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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. Brain glutathione levels--a novel biomarker for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2015-04-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Extant data from in vivo animal models and postmortem studies indicate that Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is associated with reduction of the brain antioxidant glutathione (GSH), yet direct clinical evidence has been lacking.

  2. Importance and impact of preanalytical variables on Alzheimer disease biomarker concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2015-04-13 Tau biomarkers

    Analyses of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers (β-amyloid protein, total tau protein, and hyperphosphorylated tau protein) are part of the diagnostic criteria of Alzheimer disease.

  3. Nutrient patterns and brain biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2015-04-01 Prevention and risk

    None of the participants were diabetics, smokers, or met criteria for obesity.

  4. Association of cerebrospinal fluid prion protein levels and the distinction between Alzheimer disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    Although typical forms of Alzheimer disease (AD) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are clinically distinguishable, atypical AD phenotypes may pose a diagnostic challenge.

  5. Associations between biomarkers and age in the presenilin 1 E280A autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease kindred: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Age-associated changes in brain imaging and fluid biomarkers are characterized and compared in presenilin 1 (PSEN1)E280A mutation carriers and noncarriers from the world's largest known autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (AD) kindred.

  6. Different cerebrospinal fluid levels of Alzheimer-type biomarker Aβ42 between general paresis and asymptomatic neurosyphilis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2015-02-23 Tau biomarkers

    Neurosyphilis is a neurological disease that involves infection of the central nervous system with Treponema pallidum.

  7. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of the synaptic protein neurogranin correlates with cognitive decline in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-12-19 Getting a diagnosis

    Synaptic dysfunction is an early event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis and directly related to cognitive impairment.

  8. The present study was undertaken to validate the measurement of biomarkers as a supplement to the latest diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia by National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) work group using a sample attending a tertiary care center in Southern India.

  9. Cerebrospinal fluid cortisol and clinical disease progression in MCI and dementia of Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-10-31 Mild cognitive impairment

    Increased peripheral and central nervous system cortisol levels have been reported in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and may reflect dysfunction of cerebral components of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

  10. The mediational effects of FDG hypometabolism on the association between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and neurocognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. NeuroImage 2014-10-29 Tau biomarkers

    Positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of tau and amyloid beta42 suggest possible active underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) including neurometabolic dysfunction and neurodegeneration leading to eventual cognitive decline.

  11. CSF neurofilament light differs in neurodegenerative diseases and predicts severity and survival

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-22 Biomarkers

    CSF NFL differs among different neurodegenerative diseases and is especially high in dementias engaging subcortical brain regions, such as VaD and mixed AD and VaD, but also in frontotemporal dementia.

  12. Alzheimer CSF biomarkers may be misleading in normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    This article discusses why CSF biomarkers found in normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) can be misleading when distinguishing NPH from comorbid NPH with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  13. Apolipoprotein E genotype and the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2014-10-01 Genetics

    The CSF levels of Aβ42 but not total and phosphorylated tau were lower in APOE ε4 carriers compared with noncarriers irrespective of diagnostic group (cohort A).

  14. Higher homocysteine associated with thinner cortical gray matter in 803 participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-08-30 Long-term cohort studies

    A significant portion of our risk for dementia in old age is associated with lifestyle factors (diet, exercise, and cardiovascular health) that are modifiable, at least in principle.

  15. CSF lactate levels, τ proteins, cognitive decline: a dynamic relationship in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2014-08-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Moreover, we found, in either the whole AD population or both subgroups, a CSF profile in which higher

  16. Update on the core and developing cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Croatian medical journal 2014-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder, whose prevalence will dramatically rise by 2050.

  17. Plasma proteins predict conversion to dementia from prodromal disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-07-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    We have identified 10 plasma proteins strongly associated with disease severity and disease progression.

  18. Associations between cerebral small-vessel disease and Alzheimer disease pathology as measured by cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-07-01 Genetics

    Microbleed presence was associated with lower CSF Aβ42 in AD and vascular dementia (standardized beta = -0.09, P = .003; standardized beta = -0.30, P = .01), and higher CSF tau in controls (standardized beta = 0.10, P = .03).

  19. Cerebrospinal fluid β-amyloid and phospho-tau biomarker interactions affecting brain structure in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-06-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Our data suggest that interactions between biomarkers in AD result in a 2-phase phenomenon of pathological cortical thickening associated with low CSF Aβ, followed by atrophy once CSF p-tau becomes abnormal.

  20. Circulating miRNAs as biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2014-05-23 Disease mechanisms

    Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and frontotemporal dementias (FTD), are considered distinct entities, however, there is increasing evidence of an overlap from the clinical, pathological and genetic points of view.

  21. The discovery and reliable detection of markers for neurodegenerative diseases have been complicated by the inaccessibility of the diseased tissue--such as the inability to biopsy or test tissue from the central nervous system directly.

  22. Clinical utility of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-05-03 Getting a diagnosis

    Several potential disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to show any effect on disease progression in clinical trials, conceivably because the AD subjects are already too advanced to derive clinical benefit from treatment and because diagnosis based on clinical criteria alone introduces a high misdiagnosis rate.

  23. Value of serum nonceruloplasmin copper for prediction of mild cognitive impairment conversion to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-04-14 Genetics

    Among the evaluated parameters, the only significant predictor of conversion to AD was non-Cp copper (hazard ratio = 1.23, 95% confidence interval = 1.03-1.47, p = 0.022); for each additional micromole per liter unit (μmol/l) of non-Cp copper, the hazard increased by ~20%.

  24. The cerebrospinal fluid "Alzheimer profile": easily said, but what does it mean?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-04-08 Getting a diagnosis

    A tau/Aβ42 ratio of >0.52 constitutes a robust cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer profile.

  25. Plasma phospholipids identify antecedent memory impairment in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature medicine 2014-03-09 Getting a diagnosis

    Alzheimer's disease causes a progressive dementia that currently affects over 35 million individuals worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050 (ref. 1).

  26. Neuronal injury biomarkers and prognosis in ADNI subjects with normal cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2014-03-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Based on previous studies, a preclinical classification for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been proposed.

  27. Longitudinal change in CSF biomarkers in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2014-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Clinicopathological evidence suggests that the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) begins many years before the appearance of cognitive symptoms.

  28. Body fluid cytokine levels in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a comparative overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2014-02-25 Mild cognitive impairment

    This article gives a comprehensive overview of cytokine and other inflammation associated protein levels in plasma, serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  29. Biomarker evidence of axonal injury in neuroasymptomatic HIV-1 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2014-02-11 Inflammation and the immune system

    Increased CSF NFL indicates ongoing axonal injury in many neuroasymptomatic patients.

  30. Associations between serum cholesterol levels and cerebral amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-02-01 Vascular contributions

    Elevated cerebral Aβ level was associated with cholesterol fractions in a pattern analogous to that found in coronary artery disease.

  31. Non-neurological surgery and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for neuronal and astroglial integrity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2014-01-14 Biomarkers

    Non-neurological surgery has both acute and long-term effects on the brain.

  32. Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament concentration reflects disease severity in frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-01-02 Biomarkers

    CSF NfL is elevated in symptomatic FTD and correlates with disease severity.

  33. Regional cortical thinning and cerebrospinal biomarkers predict worsening daily functioning across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Impairment in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) heralds the transition from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia and is a major source of burden for both the patient and caregiver.

  34. Relationship between β-Secretase, inflammation and core cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can track specific pathophysiological pathways underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Associations between Alzheimer disease biomarkers, neurodegeneration, and cognition in cognitively normal older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Such findings challenge the proposed sequence and suggest that Aβ-independent precursors underlie AD-typical neurodegenerative patterns.

  36. Integration and relative value of biomarkers for prediction of MCI to AD progression: spatial patterns of brain atrophy, cognitive scores, APOE genotype and CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-11-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    This study evaluates the individual, as well as relative and joint value of indices obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patterns of brain atrophy (quantified by the SPARE-AD index), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, APOE genotype, and cognitive performance (ADAS-Cog) in progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD) within a variable follow-up period up to 6 years, using data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-1 (ADNI-1).

  37. Fluid biomarkers for diagnosing dementia: rationale and the Canadian Consensus on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia recommendations for Canadian physicians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-11-25 Tau biomarkers

    Fluid biomarkers improve the diagnostic accuracy in dementia and provide an objective measure potentially useful as a therapeutic response in clinical trials.

  38. Pulse pressure is associated with Alzheimer biomarkers in cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2013-11-13 Genetics

    The relationship between PP and CSF biomarkers is age-dependent and observed only in participants in the fifth and sixth decades of life.

  39. Roles of vascular and metabolic components in cognitive dysfunction of Alzheimer disease: short- and long-term modification by non-genetic risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2013-11-05 Biomarkers

    It is well known that a specific set of genetic and non-genetic risk factors contributes to the onset of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  40. CSF biomarker changes precede symptom onset of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2013-10-16 Tau biomarkers

    This study evaluated longitudinal CSF biomarker measures collected when participants were cognitively normal to determine the magnitude and time course of biomarker changes before the onset of clinical symptoms in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  41. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease and subcortical axonal damage in 5,542 clinical samples

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-10-14 Biomarkers

    The association between an AD-like signature using the established biomarkers Aβ42, T-tau, and P-tau with increased levels of NFL provides in vivo evidence of an association between AD and subcortical axonal degeneration in this uniquely large dataset of CSF samples tested for dementia biomarkers.

  42. Biomarker-based prediction of progression in MCI: Comparison of AD signature and hippocampal volume with spinal fluid amyloid-β and tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2013-10-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    For prediction of dementia in MCI, the AD signature cortical thickness biomarker performed better than hippocampal volume.

  43. Clinical and multimodal biomarker correlates of ADNI neuropathological findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2013-10-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Biomarkers can be used to independently predict coincident AD and DLB pathology, a common finding in amnestic MCI and DAT patients.

  44. Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42, phosphorylated Tau181, and resting-state functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Both Aβ and tau pathology affect default mode network integrity before clinical onset of Alzheimer disease.

  45. A comparison of early diagnostic utility of Alzheimer disease biomarkers in brain magnetic resonance and cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) 2013-08-20 Tau biomarkers

    The goals of this study were to compare the early diagnostic utility of Alzheimer disease biomarkers in the CSF with those in brain MRI in conditions found in our clinical practice, and to ascertain the diagnostic accuracy of both techniques used together.

  46. Cerebrospinal fluid inflammatory markers in Parkinson's disease--associations with depression, fatigue, and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2013-07-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation may be involved in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) and specifically in non-motor symptoms such as depression, fatigue and cognitive impairment.

  47. Effects of anesthetic isoflurane and desflurane on human cerebrospinal fluid Aβ and τ level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2013-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    Accumulation of β-amyloid protein (Aβ) and tau protein is the main feature of Alzheimer disease neuropathogenesis.

  48. CSF α-synuclein improves diagnostic and prognostic performance of CSF tau and Aβ in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2013-06-29 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Lewy body diseases (LBD), e.g., Parkinson's disease (PD) dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), are common causes of geriatric cognitive impairments.

  49. Longitudinal change in CSF Tau and Aβ biomarkers for up to 48 months in ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2013-06-29 Long-term cohort studies

    The dynamics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and Aβ biomarkers over time in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients from prodromal pre-symptomatic to severe stages of dementia have not been clearly defined and recent studies, most of which are cross-sectional, present conflicting findings.

  50. Fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease - current concepts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2013-06-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    The diagnostic guidelines of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have recently been updated to include brain imaging and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, with the aim of increasing the certainty of whether a patient has an ongoing AD neuropathologic process or not.

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