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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

900 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1980 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 132
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 37
  • JAMA neurology 36
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 30
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 30

255 journals in all.

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  1. Age-accelerated cognitive decline in asymptomatic adults with CSF β-amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2018-03-09 Tau biomarkers

    Compare cognitive and hippocampal volume trajectories in asymptomatic middle-aged and older adults with positive CSF markers of β-amyloid (Aβ) or tau to adults without an Alzheimer disease (AD)-associated biomarker profile.

  2. CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease concord with amyloid-β PET and predict clinical progression: A study of fully automated immunoassays in BioFINDER and ADNI cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Elecsys CSF biomarker assays may provide reliable alternatives to PET in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

  3. Characterization and clinical use of inflammatory cerebrospinal fluid protein markers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-02-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Neuroinflammation has gained increasing attention as a potential contributing factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  4. CSF tau and β-amyloid predict cerebral synucleinopathy in autopsied Lewy body disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2018-02-21 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with autopsy-confirmed LBD (n = 24) and autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer disease (AD) (n = 23) and cognitively normal (n = 36) controls were studied.

  5. Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid phosphorylated tau231 as a biomarker in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2018-02-17 Biomarkers

    These results indicate that FS (p-tau231 and MMSE) has a strong potential to provide an early distinction between AD and VaD.

  6. Core cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profile in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2018-01-31 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We systematically searched PubMed for eligible studies reporting data on CSF biomarkers reflecting amyloid precursor protein metabolism (Aβ42, Aβ40), neurodegeneration (t-tau), and tangle pathology (p-tau) in symptomatic sporadic CAA cohorts vs controls and patients with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  7. High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature 2018-01-31 Biomarkers

    This study demonstrated the measurement of high-performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers by immunoprecipitation coupled with mass spectrometry to predict individual brain amyloid-β status as determined by amyloid-β-PET imaging.

  8. Overall, these results support the vervet as a non-human primate model of amyloid-related neurodegeneration, such as Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and highlight Aβ 1-40 and p-tau 181 as potentially valuable biomarkers of these processes.

  9. CSF neurogranin or tau distinguish typical and atypical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2018-01-11 Biomarkers

    These results show significant differences in neurogranin and total-tau between typical and atypical patients, which may relate to factors other than disease topography.

  10. Cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer biomarkers can be useful for discriminating dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer's disease at the prodromal stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2018-01-10 Tau biomarkers

    Differential diagnosis between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not straightforward, especially in the early stages of disease.

  11. Comparing 18F-AV-1451 with CSF t-tau and p-tau for diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2018-01-10 Brain scans and imaging

    CSF tau and 18 F-AV-1451 have equal performance in early clinical stages of AD, but 18 F-AV-1451 is superior in the dementia stage, and exhibits close to perfect diagnostic performance for mild to moderate AD.

  12. Alzheimer's disease biomarker-guided diagnostic workflow using the added value of six combined cerebrospinal fluid candidates: Aβ1-42, total-tau, phosphorylated-tau, NFL, neurogranin, and YKL-40

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-01-09 Biomarkers

    Novel and established cerebrospinal fluid markers perform with at least fair accuracy in the discrimination between ADD and FTD.

  13. A Longitudinal Study of Total and Phosphorylated α-Synuclein with Other Biomarkers in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) features a dynamic sequence of amyloid deposition, neurodegeneration, and cognitive impairment.

  14. Bi-directional Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Immune Markers with Stage of Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Immune mechanisms may be important in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Levels of Inflammation Differentially Relate to CNS Markers of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Neuronal Damage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Inflammatory markers have been shown to predict neurocognitive outcomes in aging adults; however, the degree to which peripheral markers mirror the central nervous system remains unknown.

  16. Cognitive Variability Predicts Incident Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Comparable to a Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    These analyses provide preliminary support for IICV as a marker of incident AD and MCI.

  17. Cerebrovascular and amyloid pathology in predementia stages: the relationship with neurodegeneration and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-12-29 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and amyloid-β (Aβ) often coexist, but their influence on neurodegeneration and cognition in predementia stages remains unclear.

  18. Interpreting Biomarker Results in Individual Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Alzheimer's Biomarkers in Daily Practice (ABIDE) Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Three- and 1-year progression risks were 86% (95% CI, 71%-95%) and 27% (95% CI, 17%-41%) when MRI results were abnormal, 82% (95% CI, 73%-89%) and 26% (95% CI, 20%-33%) when CSF test results were abnormal, and 89% (95% CI, 79%-95%) and 26% (95% CI, 18%-36%) when the results of both tests were abnormal.

  19. Bile acid quantification of 20 plasma metabolites identifies lithocholic acid as a putative biomarker in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society 2017-11-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    Levels of lithocholic acid were significantly enhanced in plasma of AD patients (50 ± 6 nM, p = 0.004) compared to healthy controls (32 ± 3 nM).

  20. Current Role for Biomarkers in Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Current treatment options in neurology 2017-11-14 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia can often be diagnosed accurately with careful clinical history, cognitive testing, neurological examination, and structural brain MRI.

  21. YKL-40 in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2017-11-10 Inflammation and the immune system

    YKL-40 (also known as Chitinase 3-like 1) is a glycoprotein produced by inflammatory, cancer and stem cells.

  22. Race modifies the relationship between cognition and Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-11-02 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We hypothesized that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of amyloid, neurodegeneration, and endothelial dysfunction would differ between older African Americans and Caucasians with normal cognition and cognitive impairment associated with AD.

  23. Age, vascular health, and Alzheimer disease biomarkers in an elderly sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-10-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Vascular health had quantifiably greater impact on neurodegeneration in AD regions than on amyloid deposition.

  24. Serum neurofilament light in familial Alzheimer disease: A marker of early neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2017-10-25 Biomarkers

    Serum NfL concentration is increased in FAD prior to symptom onset and correlates with measures of disease stage and severity.

  25. Decreasing body mass index is associated with cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer's pathology in MCI and mild dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2017-10-17 Biomarkers

    Lower BMI is associated with cerebral AD pathology rather than with cognitive impairment in elderly subjects with MCI and mild dementia.

  26. Levels of amyloid-beta-42 and CSF pressure are directly related in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2017-09-02 Biomarkers

    Experimental data suggest that the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamic is involved in the clearance of beta-amyloid, a key event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  27. Changes of cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42, t-tau, and p-tau in Parkinson's disease patients with cognitive impairment relative to those with normal cognition: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2017-08-14 Disease mechanisms

    The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) signature of reduced amyloid beta 1-42 (Aβ 42 ), elevated total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau) is important for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  28. Functional correlates of TSH, fT3 and fT4 in Alzheimer disease: a F-18 FDG PET/CT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-07-24 Tau biomarkers

    The present study was aimed to investigate the relationships between thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), freeT3 (fT3) and freeT4 (fT4) and brain glucose consumption as detectable by means of 2-deoxy-2-(F-18) fluoro-D-glucose (F-18 FDG) Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) in a selected population with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  29. Serum Interleukin-10 Levels Correlate with Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Beta Deposition in Alzheimer Disease Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2017-07-19 Tau biomarkers

    In Alzheimer disease (AD) inflammation becomes evident throughout the course of the disease.

  30. Upward drift in cerebrospinal fluid amyloid β 42 assay values for more than 10 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-07-12 Biomarkers

    Assay drift may reduce statistical power or even confound analyses.

  31. CSF/serum albumin ratio in dementias: a cross-sectional study on 1861 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-07-11 Biomarkers

    A connection between dementias and blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction has been suggested, but previous studies have yielded conflicting results.

  32. Poor sleep is associated with CSF biomarkers of amyloid pathology in cognitively normal adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2017-07-05 Biomarkers

    Self-report of poor sleep was associated with greater AD-related pathology in cognitively healthy adults at risk for AD.

  33. Odor identification as a biomarker of preclinical AD in older adults at risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2017-06-28 Genetics

    These findings from healthy high-risk older individuals suggest that OI reflects degree of preclinical AD pathology, while its relationships with age and cognition result from the association of these latter variables with such pathology.

  34. Concordance between brain 18F-FDG PET and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2017-06-20 Tau biomarkers

    Cortical posterior hypometabolism on PET imaging with 18 F-FDG (FDG-PET), and altered levels of Aß 1-42 peptide, total Tau (tTau) and phosphorylated Tau (pTau) proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are established diagnostic biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Protein signature in cerebrospinal fluid and serum of Alzheimer's disease patients: The case of apolipoprotein A-1 proteoforms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2017-06-19 Biomarkers

    In the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) total tau (T-tau), tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau181), and the 42 amino acid isoform of alpha β-amyloid (Aβ) are well established surrogate CSF markers.

  36. Association between cerebrospinal fluid and plasma neurodegeneration biomarkers with brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-06-17 Biomarkers

    The aggregation and deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides into plaques is an early event in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is followed by different aspects of neurodegeneration that can be measured in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or plasma using neurofilament light (NFL), neurogranin (Ng), total Tau (T-Tau), and phosphorylated tau (P-Tau) levels.

  37. One-carbon metabolism, cognitive impairment and CSF measures of Alzheimer pathology: homocysteine and beyond

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-06-17 Tau biomarkers

    Hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer disease (AD).

  38. C-terminal fragments of the amyloid precursor protein in cerebrospinal fluid as potential biomarkers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-05-30 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    This study assesses whether C-terminal fragments (CTF) of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) are present in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and their potential as biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  39. Association of Plasma Neurofilament Light With Neurodegeneration in Patients With Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-05-01 Biomarkers

    Among 193 cognitively healthy controls, 197 patients with mild cognitive impairment, and 180 patients with AD with dementia, plasma NFL correlated with CSF NFL (Spearman ρ = 0.59, P Conclusions and relevance Plasma NFL is associated with AD diagnosis and with cognitive, biochemical, and imaging hallmarks of the disease.

  40. Comparison of CSF markers and semi-quantitative amyloid PET in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and in cognitive impairment prognosis using the ADNI-2 database

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-04-26 Long-term cohort studies

    The relative performance of semi-quantitative amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) markers in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and predicting the cognitive evolution of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is still debated.

  41. Role of inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers in Alzheimer's and vascular dementia - A pilot study from a tertiary center in Northern India

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Asian journal of psychiatry 2017-04-22 Biomarkers

    Hemostatic biomarkers were higher in Vascular group compared to Alzheimer group whereas there was no difference in inflammatory biomarkers.

  42. Plasma neurofilament light chain levels in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2017-04-18 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma neurofilament light (NFL) levels may be a marker of neuronal injury.

  43. Left frontal cortex connectivity underlies cognitive reserve in prodromal Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2017-02-10 Biomarkers

    Higher gLFC connectivity is a functional substrate of CR that helps to maintain episodic memory relatively well in the face of emerging FDG-PET hypometabolism in early-stage AD.

  44. Validation of olfactory deficit as a biomarker of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology. Clinical practice 2017-02-01 Genetics

    Olfactory identification deficit is a useful screening tool for AD-related amnestic disorder, with sensitivity and specificity comparable to other established biomarkers, with benefits such as ease of administration and low cost.

  45. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of orexin-A and histamine, and sleep profile within the Alzheimer process

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-01-18 Tau biomarkers

    To better understand how sleep/wake dysregulation affects Alzheimer's disease (AD), we compared the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) orexin and histamine/tele-methylhistamine (HA/t-MHA) levels of 82 patients (41 probable-AD-high level of evidence, 41 mild cognitive impairment MCI-due-to-AD), 24 other neurologic disorders (OND) and 24 controls.

  46. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2017-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Laboratory-specific reference values for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers are necessary.

  47. Psychosocial stress and physical, cognitive, and social activity predict the risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

  48. Plasma Proteomic Profiles of Cerebrospinal Fluid-Defined Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma proteins improved classification accuracy of AD pathology in cognitively-impaired older adults and appeared representative of amyloid pathology.

  49. The Clinical Use of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis: The Italian Selfie

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Biomarkers

    Although the use of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid β1-42 (Aβ42), tau (T-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau181) gives added diagnostic and prognostic values, the diffusion is still limited in clinical practice and only a restricted number of patients receive an integrated clinico-biological diagnosis.

  50. Recommendations for cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in the diagnostic evaluation of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-10-27 Mild cognitive impairment

    This article presents recommendations, based on the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation method, for the clinical application of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β 1-42 , tau, and phosphorylated tau in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

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