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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. Regional White Matter Hyperintensities and Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers Among Older Adults with Normal Cognition and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023-01-01 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that although WMH are primarily related to systemic vascular risk and neurodegeneration (i.e., t-tau), AD-specific pathways may contribute to the formation of WMH in a regionally-specific manner, with neurofibrillary tangles (i.e., p-tau) playing a role in temporal WMHs and amyloid (i.e., Aβ 42/Aβ 40) in parietal WMHs.

  2. Accelerated longitudinal changes and ordering of Alzheimer disease biomarkers across the adult lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    The temporal evolutions and relative orderings of Alzheimer disease biomarkers, including CSF amyloid-β42 (Aβ42), Aβ40, total tau (Tau) and phosphorylated tau181 (pTau181), standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) from the molecular imaging of cerebral fibrillar amyloid-β with PET using the 11C-Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB), MRI-based hippocampal volume and cortical thickness and cognition have been hypothesized but not yet fully tested with longitudinal data for all major biomarker modalities among cognitively normal individuals across the adult lifespan starting from 18 years.

  3. Preclinical Alzheimer's disease biomarkers accurately predict cognitive and neuropathological outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-12-01 Biomarkers

    Among cognitively normal participants with positive biomarkers, 34.4% developed cognitive impairment (Clinical Dementia Rating > 0) as compared to 8.4% of those with negative biomarkers.

  4. Diagnostic Performance and Clinical Applicability of Blood-Based Biomarkers in a Prospective Memory Clinic Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-30 Biomarkers

    Performance was assessed in comparison to clinical diagnosis (blinded to plasma results) and amyloid status (CSF/PET).

  5. Systematic evaluation of urinary formic acid as a new potential biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-11-30 Biomarkers

    Our study revealed the possibility of urinary formic acid as a potential novel biomarker for the early diagnosis of AD.

  6. Longitudinal Changes in Blood Biomarkers of Clinical Alzheimer Disease in a Biracial Population Sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-29 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers showed significant longitudinal changes corresponding to cognitive decline, clinical AD, and structural MRI characteristics.

  7. Experimental evidence for temporal uncoupling of brain Aβ deposition and neurodegenerative sequelae

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature communications 2022-11-28 Biomarkers

    Brain Aβ deposition is a key early event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer´s disease (AD), but the long presymptomatic phase and poor correlation between Aβ deposition and clinical symptoms remain puzzling.

  8. CSF Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease in Patients With Concomitant α-Synuclein Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-14 Tau biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers β-amyloid 1-42 (Aβ 42 ), phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau 181 ), total tau (t-tau), and neurogranin (Ng) can diagnose Alzheimer disease (AD) in life.

  9. CSF ferritin in the clinicopathological progression of Alzheimer's disease and associations with APOE and inflammation biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2022-11-10 Biomarkers

    CSF markers of iron and neuroinflammation have distinct associations with disease stages, while iron may be more intimately associated with apolipoprotein E and tau pathology.

  10. Vascular endothelial-cadherin as a marker of endothelial injury in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2022-11-07 Biomarkers

    Our results support the utility of CSF VEC as a marker of endothelial injury in AD and highlight the importance of endothelial injury as an early pathology that contributes to cognitive impairment in even the earliest preclinical stages.

  11. Cross-sectional and longitudinal association of sleep and Alzheimer biomarkers in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-11-03 Tau biomarkers

    Sleep abnormalities are prevalent in Alzheimer's disease, with sleep quality already impaired at its preclinical stage.

  12. Associating Alzheimer's disease pathology with its cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-11-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers 42 amino acid long amyloid-β peptide (Aβ1-42), total tau protein (T-tau), and tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau181) are considered surrogate biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology, and significantly improve diagnostic accuracy.

  13. Herpes Viruses in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging: Associations With Brain Volumes, Cognitive Performance, and Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-31 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest an association of sHHV infection with white matter volume loss, attentional decline, and astrogliosis.

  14. Discordance and Concordance Between Cerebrospinal and [18F]FDG-PET Biomarkers in Assessing Atypical and Early-Onset AD Dementia Cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-20 Tau biomarkers

    We retrospectively assessed participants with atypical and/or early-onset dementia evaluated at a tertiary care memory clinic.

  15. Validity and Performance of Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease to Predict Dementia Risk in a Large Clinic-Based Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-19 Biomarkers

    Overall, 2,277 individuals had at least 1 baseline blood biomarker available (n = 357 for CSF subsample, n = 649 for PET subsample), among whom 257 were diagnosed with clinical AD/mixed dementia during follow-up.

  16. CSF GAP-43 as a biomarker of synaptic dysfunction is associated with tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-10-17 Long-term cohort studies

    To test whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) growth-associated protein 43 (GAP-43) concentration is elevated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and its associations with other hallmarks of AD, we examined the CSF GAP-43 measurements of 787 participants (245 cognitively normal (CN), 415 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 127 individuals with AD dementia) from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study.

  17. Biomarkers of neurodegeneration in neural autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes: A retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of translational autoimmunity 2022-10-05 Tau biomarkers

    Autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes are a novel disease entity that is not fully understood.

  18. Association of CSF GAP-43 With the Rate of Cognitive Decline and Progression to Dementia in Amyloid-Positive Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-03 Tau biomarkers

    In this retrospective study, GAP-43 was measured in participants from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) cohort using an in-house ELISA method, and levels were compared between groups, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally.

  19. In this cross-sectional study of plasma biomarkers by race and genetic ancestry, the results indicated that plasma p-tau181, Aβ40, and NFL were lower in African American individuals based on self-reported race but not genetic ancestry.

  20. CSF Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers: Time-Varying Relationships With MCI Symptom Onset and Associations With Age, Sex, and ApoE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    This study aimed to examine whether baseline CSF measures of Alzheimer disease (AD)-related pathology are associated with the time to onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and whether these associations differ by age, sex, Apolipoprotein E ( ApoE4 ) status, and proximal (≤7 years) vs distal (>7 years) time to symptom onset.

  21. Plasma microRNAs as potential biomarkers in early Alzheimer disease expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-09-16 Tau biomarkers

    The microRNAs (miRNAs) are potential biomarkers for complex pathologies due to their involvement in the regulation of several pathways.

  22. Genome-wide meta-analysis for Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2022-09-06 Genetics

    Amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42) and phosphorylated tau (pTau) levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) reflect core features of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) more directly than clinical diagnosis.

  23. Prepandemic Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms During the COVID-19 Confinement in Cognitively Unimpaired Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    We investigated whether β-amyloid, cortical thickness in medial temporal lobe structures, neuroinflammation, and sociodemographic factors were associated with greater anxious-depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 confinement.

  24. β-Amyloid-Dependent and -Independent Genetic Pathways Regulating CSF Tau Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-01 Biomarkers

    Genetic pathways implicated in causing AD are related to altered levels of soluble tau through both Aβ-dependent and Aβ-independent mechanisms, which may have relevance for anti-tau drug development.

  25. [Blood Based Biomarker for Optimization of Early and Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Dementia]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie 2022-07-20 Biomarkers

    Determining blood biomarkers represents less invasive and less costly diagnostics for Alzheimer´s disease.

  26. Systematic Review on Saliva Biomarkers in Patients Diagnosed with Morbus Alzheimer and Morbus Parkinson

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Biomedicines 2022-07-14 Tau biomarkers

    Extracellular plaques composed of the hydrophobic peptide amyloid-β and intraneuronal accumulation of the hyperphosphorylated protein tau (p-tau) are pathological hallmarks found in the brains of most people affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  27. Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers differentiate patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and autoimmune encephalitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2022-07-05 Tau biomarkers

    Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a potentially treatable cause of rapidly progressive dementia that may mimic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

  28. Plasma biomarkers for prognosis of cognitive decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-06-14 Biomarkers

    Although recent studies have demonstrated the prognostic utility of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer pathology or neurodegeneration, such as pTau-181 and NF-L, whether other plasma biomarkers can further improve prediction of cognitive decline is undetermined.

  29. Biomarkers with Plasma Amyloid β and Tau Protein Assayed by Immunomagnetic Reduction in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Acta neurologica Taiwanica 2022-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    This review addresses recent developments in the analyses of plasma amyloid beta (Aβ) and total tau (t-tau) protein levels as biomarkers for discriminating amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) from Alzheimer disease (AD), using immunomagnetic reduction (IMR).

  30. A Pragmatic, Data-Driven Method to Determine Cutoffs for CSF Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease Based on Validation Against PET Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-26 Biomarkers

    The proposed novel, pragmatic method to determine CSF biomarker cutoffs for AD does not require assessment of other biomarkers or assumptions concerning the clinical diagnosis of patients.

  31. Brain alterations in the early Alzheimer's continuum with amyloid-β, tau, glial and neurodegeneration CSF markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-05-24 Biomarkers

    Higher grey matter volumes/cortical thickness and fluorodeoxyglucose uptake have been consistently found in cognitively unimpaired individuals with abnormal Alzheimer's disease biomarkers compared with those with normal biomarkers.

  32. Alzheimer's Disease Plasma Biomarkers Distinguish Clinical Diagnostic Groups in Memory Clinic Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2022-05-03 Biomarkers

    Several recent research studies show high performance of blood biomarkers to identify Alzheimer's disease also in the pre-dementia mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage, but data from the routine clinical care memory clinic setting are needed.

  33. Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability and CSF Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers in Cognitively Unimpaired and Mildly Impaired Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2022-04-13 Tau biomarkers

    Blood pressure variability is an emerging risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, but mechanisms remain unclear.

  34. Serum NfL in Alzheimer Dementia: Results of the Prospective Dementia Registry Austria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 2022-03-16 Biomarkers

    Higher sNfL concentrations were associated with worse performance in cognitive tests at baseline, including CERAD (B = −10.084, SE = 2.999, p < 0.001) and MMSE (B = −3.014, SE = 1.293, p = 0.021).

  35. Baseline Microglial Activation Correlates With Brain Amyloidosis and Longitudinal Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2022-03-08 Tau biomarkers

    This study aims to quantify microglial activation in individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) using the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) PET imaging in the hippocampus and precuneus, the 2 AD-vulnerable regions, and to evaluate the association of baseline neuroinflammation with amyloidosis, tau, and longitudinal cognitive decline.

  36. Plasma β-Amyloid, Total-Tau, and Neurofilament Light Chain Levels and the Risk of Stroke: A Prospective Population-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2022-03-01 Biomarkers

    Participants with higher total-tau and NfL at baseline had a higher risk of stroke and several stroke subtypes.

  37. Racial differences in longitudinal Alzheimer's disease biomarkers among cognitively normal adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-02-25 Biomarkers

    Longitudinal racial differences in amyloid biomarkers are observed.

  38. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Autopsy-Confirmed Alzheimer Disease and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-16 Biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers, including P-tau, T-tau, Aβ 42 , Aβ 40 , and NFL, support in vivo identification of AD neuropathology and correlate with FTLD neuropathology.

  39. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: New Data and Quantitative Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-02-14 Biomarkers

    The analyzed parameters differentiate between controls and CAA with clinically useful accuracy (AUC > ∼0.85) but not between CAA and AD.

  40. Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain is a marker of aging and white matter damage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2022-02-12 Biomarkers

    CSF NfL is a non-specific marker of aging and white matter integrity with limited sensitivity to specific markers of AD.

  41. A comparison between tau and amyloid-β cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-02-09 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and beta-amyloid levels in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease which can be clinically indistinguishable from Alzheimer's disease (AD), are largely unknown.

  42. Plasma protein biomarker model for screening Alzheimer disease using multiple reaction monitoring-mass spectrometry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-01-24 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a leading cause of dementia that has gained prominence in our aging society.

  43. Biomarkers of Age-Related Frailty and Frailty Related to Diseases: An Exploratory, Cross-Sectional Analysis from the MAPT Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2022-01-01 Biomarkers

    Age-related frailty and disease-related frailty may represent different degrees of frailty severity on a biological level.

  44. Association of CSF Aβ38 Levels With Risk of Alzheimer Disease-Related Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2021-12-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Experimental studies suggest that the balance between short and long β-amyloid (Aβ) species might modulate the toxic effects of Aβ in Alzheimer disease (AD), but clinical evidence is lacking.

  45. Associations of plasma neurofilament light chain and progranulin with frailty in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-12-15 Biomarkers

    This study failed to find associations of circulating NfL and PGRN levels with frailty among community-dwelling older adults in adjusted analyses.

  46. Validation of Plasma Amyloid-β 42/40 for Detecting Alzheimer Disease Amyloid Plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2021-12-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 is a robust measure for detecting amyloid plaques and can be utilized to aid in the diagnosis of AD, identify those at risk for future dementia due to AD, and improve the diversity of populations enrolled in AD research and clinical trials.

  47. Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in Black and non-Hispanic White cohorts: A contextualized review of the evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12-06 Disparities

    Black Americans are disproportionately affected by dementia.

  48. Differences Between Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Levels Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-12-01 Biomarkers

    This study suggests that plasma GFAP is a sensitive biomarker for detecting and tracking reactive astrogliosis and Aβ pathology even among individuals in the early stages of AD.

  49. We established AD diagnostic models using plasma biomarkers for Chinese participants.

  50. Neurofilament light: a possible prognostic biomarker for treatment of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2021-10-15 Biomarkers

    We previously demonstrated that PNA5, a novel glycosylated angiotensin 1-7 (Ang-(1-7)) Mas receptor (MasR) agonist peptide, is an effective therapy to rescue cognitive impairment in our preclinical model of VCID.

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