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  1. Inflammatory biomarker candidates in dementia with Lewy bodies: diagnostic classification, clinical associations, and survival 2026-11-01
  2. Longitudinal plasma biomarkers and multimodal PET across APOE ε4 genotypes: a prospective cohort study 2026-11-01
  3. Concurrent cognitive, behavioral and systemic physiological features mark preclinical Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30

Studies

706 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 126
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 54
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 46
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 36
  • medRxiv 29

196 journals in all.

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  1. Detecting amyloid positivity in early Alzheimer's disease using combinations of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 and p-tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-06-20 Biomarkers

    A combination of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 and p-tau217 discriminated Aβ status with relatively high accuracy, whereas p-tau217 showed strongest associations with Aβ pathology in MCI but not in CU.

  2. Association of plasma P-tau181 with memory decline in non-demented adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain Communications 2021-06-14 Biomarkers

    Mixed-effect models assessed rates of memory decline in relation to baseline plasma p-tau181, and whether plasma p-tau181 significantly predicted memory decline beyond widely available clinical and genetic data (age, sex, years of education, cardiovascular and metabolic conditions, and APOEε4 status).

  3. Plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease improve prediction of cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired elderly populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-06-11 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers of amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration (ATN) need to be characterized in cognitively unimpaired (CU) elderly individuals.

  4. Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer's Biomarkers and Neurofilament Light Profile of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in China: A PUMCH Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2021-06-02 Tau biomarkers

    Twenty-seven iNPH, 27 AD, and 18 controls were included.

  5. Effects of pre-analytical procedures on blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's pathophysiology, glial activation, and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-06-02 Biomarkers

    The same tube type should be used in research studies on blood biomarkers.

  6. A blood-based screening tool can serve as a method for increasing access to state-of-the-art AD clinical research by bridging between community-based and clinic-based settings.

  7. Measurement batch differences and between-batch conversion of Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker values

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-25 Tau biomarkers

    We found statistically significant batch differences for all biomarkers and ratios, except that neurofilament light was comparable between batches 1 and 2.

  8. The PrecivityAD™ test: Accurate and reliable LC-MS/MS assays for quantifying plasma amyloid beta 40 and 42 and apolipoprotein E proteotype for the assessment of brain amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2021-05-17 Biomarkers

    The PrecivityAD™ assays are precise, accurate, sensitive, and linear over a wide analytical range, free from significant interferences, and suitable for use in the clinical laboratory.

  9. Interaction of amyloid and tau on cortical microstructure in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-05-13 Tau biomarkers

    We observed a significant CSF Aβ42 /Aβ40 × p-tau interaction on cortical neurite density index (NDI), but not orientation dispersion index or cortical thickness.

  10. This mass spectrometry-based plasma biomarker test: has strong diagnostic performance; can accurately distinguish brain amyloid positive from amyloid negative individuals; may aid in the diagnostic evaluation process for Alzheimer's disease; and may enhance the efficiency of enrolling participants into Alzheimer's disease drug trials.

  11. Serum BDNF as a Potential Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease: Verification Through Assessment of Serum, Cerebrospinal Fluid, and Medial Temporal Lobe Atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2021-04-23 Biomarkers

    There is an urgent need to establish blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Diagnostic and prognostic value of plasma neurofilament light and total-tau in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-04-21 Biomarkers

    Among diagnostic groups, highest plasma Nfl and t-tau concentrations were detected in CJD (fold changes of 38 and 18, respectively, compared to HC).

  13. Application of the ATN classification scheme in a population without dementia: Findings from the EPAD cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-04-03 Biomarkers

    In non-demented individuals along the AD continuum, p-tau drives cognitive dysfunction.

  14. Current advances in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2021-04-01 Biomarkers

    This review provides a concise overview of recent advances in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease lesions.

  15. Plasma P-tau181 to Aβ42 ratio is associated with brain amyloid burden and hippocampal atrophy in an Asian cohort of Alzheimer's disease patients with concomitant cerebrovascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-31 Biomarkers

    Plasma P-tau181/Aβ42 ratio may be a noninvasive means of identifying AD with elevated brain amyloid in populations with concomitant CeVD.

  16. Plasma neurofilament light and phosphorylated tau 181 as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology and clinical disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-25 Biomarkers

    Plasma NfL indicates neurodegeneration while plasma p-tau181 levels can serve as a biomarker of cerebral AD pathology and cognitive decline.

  17. Affective symptoms and regional cerebral tau burden in early-stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2021-03-15 Brain scans and imaging

    There were significant associations (p < 0.05) between the NPI variables (total score, Affective factor) and entorhinal and precuneus tau across all participants.

  18. Comparison of CSF neurofilament light chain, neurogranin, and tau to MRI markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Higher CSF NfL was associated with decreasing microstructural integrity and WMH.

  19. ADAM10: Biomarker of mild cognitive impairment but not of cognitive frailty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2021-03-03 Biomarkers

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) associated with physical frailty gave rise to the new concept of cognitive frailty.

  20. Moving fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease from research tools to routine clinical diagnostics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-02-19 Biomarkers

    Four fluid-based biomarkers have been developed into diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology: the ratio of 42 to 40 amino acid-long amyloid β, a marker of plaque pathology; total-tau and phosphorylated tau, markers of AD-related changes in tau metabolism and secretion; and neurofilament light, a marker of neurodegeneration.

  21. How Comorbidity Reflects on Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2021-01-29 Tau biomarkers

    Systemic comorbidity precipitates the risk for dementia.

  22. The diagnostic and prognostic capabilities of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-01-25 Biomarkers

    P-tau181 detected AD at MCI and dementia stages and was strongly associated with cognitive decline and gray matter loss.

  23. Identification of Cathepsin D as a Plasma Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cells 2021-01-12 Biomarkers

    Although Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, there are still no drugs available to treat or prevent AD effectively.

  24. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein is elevated in cognitively normal older adults at risk of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-01-11 Biomarkers

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), an astrocytic cytoskeletal protein, can be measured in blood samples, and has been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Blood-Based ATN Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Biomarkers

    Currently available assays for sampling plasma ATN biomarkers appear to differentiate between AD patients and controls.

  26. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Levels as Markers for Nursing Home Placement and Survival Time in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2021 Tau biomarkers

    After 20 years of follow-up, 123 patients (95%) were deceased.

  27. Fluid Biomarkers of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2021 Biomarkers

    A timely diagnosis of frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is frequently challenging due to the heterogeneous symptomatology and poor phenotype-pathological correlation.

  28. Hyperconnectivity of Self-Referential Network as a Predictive Biomarker of the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Tau biomarkers

    Compared to cognitively normal subjects, AD-spectrum patients (i.e., EMCI, LMCI, and AD) showed a reversing trend toward an association between CSF pathological markers and the abnormal SRN occurring during the progression of AD.

  29. Objective subtle cognitive decline and plasma phosphorylated tau181: Early markers of Alzheimer's disease‐related declines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2021-01 Biomarkers

    CU and Obj‐SCD has lower baseline p‐tau181 than MCI and did not differ from one another.

  30. Why Inclusion Matters for Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker Discovery in Plasma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Disparities

    In total, 740 proteins were identified of which, 25 differentially-expressed proteins in AD came from comparisons within a single racial and ethnic background group.

  31. Amyloid-β misfolding as a plasma biomarker indicates risk for future clinical Alzheimer's disease in individuals with subjective cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-12-24 Biomarkers

    A panel of structure- and concentration-based plasma amyloid biomarkers may predict conversion to clinical MCI and dementia due to AD in cognitively unimpaired subjects.

  32. An examination of a novel multipanel of CSF biomarkers in the Alzheimer's disease clinical and pathological continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-12-18 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The NTK contains promising markers that improve the pathophysiological characterization of AD.

  33. Fibrinogen isoforms as potential blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease using a proteomics approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The International journal of neuroscience 2020-12-15 Biomarkers

    Mass spectrometry (MS)-based protein identification via MALDI ToF/ToF showed that fibrinogen-β-chain (spot 64) and fibrinogen-γ-chain (spot 91) with differential expression ratio >1.5 were significantly upregulated (p < 0.05) in AD patients when compared to non-AD individuals.

  34. Plasma Phospho-Tau Identifies Alzheimer's Co-Pathology in Patients with Lewy Body Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2020-12-07 Brain tissue and pathology

    Plasma phospho-tau217 correlated with plasma phospho-tau181, CSF phospho-tau217 (rs = 0.68, P < 0.001), and negatively with CSF β-amyloid42/40 (rs = -0.52, P = 0.001).

  35. Head-to-head comparison of clinical performance of CSF phospho-tau T181 and T217 biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-11-30 Biomarkers

    N-p-tau217 and N-p-tau181 could improve diagnostic accuracy in prodromal-AD and clinical trial recruitment as both identify Aβ pathophysiology and differentiate early MCI-AD better than Mid-p-tau181.

  36. Cerebrospinal fluid α-synuclein predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in non-demented elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2020-11-23 Tau biomarkers

    The CSF α-synuclein levels correlated with AD-specific biomarkers, CSF total tau and phosphorylated tau levels, in 651 Chinese Han participants (training set).

  37. Renal function is associated with blood neurofilament light chain level in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-11-23 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a novel biomarker of neurodegenerative diseases.

  38. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for the Diagnosis and Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Korean medical science 2020-11-16 Tau biomarkers

    CSF Aβ42, total tau (t-tau) and phosphorylated tau (p-tau) significantly differed across the three groups.

  39. Fluid Candidate Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: A Precision Medicine Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2020-11-11 Biomarkers

    A plethora of dynamic pathophysiological mechanisms underpins highly heterogeneous phenotypes in the field of dementia, particularly in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  40. Blood plasma phosphorylated-tau isoforms track CNS change in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2020-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Highly sensitive and specific plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in the clinic and facilitate research studies including enrollment in prevention and treatment trials.

  41. Cerebrospinal fluid A beta 1-40 peptides increase in Alzheimer's disease and are highly correlated with phospho-tau in control individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-10-02 Biomarkers

    These results indicate that an increase in the baseline level of amyloid peptides, which are associated with an increase in p-tau (181), may be a biological characteristic and possibly a risk factor for AD.

  42. Plasma NT1 Tau is a Specific and Early Marker of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2020-09-25 Biomarkers

    Plasma NT1 tau was specifically elevated in AD, but not in non-AD dementia compared with controls, whereas NfL was increased in both AD and non-AD dementias.

  43. Utility of plasma neurofilament light and total tau for clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-13 Biomarkers

    NfL had a stronger association than t-tau with clinical scales; t-tau did not hold additional information to that given by NfL (P > 0.05 at all time points).

  44. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's pathology and the diagnostic process for a disease-modifying treatment: Projecting the impact on the cost and wait times

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-18 Biomarkers

    The combination BBBM with MMSE is projected to increase the efficiency and value of the triage process for DMT eligibility.

  45. AD-Related CSF Biomarkers Across Distinct Levels of Cognitive Impairment: Correlations With Global Cognitive State

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2020-08-06 Tau biomarkers

    In the total sample, T-tau and Aβ42/p-tau correlated with the total CAMCOG (P < .01); all biomarkers correlated with memory (P < .001); T-tau correlated with language (P < .01).

  46. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light differentially detect neurodegeneration in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-07-25 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NfL) concentration has reproducibly been shown to reflect neurodegeneration in brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  47. Plasma phospho-tau181 in presymptomatic and symptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-07-14 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers have great potential to advance clinical care and accelerate trials in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  48. Amyloid beta, tau, synaptic, neurodegeneration, and glial biomarkers in the preclinical stage of the Alzheimer's continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-06-23 Biomarkers

    Multiple biological pathways are altered and could be targeted very early in the Alzheimer's continuum.

  49. Cerebrospinal fluid irisin correlates with amyloid-β, BDNF, and cognition in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-06-21 Tau biomarkers

    CSF irisin correlated positively with BDNF, Aβ42, and MMSE scores, but not with CSF total tau.

  50. Proteome profiling in cerebrospinal fluid reveals novel biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular systems biology 2020-06-01 Genetics

    Neurodegenerative diseases are a growing burden, and there is an urgent need for better biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment efficacy.

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