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Brain imaging, connectivity and assessment

1,533 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation for Dementia: From Network Degeneration to Compassionate and Skilled Care

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PsyArXiv 2026-10-28 Risk factors

    Dementia is a progressive syndrome characterized by neurodegeneration across distributed brain networks that results in cognitive, behavioral, and functional declines.

  2. Current gaps in downstream applications of fMRI foundation models: lessons learned from BrainLM & BrainHarmonix on Prevent-AD

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Foundation models have driven major advancements in the language and vision domains, as seen in the popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, and a growing number of studies are bringing the approach to human brain imaging.

  3. Network Localization of Anxiety as an Early Manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease-related Neurodegeneration

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-26 Risk factors

    Anxiety localizes to a brain circuit resembling the AD-related atrophy network, is consistent across the AD continuum and may extend beyond AD.

  4. Beyond reduced alpha power: a weaker temporal link between alpha and other brain rhythms in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-26 Inflammation and the immune system

    At the group level, the resting alpha abnormality in AD comprises two partly nonredundant dimensions: reduced expression and a weaker temporal link between alpha and subsequent multi-rhythm activity.

  5. Plasma Proteomic Correlates of Cognitive Function in Older Adults From Central Africa

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Biomarkers

    Key Points Question Which candidate plasma proteins are associated with cognitive performance across multiple domains in older adults from the Democratic Republic of Congo?

  6. A digital biomarker of white-matter routing from diffusion MRI as an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed after a decade-long phase in which pathology accumulates; current markers show that pathology is present, but not how far it has advanced.

  7. Racial Differences and Temporal Trends in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Disparities

    Recorded PD-related mortality was lower among Black than White adults, whereas AD-related mortality showed no statistically significant racial difference.

  8. MVMGNN: Multi-View Masked Graph Neural Network for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis using Structural MRI

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-23 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, and early diagnosis is essential for timely intervention.

  9. A Dual-Stream Spatio-Temporal Network with Bidirectional Rectification for Differential Diagnosis of Dementia using EEG

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Accurate differential diagnosis between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is of critical importance for the early screening of neurodegenerative diseases.

  10. Prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in Morocco: A population-based study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-22 Disparities

    This nationwide study provides epidemiological data on dementia and MCI among adults aged ≥ 60 years across all 12 administrative regions of Morocco.

  11. Frequency-Resolved Connectivity Graphs for EEG-Based Classification of Alzheimer and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-22 Lewy body dementia

    A bstract In this study, we build EEG based graph model that uses frequency-resolved connectivity features, with Coherence, phase locking value (PLV) and phase lag index (PLI) in five frequency bands as multi-dimensional edge features.

  12. Optimizing Cognitive Phenotyping for Genetic Discovery in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Simulation-Based Evaluation of Mini-Mental State Examination-Based Decline Measures

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The phenotypic measures “Slope” and “dMMSE/dt” consistently showed strong performance across a range of data distributions, while “Time-to-MMSE10” was particularly effective in cohorts with a higher proportion of individuals experiencing severe cognitive decline.

  13. Speaker-Wise Dementia Screening fromNaturalistic Speech with Lexical Entropy, Semantic Drift, and Multimodal Fusion

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-21 Digital health tools

    Although advances have been made in dementia symptom management, early detection during stages when interventions are most effective remains a significant challenge.

  14. Functional neuroimaging as a tool to understand social determinants of health in cognitive aging and ADRD: a scoping review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PsyArXiv 2026-10-20 Brain scans and imaging

    The social, structural, and physical conditions in which individuals live, work, and age, collectively termed social determinants of health (SDOH), are associated with risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

  15. Predictive EEG Signatures of Alzheimer's Disease: A Cross-Validated, Cross-Method Analysis Using ANCOVA Filtering and Sparse Logistic Regression

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) changes how the brain’s electrical activity behaves, and these changes can, in principle, be picked up directly from a resting-state EEG recording without any invasive testing.

  16. Stable and Interpretable Cognitive Status Screening Using Longitudinal Wearable Data

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-20 Risk factors

    Wearable devices repeatedly measure activity, sleep, and nocturnal physiology, but their value for three-class cognitive screening remains uncertain.

  17. Interpretable Phenotype Discovery Using Temporal Risk-Aware Clustering

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-20 Long-term cohort studies

    Longitudinal clinical cohorts contain heterogeneous progression patterns that are obscured by coarse diagnostic labels.

  18. Longitudinal associations between neuropsychiatric symptoms, structural and perfusion MRI changes in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are highly prevalent in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), conceptualized as an intermediate clinical state between normal aging and dementia.

  19. Memory Intraindividual Variability and its Association with Hippocampal Integrity in Older Latino Adults Without Dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Disparities

    Memory IIV may be more closely linked to hippocampal white matter, while mean memory performance may better reflect hippocampal volume.

  20. Cognitive Impairment during Migraine Attacks: An Analysis from the American Registry for Migraine Research (ARMR)

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Among 1,231 patients (87.2% women; mean age 46.0 ± 13.7 years; 71.5% chronic migraine), 1,175/1,231 (95.5%) endorsed cognitive symptoms, with a mean Mig-SCog total score of 8.2 ± 4.8.

  21. NeuroMark dFNC: Transferable Dynamic-State Templates for Subject-Specific and Frequency-Resolved Chronnectomics

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) commonly identifies recurring connectivity states from resting-state fMRI, but states derived independently in each dataset lack guaranteed correspondence across studies and cannot be directly estimated in new participants.

  22. Understanding Performance Plateaus and Representation Collapse in 3D MRI Transformers Trained to Classify Brain Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-16 Digital health tools

    To distinguish these cases, we trained three types of supervised 3D transformers (ViT3D, MINiT, NIT) and, as a non-collapsing alternative, a frozen self-supervised encoder (DINO), to classify people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) versus cognitively normal (CN) individuals from 3D brain MRI, using data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

  23. Beyond Usual Pace: Quick Walking Speed and Brain Health Outcomes in the Framingham Heart Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-15 Risk factors

    We estimated associations per SD slower walking or smaller adaptability using linear, logistic, and Cox regression (10-year follow-up), overall and in women and men.

  24. Neuro-JEPA: Building and Evaluating Health-System Scale Neuroimaging Foundation Models with Mixture of Experts

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain routinely combines complementary contrasts—including T1-weighted (T1w), T2-weighted (T2w) and FLAIR sequences—to capture anatomy and pathology.

  25. Selective vulnerability of human basal forebrain subsystems in ageing and neuropsychiatric disorders

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-15 How common it is

    These findings identify an anatomically specific age-related profile of the human BF, with structural vulnerability manifest and pre-diagnostic neurological disorders, which is not substantially explained by common inherited risk.

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