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  1. Diagnostic accuracy of remote self-administered digital cognitive assessment by clinical diagnosis and Alzheimer's disease PET imaging biomarkers 2026-09-25
  2. Multi-scale 3D CNN with imbalance-aware training for structural MRI-based six-class Alzheimer disease staging 2026-09-22
  3. T1 mapping in Alzheimer’s disease: a quantitative MRI study with amyloid-PET correlation 2026-09-21

Studies

842 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1983 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 83
  • Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 34
  • NeuroImage 31
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 30

283 journals in all.

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  1. Early 11C-PIB frames and 18F-FDG PET measures are comparable: a study validated in a cohort of AD and FTLD patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2011-01-13 Brain scans and imaging

    A 7-min window, corresponding to minutes 1-8 (frames 5-15), produced the highest voxelwise correlation between (18)F-FDG and pPIB (R = 0.78 ± 0.05).

  2. Associations between cognitive, functional, and FDG-PET measures of decline in AD and MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2011 Brain scans and imaging

    This study compared FDG-PET and clinical measurements in elderly subjects with memory disturbance to examine relationships between glucose metabolism and cognitive or functional scores.

  3. Disease tracking markers for Alzheimer's disease at the prodromal (MCI) stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Older persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) feature neurobiological Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in 50% to 70% of the cases and develop dementia within the next 5 to 7 years.

  4. The AddNeuroMed framework for multi-centre MRI assessment of Alzheimer's disease: experience from the first 24 months

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2011-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A framework for multi-centre MRI studies of Alzheimer's disease has been established consisting of a harmonized MRI acquisition protocol across centres, rigorous QC at both the sites and central data analysis hub and an automated image analysis pipeline.

  5. Use of florbetapir-PET for imaging beta-amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA 2011-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Florbetapir-PET imaging was performed a mean of 99 days (range, 1-377 days) before death for the 29 individuals in the primary analysis cohort.

  6. Activated MAO-B in the brain of Alzheimer patients, demonstrated by [11C]-L-deprenyl using whole hemisphere autoradiography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2010-11-12 Biomarkers

    In the human brain the monoaminooxidase-B enzyme or MAO-B is highly abundant in astrocytes.

  7. Amyloid imaging of Lewy body-associated disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2010-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Clinicopathologic studies of Parkinson disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) commonly reveal abnormal β-amyloid deposition in addition to diffuse Lewy bodies (α-synuclein aggregates), but the relationship among these neuropathologic features and the development of dementia in these disorders remains uncertain.

  8. Longitudinal changes in white matter disease and cognition in the first year of the Alzheimer disease neuroimaging initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    White matter hyperintensity volume predicts 1-year cognitive decline in a relatively healthy convenience sample that was similar to clinical trial samples, and therefore should be considered as a covariate of interest at baseline and longitudinally in future AD treatment trials.

  9. Loss of 'small-world' networks in Alzheimer's disease: graph analysis of FMRI resting-state functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. PloS one 2010-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We present evidence of AD-induced changes in global brain functional connectivity specifically affecting long-distance connectivity.

  10. Brain beta-amyloid measures and magnetic resonance imaging atrophy both predict time-to-progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-10-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    We used a new method of pooling cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 and Pittsburgh compound B positron emission tomography measures to produce equivalent measures of brain Aβ load from either source and analysed the results using multiple imputation methods.

  11. Concerted changes in transcripts in the prefrontal cortex precede neuropathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Gene ontology over-representation and functional gene network analyses indicate an increase in synaptic activity and changes in plasticity during the very early pre-symptomatic stage of the disease.

  12. Hippocampal CA1 apical neuropil atrophy in mild Alzheimer disease visualized with 7-T MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2010-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    CA1 apical neuropil atrophy is apparent in patients with mild AD.

  13. Olfactory deficit detected by fMRI in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain research 2010-08-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is accompanied by smell dysfunction, as measured by psychophysical tests.

  14. Sequential relationships between grey matter and white matter atrophy and brain metabolic abnormalities in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-08-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    Hippocampal atrophy, posterior cingulate and frontal glucose hypometabolism, and white-matter tract disruption are well described early macroscopic events in Alzheimer's disease.

  15. Dynamic changes in PET amyloid and FDG imaging at different stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-08-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    In this study 5 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 9 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients underwent respectively 3- and 5-year follow-up positron emission tomography (PET) studies with N-methyl [(11)C] 2-(4-methylaminophenyl)-6-hydroxy-benzothiazole ((11)C-PIB) and (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) to understand the time courses in AD disease processes.

  16. Multimodal predictors for Alzheimer disease in nonfluent primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2010-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Neither PPA phenotyping nor imaging alone is a reliable predictor of pathology.

  17. Resting brain connectivity: changes during the progress of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Radiology 2010-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Changes in PCC functional connectivity comprised bidirectional alterations in the resting networks in AD-affected brains, and the impaired resting functional connectivity seemed to change with AD progression.

  18. Sex and age differences in atrophic rates: an ADNI study with n=1368 MRI scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We set out to determine factors that influence the rate of brain atrophy in 1-year longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data.

  19. Head circumference, atrophy, and cognition: implications for brain reserve in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2010-07-01 Genetics

    This study suggests that larger head circumference is associated with less cognitive impairment in the face of cerebral atrophy.

  20. 3D maps localize caudate nucleus atrophy in 400 Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy elderly subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    MRI research examining structural brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (AD) generally focuses on medial temporal and cortical structures, but amyloid and tau deposits also accumulate in the caudate.

  21. In vivo imaging of amyloid deposition in Alzheimer disease using the radioligand 18F-AV-45 (florbetapir [corrected] F 18)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2010-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    An (18)F-labeled PET amyloid-beta (Abeta) imaging agent could facilitate the clinical evaluation of late-life cognitive impairment by providing an objective measure for Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology.

  22. Amyloid imaging results from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2010-05-17 Brain scans and imaging

    The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study performed (11)C-Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) scans in 177 healthy controls (HC), 57 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subjects, and 53 mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  23. An inherited variable poly-T repeat genotype in TOMM40 in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-05-01 Genetics

    I coauthored a recently published research article describing a variable length, poly-T polymorphism in the TOMM40 gene, adjacent to apolipoprotein E (APOE) on chromosome 19, that accounts for the age at onset distribution for a complex disease, late-onset Alzheimer disease.

  24. Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 positron emission tomography in progressive apraxia of speech and primary progressive aphasia variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-05-01 Digital health tools

    Twenty-one patients showed FDG hypometabolism; the remaining 3 did not.

  25. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative positron emission tomography core

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-05-01 How common it is

    ADNI has demonstrated the feasibility and utility of multicenter PET studies and is helping to clarify the role of biomarkers in the study of aging and dementia.

  26. Correlation of hypointensities in susceptibility-weighted images to tissue histology in dementia patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a postmortem MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neuroimaging with iron-sensitive MR sequences [gradient echo T2* and susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI)] identifies small signal voids that are suspected brain microbleeds.

  27. Neuroinflammation - an early event in both the history and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2010-02-13 Brain tissue and pathology

    About hundred years ago, Oskar Fischer proposed that the senile plaques are the consequence of the deposition of a foreign substance that could induce an inflammatory response leading to an abnormal neuritic response of the surrounding neurons.

  28. Longitudinal cognitive decline is associated with fibrillar amyloid-beta measured by [11C]PiB

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2010-02-10 Caregiving

    Higher Abeta deposition is associated with greater longitudinal decline in mental status and verbal memory in the preceding years.

  29. Combining MR imaging, positron-emission tomography, and CSF biomarkers in the diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2010-01-14 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    All biomarkers were sensitive to the diagnostic group.

  30. Amyloid PET Ligands for Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. PET clinics 2010-01-01 Biomarkers

    The progressive nature of neurodegeneration suggests an age-dependent process that ultimately leads to synaptic failure and neuronal damage in cortical areas of the brain critical for memory and higher mental functions.

  31. ASL perfusion MRI predicts cognitive decline and conversion from MCI to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2010-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We compared the predictive value of cerebral perfusion as measured by arterial-spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL-MRI) with MRI-derived hippocampal volume for determining future cognitive and functional decline and subsequent conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia.

  32. In vivo amyloid imaging in autopsy-confirmed Parkinson disease with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2010-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    [(11)C]-Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) PET is specific for fibrillar Abeta molecular pathology but not for pathologic diagnosis of comorbid Alzheimer disease in individuals with Parkinson disease dementia.

  33. Mapping brain morphological and functional conversion patterns in amnestic MCI: a voxel-based MRI and FDG-PET study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2010-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The discordant topography between atrophy and hypometabolism reported in AD is already present at the aMCI stage.

  34. The amnestic syndrome of hippocampal type in Alzheimer's disease: an MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) is a verbal episodic memory test used to identify patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Automated detection of brain atrophy patterns based on MRI for the prediction of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-12-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    Subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have an increased risk to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. Pittsburgh compound B imaging and prediction of progression from cognitive normality to symptomatic Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Preclinical AD as detected by PET PiB is not benign, as it is associated with progression to symptomatic AD.

  37. MRI substudy participation in Alzheimer disease (AD) clinical trials: baseline comparability of a substudy sample to entire study population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2009-10-01 Treatments

    The groups of individuals who agreed to participate in the imaging substudies of AD trials were remarkably comparable to the comparison groups at baseline on a wide range of demographic and clinical measures; there seems to be a minimal effect of self-selection bias.

  38. Cerebral amyloidosis: postmortem detection with human 7.0-T MR imaging system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Radiology 2009-09-29 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The finding of postmortem susceptibility-weighted changes in the cerebral cortex of patients with cerebral amyloidosis with a human 7.0-T MR imaging system opens up the possibility of obtaining in vivo radiologic evidence of cerebral amyloid beta deposition.

  39. Performance of FDG PET for detection of Alzheimer's disease in two independent multicentre samples (NEST-DD and ADNI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-09-25 Long-term cohort studies

    We investigated the performance of FDG PET using an automated procedure for discrimination between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and controls, and studied the influence of demographic and technical factors.

  40. Follow-up of [11C]PIB uptake and brain volume in patients with Alzheimer disease and controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2009-09-02 Brain scans and imaging

    The [(11)C]PIB uptake of the patients with AD did not increase significantly during follow-up when compared with that of the controls.

  41. Automated 3D mapping of hippocampal atrophy and its clinical correlates in 400 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and elderly controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2009-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We used a new method we developed for automated hippocampal segmentation, called the auto context model, to analyze brain MRI scans of 400 subjects from the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative.

  42. Baseline MRI predictors of conversion from MCI to probable AD in the ADNI cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2009-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a multi-center study assessing neuroimaging in diagnosis and longitudinal monitoring.

  43. Regional rates of neocortical atrophy from normal aging to early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2009-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Atrophy is not uniform across regions, nor does it follow a linear trajectory.

  44. Optimizing power to track brain degeneration in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment with tensor-based morphometry: an ADNI study of 515 subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-07-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Tensor-based morphometry (TBM) is a powerful method to map the 3D profile of brain degeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  45. Conversion of amyloid positive and negative MCI to AD over 3 years: an 11C-PIB PET study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2009-07-08 Genetics

    PIB-positive subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are significantly more likely to convert to AD than PIB-negative patients, faster converters having higher PIB retention levels at baseline than slower converters.

  46. Automated MRI-based classification of primary progressive aphasia variants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-06-06 Digital health tools

    Degeneration of language regions in the dominant hemisphere can result in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a clinical syndrome characterized by progressive deficits in speech and/or language function.

  47. Fully automatic hippocampus segmentation and classification in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment applied on data from ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Hippocampus 2009-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The hippocampus is among the first structures affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  48. Automated MRI measures identify individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-05-21 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Mild cognitive impairment can represent a transitional state between normal ageing and Alzheimer's disease.

  49. Longitudinal progression of Alzheimer's-like patterns of atrophy in normal older adults: the SPARE-AD index

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-05-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    A challenge in developing informative neuroimaging biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is the need to identify biomarkers that are evident before the onset of clinical symptoms, and which have sufficient sensitivity and specificity on an individual patient basis.

  50. Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative: a one-year follow up study using tensor-based morphometry correlating degenerative rates, biomarkers and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Tensor-based morphometry can recover three-dimensional longitudinal brain changes over time by nonlinearly registering baseline to follow-up MRI scans of the same subject.

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