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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. Astrocyte biomarker signatures of amyloid-β and tau pathologies in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-08-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Astrocytes can adopt multiple molecular phenotypes in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  2. Evaluation of tau deposition using 18F-PI-2620 PET in MCI and early AD subjects-a MissionAD tau sub-study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-07-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Percentage of visually tau-positive scans increased with amyloid-beta deposition measured in 18F-florbetaben Centiloids (CL) (7.7% (<36 CL), 80% (>83 CL)). 18F-PI-2620 standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) was correlated with increased 18F-florbetaben CL in several regions of interest.

  3. Early-phase 18F-Florbetapir and 18F-Flutemetamol images as proxies of brain metabolism in a memory clinic setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Positive correlations were found between eFBP/eFMM and 18F-FDG-PET SUVR independently of Aβ status and Aβ radiotracer (R>0.72, p<0.001). eFBP/eFMM single-subject analysis revealed clusters of significant hypoperfusion with good correspondence to hypometabolism topographies, independently of the underlying neurodegenerative patterns.

  4. Plasma Aβ42/40 ratio, p-tau181, GFAP, and NfL across the Alzheimer's disease continuum: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study in the AIBL cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-21 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that plasma biomarkers are altered cross-sectionally and longitudinally, along the AD continuum, and are prospectively associated with cognitive decline and brain Aβ-PET load.

  5. The relationship between plasma biomarkers and amyloid PET in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2022-07-19 Biomarkers

    All four plasma markers significantly correlated with 18F-florbetapir SUVR (|β| = 0.40-0.49; p < .05).

  6. Findings of 18 F‐PI‐2620 tau PET imaging in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and healthy controls in relation to the plasma P‐tau181 levels in a Japanese sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology Reports 2022-07-17 Biomarkers

    The uptake of 18 F‐PI‐2620 was distinctly increased in the AD group across all the ROIs.

  7. Comparative analytical performance of multiple plasma Aβ42 and Aβ40 assays and their ability to predict positron emission tomography amyloid positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-12 Biomarkers

    Measurement of Aβ in plasma contributes to addressing the amyloid component of the ATN (amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration) framework and could be a first step before or in place of a PET or cerebrospinal fluid screening study.

  8. Automated semi-quantitative amyloid PET analysis technique without MR images for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of nuclear medicine 2022-07-11 Brain scans and imaging

    SUVr calculated by our method and CortexID were highly correlated (R2 = 0.9657).

  9. Staging of Alzheimer's disease: past, present, and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2022-06-15 Tau biomarkers

    For many years Alzheimer's disease (AD) was associated with the dementia stage of the disease, the tail end of a pathophysiological process that lasts approximately two decades.

  10. 18F-MK-6240 tau-PET in genetic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-06-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau is one of several proteins associated with frontotemporal dementia.

  11. Menopause Status Moderates Sex Differences in Tau Burden: A Framingham PET Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-05-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Clear divergence in tauopathy between the sexes are apparent approximately 20 years earlier than previously reported.

  12. Association of the top 20 Alzheimer's disease risk genes with [18F]flortaucipir PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-05-11 Brain scans and imaging

    APOE ε4 showed significant (P < .05) associations with tau deposition across all disease stages.

  13. The cerebrospinal fluid biomarker ratio Aβ42/40 identifies amyloid positron emission tomography positivity better than Aβ42 alone in a heterogeneous memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-04-26 Biomarkers

    CSF Aβ42/40 ratio can predict PET amyloid positivity with high accuracy in patients with a range of cognitive disorders when evaluating Aβ pathology independent of tau and neurodegeneration for research purposes.

  14. Biomarker modeling of Alzheimer's disease using PET-based Braak staging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature aging 2022-04-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Gold-standard diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) relies on histopathological staging systems.

  15. Quantification of amyloid beta and tau PET without a structural MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-04-16 Brain scans and imaging

    The best-performing MRI-free approaches had high continuous and dichotomous agreement with MRI-dependent SUVRs for Aβ PET and temporal flortaucipir (R2 ≥0.95; ± agreement ≥92%) and for Alzheimer's disease-related effect sizes; agreement was slightly lower for entorhinal flortaucipir and longitudinal slopes.

  16. Dual-Phase 18F-Florbetaben PET/CT: Unsuspected Thalamic Infarction Mimicking Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2022-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Dual-phase amyloid PET is considered a useful protocol to study patients with cognitive impairment.

  17. Non-linear Character of Plasma Amyloid Beta Over the Course of Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-03-23 Biomarkers

    Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) was associated with brain Aβ deposition and Alzheimer's disease (AD) development.

  18. Multicenter 18F-PI-2620 PET for In Vivo Braak Staging of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Biomolecules 2022-03-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau aggregates accumulate in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain according to the established Braak staging scheme and spread from transentorhinal over limbic regions to the neocortex.

  19. Longitudinal Tau Positron Emission Tomography in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2022-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The annual increase of flortaucipir SUVr was greater in the middle and superior occipital, fusiform, and inferior parietal cortices in DLB (mean: 0.017, 0.019, 0.019, and 0.015, respectively) compared with the CU (mean: -0.006, -0.009, -0.003, and - 0.005, respectively; P < 0.05).

  20. Decreased imaging time of amyloid PET using [18F]florbetapir can maintain quantitative accuracy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Radiological physics and technology 2022-03-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Shortening the amount of time required to acquire amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) brain images while maintaining the accuracy of quantitative evaluation would help to overcome motion artifacts associated with Alzheimer's disease patients.

  21. Tau-PET imaging predicts cognitive decline and brain atrophy progression in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2022-02-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Baseline tau-PET was strongly associated with the subsequent cognitive decline in regions that are usually associated with each cognitive domain.

  22. Increased retention of tau PET ligand [18F]-AV1451 in Alzheimer's Disease Psychosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2022-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Psychosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents a distinct disease subtype with a more rapid progression of illness evidenced by an increased velocity of cognitive decline and a hastened mortality.

  23. Plasma p-tau231, p-tau181, PET Biomarkers, and Cognitive Change in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-02-18 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau231 showed more robust associations with PET biomarkers than p-tau181 in presymptomatic individuals.

  24. Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau231 as an early indicator of emerging pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2022-02-12 Biomarkers

    All CSF p-tau biomarkers were accurate predictors of cognitive impairment but CSF p-tau217 demonstrated the largest fold-changes in AD patients in comparison to non-AD dementias and cognitively unimpaired individuals.

  25. Software development for quantitative analysis of brain amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2022-02-08 Brain scans and imaging

    When whole cerebellum or whole cerebellum plus brainstem was chosen as the reference area, an excellent correlation was found between the CL scale calculated by this software and the CL scale published by GAAIN.

  26. The accuracy and robustness of plasma biomarker models for amyloid PET positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-02-07 Biomarkers

    Increasing variation greatly impacted the performance of plasma Aβ42/40 in discriminating Aβ status.

  27. TDP-43-associated atrophy in brains with and without frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2022-02-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Transactive response DNA-binding protein of ∼43 kDa (TDP-43), a primary pathologic substrate in tau-negative frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), is also often found in the brains of elderly individuals without FTLD and is a key player in the process of neurodegeneration in brains with and without FTLD.

  28. International consensus on the use of tau PET imaging agent 18F-flortaucipir in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2022-01-03 Brain scans and imaging

    This international consensus and practice guideline will help to promote the standardized use of 18F-flortaucipir PET in patients with AD.

  29. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities and Other MRI Findings in a Cognitively Unimpaired Population With and Without Cerebral Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Treatments

    ARIA-E is rare in cognitively unimpaired Aβ+ and Aβ- populations prior to anti-amyloid drug intervention.

  30. Unravelling the Association Between Amyloid-PET and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in the Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum: Who Really Deserves an A+?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    Different pipelines gave highly inter-correlated standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) (rho = 0.93-0.99).

  31. Distributions of Aβ42 and Aβ42/40 in the Cerebrospinal Fluid in View of the Probability Theory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-12-16 Biomarkers

    Amyloid β 42/40 concentration quotient has been empirically shown to improve accuracy of the neurochemical diagnostics of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) compared to the Aβ42 concentration alone, but this improvement in diagnostic performance has not been backed up by a theoretical argumentation so far.

  32. Longitudinal 18F-MK-6240 tau tangles accumulation follows Braak stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that the cognitively unimpaired amyloid-β-negative individuals had significant longitudinal tau accumulation confined to the PET Braak-like stage I (3.9%) and II (2.8%) areas.

  33. Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and discordant amyloid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Do MRI-based metrics of a CSF-dynamics disorder, disproportionately enlarged subarachnoid-space hydrocephalus (DESH), correlate with discordant amyloid biomarkers (low CSF β-amyloid 1-42, normal Aβ-PET scan)?

  34. Amyloid-dependent and amyloid-independent effects of Tau in individuals without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2021-10-07 Brain scans and imaging

    In both cohorts, we observed that tau-PET standardized uptake value ratio in medial temporal lobes was associated with clinical dementia rating Sum of Boxes (CDR-SoB) scores independently of local amyloid-PET uptake (FWE corrected at p < 0.001).

  35. The Role of 18F-Flortaucipir (AV-1451) in the Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cureus 2021-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau protein plays a vital role in maintaining the structural and functional integrity of the nervous system; however, hyperphosphorylation or abnormal phosphorylation of tau protein plays an essential role in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative disorders.

  36. [18F]Flortaucipir PET Across Various MAPT Mutations in Presymptomatic and Symptomatic Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2021-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]Flortaucipir BPND images showed overall highest binding in the symptomatic carriers.

  37. Associations of longitudinal plasma p-tau181 and NfL with tau-PET, Aβ-PET and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2021-06-29 Biomarkers

    P-tau and NfL behave differently within the same individuals over time and may therefore offer complementary diagnostic information.

  38. Automated production of [18F]Flortaucipir for PET imaging of tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2021-06-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Radiotracer [18F]Flortaucipir is an FDA-approved diagnostic agent for PET imaging of density and distribution of abnormal tau protein deposition (tauopathies) in Alzheimer's disease.

  39. Patterns of tau pathology identified with 18 F-MK-6240 PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-05-31 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-MK-6240 recapitulated Braak staging and correlated with CSF tau and p-tau, normalized to Aβ42 . 18 F-MK-6240 negatively correlated with age across Braak regions in amyloid-positive participants, consistent with greater tau pathology in earlier onset AD.

  40. Sex differences in off-target binding using tau positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2021-05-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Voxel-wise analysis showed higher meningeal off-target binding in women compared to men across all three tracers.

  41. Binding characteristics of [18F]PI-2620 distinguish the clinically predicted tau isoform in different tauopathies by PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2021-05-27 Brain scans and imaging

    The novel tau-PET tracer [18F]PI-2620 detects the 3/4-repeat-(R)-tauopathy Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the 4R-tauopathies corticobasal syndrome (CBS) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

  42. P-tau/Aβ42 and Aβ42/40 ratios in CSF are equally predictive of amyloid PET status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-18 Biomarkers

    These data suggest that p-tau/Aβ42 and Aβ42/40 ratios provide similar clinical information in the assessment of amyloid pathology.

  43. Validation of amyloid PET positivity thresholds in centiloids: a multisite PET study approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-10 Brain scans and imaging

    The FBB threshold based on the young sample (1.08; 18 CL) was consistent with that of the data-driven approach (1.10; 21 CL), and the existing FBP threshold converted to CL with the derived transformation (1.11; 20 CL).

  44. Cortical [18 F]PI-2620 Binding Differentiates Corticobasal Syndrome Subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2021-05-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty-four percent (11 of 45) were β-amyloid-positive.

  45. Characterization of Alzheimer's tau biomarker discordance using plasma, CSF, and PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Across different tau biomarker groups, the proportion of participants with a discordant profile varied (plasma+/CSF- 15.6%, plasma-/CSF+ 15.3%, plasma+/PET- 22.4%, and plasma-/PET+ 6.1%).

  46. Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature medicine 2021-04-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the spread of tau pathology throughout the cerebral cortex.

  47. Early detection of amyloid load using 18F-florbetaben PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-27 Brain scans and imaging

    SUVR using the whole cerebellum as the reference region and centiloid (CL) cutoffs for early and established amyloid pathology were 1.10 (13.5 CL) and 1.24 (35.7 CL), respectively.

  48. Population-based blood screening for preclinical Alzheimer's disease in a British birth cohort at age 70

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-03-01 Biomarkers

    Mass spectrometry plasma measures performed significantly better than any other measure (amyloid-β1-42/1-40: 0.817; 0.770-0.864 and amyloid-β composite: 0.820; 0.775-0.866).

  49. Pinpointing Brain TREM2 Levels in Two Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular imaging and biology 2021-02-23 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Transgenic animals displayed higher total exposure, calculated as the AUC based on SUV determined at 24h, 48h, and 72h post injection, of PET radioligand [124I]mAb1729-scFv8D3CL than WT mice.

  50. Amyloid PET Imaging in Self-Identified Non-Hispanic Black Participants of the Anti-Amyloid in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2021-02-10 Treatments

    Reduced amyloid was observed in self-identified NHB participants who passed initial eligibility criteria for the A4 study.

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