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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. Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid tau/beta-amyloid(42) ratio as diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. European neurology 2009-09-26 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia.

  2. Patients with Alzheimer disease with multiple microbleeds: relation with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Stroke 2009-09-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Microbleeds (MBs) are commonly observed in Alzheimer disease.

  3. Relationship of cerebrospinal fluid markers to 11C-PiB and 18F-FDDNP binding

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2009-08-18 Tau biomarkers

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential relationships between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measurements of beta-amyloid-1-42 (Abeta(1-42)) and total tau to (11)C-Pittsburgh compound B ((11)C-PiB) and 2-(1-{6-[(2-(18)F-fluoroethyl)(methyl)amino]-2-naphthyl}ethylidene) malononitrile ((18)F-FDDNP) binding as measured using PET.

  4. Concentrations of metals, beta-amyloid and tau-markers in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-08-12 Tau biomarkers

    The AD subjects showed positive correlations between CSF-T-tau and CSF-P-tau versus CSF-Mn (r(s) = 0.22, p = 0.004; r(s) = 0.18, p = 0.021).

  5. Cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta(40) is decreased in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2009-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is caused by deposition of the amyloid beta protein in the cerebral vasculature.

  6. CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA 2009-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    During follow-up, 271 participants with MCI were diagnosed with AD and 59 with other dementias.

  7. MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal, MCI, and AD subjects: diagnostic discrimination and cognitive correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2009-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found no significant correlation between CSF biomarkers and cognitive scores in any of the 3 clinical groups individually.

  8. MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal, MCI, and AD subjects: predicting future clinical change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2009-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    MRI and CSF provide complimentary predictive information about time to conversion from amnestic mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease and combination of the 2 provides better prediction than either source alone.

  9. The CSF AD profile was more common in patients with SCI (31 of 60 [52%]), naMCI (25 of 37 [68%]), and aMCI (56 of 71 [79%]) than in healthy controls (28 of 89 [31%]).

  10. Population variation in glial fibrillary acidic protein levels in brain ageing: relationship to Alzheimer-type pathology and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-05-07 Biomarkers

    In a population-based sample, increasing gliosis precedes development of Alzheimer lesions.

  11. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and rate of cognitive decline in very mild dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of Abeta peptide 1-42 (Abeta 42), tau, and phosphorylated tau (ptau) are potential biomarkers of Alzheimer disease.

  12. Five out of 16 plasma signaling proteins are enhanced in plasma of patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2009-04-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic neuropathological changes of the brain.

  13. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker signature in Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2009-03-19 Biomarkers

    CSF A beta(1-42) was the most sensitive biomarker for AD in the autopsy cohort of CSF samples: receiver operating characteristic area under the curve of 0.913 and sensitivity for AD detection of 96.4%.

  14. Cerebrospinal fluid {beta}-amyloid 42 and tau proteins as biomarkers of Alzheimer-type pathologic changes in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    There is a clear need to develop an objective diagnostic test for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  15. CSF biomarkers in relationship to cognitive profiles in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2009-03-01 Genetics

    Clusters of CSF biomarker levels are related to cognitive profiles in Alzheimer disease.

  16. [CSF levels of total tau protein in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie 2008-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    In recent studies, patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) showed significantly elevated CSF levels of tau protein.

  17. Cerebrospinal fluid alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disorders-a marker of synapse loss?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2008-11-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The association of alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) neuropathology with Parkinson's disease (PD) and several related disorders has led to an intense research effort to develop cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)- or blood-based alpha-syn biomarkers for these types of diseases.

  18. Effect of copper intake on CSF parameters in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease: a pilot phase 2 clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2008-10-30 Treatments

    A plethora of reports suggest that copper (Cu) homeostasis is disturbed in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. The brain injury biomarker VLP-1 is increased in the cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2008-08-14 Genetics

    These results suggest that neuronal injury markers such as VLP-1 may have utility as biomarkers for AD.

  20. Episodic memory and speed/attention deficits are associated with Alzheimer-typical CSF abnormalities in MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2008-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as the prodromal stage of dementia disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. CSF biomarkers in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with known pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2008-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    It is important to distinguish FTLD from other neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer disease (AD), but this may be difficult clinically because of atypical presentations.

  22. CSF multianalyte profile distinguishes Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. American journal of clinical pathology 2008-04-01 Genetics

    The therapeutic imperative for Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD) calls for discovery and validation of biomarkers.

  23. Biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease: 'ALZheimer ASsociated gene'--a new blood biomarker?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 2008-03-19 Biomarkers

    Simple, non-invasive tests for an early detection of degenerative dementia by use of biomarkers are urgently required.

  24. Diagnostic value of CSF biomarker profile in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2008-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers have been increasingly studied in dementia clinical and differential diagnosis.

  25. Do CSF total tau, phosphorylated tau, and beta-amyloid 42 help to predict progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2008-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The search for biomarkers as a diagnostic aid to the identification of patients in pre-dementia stages is a fast growing research area.

  26. Core candidate neurochemical and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2007-12-21 Getting a diagnosis

    A number of in vivo neurochemistry and neuroimaging techniques, which can reliably assess aspects of physiology, pathology, chemistry, and neuroanatomy, hold promise as biomarkers.

  27. Classification and prediction of clinical Alzheimer's diagnosis based on plasma signaling proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2007-10-14 Biomarkers

  28. Peripheral inflammatory cytokines as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2007-10-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    These results agree with a persistent inflammatory status in AD, reinforcing the hypothesis of a progressive impairment of the immune response in this disorder and suggesting that monocytes may be good targets to study the progression from MCI to AD.

  29. The relationship between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and depression in elderly women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2007-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers including the 42 amino-acid form of beta-amyloid (Abeta42), total tau protein (T-tau), and the CSF/serum albumin ratio are markers of brain pathology and metabolism.

  30. Plasma and CSF serpins in Alzheimer disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2007-08-29 Tau biomarkers

    Serine protease inhibitors (serpins), the acute phase reactants and regulators of the proteolytic processing of proteins, have been recognized as potential contributors to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  31. Levels of beta-secretase (BACE1) in cerebrospinal fluid as a predictor of risk in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2007-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Elevated beta-secretase (beta-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1 [BACE1]) activity has been found in the brains of patients with sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) compared with controls.

  32. Blood-brain barrier impairment in Alzheimer disease: stability and functional significance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2007-05-01 Genetics

    Blood-brain barrier (BBB) impairment is a stable characteristic over 1 year and present in an important subgroup of patients with Alzheimer disease.

  33. The application of proteomics and genomics to the study of age-related neurodegeneration and neuroprotection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Antioxidants & redox signaling 2007-02-01 Biomarkers

    The present study aimed to acquire more information on aging-related alterations, using proteomic and genomic analyses of hippocampus from young (8 months) and old (27 months) rats.

  34. Cerebrospinal fluid tau/beta-amyloid(42) ratio as a prediction of cognitive decline in nondemented older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-01-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The very mildest symptomatic stage of AD exhibits the same CSF biomarker phenotype as more advanced AD.

  35. Cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid 1-42 concentration may predict cognitive decline in older women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2006-11-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Low levels of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) beta-amyloid 1-42 (Abeta42) and high total tau (T-tau) are diagnostic for manifest Alzheimer's disease.

  36. CSF markers in Alzheimer disease patients are not related to the different degree of cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2006-11-09 Tau biomarkers

    Standard markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), as soluble amyloid beta 1-42 (Abeta1-42) and total tau protein (t-tau), may contribute to dementia subtypes diagnostic accuracy.

  37. Proteome-based plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Alzheimer's disease is a common and devastating disease for which there is no readily available biomarker to aid diagnosis or to monitor disease progression.

  38. The relationship between cerebral Alzheimer's disease pathology and odour identification in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2006-09-29 Caregiving

    The results suggest that difficulty in identifying familiar odours in old age is partly due to the accumulation of neurofibrillar pathology in central olfactory regions.

  39. Staging of Alzheimer disease-associated neurofibrillary pathology using paraffin sections and immunocytochemistry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2006-08-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Assessment of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related neurofibrillary pathology requires a procedure that permits a sufficient differentiation between initial, intermediate, and late stages.

  40. Detection of biomarkers with a multiplex quantitative proteomic platform in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2006-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Biomarkers are needed to assist in the diagnosis and medical management of various neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and dementia with Lewy body (DLB).

  41. BDNF serum and CSF concentrations in Alzheimer's disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus and healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2006-03-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) are common forms of dementia in the elderly.

  42. Association between CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2006-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    During follow-up, 57 (42%) patients with MCI developed Alzheimer's disease, 21 (15%) developed other forms of dementia, and 56 (41%) remained cognitively stable for 5.2 years (range 4.0-6.8).

  43. Neurobiological studies of dementia--biological markers and neuroprotective strategies for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Acta neurologica Taiwanica 2006-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    Tau protein and amyloid s (Abeta), two major components of neuropathology in Alzheimer disease (AD), have been applied for establishment of more useful biomarkers and therapeutic approaches.

  44. Stage-dependent BDNF serum concentrations in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2005-12-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by cognitive decline and loss of neurons in specific brain regions.

  45. CSF amyloid beta42 and tau levels correlate with AIDS dementia complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2005-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    There is concern that AIDS dementia complex (ADC) may be complicated by Alzheimer disease (AD).

  46. Relationship between serum insulin-like growth factor-1 levels and Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

  47. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and beta-amyloid in Alzheimer patients, disease controls and an age-matched random sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-08-08 Tau biomarkers

    We prospectively evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-beta-amyloid1-42 (Abeta42), -total-tau (tau) and -phosphorylated-tau181 (p-tau181) as measured by sandwich ELISAs in the clinical routine of a community state hospital to discriminate between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), healthy controls (HC), non-AD-dementias, a group composed of various psychiatric disorders (non-AD-dementias, mental diseases) and an age-matched random sample (RS) (total N=219).

  48. Precursor form of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and mature brain-derived neurotrophic factor are decreased in the pre-clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2005-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is critical for the function and survival of neurons that degenerate in the late stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  49. Quantitative proteomics of cerebrospinal fluid from patients with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2005-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Biomarkers to assist in the diagnosis and medical management of Alzheimer disease (AD) are a pressing need.

  50. CSF tau and β-amyloid as biomarkers for mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 2004-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Early diagnosis of Alzheimer s disease (AD) is relevant in order to initiate symptomatic treatment with antidementia drugs.

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