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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. A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2016-06-25 Biomarkers

    The present study creates the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an AD blood screen.

  2. Neurofilament Light Chain in Blood and CSF as Marker of Disease Progression in Mouse Models and in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2016-06-09 Biomarkers

    A majority of current disease-modifying therapeutic approaches for age-related neurodegenerative diseases target their characteristic proteopathic lesions (α-synuclein, Tau, Aβ).

  3. Blood-Based Biomarker Candidates of Cerebral Amyloid Using PiB PET in Non-Demented Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-03-01 Biomarkers

    Increasingly, clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are being conducted earlier in the disease phase and with biomarker confirmation using in vivo amyloid PET imaging or CSF tau and Aβ measures to quantify pathology.

  4. Diagnostic Impact of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker (Pre-)Analytical Variability in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Tau biomarkers

    Intra- and inter-laboratory variability of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker analyses remains an important issue.

  5. Differential Diagnosis of Dementia with High Levels of Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Tau biomarkers

    Patients were diagnosed with AD (n = 148, 73.2%), mixed dementia (n = 38, 18.8%), CJD, vascular dementia (n = 4, 2.0% for each), Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal dementia (n = 3, 1.5% for each).

  6. Greater specificity for cerebrospinal fluid P-tau231 over P-tau181 in the differentiation of healthy controls from Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measures of phosphorylated-tau (P-tau) 231 and P-tau181 are two biomarkers for the identification of tau pathology as related to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Plasma Proteomics Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease: Latest Advances and Challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2016 Biomarkers

    The recent paradigm shift towards a more biologically oriented definition of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical settings increases the need for sensitive biomarkers that can be applied in population-based settings.

  8. Comparative analysis of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-12-21 Biomarkers

    Combining the biomarker panel allows differentiating between various types of neurodegenerative dementias and contributes to a better understanding of their pathophysiological processes.

  9. Discriminative and prognostic potential of cerebrospinal fluid phosphoTau/tau ratio and neurofilaments for frontotemporal dementia subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-12-14 Biomarkers

    CSF p/t-tau ratio and NfL levels are strongly driven by ALS status.

  10. Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ40 Improves the Interpretation of Aβ42 Concentration for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2015-11-27 Biomarkers

    The combination of decreased amyloid β42 (Aβ42) and increased total tau proteins (T-Tau) and phosphorylated tau (P-Tau) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has recently been considered as a biological diagnostic criterion of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Plasma Concentration of the Neurofilament Light Protein (NFL) is a Biomarker of CNS Injury in HIV Infection: A Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2015-11-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma and CSF NFL concentrations were very highly correlated (r = 0.89, P < 0.0001).

  12. Cerebrospinal fluid profiles with increasing number of cerebral microbleeds in a continuum of cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2015-09-30 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are hypothesised to have an important yet unknown role in the dementia disease pathology.

  13. Mapping CSF biomarker profiles onto NIA-AA guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 2015-08-08 Tau biomarkers

    The National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) guidelines for Alzheimer's disease (AD) propose the categorization of individuals according to their biomarker constellation.

  14. P50: A candidate ERP biomarker of prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain research 2015-08-06 Tau biomarkers

    MCI-AD patients yielded larger P50s than MCI-Other.

  15. The cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profile in an HIV-infected subject with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. AIDS research and therapy 2015-07-14 Tau biomarkers

    It is a challenge to differentiate between HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and other types of neurocognitive disease in the ageing HIV-infected population.

  16. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2 Biomarker Core: A review of progress and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Biomarkers

    Further studies will refine this model and enable the use of biomarkers studied in ADNI clinically and in disease-modifying therapeutic trials.

  17. C-terminal neurogranin is increased in cerebrospinal fluid but unchanged in plasma in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-16 Biomarkers

    This study strengthens the potential of neurogranin as an AD CSF biomarker, which now needs validation in larger studies.

  18. Cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β 42/40 ratio in clinical setting of memory centers: a multicentric study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2015-06-01 Biomarkers

    In patients with a discrepancy between CSF p-tau181 and CSF Aβ42, the assessment of Aβ 42/40 ratio led to a reliable biological conclusion in over 50% of cases that agreed with a clinician's diagnosis.

  19. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Familial Forms of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2015-05-13 Tau biomarkers

    As dementia is a fast-growing health care problem, it is becoming an increasingly urgent need to provide an early diagnosis in order to offer patients the best medical treatment and care.

  20. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and cerebral atrophy in distinct clinical variants of probable Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-04-25 Tau biomarkers

    Different clinical variants of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) share underlying plaques and tangles but show distinct atrophy patterns.

  21. Can agrin cerebrospinal fluid concentration be used as an early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-03-29 Tau biomarkers

    The need for effective treatments halting Alzheimer's disease (AD) urges the discovery of the earliest possible biomarkers.

  22. A Novel Plasma Based Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015 Biomarkers

    Specific biomarkers in a readily accessible biological fluid, such as blood, could aid in the identification, characterization, validation, and routine monitoring of Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression.

  23. Amyloid-β 42/40 cerebrospinal fluid concentration ratio in the diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease: validation of two novel assays

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    (a) the novel Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-42 ELISA assays characterize with very good analytical performance; (b) we reconfirm that the CSF Aβ42/40 concentration ratio shows significantly better diagnostic performance compared to the CSF Aβ1-42 concentration alone.

  24. Blood Protein Markers of Neocortical Amyloid-β Burden: A Candidate Study Using SOMAscan Technology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    We have further demonstrated the association of PPY and IgM with NAB, despite technical differences between studies.

  25. Insulin Resistance is Associated with Higher Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Levels in Asymptomatic APOEɛ4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    IR among asymptomatic APOEɛ4 carriers was associated with higher P-Tau181 and T-Tau in late-middle age.

  26. Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a current perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Advances in medical sciences 2014-12-09 Tau biomarkers

    A growing body of evidence supports the application of the neurochemical dementia diagnostics (NDD) biomarkers for the diagnosis of dementing conditions.

  27. Csf p-tau181/tau ratio as biomarker for TDP pathology in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration 2014-10-29 Biomarkers

    Our objective was to evaluate the CSF phospho-Tau181/total-Tau (p/t-Tau) ratio to distinguish between the two main forms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD): FTLD with TDP-43 (FTLD-TDP) and FTLD with Tau inclusions (FTLD-Tau).

  28. Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood-based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-10-01 Biomarkers

    The lack of readily available biomarkers is a significant hindrance toward progressing to effective therapeutic and preventative strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. Plasma DYRK1A as a novel risk factor for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2014-08-12 Biomarkers

    To determine whether apparent involvement of DYRK1A in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology makes it a candidate plasma biomarker for diagnosis, we developed a method to quantify plasma DYRK1A by immunoblot in transgenic mouse models having different gene dosages of Dyrk1a, and, consequently, different relative protein expression.

  30. Identification of longitudinally dynamic biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid by targeted proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-06-06 Biomarkers

    Using a targeted proteomics approach, we confirmed previous findings for a subset of markers, defined longitudinal performance of our panel of markers, and established a flexible proteomics method for robust multiplexed analyses.

  31. CSF Aβ42 predicts early-onset dementia in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2014-04-18 Biomarkers

    These in vivo data support the role of Aβ pathology in the etiology and highlight the potential utility of CSF Aβ42 as an early prognostic biomarker of dementia associated with PD.

  32. Increased CSF α-synuclein levels in Alzheimer's disease: correlation with tau levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-15 Tau biomarkers

    CSF α-synuclein levels were higher in AD patients as compared with cognitively healthy controls (P=.019) and patients with synucleinopathies (P<.001).

  33. Developing novel blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease is the public health crisis of the 21st century.

  34. Increased cerebrospinal fluid tau levels in logopenic variant of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014 Tau biomarkers

    p-Tau181 levels were higher in the lvPPA-AD group than in the aMCI-AD group (p < 0.05).

  35. Cerebrospinal fluid τ protein in differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in Chinese population: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2013-10-27 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with AD exhibit significantly higher CSF τ protein levels than healthy controls or patients with VaD in the Chinese population.

  36. Impact of harmonization of collection tubes on Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2013-10-23 Biomarkers

    The predictive value of Aβ42 was highly affected by the type of collection tube used.

  37. Increased neurofilament light chain blood levels in neurodegenerative neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. PloS one 2013-09-20 Biomarkers

    We developed and validated a novel ECL based sandwich immunoassay for the NfL protein in serum (NfL(Umea47:3)); levels in ALS were more than 20-fold higher than in controls.

  38. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and ischemic stroke patients: a critical analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2013-07-23 Tau biomarkers

    Vascular factors are thought to contribute to the development of disease pathology in neurodegenerative dementia such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  39. The future of blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-07-11 Biomarkers

    Treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is significantly hampered by the lack of easily accessible biomarkers that can detect disease presence and predict disease risk reliably.

  40. Plasma amyloid beta measurements - a desired but elusive Alzheimer's disease biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-03-08 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography biomarkers accurately predict an underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology; however, they represent either invasive or expensive diagnostic tools.

  41. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in plasma, serum and blood - conceptual and practical problems

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-03-07 Biomarkers

    Substances produced throughout the body are detectable in the blood, which is the most common biological fluid used in clinical testing.

  42. Soluble amyloid precursor protein β as blood-based biomarker of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2013-02-19 Biomarkers

    The aim of this study was to explore concentrations differences of soluble amyloid precursor protein (sAPP) α and β in blood plasma in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitively healthy age-matched control subjects, as well as patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

  43. A selected reaction monitoring (SRM)-based method for absolute quantification of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 in cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer's disease patients and healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are increasingly used in research centers, clinical trials, and clinical settings.

  44. Amyloid pathology influences aβ1-42 cerebrospinal fluid levels in dementia with lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013 Tau biomarkers

    A significant proportion of patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) show Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology like senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

  45. Transthyretin decrease in plasma of MCI and AD patients: investigation of mechanisms for disease modulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2012-10-01 Biomarkers

    Different authors described that transthyretin (TTR) is decreased in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and thus TTR is a potential CSF biomarker in AD.

  46. Recommendations to standardize preanalytical confounding factors in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biomarkers in medicine 2012-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's (AD) or Parkinson's disease (PD) is needed to slow down or halt the disease at the earliest stage.

  47. Blood-Based Protein Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 2012-07-17 Long-term cohort studies

    A biomarker panel was identified that included markers significantly increased (cortisol, pancreatic polypeptide, insulinlike growth factor binding protein 2, β(2) microglobulin, vascular cell adhesion molecule 1, carcinoembryonic antigen, matrix metalloprotein 2, CD40, macrophage inflammatory protein 1α, superoxide dismutase, and homocysteine) and decreased (apolipoprotein E, epidermal growth factor receptor, hemoglobin, calcium, zinc, interleukin 17, and albumin) in AD.

  48. CSF biomarkers cutoffs: the importance of coincident neuropathological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2012-04-22 Biomarkers

    The effects of applying clinical versus neuropathological diagnosis and the inclusion of cases with coincident neuropathological diagnoses have not been assessed specifically when studying cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker classification cutoffs for patients with neurodegenerative diseases that cause dementia.

  49. Evaluation of a previously suggested plasma biomarker panel to identify Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PloS one 2012-01-18 Biomarkers

    There is an urgent need for biomarkers in plasma to identify Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  50. Plasma transthyretin as a candidate marker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2012-01-01 Biomarkers

    Diagnosis of the progressive neurodegenerative disorder Alzheimer's disease (AD) can only definitively be made postmortem.

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