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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. Neurogranin as a Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker for Synaptic Loss in Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Baseline CSF levels of NGRN in patients with AD (median level, 2381 pg/mL [interquartile range, 1651-3416 pg/mL]) were higher than in cognitively normal participants (median level, 1712 pg/mL [interquartile range, 1206-2724 pg/mL]) (P = .04).

  2. Use of amyloid-PET to determine cutpoints for CSF markers: A multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2015-10-14 Biomarkers

    Amyloid-PET-based CSF Aβ42 cutpoints were higher and tended to reduce intercenter variability compared with clinical-based cutpoints.

  3. Cerebrospinal fluid VILIP-1 and YKL-40, candidate biomarkers to diagnose, predict and monitor Alzheimer's disease in a memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2015-09-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    CSF levels of YKL-40 may have utility for discriminating between cognitively normal individuals and patients with MCI or AD.

  4. Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin: relation to cognition and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-09-15 Disease mechanisms

    Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin was increased in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia (P < 0.001), progressive mild cognitive impairment (P < 0.001) and stable mild cognitive impairment (P < 0.05) compared with controls, and in Alzheimer's disease dementia (P < 0.01) and progressive mild cognitive impairment (P < 0.05) compared with stable mild cognitive impairment.

  5. Detailed comparison of amyloid PET and CSF biomarkers for identifying early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2015-09-09 Biomarkers

    The best CSF measures for identifying MCI-AD were Aβ42/total tau (t-tau) and Aβ42/hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) (area under the curve [AUC] 0.93-0.94).

  6. Longitudinal Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Changes in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease During Middle Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-09-01 Genetics

    Within-person changes in CSF biomarkers were also compared with changes in cortical PiB binding and progression to a CDR higher than 0 at follow-up.

  7. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and amyloid-β1-42 in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-06-30 Brain tissue and pathology

    Progressive cognitive decline in combination with a cerebrospinal fluid biomarker pattern of low levels of amyloid-β1-42 and high levels of total tau and phosphorylated tau is typical of Alzheimer's disease.

  8. Proteomic analysis of host brain components that bind to infectious particles in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Proteomics 2015-06-09 Biomarkers

    Transmissible encephalopathies (TSEs), such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, are caused by infectious agents that provoke strain-specific patterns of disease.

  9. Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers of Neurodegeneration and Rates of Brain Atrophy in Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Measures of neuronal loss are likely good surrogates for clinical and radiological disease progression in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  10. Effect of Cognitive Reserve on Age-Related Changes in Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Although advancing age is the strongest risk factor for the development of symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD), recent studies have shown that there are individual differences in susceptibility to age-related alterations in the biomarkers of AD pathophysiology.

  11. Ferritin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid predict Alzheimer's disease outcomes and are regulated by APOE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Nature communications 2015-05-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    Brain iron elevation is implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, but the impact of iron on disease outcomes has not been previously explored in a longitudinal study.

  12. Cognitive performance and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neurodegeneration: a study of patients with bipolar disorder and healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. PloS one 2015-05-08 Biomarkers

    The purpose of the present study was to investigate if cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of neurodegeneration are associated with cognition in bipolar disorder and healthy controls, respectively.

  13. Nonlinear Association Between Cerebrospinal Fluid and Florbetapir F-18 β-Amyloid Measures Across the Spectrum of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-05-01 Genetics

    The association between both biomarkers is limited to a middle range of values, is modified by the APOE genotype, and is absent for longitudinal changes; 4 different approaches in 2 different platforms converge on similar pathological Aβ cutoff levels; and different pipelines to process PET scans showed correlated but not identical results.

  14. Odor identification and Alzheimer disease biomarkers in clinically normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2015-05-01 Genetics

    Our objective was to investigate cross-sectional associations between odor identification ability and imaging biomarkers of neurodegeneration and amyloid deposition in clinically normal (CN) elderly individuals, specifically testing the hypothesis that there may be an interaction between amyloid deposition and neurodegeneration in predicting odor identification dysfunction.

  15. Development and evaluation of a multiplexed mass spectrometry based assay for measuring candidate peptide biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) CSF

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Proteomics. Clinical applications 2015-04-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    These data provide potential insights into the biology of CSF in AD and MCI progression and provide a novel tool for AD researchers and clinicians working to improve diagnostic accuracy, evaluation of treatment efficacy, and early diagnosis.

  16. Biomarkers of lipid peroxidation in Alzheimer disease (AD): an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of toxicology 2015-04-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Increasing evidence suggests that free radical-mediated oxidation of biological substrates is a key feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  17. Brain glutathione levels--a novel biomarker for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2015-04-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Extant data from in vivo animal models and postmortem studies indicate that Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is associated with reduction of the brain antioxidant glutathione (GSH), yet direct clinical evidence has been lacking.

  18. Importance and impact of preanalytical variables on Alzheimer disease biomarker concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2015-04-13 Tau biomarkers

    Analyses of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers (β-amyloid protein, total tau protein, and hyperphosphorylated tau protein) are part of the diagnostic criteria of Alzheimer disease.

  19. Nutrient patterns and brain biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2015-04-01 Prevention and risk

    None of the participants were diabetics, smokers, or met criteria for obesity.

  20. Association of cerebrospinal fluid prion protein levels and the distinction between Alzheimer disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    Although typical forms of Alzheimer disease (AD) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are clinically distinguishable, atypical AD phenotypes may pose a diagnostic challenge.

  21. Associations between biomarkers and age in the presenilin 1 E280A autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease kindred: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Age-associated changes in brain imaging and fluid biomarkers are characterized and compared in presenilin 1 (PSEN1)E280A mutation carriers and noncarriers from the world's largest known autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (AD) kindred.

  22. Different cerebrospinal fluid levels of Alzheimer-type biomarker Aβ42 between general paresis and asymptomatic neurosyphilis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2015-02-23 Tau biomarkers

    Neurosyphilis is a neurological disease that involves infection of the central nervous system with Treponema pallidum.

  23. Role of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers to predict conversion to dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a clinical cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2015-02-01 Biomarkers

    Our results confirm the key role of CSF biomarkers in predicting patient conversion from MCI to dementia.

  24. Associations between Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers and Cognition in Early Untreated Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's disease 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    The association between reduced CSF α-synuclein concentrations and cognition suggests that α-synuclein pathology contributes to early cognitive impairment in PD, in particular to executive-attentional dysfunction.

  25. Genetic variants of GSK3B are associated with biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    We found GSK3B gene variants associated with cognitive function and CSF biomarkers T-tau and Aβ42.

  26. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of the synaptic protein neurogranin correlates with cognitive decline in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-12-19 Getting a diagnosis

    Synaptic dysfunction is an early event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis and directly related to cognitive impairment.

  27. The present study was undertaken to validate the measurement of biomarkers as a supplement to the latest diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia by National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) work group using a sample attending a tertiary care center in Southern India.

  28. Cerebrospinal fluid cortisol and clinical disease progression in MCI and dementia of Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-10-31 Mild cognitive impairment

    Increased peripheral and central nervous system cortisol levels have been reported in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and may reflect dysfunction of cerebral components of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

  29. The mediational effects of FDG hypometabolism on the association between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and neurocognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. NeuroImage 2014-10-29 Tau biomarkers

    Positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of tau and amyloid beta42 suggest possible active underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) including neurometabolic dysfunction and neurodegeneration leading to eventual cognitive decline.

  30. CSF neurofilament light differs in neurodegenerative diseases and predicts severity and survival

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-22 Biomarkers

    CSF NFL differs among different neurodegenerative diseases and is especially high in dementias engaging subcortical brain regions, such as VaD and mixed AD and VaD, but also in frontotemporal dementia.

  31. Alzheimer CSF biomarkers may be misleading in normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    This article discusses why CSF biomarkers found in normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) can be misleading when distinguishing NPH from comorbid NPH with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. Apolipoprotein E genotype and the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2014-10-01 Genetics

    The CSF levels of Aβ42 but not total and phosphorylated tau were lower in APOE ε4 carriers compared with noncarriers irrespective of diagnostic group (cohort A).

  33. Higher homocysteine associated with thinner cortical gray matter in 803 participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-08-30 Long-term cohort studies

    A significant portion of our risk for dementia in old age is associated with lifestyle factors (diet, exercise, and cardiovascular health) that are modifiable, at least in principle.

  34. CSF lactate levels, τ proteins, cognitive decline: a dynamic relationship in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2014-08-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Moreover, we found, in either the whole AD population or both subgroups, a CSF profile in which higher

  35. Update on the core and developing cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Croatian medical journal 2014-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder, whose prevalence will dramatically rise by 2050.

  36. Plasma proteins predict conversion to dementia from prodromal disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-07-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    We have identified 10 plasma proteins strongly associated with disease severity and disease progression.

  37. Associations between cerebral small-vessel disease and Alzheimer disease pathology as measured by cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-07-01 Genetics

    Microbleed presence was associated with lower CSF Aβ42 in AD and vascular dementia (standardized beta = -0.09, P = .003; standardized beta = -0.30, P = .01), and higher CSF tau in controls (standardized beta = 0.10, P = .03).

  38. Cerebrospinal fluid β-amyloid and phospho-tau biomarker interactions affecting brain structure in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-06-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Our data suggest that interactions between biomarkers in AD result in a 2-phase phenomenon of pathological cortical thickening associated with low CSF Aβ, followed by atrophy once CSF p-tau becomes abnormal.

  39. Circulating miRNAs as biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2014-05-23 Disease mechanisms

    Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and frontotemporal dementias (FTD), are considered distinct entities, however, there is increasing evidence of an overlap from the clinical, pathological and genetic points of view.

  40. The discovery and reliable detection of markers for neurodegenerative diseases have been complicated by the inaccessibility of the diseased tissue--such as the inability to biopsy or test tissue from the central nervous system directly.

  41. Clinical utility of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-05-03 Getting a diagnosis

    Several potential disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to show any effect on disease progression in clinical trials, conceivably because the AD subjects are already too advanced to derive clinical benefit from treatment and because diagnosis based on clinical criteria alone introduces a high misdiagnosis rate.

  42. Value of serum nonceruloplasmin copper for prediction of mild cognitive impairment conversion to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-04-14 Genetics

    Among the evaluated parameters, the only significant predictor of conversion to AD was non-Cp copper (hazard ratio = 1.23, 95% confidence interval = 1.03-1.47, p = 0.022); for each additional micromole per liter unit (μmol/l) of non-Cp copper, the hazard increased by ~20%.

  43. The cerebrospinal fluid "Alzheimer profile": easily said, but what does it mean?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-04-08 Getting a diagnosis

    A tau/Aβ42 ratio of >0.52 constitutes a robust cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer profile.

  44. Plasma phospholipids identify antecedent memory impairment in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 2014-03-09 Getting a diagnosis

    Alzheimer's disease causes a progressive dementia that currently affects over 35 million individuals worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050 (ref. 1).

  45. Neuronal injury biomarkers and prognosis in ADNI subjects with normal cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2014-03-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Based on previous studies, a preclinical classification for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been proposed.

  46. Longitudinal change in CSF biomarkers in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2014-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Clinicopathological evidence suggests that the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) begins many years before the appearance of cognitive symptoms.

  47. Body fluid cytokine levels in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a comparative overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2014-02-25 Mild cognitive impairment

    This article gives a comprehensive overview of cytokine and other inflammation associated protein levels in plasma, serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  48. Biomarker evidence of axonal injury in neuroasymptomatic HIV-1 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2014-02-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Increased CSF NFL indicates ongoing axonal injury in many neuroasymptomatic patients.

  49. Associations between serum cholesterol levels and cerebral amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-02-01 Vascular contributions

    Elevated cerebral Aβ level was associated with cholesterol fractions in a pattern analogous to that found in coronary artery disease.

  50. Non-neurological surgery and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for neuronal and astroglial integrity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2014-01-14 Biomarkers

    Non-neurological surgery has both acute and long-term effects on the brain.

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