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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. Astrocyte Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurology 2021-06-14 Biomarkers

    Despite significant progress, applications of astrocyte biomarkers in AD remain in their early days.

  2. Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2021-06-01 Biomarkers

    This review presents an overview of the latest advances in the field of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases.

  3. Association of Aortic Stiffness With Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation, Synaptic Dysfunction, and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2021-05-24 Biomarkers

    One hundred forty-six participants were examined (age 72 ± 6 years).

  4. A neurologist's perspective on serum neurofilament light in the memory clinic: a prospective implementation study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-18 Biomarkers

    SNfL was perceived as useful in 53% (n = 58) of the cases.

  5. Novel noninvasive biomarkers of prodromal Alzheimer disease: The role of optical coherence tomography and optical coherence tomography-angiography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2021-04-30 Tau biomarkers

    A reduction of retinal thickness and an alteration of retinal perfusion have been found in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  6. Temporal Correlation of CSF and Neuroimaging in the Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration Model of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2021-04-30 Biomarkers

    CSF Aβ 42 and PiB PET showed maximal correlation when collected within 6 years of each other ( R ≈ -0.5).

  7. Machine Learning Driven Profiling of Cerebrospinal Fluid Core Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurological Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-03-31 Digital health tools

    Amyloid-beta (Aβ) 42/40 ratio, tau phosphorylated at threonine-181 (p-tau), and total-tau (t-tau) are considered core biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Resting-State Functional Connectivity Disruption as a Pathological Biomarker in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain connectivity 2021-03-31 Biomarkers

    The gFC was reduced in MC compared with NC participants.

  9. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein detects Alzheimer pathology and predicts future conversion to Alzheimer dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-27 Biomarkers

    Baseline plasma GFAP could detect abnormal CSF Aβ42/40 and CSF Aβ42/T-tau with an AUC of 0.79 (95% CI 0.72-0.86) and 0.80 (95% CI 0.72-0.86), respectively.

  10. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein detects Alzheimer pathology and predicts future conversion to Alzheimer dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2021-03-27 Laboratory science

    A simple blood test for GFAP, a protein released by activated star-shaped brain support cells called astrocytes, could identify which patients with mild memory problems had underlying Alzheimer's pathology and predict, years in advance, who would go on to develop Alzheimer's dementia.

  11. Neurogranin as a Novel Biomarker in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Laboratory medicine 2021-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    In this study, we investigated the possible role of 2 novel biomarkers of synaptic damage, namely, neurogranin and α-synuclein, in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  12. Cognitive Profile and Markers of Alzheimer Disease-Type Pathology in Patients With Lewy Body Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2021-02-16 Tau biomarkers

    We selected 57 patients with LBD (dementia with Lewy bodies [DLB], n = 38; Parkinson disease dementia [PDD], n = 19) with available AD CSF biomarkers and neuropsychological data.

  13. Cognitively normal APOE ε4 carriers have specific elevation of CSF SNAP-25

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-02-11 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) synaptosomal-associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) and neurogranin (Ng) are recently described biomarkers for pre- and postsynaptic integrity known to be elevated in symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD).

  14. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-02-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, clinically heterogeneous, and particularly complex neurodegenerative disease characterized by a decline in cognition.

  15. Resting state EEG biomarkers of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PloS one 2021-02-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    Compared to age matched controls, in the AD group, we found increases in both spectral power and coherence at the slower frequencies (Delta, Theta).

  16. Association of Early β-Amyloid Accumulation and Neuroinflammation Measured With [11C]PBR28 in Elderly Individuals Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2021-01-29 Tau biomarkers

    We examined 54 volunteers (mean age 70.0 years, 56% women, 51% APOE ɛ4 carriers) with the translocator protein (TSPO) tracer [ 11 C]PBR28 to assess neuroinflammation and with [ 11 C] Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) to assess cerebral Aβ accumulation. [ 11 C]PBR28 and [ 11 C]PiB standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) were quantified in 6 regions of interests by using the cerebellar cortex as a pseudo-reference and reference region, respectively.

  17. Both high baseline GFAP (hazard ratio 3·6, 95% CI 2·2-5·7; p 42/40 , both GFAP (2·6, 1·4-5·0; p=0·0026) and amyloid β 42/40 (2·1, 1·2-3·6; p=0·0091) were independently associated with incident dementia whereas NfL was not (1·4, 0·8-2·5; p=0·28).

  18. Validation of the Alzheimer Disease Dementia Conversion-Related Pattern as an ATN Biomarker of Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2021-01-06 Biomarkers

    The mean subject score of the ADCRP was significantly higher in the A+T+ group compared to each of the other group (all p p > 0.1).

  19. Obesity and White Matter Neuroinflammation Related Edema in Alzheimer's Disease Dementia Biomarker Negative Cognitively Normal Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Obesity is related to quantitative neuroimaging abnormalities including reduced gray matter volumes and impaired white matter microstructural integrity, although the underlying mechanisms are not well understood.

  20. Prospective Associations between Plasma Amyloid-Beta 42/40 and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Brain amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, a hallmark of the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease, have been associated with frailty.

  21. Spicy food consumption is associated with cognition and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2020-12-21 Tau biomarkers

    This study aimed to investigate whether spicy food consumption is associated with cognition and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of AD in the Chinese population.

  22. Added value of cerebrospinal fluid multimarker analysis in diagnosis and progression of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2020-12-14 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that emerging biomarkers in conjunction with core AD markers improve diagnosis of AD, are associated with the conversion from MCI into AD, and predict a faster progression of dementia.

  23. Stage-specific links between plasma neurofilament light and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Neurofilament light (NfL) is a marker of neuroaxonal injury, a prominent feature of Alzheimer's disease.

  24. Prognostic value of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurologia 2020-10-31 Tau biomarkers

    We performed a retrospective analysis of the patients assessed at our memory unit for whom Alzheimer disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid biomarker results were available.

  25. Functional connectivity of white matter as a biomarker of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2020-10-16 Digital health tools

    The white matter FC decreased in late MCI and AD dementia patients compared to CN participants, and this decrease was correlated with cognitive measures.

  26. Plasma Aβ and neurofilament light chain are associated with cognitive and physical function decline in non-dementia older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-10-08 Prevention trials

    Combined low plasma Aβ 42 /Aβ 40 ratio and high plasma NfL level was associated with greater declines in cognition and gait speed over time, providing further evidence of the links between cognitive and physical function.

  27. Measurement of CSF core Alzheimer disease biomarkers for routine clinical diagnosis: do fresh vs frozen samples differ?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-09-29 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-beta (Aβ) 42/40 ratio, threonine-181-phosphorylated-tau (p-tau), and total-tau (t-tau) represent core biomarkers of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  28. Remote Blood Biomarkers of Longitudinal Cognitive Outcomes in a Population Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2020-09-29 Biomarkers

    Higher concentrations of serum biomarkers were associated with the development of clinical AD; especially, the time-specific associations were notable: t-tau 8 to 16 years, and Nf-L and GFAP 4 to 8 years prior to clinical AD.

  29. β-Amyloid and tau biomarkers and clinical phenotype in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-28 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease pathologic changes are common in DLB and are associated with the clinical phenotype. β-Amyloid is associated with cognitive impairment, and tau pathology is associated with lower frequency of clinical features of DLB.

  30. Plasma amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration biomarker profiles predict Alzheimer's disease pathology and clinical progression in older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-24 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma markers have been reported to be associated with brain amyloid burden, tau pathology, or neurodegeneration.

  31. Interrelations of Alzheimer´s disease candidate biomarkers neurogranin, fatty acid-binding protein 3 and ferritin to neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2020-09-18 Tau biomarkers

    There is growing evidence that promising biomarkers of inflammation in Alzheimer´s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases correlate strongest to levels of tau or neurofilament, indicating an inflammatory response to neuronal damage or death.

  32. Alzheimer's disease biomarkers as predictors of trajectories of depression and apathy in cognitively normal individuals, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-09-11 Long-term cohort studies

    The trajectories of depression and apathy (measured with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory or its questionnaire) were separately modeled using growth mixture models for two cohorts (National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, NACC, n = 22 760 and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, ADNI, n = 1 733).

  33. Sequence of Alzheimer disease biomarker changes in cognitively normal adults: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cross-sectional data, including CSF analytes, molecular imaging of cerebral fibrillar β-amyloid (Aβ) with PET using the [ 11 C] benzothiazole tracer Pittsburgh compound B (PiB), MRI-based brain structures, and clinical/cognitive outcomes harmonized from 8 studies, collectively involving 3,284 cognitively normal individuals 18 to 101 years of age, were analyzed.

  34. Proteomic Profiling of Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Cerebrospinal Fluid of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cells 2020-08-25 Mild cognitive impairment

    Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are deposits of amyloid beta (Aβ) and hyper-phosphorylated tau aggregates in brain plaques.

  35. Evaluating resting-state BOLD variability in relation to biomarkers of preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-08-18 Biomarkers

    Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have demonstrated that moment-to-moment variability in the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal is related to age differences, cognition, and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. Sex differences in CSF biomarkers vary by Alzheimer disease stage and APOE ε4 genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2020-08-11 Genetics

    Within APOE ε4 carriers, sex differences in CSF p-Tau are more evident in early disease stages, whereas for APOE ε4 noncarriers, sex differences are more evident in advanced disease stages.

  37. Neurocytoskeleton Proteins in Cerebrospinal Fluid of People With HIV-1 Subtypes B and C

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2020-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    The objective was to compare the effect of HIV-1C and HIV-1B subtypes on neurofilament light (NfL) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels and ratios of NfL to tau proteins.

  38. Association of years to parent's sporadic onset and risk factors with neural integrity and Alzheimer biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurology 2020-07-31 Tau biomarkers

    This observational study included 290 cognitively unimpaired (CU) participants with a family history (FH) of clinically diagnosed sporadic AD (age 49-73 years) from the Alzheimer's and Families (ALFA) study. [ 18 F]flutemetamol-PET standardized uptake value ratios, CSF β-amyloid 42/40 ratio, and phosphorylated tau were used as AD biomarkers.

  39. Association of cerebrovascular reactivity and Alzheimer pathologic markers with cognitive performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2020-07-13 Brain scans and imaging

    CVR was significantly associated with cognitive performance independently of AD pathology.

  40. Physical Exercise and Longitudinal Trajectories in Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Cognitive Functioning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2020-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    Associations of physical exercise with Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers and cognitive functioning have been observed cross-sectionally.

  41. The role of CREB and BDNF in neurobiology and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Life sciences 2020-06-27 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia worldwide. β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) is currently assumed to be the main cause of synaptic dysfunction and cognitive impairments in AD, but the molecular signaling pathways underlying its neurotoxic consequences have not yet been completely explored.

  42. CSF biomarkers in Olmsted County: Evidence of 2 subclasses and associations with demographics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2020-06-26 Biomarkers

    We hypothesize the population without dementia can be subdivided into participants with and without biological Alzheimer disease (AD) based on the combination of CSF Aβ42 and p-tau/t-tau (represented also by the p-tau/t-tau/Aβ42 ratio).

  43. Dissection of synaptic pathways through the CSF biomarkers for predicting Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2020-06-25 Genetics

    All synaptic biomarkers tested had a good discriminatory power to distinguish patients with AD abnormal CSF from those with non-AD disorders.

  44. Differential levels of Neurofilament Light protein in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-06-08 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers are useful in the diagnosis and the prediction of progression of several neurodegenerative diseases.

  45. Association of Factors With Elevated Amyloid Burden in Clinically Normal Older Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-06-01 Biomarkers

    The large number of participants screened with amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and standardized assessments provides an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate factors associated with elevated brain amyloid.

  46. Plasma neurofilament light chain in the presenilin 1 E280A autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease kindred: a cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2020-05-26 Biomarkers

    We enrolled a cohort of 1070 PSEN1 E280A mutation carriers and 1074 non-carriers with baseline assessments; of these participants, longitudinal measures (with a mean follow-up of 6 years) were available for 242 mutation carriers and 262 non-carriers.

  47. Prognostic value of ATN Alzheimer biomarkers: 60-month follow-up results from the Argentine Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-05-22 Tau biomarkers

    Twenty-three patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 12 dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT), and 14 normal controls were studied following the ADNI2 protocol.

  48. Association of cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin levels with cognition and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Aging 2020-05-18 Tau biomarkers

    Accumulating data suggest cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurogranin (Ng) as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  49. Serum triglycerides in Alzheimer disease: Relation to neuroimaging and CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2020-05-01 Genetics

    This study shows that PUTG component scores were significantly associated with diagnostic group and AD biomarkers, a finding that was more pronounced in APOE ε4 carriers.

  50. Accuracy of Biomarker Testing for Neuropathologically Defined Alzheimer Disease in Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2020-04-28 Biomarkers

    In methodologically heterogeneous studies of uncertain applicability to typical clinical settings, amyloid PET, 18 F-FDG PET, and MRI were highly sensitive for neuropathologic AD.

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