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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

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834 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

247 journals in all.

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  1. Midlife and Late-Life Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers and 11-Year Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurology 2026-10-16 Tau biomarkers

    Midlife p-tau181 was associated with faster 11-year memory decline beginning 20 years later in the ARIC cohort, which underscores a potentially long prodromal phase of cognitive decline that could precede dementia onset.

  2. Clinical Factors Associated With Discordant Plasma P-Tau217 and Established Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2026-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    False-positive (FP) plasma results may lead to overtreatment and false-negative (FN) results to missed or delayed disease-modifying therapies.

  3. A neurocognitive speech taxonomy for voice biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-25 Disparities

    NST showed stable cross-cohort structure (Mantel r = 0.71-0.77) and differentiated MCI (d = -0.39) and AD biomarker status (d = -0.23).

  4. Physiological variability in key Alzheimer's biomarkers in amyloid-positive clinical trial cohorts and the mechanistic basis of biomarker ratios

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-21 Biomarkers

    While normalizing biomarker values by A{beta}40 or A{beta}42 reduced physiological variability for some biomarkers, the effects of the normalization were compartment-, and cohort-dependent.

  5. Association of plasma biomarkers with longitudinal change in age- and Alzheimer's disease-related brain atrophy patterns

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-17 Biomarkers

    INTRODUCTIONDetermining whether plasma biomarkers are preferentially associated with Alzheimers disease (AD)-related rather than age-related brain atrophy patterns may clarify their prognostic and diagnostic clinical use.

  6. Plasma proteomics reveals stage-dependent biological remodelling in Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers of amyloid-associated tau phosphorylation (T1) and established tau proteinopathy (T2) can approximate Alzheimers disease stage, but whether plasma-defined stages correspond to broader biological states is unknown.

  7. Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Across the Human Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-14 Risk genes beyond APOE

    BackgroundBone marrow megakaryocytes, the primary source of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the blood, secrete BDNF-packed platelets into the bloodstream.

  8. Evaluation of Disease Severity Using CSF Biomarkers in Patients With Probable Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2026-09-03 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is currently diagnosed using MRI-based Boston criteria.

  9. Proteoform-resolved neoGFAP as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker across the TBI--MCI--AD continuum in Veterans

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-03 Biomarkers

    Service members with traumatic brain injury are at approximately two- to four-fold higher risk of Alzheimers disease or related dementias than those without such an injury, with risk increasing with injury severity.

  10. Exploratory factor and network analysis of 43 inflammatory plasma biomarkers and cognitive performance in Black adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-09-02 Biomarkers

    BackgroundSystemic inflammation has been implicated in cognitive aging and neurodegeneration; however, inflammatory biomarkers are expressed in coordinated patterns rather than as isolated markers.

  11. CSF Tau and Amyloid Biomarkers in Cognitive Impairment Across the ALS-FTD Spectrum: A Systematic Narrative Review and Evidence Map

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2026-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitive impairment is an important non-motor manifestation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), particularly across the ALS-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) spectrum.

  12. Dynamic changes in plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in patients treated with lecanemab: a longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Lancet Neurology 2026-09-01 Biomarkers

    The study included 197 patients in whom lecanemab infusions had been started (lecanemab group), as well as 173 patients in whom lecanemab had been ordered but not yet started, who were combined with 1139 research participants with cognitive impairment from the Knight ADRC cohort to form the untreated control group with cognitive impairment (n=1312).

  13. Treatment response biomarkers in early Alzheimers disease: longitudinal trajectories, sample size estimates, and the impact of progression variability

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-31 Biomarkers

    BackgroundFluid biomarkers enable the demonstration of the biological effects of novel therapies in Alzheimers disease (AD).

  14. Genetic associations with EEG signatures in mild cognitive impairment: insights into Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-28 Biomarkers

    Genome-wide genotypes were quality-controlled, imputed, functionally annotated (yielding 16,935 gene regions comprising 90,607 functional variants), and associated with latent EEG features using Bayesian reduced rank regression.

  15. Adult Vaccination History and Plasma Biomarker Signatures in the Asymptomatic PREVENT-AD Cohort

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-27 Biomarkers

    BackgroundEpidemiological studies increasingly associate several adult vaccinations with lower risk of Alzheimers disease (AD) and dementia, but the biological mechanisms underlying these observations remain unclear.

  16. Adiposity and the Alzheimer Disease–Related Blood Biomarker, p-Tau217, in Community-Dwelling Midlife Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Neurology Open Access 2026-08-25 Biomarkers

    Women have twice the dementia risk compared with men.

  17. Exploring Machine Learning Models to Uncover Pathways in ALS Pathogenesis Using Immunohistochemical Features

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-20 Biomarkers

    Hexanucleotide repeat expansions in C9orf72 are the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia, yet the predictive information contained within associated inflammatory and proteinopathy markers remains incompletely characterised.

  18. Performance of upper-arm capillary blood collection for Alzheimers disease and central nervous system biomarkers: comparison of Tasso+ and venous plasma

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-20 Biomarkers

    INTRODUCTIONNovel capillary-blood collection methods have not yet been evaluated for a wide range of central nervous system (CNS) and neurodegenerative disease-related proteins.

  19. Alzheimers disease blood biomarkers reveal proteomic modules of disease progression

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-19 Biomarkers

    Alzheimers disease (AD) unfolds over decades preceding cognitive symptoms, and measuring the full scope of its molecular complexity remains difficult.

  20. Plasma inflammatory biomarker associations with Alzheimers disease clinical stage and CSF biomarkers: evaluation of sex effects

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-17 Biomarkers

    BackgroundAlzheimers disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid beta and tau accumulation accompanied by altered inflammatory responses.

  21. Prognostic significance of cerebrospinal fluid tau biomarkers in amyloid-negative A-T + N + neurodegeneration: A retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2026-08-12 Tau biomarkers

    BackgroundAmyloid-negative tau-related neurodegeneration represents a non-Alzheimer biomarker-defined profile; however, its clinical heterogeneity and prognostic relevance remain unclear within Alzheimer's disease-related frameworks.

  22. Population-based reference equations and Z-scores for blood biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-08-11 Tau biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers are increasingly used to support the diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases.

  23. Head-to-head comparison of plasma biomarker assays across platforms for amyloid pathology in a multicenter cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. 中国科学通报:英文版 2026-08-06 Biomarkers

    With the advancement of anti-amyloid treatments for Alzheimer disease, accurate assays for amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology are essential.

  24. Cognitive and Biomarker Signatures of Late-Onset Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Toward Non-Alzheimer Neurodegenerative Mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2026-08-04 Tau biomarkers

    Late-onset unexplained epilepsy (LOUE) represents a substantial proportion of epilepsies with onset after 50 years and often manifests as temporal lobe epilepsy (LO-TLE).

  25. Blood Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease and Rates of Global and Domain-Specific Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA network open 2026-08-03 Tau biomarkers

    Moreover, there is limited knowledge regarding associations with domain-specific cognitive decline and modifying effects of key individual characteristics.

  26. Plasma Alzheimer Biomarkers and Diagnostic Decision-Making in Memory Clinics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2026-08-03 Biomarkers

    Among 356 patients (79%) with AD as the primary suspected etiology, assessment of BBM classified 149 patients (42%) as high, 101 patients (28%) as intermediate, and 106 patients (30%) as low probability of AD.

  27. Anemia, iron deficiency, and blood biomarkers for Alzheimer disease: clinical interpretation and dementia risk stratification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Frontiers in Nutrition 2026-07-16 Biomarkers

    Anemia and iron deficiency are common in older adults, yet their relevance to blood biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD) remains underappreciated.

  28. Performance of Alzheimer Disease Plasma Biomarkers in Patients With Prion Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2026-07-13 Tau biomarkers

    Prion diseases can mimic Alzheimer disease (AD) at presentation.

  29. Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Subjective Cognitive Decline Among Hispanic and/or Latino Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. UNC Libraries 2026-07-11 Genetics

    Among 5712 adults (mean [SD] age, 63.47 (8.15) years; unweighted 3663 [53.92%] female), higher ln(ptau-181) was associated with ECog-12 memory (unstandardized β = 0.088; 95% CI, 0.005-0.170).

  30. CSF samples were retrospectively collected from 253 subjects recruited at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, and Beijing Tiantan Hospital between July 2013 and September 2019.

  31. Early Alzheimer´s disease blood biomarkers are associated with a higher risk for postoperative long-term cognitive decline: Insights from the FINDERI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    The study aim is to investigate whether blood biomarkers (BBMs) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology are associated with postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) after cardiac surgery.

  32. Prior Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2026-06-29 Biomarkers

    In 272 participants, mean (SD) age was 70 (4.5) years, 270 were male (99.3%), and 83 (30.5%) were amyloid-PET positive.

  33. Blood-based biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a current systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. BMC neurology 2026-06-05 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the world and its prevalence is increasing and it has important public health consequences.

  34. Associations between Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers and neighborhood disadvantage: A HABS-HD community cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-05-29 Risk factors

    BackgroundNeighborhood disadvantage has been associated with reduced cognitive reserve, increased risk for cognitive impairment, and greater Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology, with particularly pronounced effects among Black and Hispanic/Latino older adults.

  35. Differential associations of core and non-core plasma biomarkers with cognitive performance in Black adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-05-27 Biomarkers

    Non-core NfL and GFAP biomarkers are associated with both cross-sectional and longitudinal cognitive performance.

  36. Integrated amyloid, neurodegeneration, and vascular biomarkers estimate the risk of dementia progression in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-05-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    The prominent prognostic role of carotid plaques in Aβ-negative MCI underscores the vascular contributions to non-amyloid cognitive decline and highlights the importance of evaluating both AD-related and vascular mechanisms in prodromal dementia.

  37. Blood biomarkers for Alzheimer disease across ethnoracial groups and healthcare settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-05-18 Tau biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers could transform Alzheimer disease (AD) detection by enabling scalable, less invasive assessment of underlying pathology, yet their applicability across globally diverse populations remains uncertain.

  38. Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein and Neurofilament Light Reference Intervals in Healthy Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2026-05-14 Biomarkers

    In 7989 cognitively unimpaired participants (median [range] age, 54 [30-90] years; 4877 [61.3%] female; mean [SD] BMI, 25.9 [4.2]; mean [SD] eGFR, 80.7 [14.7] mL/min/1.73 m2), older age, lower BMI, and reduced kidney function were associated with increased NfL and GFAP concentrations; female sex was associated with increased GFAP concentrations.

  39. Indices of Arterial Stiffness and the Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker, p-tau217, in Non-Demented Midlife Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Pulse 2026-05-04 Biomarkers

    Among 871 participants (mean age: 62.80 ± 6.02 years), every SD increase in AIx and RI scores was both associated with 0.010 pg/mL (95% CI: 0.003–0.017, p = 0.004) higher blood p-tau217 levels after adjustment for age, employment status, BMI, mild cognitive impairment, hypertension, cholesterol-HDL ratio, renal function, and ApoE4 carrier status.

  40. What Does a Positive Alzheimer Disease Blood-Based Biomarker Result Mean in People With Mild Cognitive Impairment?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurology 2026-05-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    Blood-based biomarkers (BBMs) for Alzheimer disease (AD) offer widely expanded access to biomarker-informed diagnoses in community settings that have previously lacked such resources.

  41. Associations of blood biomarkers of glial cell dysfunction and neuronal injury with future cognitive decline and incident dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    Higher serum GFAP, YKL-40, sCD14, and NfL were associat

  42. Plasma Biomarkers and Clinical Outcomes in Early-Onset Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2026-04-29 Biomarkers

    A total of 322 participants with p-tau217, GFAP, and NfL analyses were stratified into the EOAD or FTD group based on their diagnosis.

  43. In neurodegenerative diseases, the diagnostic value of α-synuclein seed amplification assay (αSAA) in routine clinical practice and its relationship with cognitive performance and fluid biomarkers remains incompletely characterized.

  44. Anemia and Blood Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease in Dementia Development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2026-04-17 Biomarkers

    A total of 3363 adults were enrolled in SNAC-K (73.3% participation rate).

  45. Cardiovascular Health at Midlife and Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-04-17 Tau biomarkers

    We investigated whether vascular and lifestyle factors are associated with AD plasma and imaging biomarkers in midlife.

  46. Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD) is a common complication in older adults undergoing major surgery and is associated with prolonged recovery and long-term cognitive decline.

  47. Cognitive and Brain Reserve as Modifiers of Early Alzheimer Disease–Related Cognitive Vulnerability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2026-04-14 Biomarkers

    A total of 621 participants (aged 69.9 ± 3.8, 71% female) had available data for the main analyses and 355 had PET Centiloid data available.

  48. Impaired lung function is associated with elevated blood biomarkers of AD/ADRD: unraveling the interplay with risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2026-04-14 Biomarkers

    In total, 881 (21.6%) participants had ILF and 272 (6.8%) participants developed dementia.

  49. Impaired lung function is associated with elevated blood biomarkers of AD/ADRD: unraveling the interplay with risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Scientific reports 2026-04-14 Tau biomarkers

    Impaired lung function (ILF) has been associated with cognitive decline and dementia risk in multiple cohorts, yet the role of circulating Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers in this relationship is not well understood.

  50. Grip strength modifies the association between blood-based alzheimer's biomarkers and cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. GeroScience 2026-04-11 Tau biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers are increasingly used to characterize Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related pathology, yet substantial heterogeneity exists in how biomarker burden relates to cognitive performance.

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