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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. Proteomic changes in cerebrospinal fluid of presymptomatic and affected persons carrying familial Alzheimer disease mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We compared proteomic profiles of CSF from individuals with FAD who were mutation carriers (MCs) and related noncarriers (NCs).

  2. MRI cortical thickness biomarker predicts AD-like CSF and cognitive decline in normal adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2011-12-21 Brain scans and imaging

    This approach to the detection of individuals at high risk for preclinical AD-identified in single CN individuals using this quantitative ADsig MRI biomarker-may provide investigators with a population enriched for AD pathobiology and with a relatively high likelihood of imminent cognitive decline consistent with prodromal AD.

  3. Cerebrospinal fluid markers for differential dementia diagnosis in a large memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2011-12-14 Tau biomarkers

    Baseline CSF was collected from 512 patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and 272 patients with other types of dementia (OD), 135 patients with a psychiatric disorder (PSY), and 275 patients with subjective memory complaints (SMC).

  4. Evidence for Elevated Cerebrospinal Fluid ERK1/2 Levels in Alzheimer Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2011-11-24 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 33 patients with Alzheimer dementia (AD), 21 patients with mild cognitive impairment who converted to AD during followup (MCI-AD), 25 patients with stable mild cognitive impairment (MCI-stable), and 16 nondemented subjects (ND) were analyzed with a chemiluminescence immunoassay to assess the levels of the mitogen-activated protein kinase ERK1/2 (extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2).

  5. CSF biomarkers in different phenotypes of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2011-11-08 Tau biomarkers

    CSF biomarker studies were performed in 6 patients each with tremor-dominant (TD) and non-tremor-dominant (NT) Parkinson disease (PD) patients, 27 Alzheimer disease (AD) and 17 age-matched controls.

  6. Progression from mild to pronounced MCI is not associated with cerebrospinal fluid biomarker deviations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2011-11-03 Tau biomarkers

    Detection of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker deviations improve prediction of progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia.

  7. Alzheimer disease biomarkers are associated with body mass index

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2011-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Both low and high body mass index (BMI) has been associated with cognitive impairment and dementia risk, including Alzheimer disease (AD).

  8. Human Alzheimer and inflammation biomarkers after anesthesia and surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2011-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    The prevalence of postoperative cognitive disturbance, coupled with growing in vitro, cell, and animal evidence suggesting anesthetic effects on neurodegeneration, calls for additional study of the interaction between surgical care and Alzheimer neuropathology.

  9. Biomarkers have become increasingly important in understanding neurodegenerative processes associated with Alzheimer disease.

  10. Visinin-like protein-1: diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggest that CSF VILIP-1 and VILIP-1/Aβ42 offer diagnostic utility for early AD, and can predict future cognitive impairment in cognitively normal individuals similarly to tau and tau/Aβ42, respectively.

  11. Factors affecting Aβ plasma levels and their utility as biomarkers in ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2011-07-30 Mild cognitive impairment

    Previous studies of Aβ plasma as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD) obtained conflicting results.

  12. [Patients with mild cognitive impairment and a reduced CSF Aβ₁₋₄₂ protein progress rapidly to Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) 2011-05-31 Tau biomarkers

    Some studies have shown that CSF amyloid-beta 1-42 (Aβ₁₋₄₂), total tau (T-tau) and tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau(181p)) proteins are useful diagnostic markers for distinguishing between clinically stable mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients and those who will develop Alzheimeŕs disease (AD).

  13. Comparison of analytical platforms for cerebrospinal fluid measures of β-amyloid 1-42, total tau, and p-tau181 for identifying Alzheimer disease amyloid plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-05-09 Brain scans and imaging

    The INNOTEST and INNO-BIA CSF platforms perform equally well in identifying individuals with underlying amyloid plaque pathology.

  14. CSF biomarkers in posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2011-04-27 Tau biomarkers

    This prospective observational study included 22 patients with PCA who underwent CSF biomarker analysis of total tau (t-tau), phosphorylated tau on amino acid 181 (p-tau181), and amyloid β (Aβ(42)).

  15. Multiplexed immunoassay panel identifies novel CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and prognosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. PloS one 2011-04-19 Digital health tools

    Using a targeted proteomic screen, we identified novel candidate biomarkers that complement the best current CSF biomarkers for distinguishing very mildly/mildly demented from cognitively normal individuals.

  16. Oxysterols as biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Chemistry and physics of lipids 2011-04-16 Genetics

    In conclusion the analysis of oxysterols in plasma and CSF seems to contribute to investigate the role of cholesterol metabolism in pathogenesis of neurodegeneration and is helpful in the study of patients affected by neurodegenerative diseases.

  17. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Parkinson disease diagnosis and progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-03-11 Tau biomarkers

    There is a clear need to develop biomarkers for Parkinson disease (PD) diagnosis, differential diagnosis of Parkinsonian disorders, and monitoring disease progression.

  18. Identification and validation of novel cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for staging early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. PloS one 2011-01-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    These six markers describe six clinicopathological stages from cognitive normalcy to mild dementia, including stages defined by increased risk of cognitive decline.

  19. Association of plasma beta-amyloid level and cognitive reserve with subsequent cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA 2011-01-01 Disparities

    Lower plasma β-amyloid 42 and 42/40 levels have been associated with incident dementia, but results are conflicting and few have investigated cognitive decline among elders without dementia.

  20. Disturbed choline plasmalogen and phospholipid fatty acid concentrations in Alzheimer's disease prefrontal cortex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by brain deposition of senile (neuritic) plaques containing amyloid-β, neurofibrillary tangles, synaptic loss, neuroinflammation, and overexpression of arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n-6) metabolizing enzymes.

  21. [The role of CSF markers in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie 2011-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are being used increasingly to diagnose early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. YKL-40: a novel prognostic fluid biomarker for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2010-11-01 How common it is

    These data demonstrate that YKL-40, a putative indicator of neuroinflammation, is elevated in AD and, together with Aβ42, has potential prognostic utility as a biomarker for preclinical AD.

  23. Hippocampal atrophy rates and CSF biomarkers in elderly APOE2 normal subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2010-10-27 Genetics

    A slower rate of hippocampal atrophy in normal APOE2 carriers is consistent with the lower risk of Alzheimer disease in these individuals.

  24. Alzheimer's CSF markers in older schizophrenia patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2010-09-27 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitive impairment is prevalent in older schizophrenia patients but its biological basis is unknown.

  25. Biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2010-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    The existence of an effective biomarker for early detection of Alzheimer disease would facilitate improved diagnosis and stimulate therapeutic trials.

  26. Requiring an amyloid-beta1-42 biomarker for prodromal Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment does not lead to more efficient clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-beta(1-42) concentration and high total-tau/Abeta(1-42) ratio have been recommended to support the diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD) in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and also to select patients for clinical trials (Shaw et al, Ann Neurol 2009;65:403-13; Dubois et al, Lancet Neurol 2007;6:734-46).

  27. CSF amyloid {beta} 1-42 predicts cognitive decline in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2010-08-18 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitive decline associated with Parkinson disease (PD) is common and highly disabling.

  28. Altered serum glycomics in Alzheimer disease: a potential blood biomarker?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Rejuvenation research 2010-08-01 Biomarkers

    We investigated whether blood N-glycan changes can be used as a diagnostic biomarker for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  29. Diagnosis-independent Alzheimer disease biomarker signature in cognitively normal elderly people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database.

  30. Association of plasma clusterin concentration with severity, pathology, and progression in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2010-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    These results demonstrate an important role of clusterin in the pathogenesis of AD and suggest that alterations in amyloid chaperone proteins may be a biologically relevant peripheral signature of AD.

  31. Could clinical profile influence CSF biomarkers in early-onset Alzheimer disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2010-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    In common forms of Alzheimer disease (AD), anterograde memory impairment is the first deficit to occur.

  32. Serial MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal aging, MCI, and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2010-07-01 Genetics

    Unlike the CSF biomarkers evaluated, changes in serial structural MRI are correlated with concurrent change on general cognitive and functional indices in impaired subjects, track with clinical disease stage, and are influenced by APOE genotype.

  33. Enrichment through biomarkers in clinical trials of Alzheimer's drugs in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-11 Long-term cohort studies

    Clinical trials of disease modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) might benefit from enrichment with true AD cases.

  34. Cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities and rate of decline in everyday function across the dementia spectrum: normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Immunoassays of total tau (t-tau), tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-tau(181)), and beta-amyloid 1-42 (Abeta(42)) concentrations were performed in CSF obtained from participants in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

  35. CSF biomarkers predict a more malignant outcome in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2010-05-01 Genetics

    A subgroup of patients with Alzheimer disease with extreme levels of CSF biomarkers exhibits worse clinical outcomes over time, including faster progression of cognitive deficits, no response to ChEI treatment, and a higher mortality.

  36. Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2010-02-16 Tau biomarkers

    Intense multidisciplinary research has provided detailed knowledge of the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  37. Correlation of longitudinal cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers with cognitive decline in healthy older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-02-01 Genetics

    Changes in CSF biomarker levels may identify early neurodegenerative processes of Alzheimer disease.

  38. CSF biomarkers in prediction of cerebral and clinical change in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Brain atrophy and altered CSF levels of amyloid beta (Abeta(42)) and the microtubule-associated protein tau are potent biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related pathology.

  39. Serum levels of S100B and NSE proteins in Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2010-01-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common dementia in the elderly, and the potential of peripheral biochemical markers as complementary tools in the neuropsychiatric evaluation of these patients has claimed further attention.

  40. Biomarkers as predictors for conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer-type dementia: implications for trial design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Disease modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are likely to be most effective when given in non-demented subjects.

  41. Osteopontin is increased in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer's disease and its levels correlate with cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Inflammation is believed to play a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. Hypothetical model of dynamic biomarkers of the Alzheimer's pathological cascade

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet Neurology 2009-12-15 Biomarkers

    This study proposes a model that relates disease stages to Alzheimer's disease biomarkers.

  43. Atrial fibrillation is independently associated with senile, vascular, and Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Heart rhythm 2009-12-11 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with dementia were older and had higher rates of hypertension, coronary artery disease, renal failure, heart failure, and prior strokes.

  44. Absence of Pittsburgh compound B detection of cerebral amyloid beta in a patient with clinical, cognitive, and cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer disease: a case report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Clinical, cognitive, and CSF markers consistent with AD may precede detection of cerebral amyloid beta using amyloid imaging agents such as PiB that primarily label fibrillar amyloid beta plaques.

  45. Association of plasma leptin levels with incident Alzheimer disease and MRI measures of brain aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA 2009-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Circulating leptin was associated with a reduced incidence of dementia and AD and with cerebral brain volume in asymptomatic older adults.

  46. Changes of some oxidative stress markers in the serum of patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2009-11-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a nosological entity proposed as an intermediate state between normal aging and dementia.

  47. CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer disease in HIV-associated neurologic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2009-11-11 Tau biomarkers

    HIV-associated neurologic disorders (HAND) continue to develop in many patients with HIV.

  48. Specific human astrocyte subtype revealed by affinity purified GFAP antibody; unpurified serum cross-reacts with neurofilament-L in Alzheimer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2009-11-04 Biomarkers

    The human GFAP splice variants GFAPDelta164 and GFAPDeltaexon6 both result in a GFAP protein isoform with a unique out-of-frame carboxy-terminus that can be detected by the GFAP+1 antibody.

  49. Amyloid-beta(1-42), total tau, and phosphorylated tau as cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2009-10-15 Tau biomarkers

    We have used these markers and evaluated their performance.

  50. CSF biomarkers predict rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2009-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers amyloid beta 1-42 (Abeta(42)), total tau (tau), and tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-tau-181) are useful diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease (AD).

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