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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.

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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. Association of Nonmodifiable Risk Factors With Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers in Community-Dwelling Adults in the ESTHER Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-16 Tau biomarkers

    Dementia-related blood biomarkers are the future of large-scale dementia risk stratification; however, the extent to which phosphorylated tau (P-tau181), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) are associated with nonmodifiable risk factors has yet to be confirmed in the community, and the role of menopause has yet to be investigated.

  2. Comparing clinical stages, CSF PDGFRβ levels were increased at the MCI stage (Cohen's d = 0.55 [CI 95% 0.066, 1.0], P = 0.025) compared with NC.

  3. Performance of Alzheimer Disease Plasma Biomarkers in a Specialty Memory Clinic (S15.005)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-07 Biomarkers

    Evaluate the performance of emerging Alzheimer disease (AD) plasma biomarkers in a specialty memory clinic.

  4. Exploring the Role of microRNAs as Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-04-05 Lewy body dementia

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the most common forms of dementia globally.

  5. Evaluating the diagnostic performance of six plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative dementias in a large Chinese cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-04-03 How common it is

    Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau231 were most effective in diagnosing aMCI/AD (AUC = 0.95 and 0.93, respectively), while p-tau217, p-tau231 and p-tau181 presented the best differential diagnosis for AD from PSP, FTD and DLB respectively (AUC = 0.84, 0.81 and 0.83). α-synuclein was presented as the best biomarker for PSP variant and behavior variant FTD subtypes (AUC = 0.81 and 0.74, respectively).

  6. Alzheimer's disease blood-based biomarker testing: A stakeholder-informed assessment of coverage considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-04-02 Health systems and care delivery

    BackgroundRecently published clinical studies suggest that blood-based biomarker tests (BBMTs) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) provide value, but in the U.S., neither public nor private payers currently cover these tests.

  7. Diagnostic value of fluid‐based non‐amyloid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in a clinic‐based cohort from South Asia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Our results emphasize the role of fluid biomarkers in diagnosing dementia in low‐resource settings in South Asians.

  8. The relationship between neurofilament light chain and depressive symptoms according to cognitive status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2025-04-01 Biomarkers

    = 0.81). NfL levels were not significantly associated with GDS-15 in a population of community-dwelling older adults without dementia.

  9. A cerebrospinal fluid synaptic protein biomarker for prediction of cognitive resilience versus decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Nature medicine 2025-03-31 Digital health tools

    Rates of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are extremely heterogeneous.

  10. Plasma Biomarkers and Disease Prognosis in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Movement Disorders 2025-03-29 Mild cognitive impairment

    Baseline plasma NfL was associated with increased risk of dementia/death in the entire cohort.

  11. Associations between plasma complement C1q and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology in cognitively intact adults: The CABLE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-03-26 Tau biomarkers

    BackgroundC1q is a promoter of the classical pathway of complement and its massive expression may be associated with the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and incident dementia in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2025-03-26 How common it is

    Evidence regarding the clinical validity of blood biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the general population is limited.

  13. Performance of plasma biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of dementia in a Brazilian cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-03-25 How common it is

    Despite remarkable progress in the biomarker field in recent years, local validation of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia is still lacking in Latin America.

  14. Advanced biomarkers: Beyond amyloid and tau: Emerging non-traditional biomarkers for alzheimer`s diagnosis and progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2025-03-22 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder that leads to progressive cognitive decline and imposes a significant socio-economic burden.

  15. Cerebrospinal fluid HSP90AA1, HSPA4, and STUB1/CHIP levels in Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-21 Lewy body dementia

    The STUB1/CHIP holds promise as a potential biomarker for distinguishing between SCI subjects, AD, and FTD.

  16. Associations of KLOTHO-VS heterozygosity and α-Klotho protein with cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-20 Disease mechanisms

    KL -VSHET may help protect against amyloid pathology, particularly in the presence of APOE ε4, and regardless of APOE status in aMCI-AD.

  17. Dietary patterns and blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in cognitively intact older adults: Findings from a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-03-14 Tau biomarkers

    Diet can impact cognitive aging, but comprehensive data from human studies is lacking and the underlying biological mechanisms are still not fully understood.

  18. Multi-cohort cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies robust molecular signatures across the Alzheimer disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Neuron 2025-03-14 Brain tissue and pathology

    Changes in β-amyloid (Aβ) and hyperphosphorylated tau (T) in brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) precede Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms, making the CSF proteome a potential avenue to understand disease pathophysiology and facilitate reliable diagnostics and therapies.

  19. Association of Plasma Biomarkers With Longitudinal Atrophy and Microvascular Burden on MRI Across Neurodegenerative and Cerebrovascular Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2025-03-10 Biomarkers

    We analyzed 1,240 MRIs from 473 patients (age: 69.2 ± 7.4 [range: 49-87]; 32.8% women).

  20. Neuroinflammatory fluid biomarkers in patients with Alzheimer's disease: a systematic literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2025-03-06 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammatory biomarkers are associated with AD progression.

  21. Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis among dementia patients via blood biomarker measurement based on the AT(N) system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Chinese Medical Journal 2025-03-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A total of 156 patients were clinically diagnosed with dementia based on the 2011 NIA-AA criteria, regardless of specific disease etiology, and all exhibited significant brain atrophy on anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), indicating neuronal injury (N+).

  22. Cardiovascular Health and Biomarkers of Neurodegenerative Disease in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA network open 2025-03-03 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that promoting CVH in older adults may help alleviate the burden of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly among Black adults, who are known to experience a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease.

  23. Cerebrospinal Fluid Beta-Amyloid Concentration and Clinical and Radiographic Manifestations of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-03-03 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is driven by vascular Aβ (amyloid-beta) deposition, which can be detected as reduced Aβ species in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  24. Physical Activity, Alzheimer Plasma Biomarkers, and Cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA network open 2025-03-03 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that PA may help delay cognitive decline by modulating neurodegeneration and AD-specific tau pathologies.

  25. Plasma biomarkers distinguish Boston Criteria 2.0 cerebral amyloid angiopathy from healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Plasma Aβ 42/40 , p‐tau‐181, and NfL differ in those with CAA and together can discriminate CAA from healthy controls.

  26. Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid levels of VAMP-2 and SNAP-25 in a dementia with Lewy bodies clinical cohort stratified by Alzheimer’s pathophysiological biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-02-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment proteins receptors (SNARE) proteins, such as VAMP-2 and SNAP-25, are implicated in α-synuclein pathophysiology and CSF levels of these proteins are associated with pathophysiological biomarkers and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  27. CSF IL-6, GDF-15, GFAP and NfL levels in early Alzheimer disease: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders 2025-02-19 Biomarkers

    MMSE score showed a positive correlation with the Aβ 1-42 concentrations ( r = 0.485; p r = -0.418; p = 0.002).

  28. Associations of Cerebrospinal Fluid Orexin-A, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers, and Cognitive Performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2025-02-17 Tau biomarkers

    However, a recent systematic review and meta-analysis did not support differences in orexin-A between AD and controls.

  29. Biofluid biomarker changes following treatment with sabirnetug (ACU193) in INTERCEPT-AD, a phase 1 trial in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-17 Disease mechanisms

    and neurogranin changes correlated with sabirnetug-AβO target engagement (p ≤ 0.01).

  30. Temporal Dynamics and Biological Variability of Alzheimer Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-02-17 Biomarkers

    Among the plasma biomarkers, phosphorylated tau (p-tau) 217 exhibited the highest concordance rate with Aβ (2326 of 2571 [90.5%]) and tau (100 of 120 [83.3%]) PET.

  31. Plasma Hepcidin as a potential informative biomarker of Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-02-13 Biomarkers

    and amyloid composite in the context of AD.

  32. Detection of Alzheimer Neuropathology in Alzheimer and Non-Alzheimer Clinical Syndromes With Blood-Based Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-02-10 Biomarkers

    AD was common in both AD-related syndromes (110/125 [88%]) and FTLD-related syndromes (45/198 [23%]).

  33. The role of plasma inflammatory markers in late-life depression and conversion to dementia: a 3-year follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Molecular Psychiatry 2025-02-08 Long-term cohort studies

    Late-life depression (LLD) has been linked to increased likelihood of dementia, although mechanisms responsible for this association remain largely unknown.

  34. Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers and Cognition Among Individuals With Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA network open 2025-02-03 Biomarkers

    The mean (SD) baseline age of 758 participants was 61.5 (6.1) years, and 424 participants [55.9%] were female.

  35. Plasma proteomics for cognitive decline and dementia—A Southeast Asian cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-02-01 How common it is

    Of 1441 plasma proteins surveyed, a 12-protein signature significantly predicted cognitive decline (q-value < .05).

  36. Association of Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease and Neurodegeneration With Longitudinal Intra-Network Functional Brain Connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2025-01-31 Biomarkers

    = 0.02, 95% CI -0.07 to -0.01) network connectivity.

  37. Plasma Biomarkers in the Distinction of Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-01-30 Lewy body dementia

    Plasma biomarkers are promising tools for the screening and diagnosis of dementia in clinical settings.

  38. Association of rapid eye movement sleep latency with multimodal biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-01-27 Risk factors

    After adjusting for demographics, apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 status, cognition, and comorbidities, the highest tertile of REM latency was associated with higher Aβ burden (β = 0.08, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.03 to 0.13, p = 0.002), elevated p-tau181 (β = 0.19, 95% CI: 0.02 to 0.13, p = 0.002), and reduced BDNF levels (β = -0.47, 95% CI: -0.68 to -0.13, p = 0.013), compared to the lowest tertile.

  39. Cerebral Microbleeds and Amyloid Pathology Estimates From the Amyloid Biomarker Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-01-22 Genetics

    Among 4080 participants included in the analysis, the mean (SD) age was 66.5 (8.9) years, and 2241 (54.9%) were female.

  40. Association between herpes simplex virus infection and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers: analysis within the MAPT trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Scientific reports 2025-01-18 Tau biomarkers

    In vitro and animal studies have suggested that inoculation with herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) can lead to amyloid deposits, hyperphosphorylation of tau, and/or neuronal loss.

  41. Influence of APOE ε4 on performance of CSF biomarkers in differentiating clinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-01-17 Tau biomarkers

    Apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE ε4) bring the higher risk of Alzheimer' Disease (AD).

  42. Biofluid biomarkers in distinguishing young-onset dementia from primary psychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2025-01-15 Getting a diagnosis

    There has been growing interest in the role of biofluid biomarkers to aid the diagnosis of dementia in older people.

  43. Avanços em biomarcadores plasmáticos e do líquido cefalorraquidiano para a detecção precoce da doença de Alzheimer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Brazilian Journal of Health Review 2025-01-14 Tau biomarkers

    A Doença de Alzheimer (DA) é a principal causa de demência em idosos, causada pelo acúmulo de β-amiloide e emaranhados neurofibrilares no cérebro.

  44. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers and Cognition in Alzheimer Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia in a Memory Clinic Setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2025-01-13 Tau biomarkers

    Currently available literature on the relationships between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers and cognitive performance in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is very limited and inconclusive.

  45. Association of Favorable Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers With Reversion of Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Parkinson’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Neuropsychiatry 2025-01-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    The PD-MCI nonreversion group had greater p-tau:amyloid beta and t-tau:amyloid beta ratios relative to the PD-MCI reversion group.

  46. Retinal biomarkers for the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-01-10 Lewy body dementia

    Our findings provide preliminary empirical support for a relationship between prodromal changes in retinal layers and a higher risk of AD or FTD, suggesting that macular OCT may serve as a non-invasive, sensitive biomarker of high-risk years before the onset of dementia.

  47. Immunoassay detection of multiphosphorylated tau proteoforms as cerebrospinal fluid and plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-01-02 Biomarkers

    Different forms of phosphorylated tau (p-tau) have shown strong potential as Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers in both cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma.

  48. Aβ‐reactive T cell polyfunctionality response as a new biomarker for mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Amyloid‐reactive T cell polyfunctional response distinguishes MCI from normal aging and could serve as a novel MCI biomarker.

  49. Comprehensive metabolomics profiling reveals novel biomarkers and pathways for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain Communications 2025-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Clinical Dementia Rating-Global scores (1.44 ± 0.65 versus 0.24 ± 0.25; P < 0.0001) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores (4.88 ± 4.21 versus 0.20 ± 0.50; P < 0.0001) were higher than controls.

  50. Interplay between Alzheimer and vascular pathology as determinants of plasma neurofilament light in a memory clinic population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2025-01-01 Biomarkers

    Vascular burden influences NfL levels, particularly in A- individuals at a symptomatic stage.

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