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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

834 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

247 journals in all.

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  1. Associations between tau, Aβ, and cortical thickness with cognition in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2019-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Our findings suggest that tau PET is more sensitive than Aβ PET and measures of cortical thickness for detecting early cognitive changes in preclinical AD.

  2. Proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the CSF of patients with Alzheimer's disease and their correlation with cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-01-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Cumulative data suggest that neuroinflammation plays a prominent role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  3. Plasma neuronal exosomes serve as biomarkers of cognitive impairment in HIV infection and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurovirology 2019-01-04 Biomarkers

    They belong to the spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases that result in death or dysfunction of neurons with similarities to Alzheimer disease (AD) but also distinctive differences (reviewed (Canet et al., Front Cell Neurosci 12: 307, 2018)).

  4. Application of the NIA-AA Research Framework: Towards a Biological Definition of Alzheimer's Disease Using Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in the AIBL Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2019-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) have proposed a new Research Framework: Towards a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease, which uses a three-biomarker construct: Aß-amyloid, tau and neurodegeneration AT(N), to generate a biomarker based definition of Alzheimer's disease.

  5. NF-κB as a Key Mediator of Brain Inflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2019-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.

  6. Plasma Aβ42/40 Ratio Detects Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease and Correlates with CSF and Neuroimaging Biomarkers in the AB255 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2019-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    TP42/40 demonstrated value in the identification of individuals suffering a-MCI, in the prediction of progression to dementia, and in the detection of underlying AD pathology revealed by FDG-PET, Amyloid-PET and CSF biomarkers, being, thus, consistently associated with all the well-established indicators of AD.

  7. Circulating levels of IL-1 family cytokines and receptors in Alzheimer's disease: new markers of disease progression?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2018-12-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    AD is characterised by a significant alteration in the circulating levels of the cytokines and receptors of the IL-1 family.

  8. Simultaneously evaluating the effect of baseline levels and longitudinal changes in disease biomarkers on cognition in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2018-12-07 Biomarkers

    This study suggests that the baseline value of amyloid PET and CSF Aβ 42 measures may be useful for screening participants for AD trials; however, brain hippocampus atrophy and hypometabolism are only useful as repeated longitudinal assessments for tracking cognition and disease progression.

  9. CSF progranulin increases in the course of Alzheimer's disease and is associated with sTREM2, neurodegeneration and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2018-12-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Progranulin (PGRN) is predominantly expressed by microglia in the brain, and genetic and experimental evidence suggests a critical role in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Current state of Alzheimer's fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-11-28 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a complex and heterogeneous pathophysiology.

  11. Levels of plasma neurofilament light chain and cognitive function in patients with Alzheimer or Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-11-26 Biomarkers

    Plasma neurofilament light (NFL) has been proposed as a blood-based biomarker for neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and parkinsonian disorders.

  12. C-Reactive Protein, Plasma Amyloid-β Levels, and Their Interaction With Magnetic Resonance Imaging Markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Stroke 2018-11-01 Long-term cohort studies

    We hypothesize that CRP (C-reactive protein) is associated with brain structural changes and may interact with amyloid to produce vascular and degenerative damage.

  13. Development of a cerebrovascular magnetic resonance imaging biomarker for cognitive aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-10-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Systemic vascular health has significant impact on brain structure and function.

  14. Identification of a simple and novel cut-point based CSF and MRI signature for predicting Alzheimer’s disease progression that reinforces the 2018 NIA-AA research framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-10-15 Tau biomarkers

    The 2018 NIA-AA research framework proposes a classification system with beta- A myloid deposition, pathologic T au, and n eurodegeneration (ATN) for the diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).

  15. CSF sAPPβ, YKL-40, and NfL along the ALS-FTD spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2018-10-05 Biomarkers

    We found increased levels of YKL-40 and decreased levels of sAPPβ in both FTD and ALS groups compared to controls.

  16. Cerebrospinal fluid phosphorylated tau, visinin-like protein-1, and chitinase-3-like protein 1 in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2018-09-10 Long-term cohort studies

    Visinin-like protein-1 (VILIP-1) and chitinase-3-like protein 1 (CHI3L1 or YKL-40) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are newly discovered markers indicating neuronal damage and microglial activation, respectively.

  17. Neurofilaments as biomarkers in neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature Reviews Neurology 2018-08-31 Biomarkers

    This study reviewed the structure, function, analytical aspects, and age-dependent normal ranges of neurofilaments, providing a comprehensive overview of neurofilament light chain as a marker of axonal injury across various neurological disorders.

  18. Plasma and CSF biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-08-29 Biomarkers

    The diagnostic performance of plasma biomarkers was poor (area under the curve [AUC] between 0·53 [95% CI 0·44-0·62] and 0·74 [0·66-0·82]) except for plasma NfL concentrations, which had an AUC of 0·88 (0·82-0·93) for the differentiation of the asymptomatic group versus the prodromal Alzheimer's disease group and 0·95 (0·92-0·98) for the asymptomatic group versus the Alzheimer's disease dementia group.

  19. Plasma neurofilament light as a potential biomarker of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-07-28 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A growing body of evidence suggests that the plasma concentration of the neurofilament light chain (NfL) might be considered a plasma biomarker for the screening of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. CSF biomarkers of neuroinflammation and cerebrovascular dysfunction in early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Neurology 2018-07-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Neuroinflammation and cerebrovascular dysfunction are early events occurring already at presymptomatic stages of AD and contribute to disease progression.

  21. Alzheimer disease pathology and the cerebrospinal fluid proteome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-07-18 Tau biomarkers

    Altered proteome profiles have been reported in both postmortem brain tissues and body fluids of subjects with Alzheimer disease (AD), but their broad relationships with AD pathology, amyloid pathology, and tau-related neurodegeneration have not yet been fully explored.

  22. Plasma amyloid-β levels, cerebral atrophy and risk of dementia: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-06-30 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) levels are increasingly studied as a potential accessible marker of cognitive impairment and dementia.

  23. Increased CAIDE dementia risk, cognition, CSF biomarkers, and vascular burden in healthy adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2018-06-13 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitively normal participants (mean age 57.6 years) from the Gipuzkoa Alzheimer Project study were classified as having high risk (HR; n = 82) or low risk (LR; n = 293) for dementia according to a CAIDE score cutoff of 9.

  24. Mediterranean diet and 3-year Alzheimer brain biomarker changes in middle-aged adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2018-04-13 Brain scans and imaging

    MeDi groups were comparable for clinical and neuropsychological measures.

  25. Cerebrospinal fluid α-synuclein contributes to the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-03-28 Tau biomarkers

    The ability of Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers (amyloid β peptide 1-42, total tau, and phosphorylated tau) to discriminate AD from related disorders is limited.

  26. Addition of the Aβ42/40 ratio to the cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profile increases the predictive value for underlying Alzheimer's disease dementia in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-03-20 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers have been used to increase the evidence of underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  27. Age-accelerated cognitive decline in asymptomatic adults with CSF β-amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2018-03-09 Tau biomarkers

    Compare cognitive and hippocampal volume trajectories in asymptomatic middle-aged and older adults with positive CSF markers of β-amyloid (Aβ) or tau to adults without an Alzheimer disease (AD)-associated biomarker profile.

  28. CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease concord with amyloid-β PET and predict clinical progression: A study of fully automated immunoassays in BioFINDER and ADNI cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Elecsys CSF biomarker assays may provide reliable alternatives to PET in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

  29. Characterization and clinical use of inflammatory cerebrospinal fluid protein markers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-02-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Neuroinflammation has gained increasing attention as a potential contributing factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  30. CSF tau and β-amyloid predict cerebral synucleinopathy in autopsied Lewy body disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2018-02-21 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with autopsy-confirmed LBD (n = 24) and autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer disease (AD) (n = 23) and cognitively normal (n = 36) controls were studied.

  31. Core cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profile in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2018-01-31 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We systematically searched PubMed for eligible studies reporting data on CSF biomarkers reflecting amyloid precursor protein metabolism (Aβ42, Aβ40), neurodegeneration (t-tau), and tangle pathology (p-tau) in symptomatic sporadic CAA cohorts vs controls and patients with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature 2018-01-31 Biomarkers

    This study demonstrated the measurement of high-performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers by immunoprecipitation coupled with mass spectrometry to predict individual brain amyloid-β status as determined by amyloid-β-PET imaging.

  33. CSF neurogranin or tau distinguish typical and atypical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2018-01-11 Biomarkers

    These results show significant differences in neurogranin and total-tau between typical and atypical patients, which may relate to factors other than disease topography.

  34. Cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer biomarkers can be useful for discriminating dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer's disease at the prodromal stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2018-01-10 Tau biomarkers

    Differential diagnosis between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not straightforward, especially in the early stages of disease.

  35. Comparing 18F-AV-1451 with CSF t-tau and p-tau for diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2018-01-10 Brain scans and imaging

    CSF tau and 18 F-AV-1451 have equal performance in early clinical stages of AD, but 18 F-AV-1451 is superior in the dementia stage, and exhibits close to perfect diagnostic performance for mild to moderate AD.

  36. Bi-directional Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Immune Markers with Stage of Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Immune mechanisms may be important in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  37. Cerebrovascular and amyloid pathology in predementia stages: the relationship with neurodegeneration and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-12-29 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and amyloid-β (Aβ) often coexist, but their influence on neurodegeneration and cognition in predementia stages remains unclear.

  38. Interpreting Biomarker Results in Individual Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Alzheimer's Biomarkers in Daily Practice (ABIDE) Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Three- and 1-year progression risks were 86% (95% CI, 71%-95%) and 27% (95% CI, 17%-41%) when MRI results were abnormal, 82% (95% CI, 73%-89%) and 26% (95% CI, 20%-33%) when CSF test results were abnormal, and 89% (95% CI, 79%-95%) and 26% (95% CI, 18%-36%) when the results of both tests were abnormal.

  39. Bile acid quantification of 20 plasma metabolites identifies lithocholic acid as a putative biomarker in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society 2017-11-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    Levels of lithocholic acid were significantly enhanced in plasma of AD patients (50 ± 6 nM, p = 0.004) compared to healthy controls (32 ± 3 nM).

  40. Current Role for Biomarkers in Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Current treatment options in neurology 2017-11-14 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia can often be diagnosed accurately with careful clinical history, cognitive testing, neurological examination, and structural brain MRI.

  41. YKL-40 in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2017-11-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    YKL-40 (also known as Chitinase 3-like 1) is a glycoprotein produced by inflammatory, cancer and stem cells.

  42. Race modifies the relationship between cognition and Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-11-02 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We hypothesized that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of amyloid, neurodegeneration, and endothelial dysfunction would differ between older African Americans and Caucasians with normal cognition and cognitive impairment associated with AD.

  43. Age, vascular health, and Alzheimer disease biomarkers in an elderly sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-10-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Vascular health had quantifiably greater impact on neurodegeneration in AD regions than on amyloid deposition.

  44. Serum neurofilament light in familial Alzheimer disease: A marker of early neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2017-10-25 Biomarkers

    Serum NfL concentration is increased in FAD prior to symptom onset and correlates with measures of disease stage and severity.

  45. Changes of cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42, t-tau, and p-tau in Parkinson's disease patients with cognitive impairment relative to those with normal cognition: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2017-08-14 Disease mechanisms

    The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) signature of reduced amyloid beta 1-42 (Aβ 42 ), elevated total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau) is important for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  46. Functional correlates of TSH, fT3 and fT4 in Alzheimer disease: a F-18 FDG PET/CT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-07-24 Tau biomarkers

    The present study was aimed to investigate the relationships between thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), freeT3 (fT3) and freeT4 (fT4) and brain glucose consumption as detectable by means of 2-deoxy-2-(F-18) fluoro-D-glucose (F-18 FDG) Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) in a selected population with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  47. Serum Interleukin-10 Levels Correlate with Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Beta Deposition in Alzheimer Disease Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2017-07-19 Tau biomarkers

    In Alzheimer disease (AD) inflammation becomes evident throughout the course of the disease.

  48. Poor sleep is associated with CSF biomarkers of amyloid pathology in cognitively normal adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2017-07-05 Biomarkers

    Self-report of poor sleep was associated with greater AD-related pathology in cognitively healthy adults at risk for AD.

  49. Odor identification as a biomarker of preclinical AD in older adults at risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2017-06-28 Genetics

    These findings from healthy high-risk older individuals suggest that OI reflects degree of preclinical AD pathology, while its relationships with age and cognition result from the association of these latter variables with such pathology.

  50. Concordance between brain 18F-FDG PET and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2017-06-20 Tau biomarkers

    Cortical posterior hypometabolism on PET imaging with 18 F-FDG (FDG-PET), and altered levels of Aß 1-42 peptide, total Tau (tTau) and phosphorylated Tau (pTau) proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are established diagnostic biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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