Plasma Biomarkers as Assessed by Amyloid and Tau PET Clocks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2025-06-20 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that the plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 may be useful in identifying individuals with very low levels of amyloid pathology, whereas p-tau, GFAP, and NfL may be useful in staging disease progression.

  37. TAU PET HARMONIZATION VIA SURFACE-BASED DIFFUSION MODEL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2025-05-12 Brain scans and imaging

    The heterogeneity inherent in tau positron emission tomography (PET) imaging data across different tracers challenges the integration of multi-site tau PET data, thereby necessitating the trustful harmonization technique for a better utilization of the emerging large-scale datasets.

  38. Localized Intense Uptake in the Skull on 18 F-Flortaucipir PET/CT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2025-04-23 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-Flortaucipir, as a classical Tau protein visualizer, has been widely used in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer disease.

  39. A practical overview of the use of amyloid-PET Centiloid values in clinical trials and research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2025-03-10 Brain scans and imaging

    The density of brain amyloid-beta neuritic plaque accumulation, a marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD), can be visualized and quantified using amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET).

  40. 18F-MK-6240 tau PET in patients at-risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2025-02-25 Brain scans and imaging

    All six CTE stage III cases had Braak NFT stage III but no neuritic plaques.

  41. Multi-parametric [18F]PI-2620 tau PET/MRI for the phenotyping of different Alzheimer's disease variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2025-02-12 Brain scans and imaging

    The aAD patients showed significantly higher tau accumulation, relative hypoperfusion and grey matter density loss in the temporal lobes compared to PCA and lvPPA patients.

  42. Plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarker relationships with incident abnormal amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-02 Biomarkers

    Interquartile range differences in amyloid beta 42/40, percent phosphorylated tau 217 (%p-tau217), and Amyloid Probability Score 2 were associated with 1.29 (P = 0.09), 1.38 (P < 0.001), and 1.20 (P = 0.05) increases, respectively, in the hazard of progression from A- to A+ and 0.27 (P = 0.16), 0.50 (P = 0.007), and 0.28 (P = 0.15) Centiloid/year increases, respectively, in annual rate of amyloid PET change.

  43. Pragmatic algorithm for visual assessment of 4-Repeat tauopathies in [18F]PI-2620 PET Scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage 2025-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with 4R-tauopathies in contrast to non-4R-tauopathies were detected at higher sensitivity in the 20-40-minute frame (common: 79%, scaled: 76%) compared to the 40-60-minute frame (common: 55%, scaled: 62%), albeit with reduced specificity in the common setting (20-40-min: 78%, 40-60-min: 95%), which was ameliorated in the intensity-scaled setting (20-40-min: 91%, 40-60-min: 96%).

  44. Can the clinical sign "head-turning sign" and simple questions in "Neucop-Q" predict amyloid β pathology?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-11-21 Biomarkers

    The specificity and positive predictive value (PPV) of HTS positivity (HTSpos) were the highest (amyloid PET: 0.930 and 0.870, tau PET: 0.944 and 0.957, respectively), while Cimp and Nimp had a high negative predictive value (NPV) for amyloid PET (negativity) (0.750 and 0.725).

  45. Cerebral perfusion and amyloidosis in the oldest-old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Participants with CIND displayed lower perfusion in the PCC+PCu relative to participants who were CN, but there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in amyloid burden in this region.

  46. [18F]PI-2620 Tau PET signal across the aging and Alzheimer's disease clinical spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) 2024-10-24 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]PI-2620 is a second generation tracer that has shown high binding affinity for tau aggregation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  47. Detection and staging of Alzheimer's disease by plasma pTau217 on a high throughput immunoassay platform

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2024-10-21 Biomarkers

    Plasma pTau217 had a high correlation with both Aβ Centiloid (r = 0.76) and tau SUVR meta-temporal (r = 0.78).

  48. The amyloid beta 42/38 ratio as a plasma biomarker of early memory deficits in cognitively unimpaired older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-09-03 Biomarkers

    The amyloid beta (Aβ) 42/40 ratio has been widely studied as a biomarker in Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, other Aβ peptides could also represent relevant biomarkers.

  49. Harmonizing tau positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease: The CenTauR scale and the joint propagation model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-23 Brain scans and imaging

    A strong linear relationship was observed between CTR values across brain regions.

  50. Predicting continuous amyloid PET values with CSF tau phosphorylation occupancies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-23 Tau biomarkers

    Concentration of CSF pT217/T217 had low predictive error (average error: 13%), but also a low predictive range (ceiling 63 Centiloids).

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