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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. CSF Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease in Patients With Concomitant α-Synuclein Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-14 Tau biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers β-amyloid 1-42 (Aβ 42 ), phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau 181 ), total tau (t-tau), and neurogranin (Ng) can diagnose Alzheimer disease (AD) in life.

  2. Vascular endothelial-cadherin as a marker of endothelial injury in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2022-11-07 Biomarkers

    Our results support the utility of CSF VEC as a marker of endothelial injury in AD and highlight the importance of endothelial injury as an early pathology that contributes to cognitive impairment in even the earliest preclinical stages.

  3. Cross-sectional and longitudinal association of sleep and Alzheimer biomarkers in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-11-03 Tau biomarkers

    Sleep abnormalities are prevalent in Alzheimer's disease, with sleep quality already impaired at its preclinical stage.

  4. Herpes Viruses in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging: Associations With Brain Volumes, Cognitive Performance, and Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-31 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest an association of sHHV infection with white matter volume loss, attentional decline, and astrogliosis.

  5. Discordance and Concordance Between Cerebrospinal and [18F]FDG-PET Biomarkers in Assessing Atypical and Early-Onset AD Dementia Cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-20 Tau biomarkers

    We retrospectively assessed participants with atypical and/or early-onset dementia evaluated at a tertiary care memory clinic.

  6. Validity and Performance of Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease to Predict Dementia Risk in a Large Clinic-Based Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-19 Biomarkers

    Overall, 2,277 individuals had at least 1 baseline blood biomarker available (n = 357 for CSF subsample, n = 649 for PET subsample), among whom 257 were diagnosed with clinical AD/mixed dementia during follow-up.

  7. CSF GAP-43 as a biomarker of synaptic dysfunction is associated with tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-10-17 Long-term cohort studies

    To test whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) growth-associated protein 43 (GAP-43) concentration is elevated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and its associations with other hallmarks of AD, we examined the CSF GAP-43 measurements of 787 participants (245 cognitively normal (CN), 415 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 127 individuals with AD dementia) from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study.

  8. Biomarkers of neurodegeneration in neural autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes: A retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of translational autoimmunity 2022-10-05 Tau biomarkers

    Autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes are a novel disease entity that is not fully understood.

  9. Association of CSF GAP-43 With the Rate of Cognitive Decline and Progression to Dementia in Amyloid-Positive Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-03 Tau biomarkers

    In this retrospective study, GAP-43 was measured in participants from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) cohort using an in-house ELISA method, and levels were compared between groups, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally.

  10. In this cross-sectional study of plasma biomarkers by race and genetic ancestry, the results indicated that plasma p-tau181, Aβ40, and NFL were lower in African American individuals based on self-reported race but not genetic ancestry.

  11. CSF Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers: Time-Varying Relationships With MCI Symptom Onset and Associations With Age, Sex, and ApoE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    This study aimed to examine whether baseline CSF measures of Alzheimer disease (AD)-related pathology are associated with the time to onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and whether these associations differ by age, sex, Apolipoprotein E ( ApoE4 ) status, and proximal (≤7 years) vs distal (>7 years) time to symptom onset.

  12. Plasma microRNAs as potential biomarkers in early Alzheimer disease expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-09-16 Tau biomarkers

    The microRNAs (miRNAs) are potential biomarkers for complex pathologies due to their involvement in the regulation of several pathways.

  13. Genome-wide meta-analysis for Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2022-09-06 Genetics

    Amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42) and phosphorylated tau (pTau) levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) reflect core features of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) more directly than clinical diagnosis.

  14. Prepandemic Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms During the COVID-19 Confinement in Cognitively Unimpaired Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    We investigated whether β-amyloid, cortical thickness in medial temporal lobe structures, neuroinflammation, and sociodemographic factors were associated with greater anxious-depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 confinement.

  15. β-Amyloid-Dependent and -Independent Genetic Pathways Regulating CSF Tau Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-01 Biomarkers

    Genetic pathways implicated in causing AD are related to altered levels of soluble tau through both Aβ-dependent and Aβ-independent mechanisms, which may have relevance for anti-tau drug development.

  16. [Blood Based Biomarker for Optimization of Early and Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Dementia]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie 2022-07-20 Biomarkers

    Determining blood biomarkers represents less invasive and less costly diagnostics for Alzheimer´s disease.

  17. Systematic Review on Saliva Biomarkers in Patients Diagnosed with Morbus Alzheimer and Morbus Parkinson

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Biomedicines 2022-07-14 Tau biomarkers

    Extracellular plaques composed of the hydrophobic peptide amyloid-β and intraneuronal accumulation of the hyperphosphorylated protein tau (p-tau) are pathological hallmarks found in the brains of most people affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers differentiate patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and autoimmune encephalitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2022-07-05 Tau biomarkers

    Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a potentially treatable cause of rapidly progressive dementia that may mimic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

  19. Plasma biomarkers for prognosis of cognitive decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-06-14 Biomarkers

    Although recent studies have demonstrated the prognostic utility of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer pathology or neurodegeneration, such as pTau-181 and NF-L, whether other plasma biomarkers can further improve prediction of cognitive decline is undetermined.

  20. Biomarkers with Plasma Amyloid β and Tau Protein Assayed by Immunomagnetic Reduction in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Acta neurologica Taiwanica 2022-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    This review addresses recent developments in the analyses of plasma amyloid beta (Aβ) and total tau (t-tau) protein levels as biomarkers for discriminating amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) from Alzheimer disease (AD), using immunomagnetic reduction (IMR).

  21. A Pragmatic, Data-Driven Method to Determine Cutoffs for CSF Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease Based on Validation Against PET Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-26 Biomarkers

    The proposed novel, pragmatic method to determine CSF biomarker cutoffs for AD does not require assessment of other biomarkers or assumptions concerning the clinical diagnosis of patients.

  22. Brain alterations in the early Alzheimer's continuum with amyloid-β, tau, glial and neurodegeneration CSF markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-05-24 Biomarkers

    Higher grey matter volumes/cortical thickness and fluorodeoxyglucose uptake have been consistently found in cognitively unimpaired individuals with abnormal Alzheimer's disease biomarkers compared with those with normal biomarkers.

  23. Alzheimer's Disease Plasma Biomarkers Distinguish Clinical Diagnostic Groups in Memory Clinic Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2022-05-03 Biomarkers

    Several recent research studies show high performance of blood biomarkers to identify Alzheimer's disease also in the pre-dementia mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage, but data from the routine clinical care memory clinic setting are needed.

  24. Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability and CSF Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers in Cognitively Unimpaired and Mildly Impaired Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2022-04-13 Tau biomarkers

    Blood pressure variability is an emerging risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, but mechanisms remain unclear.

  25. Serum NfL in Alzheimer Dementia: Results of the Prospective Dementia Registry Austria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 2022-03-16 Biomarkers

    Higher sNfL concentrations were associated with worse performance in cognitive tests at baseline, including CERAD (B = −10.084, SE = 2.999, p < 0.001) and MMSE (B = −3.014, SE = 1.293, p = 0.021).

  26. Baseline Microglial Activation Correlates With Brain Amyloidosis and Longitudinal Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2022-03-08 Tau biomarkers

    This study aims to quantify microglial activation in individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) using the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) PET imaging in the hippocampus and precuneus, the 2 AD-vulnerable regions, and to evaluate the association of baseline neuroinflammation with amyloidosis, tau, and longitudinal cognitive decline.

  27. Plasma β-Amyloid, Total-Tau, and Neurofilament Light Chain Levels and the Risk of Stroke: A Prospective Population-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2022-03-01 Biomarkers

    Participants with higher total-tau and NfL at baseline had a higher risk of stroke and several stroke subtypes.

  28. Racial differences in longitudinal Alzheimer's disease biomarkers among cognitively normal adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-02-25 Biomarkers

    Longitudinal racial differences in amyloid biomarkers are observed.

  29. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Autopsy-Confirmed Alzheimer Disease and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-16 Biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers, including P-tau, T-tau, Aβ 42 , Aβ 40 , and NFL, support in vivo identification of AD neuropathology and correlate with FTLD neuropathology.

  30. Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain is a marker of aging and white matter damage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2022-02-12 Biomarkers

    CSF NfL is a non-specific marker of aging and white matter integrity with limited sensitivity to specific markers of AD.

  31. A comparison between tau and amyloid-β cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-02-09 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and beta-amyloid levels in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease which can be clinically indistinguishable from Alzheimer's disease (AD), are largely unknown.

  32. Plasma protein biomarker model for screening Alzheimer disease using multiple reaction monitoring-mass spectrometry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-01-24 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is a leading cause of dementia that has gained prominence in our aging society.

  33. Biomarkers of Age-Related Frailty and Frailty Related to Diseases: An Exploratory, Cross-Sectional Analysis from the MAPT Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2022-01-01 Biomarkers

    Age-related frailty and disease-related frailty may represent different degrees of frailty severity on a biological level.

  34. Association of CSF Aβ38 Levels With Risk of Alzheimer Disease-Related Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2021-12-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Experimental studies suggest that the balance between short and long β-amyloid (Aβ) species might modulate the toxic effects of Aβ in Alzheimer disease (AD), but clinical evidence is lacking.

  35. Associations of plasma neurofilament light chain and progranulin with frailty in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-12-15 Biomarkers

    This study failed to find associations of circulating NfL and PGRN levels with frailty among community-dwelling older adults in adjusted analyses.

  36. Validation of Plasma Amyloid-β 42/40 for Detecting Alzheimer Disease Amyloid Plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2021-12-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 is a robust measure for detecting amyloid plaques and can be utilized to aid in the diagnosis of AD, identify those at risk for future dementia due to AD, and improve the diversity of populations enrolled in AD research and clinical trials.

  37. Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in Black and non-Hispanic White cohorts: A contextualized review of the evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12-06 Disparities

    Black Americans are disproportionately affected by dementia.

  38. Differences Between Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Levels Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-12-01 Biomarkers

    This study suggests that plasma GFAP is a sensitive biomarker for detecting and tracking reactive astrogliosis and Aβ pathology even among individuals in the early stages of AD.

  39. We established AD diagnostic models using plasma biomarkers for Chinese participants.

  40. Neurofilament light: a possible prognostic biomarker for treatment of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2021-10-15 Biomarkers

    We previously demonstrated that PNA5, a novel glycosylated angiotensin 1-7 (Ang-(1-7)) Mas receptor (MasR) agonist peptide, is an effective therapy to rescue cognitive impairment in our preclinical model of VCID.

  41. Cerebrospinal fluid markers for synaptic function and Alzheimer type changes in late life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Scientific reports 2021-10-13 Tau biomarkers

    To explore markers for synaptic function and Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology in late life depression (LLD), predementia AD and normal controls (NC).

  42. Biomarkers of neurodegeneration and glial activation validated in Alzheimer's disease assessed in longitudinal cerebrospinal fluid samples of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. PloS one 2021-10-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Except for αSyn, the additional biomarkers did not differentiate PD and HC, and none showed longitudinal differences, but most markers predict cognitive decline in PD during follow-up.

  43. CSF Synaptic Biomarkers in the Preclinical Stage of Alzheimer Disease and Their Association With MRI and PET: A Cross-sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-23 Biomarkers

    CSF synaptic biomarkers increase in the early preclinical stages of the Alzheimer continuum even when a low burden of Aβ pathology is present, and they differ in their association with age, sex, APOE ε4 , and markers of neurodegeneration.

  44. Associations of Fully Automated CSF and Novel Plasma Biomarkers With Alzheimer Disease Neuropathology at Autopsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-20 Biomarkers

    Elecsys-derived CSF biomarkers detect AD neuropathologic changes with very high discriminative accuracy in vivo.

  45. Impact of C-Reactive Protein on Cognition and Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers in Homozygous APOE ɛ4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-20 Tau biomarkers

    Previous research has shown that elevated blood C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with increased Alzheimer disease (AD) risk only in APOE ε4 allele carriers; the objective of this study was to examine the interactive effects of plasma CRP and APOE genotype on cognition and AD biomarkers.

  46. Diagnostic and prognostic plasma biomarkers for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-09-08 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These findings highlight the diagnostic and longitudinal monitoring potential of GFAP and p-tau for preclinical AD.

  47. β-Amyloid in Cerebrospinal Fluid: How to Keep It Floating (Not Sticking) by Standardization of Preanalytic Processes and Collection Tubes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. The journal of applied laboratory medicine 2021-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Phosphorylated tau (pTau), total tau (tTau), and β-amyloid (Aβ) are established cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers used to help diagnose Alzheimer disease.

  48. In the current study, we aimed to develop an algorithm based on biomarkers obtained through non- or minimally invasive procedures to identify healthy elderly subjects who have an increased risk of abnormal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta42 (Aβ) levels consistent with the presence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  49. Amyloid and tau positive mild cognitive impairment: clinical and biomarker characteristics of dementia progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2021-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    According to the amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration research framework classification, amyloid and tau positive (A+T+) mild cognitive impairment (MCI) individuals are defined as prodromal Alzheimer disease.

  50. Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Brain Atrophy in Old Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2021-06-15 Genetics

    Importantly, they suggest that these associations might be explained by a decrease of amyloidosis and tau-pathology.

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