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  1. Midlife and Late-Life Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers and 11-Year Cognitive Decline 2026-10-16
  2. Clinical Factors Associated With Discordant Plasma P-Tau217 and Established Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers 2026-10-01
  3. A neurocognitive speech taxonomy for voice biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease 2026-09-25

Studies

854 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1980 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 131
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 37
  • JAMA neurology 35
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 28
  • Archives of neurology 25

251 journals in all.

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  1. Cerebrovascular and amyloid pathology in predementia stages: the relationship with neurodegeneration and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-12-29 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and amyloid-β (Aβ) often coexist, but their influence on neurodegeneration and cognition in predementia stages remains unclear.

  2. Interpreting Biomarker Results in Individual Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Alzheimer's Biomarkers in Daily Practice (ABIDE) Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Three- and 1-year progression risks were 86% (95% CI, 71%-95%) and 27% (95% CI, 17%-41%) when MRI results were abnormal, 82% (95% CI, 73%-89%) and 26% (95% CI, 20%-33%) when CSF test results were abnormal, and 89% (95% CI, 79%-95%) and 26% (95% CI, 18%-36%) when the results of both tests were abnormal.

  3. Bile acid quantification of 20 plasma metabolites identifies lithocholic acid as a putative biomarker in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society 2017-11-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    Levels of lithocholic acid were significantly enhanced in plasma of AD patients (50 ± 6 nM, p = 0.004) compared to healthy controls (32 ± 3 nM).

  4. Current Role for Biomarkers in Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Current treatment options in neurology 2017-11-14 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia can often be diagnosed accurately with careful clinical history, cognitive testing, neurological examination, and structural brain MRI.

  5. YKL-40 in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2017-11-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    YKL-40 (also known as Chitinase 3-like 1) is a glycoprotein produced by inflammatory, cancer and stem cells.

  6. Race modifies the relationship between cognition and Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-11-02 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We hypothesized that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of amyloid, neurodegeneration, and endothelial dysfunction would differ between older African Americans and Caucasians with normal cognition and cognitive impairment associated with AD.

  7. Age, vascular health, and Alzheimer disease biomarkers in an elderly sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-10-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Vascular health had quantifiably greater impact on neurodegeneration in AD regions than on amyloid deposition.

  8. Serum neurofilament light in familial Alzheimer disease: A marker of early neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2017-10-25 Biomarkers

    Serum NfL concentration is increased in FAD prior to symptom onset and correlates with measures of disease stage and severity.

  9. Changes of cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42, t-tau, and p-tau in Parkinson's disease patients with cognitive impairment relative to those with normal cognition: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2017-08-14 Disease mechanisms

    The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) signature of reduced amyloid beta 1-42 (Aβ 42 ), elevated total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau) is important for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Functional correlates of TSH, fT3 and fT4 in Alzheimer disease: a F-18 FDG PET/CT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-07-24 Tau biomarkers

    The present study was aimed to investigate the relationships between thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), freeT3 (fT3) and freeT4 (fT4) and brain glucose consumption as detectable by means of 2-deoxy-2-(F-18) fluoro-D-glucose (F-18 FDG) Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) in a selected population with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  11. Serum Interleukin-10 Levels Correlate with Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Beta Deposition in Alzheimer Disease Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2017-07-19 Tau biomarkers

    In Alzheimer disease (AD) inflammation becomes evident throughout the course of the disease.

  12. Poor sleep is associated with CSF biomarkers of amyloid pathology in cognitively normal adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2017-07-05 Biomarkers

    Self-report of poor sleep was associated with greater AD-related pathology in cognitively healthy adults at risk for AD.

  13. Odor identification as a biomarker of preclinical AD in older adults at risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2017-06-28 Genetics

    These findings from healthy high-risk older individuals suggest that OI reflects degree of preclinical AD pathology, while its relationships with age and cognition result from the association of these latter variables with such pathology.

  14. Concordance between brain 18F-FDG PET and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2017-06-20 Tau biomarkers

    Cortical posterior hypometabolism on PET imaging with 18 F-FDG (FDG-PET), and altered levels of Aß 1-42 peptide, total Tau (tTau) and phosphorylated Tau (pTau) proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are established diagnostic biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. One-carbon metabolism, cognitive impairment and CSF measures of Alzheimer pathology: homocysteine and beyond

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-06-17 Tau biomarkers

    Hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer disease (AD).

  16. C-terminal fragments of the amyloid precursor protein in cerebrospinal fluid as potential biomarkers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-05-30 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    This study assesses whether C-terminal fragments (CTF) of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) are present in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and their potential as biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Association of Plasma Neurofilament Light With Neurodegeneration in Patients With Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-05-01 Biomarkers

    Among 193 cognitively healthy controls, 197 patients with mild cognitive impairment, and 180 patients with AD with dementia, plasma NFL correlated with CSF NFL (Spearman ρ = 0.59, P Conclusions and relevance Plasma NFL is associated with AD diagnosis and with cognitive, biochemical, and imaging hallmarks of the disease.

  18. Comparison of CSF markers and semi-quantitative amyloid PET in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and in cognitive impairment prognosis using the ADNI-2 database

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-04-26 Long-term cohort studies

    The relative performance of semi-quantitative amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) markers in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and predicting the cognitive evolution of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is still debated.

  19. Role of inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers in Alzheimer's and vascular dementia - A pilot study from a tertiary center in Northern India

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Asian journal of psychiatry 2017-04-22 Biomarkers

    Hemostatic biomarkers were higher in Vascular group compared to Alzheimer group whereas there was no difference in inflammatory biomarkers.

  20. Plasma neurofilament light chain levels in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2017-04-18 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma neurofilament light (NFL) levels may be a marker of neuronal injury.

  21. Left frontal cortex connectivity underlies cognitive reserve in prodromal Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2017-02-10 Biomarkers

    Higher gLFC connectivity is a functional substrate of CR that helps to maintain episodic memory relatively well in the face of emerging FDG-PET hypometabolism in early-stage AD.

  22. Validation of olfactory deficit as a biomarker of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology. Clinical practice 2017-02-01 Genetics

    Olfactory identification deficit is a useful screening tool for AD-related amnestic disorder, with sensitivity and specificity comparable to other established biomarkers, with benefits such as ease of administration and low cost.

  23. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of orexin-A and histamine, and sleep profile within the Alzheimer process

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-01-18 Tau biomarkers

    To better understand how sleep/wake dysregulation affects Alzheimer's disease (AD), we compared the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) orexin and histamine/tele-methylhistamine (HA/t-MHA) levels of 82 patients (41 probable-AD-high level of evidence, 41 mild cognitive impairment MCI-due-to-AD), 24 other neurologic disorders (OND) and 24 controls.

  24. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2017-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Laboratory-specific reference values for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers are necessary.

  25. Psychosocial stress and physical, cognitive, and social activity predict the risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

  26. The Clinical Use of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis: The Italian Selfie

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Biomarkers

    Although the use of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid β1-42 (Aβ42), tau (T-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau181) gives added diagnostic and prognostic values, the diffusion is still limited in clinical practice and only a restricted number of patients receive an integrated clinico-biological diagnosis.

  27. Recommendations for cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in the diagnostic evaluation of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-10-27 Mild cognitive impairment

    This article presents recommendations, based on the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation method, for the clinical application of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β 1-42 , tau, and phosphorylated tau in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  28. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Beta and Tau Concentrations Are Not Modulated by 16 Weeks of Moderate- to High-Intensity Physical Exercise in Patients with Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2016-09-20 Tau biomarkers

    Physical exercise may have some effect on cognition in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  29. Imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early preclinical alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-07-25 Brain scans and imaging

    CSF Aβ42 levels are tightly coupled with cortical amyloid load in the earliest stages of preclinical AD, and begin to decrease dramatically prior to the point when an abnormal threshold of cortical accumulation is detected with amyloid imaging.

  30. The relationship between cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer pathology and positron emission tomography tau imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-06-10 Tau biomarkers

    The two primary molecular pathologies in Alzheimer's disease are amyloid-β plaques and tau-immunoreactive neurofibrillary tangles.

  31. Diagnostic and Prognostic Utility of the Synaptic Marker Neurogranin in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    Synaptic loss is an early pathologic substrate of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. Tau and Aβ imaging, CSF measures, and cognition in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2016-05-01 How common it is

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two molecular pathologies: cerebral β-amyloidosis in the form of β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and tauopathy in the form of neurofibrillary tangles, neuritic plaques, and neuropil threads.

  33. Decreased peripheral brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis study (N=7277)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2016-04-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    Studies suggest that dysfunction of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a possible contributor to the pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  34. Mood Changes in Cognitively Normal Older Adults are Linked to Alzheimer Disease Biomarker Levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2016-04-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) at Washington University (WU).

  35. CSF and blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2016-04-08 Biomarkers

    The core biomarkers differentiated Alzheimer's disease from controls with good performance: CSF T-tau (average ratio 2·54, 95% CI 2·44-2·64, p Interpretation The core CSF biomarkers of neurodegeneration (T-tau, P-tau, and Aβ42), CSF NFL, and plasma T-tau were strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease and the core biomarkers were strongly associated with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease.

  36. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis detects cerebral amyloid-β accumulation earlier than positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-03-02 Long-term cohort studies

    Cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β is thought to be the starting mechanism in Alzheimer's disease.

  37. The Utility of Cerebral Blood Flow as a Biomarker of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2016-02-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    There is accumulating evidence suggesting that changes in brain perfusion are present long before the clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), perhaps even before amyloid-β accumulation or brain atrophy.

  38. CSF complement 3 and factor H are staging biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2016-02-17 Digital health tools

    We developed a biochemical/bioinformatics pipeline to optimize the handling of complex interactions between variables in validating biochemical markers of disease.

  39. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker for Alzheimer Disease Predicts Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2016-02-01 Biomarkers

    Low CSF Aβ1-42 may be a significant predictor of POCD at 3 months.

  40. Increased CSF neurogranin concentration is specific to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2016-01-29 Digital health tools

    An optimized immunoassay was used to analyze CSF Ng in a retrospective cohort of 331 participants with different neurodegenerative diseases, including healthy controls (n = 19), biomarker-proven Alzheimer disease (AD) (n = 100), genetic AD (n = 2), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 20), speech variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 21), Lewy body dementia (n = 13), Parkinson disease (n = 31), progressive supranuclear palsy (n = 46), multiple system atrophy (n = 29), as well as a heterogeneous group with non-neurodegenerative cognitive impairment (n = 50).

  41. Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Neurofilament Light Concentration With Alzheimer Disease Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid NFL concentration (median [interquartile range]) was higher in the AD dementia group (1479 [1134-1842] pg/mL), stable MCI group (no progression to AD during follow-up; 1182 [923-1687] pg/mL), and progressive MCI group (MCI with progression to AD dementia during follow-up; 1336 [1061-1693] pg/mL) compared with control participants (1047 [809-1265] pg/mL) (P Conclusions and relevance Cerebrospinal fluid NFL concentration is increased by the early clinical stage of AD and is associated with cognitive deterioration and structural brain changes over time.

  42. Association of Elevated Amyloid Levels With Cognition and Biomarkers in Cognitively Normal People From the Community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In persons selected from a population-based study, elevated amyloid levels at baseline were associated with worse cognition and imaging biomarkers at baseline and with greater clinical decline and neurodegeneration.

  43. CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios: better diagnostic markers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    The CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios are significantly better than CSF Aβ42 to detect brain amyloid deposition in prodromal AD and to differentiate AD dementia from non-AD dementias.

  44. Performance of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease in a Memory Clinic in Norway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2016-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Although Alzheimer disease (AD) remains a clinical diagnosis, biomarkers are in use to support the diagnosis.

  45. Preliminary Study of Plasma Exosomal Tau as a Potential Biomarker for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    These preliminary findings suggest that exosomal tau in plasma may be an accurate, noninvasive CTE biomarker.

  46. Combined Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Signature for the Prediction of Midterm Progression From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-12-14 Long-term cohort studies

    A reliable method of detecting Alzheimer disease (AD) in its prodromal state is needed for patient stratification in clinical trials or for personalizing existing or potential upcoming therapies.

  47. Identification of novel CSF biomarkers for neurodegeneration and their validation by a high-throughput multiplexed targeted proteomic assay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2015-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Currently there are no effective treatments for many neurodegenerative diseases.

  48. Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin and YKL-40 as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2015-11-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Widespread implementation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical settings requires improved accuracy for diagnosis of prodromal disease and for distinguishing AD from non-AD dementias.

  49. Quantitative validation of a visual rating scale for frontal atrophy: associations with clinical status, APOE e4, CSF biomarkers and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. European radiology 2015-11-11 Long-term cohort studies

    The AddNeuroMed and ADNI cohorts were combined giving a total of 329 healthy controls, 421 mild cognitive impairment patients, and 286 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  50. Altered microRNA profiles in cerebrospinal fluid exosome in Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Oncotarget 2015-11-01 Biomarkers

    The differential diagnosis of Parkinson's diseases (PD) is challenging, especially in the early stages of the disease.

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