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  1. Midlife and Late-Life Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers and 11-Year Cognitive Decline 2026-10-16
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  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. Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament concentration reflects disease severity in frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-01-02 Biomarkers

    CSF NfL is elevated in symptomatic FTD and correlates with disease severity.

  2. Regional cortical thinning and cerebrospinal biomarkers predict worsening daily functioning across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Impairment in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) heralds the transition from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia and is a major source of burden for both the patient and caregiver.

  3. Relationship between β-Secretase, inflammation and core cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can track specific pathophysiological pathways underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Associations between Alzheimer disease biomarkers, neurodegeneration, and cognition in cognitively normal older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Such findings challenge the proposed sequence and suggest that Aβ-independent precursors underlie AD-typical neurodegenerative patterns.

  5. Integration and relative value of biomarkers for prediction of MCI to AD progression: spatial patterns of brain atrophy, cognitive scores, APOE genotype and CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-11-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    This study evaluates the individual, as well as relative and joint value of indices obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patterns of brain atrophy (quantified by the SPARE-AD index), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, APOE genotype, and cognitive performance (ADAS-Cog) in progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD) within a variable follow-up period up to 6 years, using data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-1 (ADNI-1).

  6. Fluid biomarkers for diagnosing dementia: rationale and the Canadian Consensus on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia recommendations for Canadian physicians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-11-25 Tau biomarkers

    Fluid biomarkers improve the diagnostic accuracy in dementia and provide an objective measure potentially useful as a therapeutic response in clinical trials.

  7. Pulse pressure is associated with Alzheimer biomarkers in cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2013-11-13 Genetics

    The relationship between PP and CSF biomarkers is age-dependent and observed only in participants in the fifth and sixth decades of life.

  8. Roles of vascular and metabolic components in cognitive dysfunction of Alzheimer disease: short- and long-term modification by non-genetic risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2013-11-05 Biomarkers

    It is well known that a specific set of genetic and non-genetic risk factors contributes to the onset of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  9. CSF biomarker changes precede symptom onset of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2013-10-16 Tau biomarkers

    This study evaluated longitudinal CSF biomarker measures collected when participants were cognitively normal to determine the magnitude and time course of biomarker changes before the onset of clinical symptoms in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  10. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease and subcortical axonal damage in 5,542 clinical samples

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-10-14 Biomarkers

    The association between an AD-like signature using the established biomarkers Aβ42, T-tau, and P-tau with increased levels of NFL provides in vivo evidence of an association between AD and subcortical axonal degeneration in this uniquely large dataset of CSF samples tested for dementia biomarkers.

  11. Biomarker-based prediction of progression in MCI: Comparison of AD signature and hippocampal volume with spinal fluid amyloid-β and tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2013-10-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    For prediction of dementia in MCI, the AD signature cortical thickness biomarker performed better than hippocampal volume.

  12. Clinical and multimodal biomarker correlates of ADNI neuropathological findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2013-10-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Biomarkers can be used to independently predict coincident AD and DLB pathology, a common finding in amnestic MCI and DAT patients.

  13. Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42, phosphorylated Tau181, and resting-state functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Both Aβ and tau pathology affect default mode network integrity before clinical onset of Alzheimer disease.

  14. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in Chinese patients: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2013-10-01 Biomarkers

    In view of the paucity of data on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in Chinese patients, we evaluated the validity of tau, phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau-181), amyloid β 42 (Aβ42), and Aβ40 proteins in Chinese patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. A comparison of early diagnostic utility of Alzheimer disease biomarkers in brain magnetic resonance and cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) 2013-08-20 Tau biomarkers

    The goals of this study were to compare the early diagnostic utility of Alzheimer disease biomarkers in the CSF with those in brain MRI in conditions found in our clinical practice, and to ascertain the diagnostic accuracy of both techniques used together.

  16. Cerebrospinal fluid inflammatory markers in Parkinson's disease--associations with depression, fatigue, and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2013-07-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation may be involved in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) and specifically in non-motor symptoms such as depression, fatigue and cognitive impairment.

  17. Effects of anesthetic isoflurane and desflurane on human cerebrospinal fluid Aβ and τ level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2013-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    Accumulation of β-amyloid protein (Aβ) and tau protein is the main feature of Alzheimer disease neuropathogenesis.

  18. CSF α-synuclein improves diagnostic and prognostic performance of CSF tau and Aβ in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2013-06-29 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Lewy body diseases (LBD), e.g., Parkinson's disease (PD) dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), are common causes of geriatric cognitive impairments.

  19. Longitudinal change in CSF Tau and Aβ biomarkers for up to 48 months in ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2013-06-29 Long-term cohort studies

    The dynamics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and Aβ biomarkers over time in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients from prodromal pre-symptomatic to severe stages of dementia have not been clearly defined and recent studies, most of which are cross-sectional, present conflicting findings.

  20. Fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease - current concepts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2013-06-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    The diagnostic guidelines of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have recently been updated to include brain imaging and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, with the aim of increasing the certainty of whether a patient has an ongoing AD neuropathologic process or not.

  21. Identification of altered metabolic pathways in plasma and CSF in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease using metabolomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. PloS one 2013-05-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) currently affects more than 5 million Americans, with numbers expected to grow dramatically as the population ages.

  22. Correlation of specific amyloid-β oligomers with tau in cerebrospinal fluid from cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    The University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Salhgrenska University Hospital, Sweden.

  23. A blood-based predictor for neocortical Aβ burden in Alzheimer's disease: results from the AIBL study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2013-04-30 Digital health tools

    Dementia is a global epidemic with Alzheimer's disease (AD) being the leading cause.

  24. Amyloid imaging and CSF biomarkers in predicting cognitive impairment up to 7.5 years later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2013-04-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Abnormal levels of all biomarkers were associated with faster time to cognitive impairment, and some participants with abnormal biomarker levels remained cognitively normal for up to 6.6 years.

  25. Alzheimer's disease neurodegenerative biomarkers are associated with decreased cognitive function but not β-amyloid in cognitively normal older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    β-Amyloid (Aβ) plaque deposition and neurodegeneration within temporoparietal and hippocampal regions may indicate increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  26. SOD1 in cerebral spinal fluid as a pharmacodynamic marker for antisense oligonucleotide therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Therapies designed to decrease the level of SOD1 are currently in a clinical trial for patients with superoxide dismutase (SOD1)-linked familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  27. The application of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Medical clinics of North America 2013-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    This article gives an updated account of the clinical application of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  28. Marked increase of the astrocytic marker S100B in the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-infected patients on LPV/r-monotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. AIDS (London, England) 2013-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The Monotherapy Switzerland/Thailand study (MOST) trial compared monotherapy with ritonavir-boosted lopinavir with continued therapy.

  29. Can MRI screen for CSF biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2012-12-26 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) may have overlapping clinical presentations despite distinct underlying neuropathologies, thus making in vivo diagnosis challenging.

  30. Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 is the best predictor of clinical progression in patients with subjective complaints

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-12-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    Low Aβ42 was the strongest predictor of clinical progression in patients with subjective complaints.

  31. Mild cognitive impairment: cerebrospinal fluid tau biomarker pathologic levels and longitudinal changes in white matter integrity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Radiology 2012-11-14 Tau biomarkers

    Thirty patients with MCI and nonpathologic CSF total tau levels, nine patients with MCI and pathologic CSF total tau levels, and 16 age-matched healthy control subjects underwent diffusion-tensor imaging at baseline and after a mean follow-up of 2.6 years ± 0.54 (standard deviation), with range of 1.58-3.98 years.

  32. Altered concentrations of amyloid precursor protein metabolites in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with bipolar disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2012-11-06 Tau biomarkers

    Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of mania/hypomania and depression.

  33. Accuracy of a panel of 5 cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the differential diagnosis of patients with dementia and/or parkinsonian disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-11-01 Biomarkers

    Ascertainment of the -synuclein level in CSF somewhat improves the differential diagnosis of AD vs DLB and PDD when combined with established AD biomarkers.

  34. Cerebrospinal fluid proteins predict longitudinal hippocampal degeneration in early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2012-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers are needed to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of diagnosis, and also prognosis, in individuals with early Alzheimer disease (AD).

  35. Plasma biomarkers associated with the apolipoprotein E genotype and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-10-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarker results confirm cerebrospinal fluid studies reporting increased levels of pancreatic polypeptide and N-terminal protein B-type brain natriuretic peptide in patients with AD and mild cognitive impairment.

  36. Decreased levels of circulating adiponectin in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuromolecular medicine 2012-09-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    Adiponectin, an adipocytokine released by the adipose tissue and has important roles in the metabolic regulation and inflammatory control, may play an important roles in the physiopathology of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

  37. Anxiety is related to Alzheimer cerebrospinal fluid markers in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2012-09-07 Tau biomarkers

    Anxiety, apathy and depression are common in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and may herald Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2012-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Research progress has provided detailed understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  39. Correlations of CSF tau and amyloid levels with Alzheimer pathology in neuropathologically verified dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2012-08-22 Tau biomarkers

    The presence of concomitant Alzheimer pathology has been linked to earlier death in cases with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  40. Comparison of cerebrospinal fluid levels of tau and Aβ 1-42 in Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal degeneration using 2 analytical platforms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid values of total tau (T-tau) and β-amyloid 1-42 (Aβ 1-42) obtained using the Innotest enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were transformed using a linear regression model to equivalent values obtained using the INNO-BIA AlzBio3 (xMAP; Luminex) assay.

  41. Effect of immunotherapy with bapineuzumab on cerebrospinal fluid biomarker levels in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-08-01 Treatments

    Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers may be useful to monitor the effects of novel disease-modifying anti-Aβ drugs in clinical trials.

  42. Plasma multianalyte profiling in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2012-08-01 Genetics

    Four plasma analytes were consistently associated with the diagnosis of very mild dementia/MCI/AD in 3 independent clinical cohorts.

  43. Antioxidants for Alzheimer disease: a randomized clinical trial with cerebrospinal fluid biomarker measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-07-01 Treatments

    Antioxidants did not influence CSF biomarkers related to amyloid or tau pathology.

  44. Biomarkers for insulin resistance and inflammation and the risk for all-cause dementia and alzheimer disease: results from the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-05-01 Genetics

    In women, increased plasma adiponectin levels are an independent risk factor for the development of both all-cause dementia and AD.

  45. CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer disease correlate with cortical brain biopsy findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2012-04-18 Genetics

    Amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau in cortical brain biopsies are reflected by low CSF Aβ42 and high CSF tau and p-tau levels, respectively.

  46. CSF VILIP-1 predicts rates of cognitive decline in early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2012-02-22 Tau biomarkers

    Measures of neuronal damage/dysfunction are likely good surrogates for disease progression in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  47. Age and diagnostic performance of Alzheimer disease CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2012-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Core CSF changes in Alzheimer disease (AD) are decreased amyloid β(1-42), increased total tau, and increased phospho-tau, probably indicating amyloid plaque accumulation, axonal degeneration, and tangle pathology, respectively.

  48. Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ and tau level fluctuation in an older clinical cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarker validation in a clinical cohort.

  49. Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer Markers in Depressed Elderly Subjects with and without Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2012-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease (AD) markers and depression in elderly people.

  50. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of β-amyloid 1-42, but not of tau, are fully changed already 5 to 10 years before the onset of Alzheimer dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2012-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Early detection of prodromal Alzheimer disease (AD) is important because new disease-modifying therapies are most likely to be effective when initiated during the early stages of disease.

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