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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. Association of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces With Early Serum and Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2025-08-22 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest EPVS burden to be a potential marker of both CSVD and AD-related BBM pathology.

  2. CSF markers of neuroinflammation, synaptic dysfunction and [18F]DOPA-PET in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2025-08-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    In PD patients, a decrease in [ 18 F]DOPA PET retention correlated with disease duration as well as CSF neurodegenerative and synaptic biomarkers but not with inflammatory biomarkers or [ 18 F]RO948 PET midbrain off-target retention.

  3. Enhancing Alzheimer Disease Detection Using Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: The Role of Mild Behavioural Impairment in the Revised NIA-AA Research Framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2025-08-13 Tau biomarkers

    BackgroundAs the prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) rises, early identification of at-risk individuals is essential for effective intervention.

  4. Reliable New Biomarkers of Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Neuroinflammation in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma from Alzheimer’s Disease Patients: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-08-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Mitochondrial oxidative stress and neuroinflammation are involved in the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Associations of Longitudinal Changes in Blood Biomarkers of Dementia With the Proportion of Genetically Inferred African Ancestry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2025-08-08 Biomarkers

    ε4, socioeconomic status, physical activity, smoking, subjective cognitive decline, and various cardiovascular risk factors and comorbidities.

  6. Integrated Roles of Systemic Diseases and Serum Biomarkers in the Incidence of Age‐Related Macular Degeneration: The UK Biobank Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Medicine Bulletin 2025-08-04 Long-term cohort studies

    Major systemic diseases elevate AMD risk, compounded by comorbidities.

  7. Association of epigenetic aging with plasma biomarkers of amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration, and neuroinflammation in Hispanic/Latino adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical Epigenetics 2025-08-01 Disparities

    Blood-based biomarkers hold significant promise for the early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias.

  8. Comparison of plasma p-tau217/Aβ42, p-tau217, and Aβ42/Aβ40 biomarkers by race to detect Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-08 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217/Aβ42 had high accuracy to detect AD, with comparable performance across race.

  9. Early microglial and astrocyte reactivity in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-08-01 Biomarkers

    Our findings suggest that microglial and astrocyte reactivity, measured through fluid biomarkers, occur early and impact the amyloid cascade on the preclinical Alzheimer´s continuum.

  10. Cerebrospinal Fluid β‐Amyloid and τ Levels in Patients With Iatrogenic Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Sporadic Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Alzheimer Disease, and Controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-07-29 Brain tissue and pathology

    The study included 25 patients with iCAA (age, 44±11 years), 31 patients with sCAA (age, 75±5 years), 28 patients with AD (age, 71±8 years) and 30 controls (age, 72±8 years) from 9 case descriptions and 1 cohort study.

  11. Temporal Muscle Thickness as a New Biomarker: Its Association With Alzheimer Pathology and Cognitive Impairment in Chinese Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle 2025-07-28 Brain scans and imaging

    A decline in TMT was associated with worse cognitive function, increased cerebral tau deposition and impaired functional performance.

  12. Alcohol consumption and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for preclinical alzheimer's disease in a population-based sample of 70-year-olds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-07-25 Tau biomarkers

    It is largely unknown how alcohol use affects the risk of Alzheimer`s disease (AD).

  13. Plasma biomarkers identify brain ATN abnormalities in a dementia-free population-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-07-25 How common it is

    , respectively (p-values < 0.05), with p-tau217 demonstrating the highest classification accuracy for Aβ-PET status (AUC = 0.94).

  14. High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Responders (R) and Non-Responders (NR) to lymphatic-venous anastomosis (LVA) surgery for relief of cognitive impairment show significant difference in their p-tau181/Aβ42 ratios via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  15. The role of blood-based biomarkers in Parkinsonian disorders, Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2025-07-15 Getting a diagnosis

    The complexity of neurodegenerative disorders necessitates an integrative approach that incorporates morphological, functional, and molecular biomarkers.

  16. Biomarkers and therapeutic strategies targeting microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: current status and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-07-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    Recent advances in our understanding of non-cell-autonomous mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) have highlighted microglial dysfunction as a core driver of disease progression.

  17. Neurofilament, but not Alzheimer disease biomarkers in the acute phase correlate with cognitive performance after cardiac arrest

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Resuscitation Plus 2025-07-08 Biomarkers

    Biomarkers serve as a quantitative measure of brain injury and may predict cognitive outcome after cardiac arrest.

  18. Allostatic load dynamics, Alzheimer's disease biomarkers, and progression in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: findings from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A one‐point ALI increase was associated with MCI conversion odds by 15%.

  19. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid and Tau Biomarker Changes Across the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA network open 2025-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    The trajectories of core Alzheimer disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers and the concurrent cognitive changes across the clinical spectrum remain unclear yet are important for clinical trial design.

  20. It is time to share Alzheimer biomarker results in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-07-01 Lewy body dementia

    There are increasing calls for sharing individual biomarker results with participants in dementia research.

  21. Unravelling the plasma proteome: Pioneering biomarkers for differential dementia diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Plasma phosphorylated Tau217 (pTau217) demonstrated the highest diagnostic accuracy for AD, DLB, and FTD (area under the curve [AUCs]: 0.9, 0.84, and 0.79, respectively).

  22. LCN2 of cerebrospinal fluid: A potential biomarker for diagnosis and disease progression in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-06-27 Mild cognitive impairment

    LCN2 is not only a potential biomarker for the early diagnosis of AD but may also play a significant role in the neurodegenerative processes associated with the disease.

  23. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Annals of Clinical and Experimental Neurology 2025-06-26 Treatments

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia in the elderly.

  24. Serum level changes of the synaptic marker beta-synuclein in Alzheimer’s disease continuum and other dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2025-06-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Serum beta-synuclein level was progressively increased in the AD continuum across the preclinical, MCI and dementia stages compared with controls and was correlated with serum pTau181 (r=0.710), NfL (r=0.494) and GFAP concentrations (r=0.621, p<0.001 for all).

  25. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Disadvantage With Fluid Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2025-06-25 Biomarkers

    Greater neighborhood disadvantage was associated with elevated inflammatory and AD CSF biomarkers cross-sectionally and longitudinal increases in a nonspecific inflammatory blood biomarker.

  26. Comparative performance of plasma pTau181/Aβ42, pTau217/Aβ42 ratios, and individual measurements in detecting brain amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2025-06-12 Biomarkers

    The pTau217/Aβ42 ratio demonstrated the highest diagnostic accuracy, with an AUC of 0.927 (0.900-0.954).

  27. CSF Biomarker‐Based Cognitive Trajectories in Parkinson's Disease‐Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 2025-06-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    In PD‐SCD, baseline CSF Aβ42 is associated with cognitive progression.

  28. Imaging and Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease: Complementation Rather Than Competition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2025-06-06 Biomarkers

    With the introduction of the new causal amyloid targeting therapies, the role of biomarker-assisted diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) has received a further boost.

  29. BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF DEMENTIA: A REVIEW OF CURRENT ADVANCES

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Asclepius International Journal of Scientific Health Science 2025-06-05 Getting a diagnosis

    Recent studies highlight the significance of plasma phosphorylated tau proteins, neurofilament light chain, and amyloid-beta ratios as reliable biomarkers.

  30. Neuroinflammation Markers in Tear Fluid of Mild Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience 2025-06-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    The protein composition of tear fluid (TF) reflects the severity and progression of many age-related diseases.

  31. Neurofilament light chain and Alzheimer pathology biomarkers in elderly people with multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2025-06-02 Tau biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) conventionally reflects disability worsening in multiple sclerosis (MS), but does not necessarily imply MS-specific mechanisms and could be affected by biological or pathological aging, including Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology.

  32. Associations between objective sleep metrics and brain structure in cognitively unimpaired adults: interactions with sex and Alzheimer's biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Poor subjective sleep quality is linked to reduced brain volume and cortical thickness (CTh), but associations with objective sleep measures, particularly regarding sex and AD pathology, remain unclear.

  33. Blood-brain barrier permeability changes and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. International Journal of Biology Sciences 2025-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Roughly 32 million people worldwide live with Alzheimer disease, yet the vascular contributions to its progression remain incompletely mapped.

  34. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease Among Patients With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    The defining pathological features of Alzheimer disease (AD) may also be contributing factors in other dementias.

  35. Plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), and amyloid beta ratio (Aβ42/40) may have diagnostic and prognostic value in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. Dysregulations of C1QA, C1QB, C1QC and C5AR1 as candidate biomarkers of vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. npj Aging 2025-05-25 Lewy body dementia

    Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second most common cause of dementia.

  37. Influence of co-pathology on CSF and plasma synaptic markers SNAP25 and VAMP2 in Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-05-22 Disease mechanisms

    CSF and plasma SNAP25 were positively correlated, but no correlation was observed for VAMP2 in these matrices.

  38. Fluid biomarkers in atypical Parkinsonism: current state and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2025-05-20 Tau biomarkers

    Diagnosing Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes (APS) may be challenging due to overlapping clinical features of Parkinson's disease (PD), and the lack of pathognomonic diagnostic tests.

  39. Olfaction and Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease and Neurodegeneration in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2025-05-15 Biomarkers

    Our findings suggest that poor olfaction is associated with multiple AD-related and other neurodegenerative processes.

  40. Soluble SorLA in CSF, a novel biomarker to explore disrupted trafficking of SorLA protein in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-05-07 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The SorLA protein, encoded by the Sortilin-related receptor 1 ( SORL1 ) gene, is a major player in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathophysiology.

  41. Plasma biomarkers of amyloid, tau & neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease and corticobasal syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 2025-05-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    In AD cases, pTau181 and ApoE4 levels were elevated, and the Aβ1-42/1-40 ratio was reduced.

  42. Assessment of Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias: A Center-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Neuropsychological interviews and neuroimaging techniques are traditional diagnostic methods for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  43. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Downstream Alzheimer Disease Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA network open 2025-05-01 Biomarkers

    Lobar CMB counts and the presence of CAA were associated with downstream AD plasma biomarkers, including p-tau217 (β = 0.12 [95% CI, 0.05-0.18] and 0.29 [95% CI, 0.12-0.47], respectively), GFAP (β = 0.07 [95% CI, 0.03-0.12] and 0.20 [95% CI, 0.09-0.31], respectively), and NfL (β = 0.07 [95% CI, 0.03-0.11] and 0.16 [95% CI, 0.06-0.25], respectively) with and without the mediation of Aβ uptake on PET (indirect effect: lobar CMBs-p-tau217, 59.8% [β = 0.07 (95% CI, 0.03-0.11)]; lobar CMBs-GFAP, 49.3% [β = 0.04 (95% CI, 0.01-0.06)]; lobar CMBs-NfL, 20.9% [β = 0.01 (95% CI, 0.01-0.03)]; CAA-p-tau217, 50.9% [β = 0.15 (95% CI, 0.06-0.24)]; CAA-GFAP, 39.2% [β = 0.08 (95% CI, 0.03-0.13)]; CAA-NfL, 19.2% [β = 0.03 (95% CI, 0.01-0.05)]).

  44. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers including tau protein and amyloid-beta 42 for early detection and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. International Journal of Advanced Biochemistry Research 2025-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    In 1906, Alois Alzheimer first described the neuropathological hallmarks of the disease that now bears his name.

  45. Cognitive Phenotyping and Interpretation of Alzheimer Blood Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-05-01 Biomarkers

    However, the importance of detailed cognitive phenotyping in patients without dementia when interpreting p-tau217 results remains unclear.

  46. Targeted proteomic biomarker profiling using NULISA in a cohort enriched with risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01 How common it is

    -fold changes of 1.21, 0.57, and 4.63, respectively, compared to A-.

  47. Comparative Brain and Serum Exosome Expression of Biomarkers in an Experimental Model of Alzheimer-Type Neurodegeneration: Potential Relevance to Liquid Biopsy Diagnostics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-04-28 Biomarkers

    The development of more effective disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is compromised by the lack of streamlined measures to detect and monitor the full spectrum of neurodegeneration, including white matter pathology, which begins early.

  48. The role of quantitative EEG biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: applications and insights

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-04-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the pathological accumulation of amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau proteins, leading to disruptions in synaptic transmission and neural circuit alterations.

  49. Blood biomarkers confirm subjective cognitive decline (SCD) as a distinct molecular and clinical stage within the NIA-AA framework of Alzheimer´s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2025-04-18 Biomarkers

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is proposed as an indicator of transitional disease stage 2 in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) continuum.

  50. Association of Nonmodifiable Risk Factors With Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers in Community-Dwelling Adults in the ESTHER Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-16 Tau biomarkers

    Dementia-related blood biomarkers are the future of large-scale dementia risk stratification; however, the extent to which phosphorylated tau (P-tau181), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) are associated with nonmodifiable risk factors has yet to be confirmed in the community, and the role of menopause has yet to be investigated.

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