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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. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Beta and Tau Concentrations Are Not Modulated by 16 Weeks of Moderate- to High-Intensity Physical Exercise in Patients with Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2016-09-20 Tau biomarkers

    Physical exercise may have some effect on cognition in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  2. Imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early preclinical alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-07-25 Brain scans and imaging

    CSF Aβ42 levels are tightly coupled with cortical amyloid load in the earliest stages of preclinical AD, and begin to decrease dramatically prior to the point when an abnormal threshold of cortical accumulation is detected with amyloid imaging.

  3. The relationship between cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer pathology and positron emission tomography tau imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-06-10 Tau biomarkers

    The two primary molecular pathologies in Alzheimer's disease are amyloid-β plaques and tau-immunoreactive neurofibrillary tangles.

  4. Diagnostic and Prognostic Utility of the Synaptic Marker Neurogranin in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    Synaptic loss is an early pathologic substrate of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  5. Increased Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels of Ubiquitin Carboxyl-Terminal Hydrolase L1 in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2016-05-01 Biomarkers

    Our main findings support that the UPS pathway may be impaired in AD, and UCH-L1 may serve as an additional CSF biomarker for AD.

  6. Tau and Aβ imaging, CSF measures, and cognition in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2016-05-01 How common it is

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two molecular pathologies: cerebral β-amyloidosis in the form of β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and tauopathy in the form of neurofibrillary tangles, neuritic plaques, and neuropil threads.

  7. Decreased peripheral brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis study (N=7277)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2016-04-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    Studies suggest that dysfunction of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a possible contributor to the pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Mood Changes in Cognitively Normal Older Adults are Linked to Alzheimer Disease Biomarker Levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2016-04-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) at Washington University (WU).

  9. CSF and blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2016-04-08 Biomarkers

    The core biomarkers differentiated Alzheimer's disease from controls with good performance: CSF T-tau (average ratio 2·54, 95% CI 2·44-2·64, p Interpretation The core CSF biomarkers of neurodegeneration (T-tau, P-tau, and Aβ42), CSF NFL, and plasma T-tau were strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease and the core biomarkers were strongly associated with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease.

  10. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis detects cerebral amyloid-β accumulation earlier than positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-03-02 Long-term cohort studies

    Cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β is thought to be the starting mechanism in Alzheimer's disease.

  11. The Utility of Cerebral Blood Flow as a Biomarker of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2016-02-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    There is accumulating evidence suggesting that changes in brain perfusion are present long before the clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), perhaps even before amyloid-β accumulation or brain atrophy.

  12. CSF complement 3 and factor H are staging biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2016-02-17 Digital health tools

    We developed a biochemical/bioinformatics pipeline to optimize the handling of complex interactions between variables in validating biochemical markers of disease.

  13. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker for Alzheimer Disease Predicts Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2016-02-01 Biomarkers

    Low CSF Aβ1-42 may be a significant predictor of POCD at 3 months.

  14. Increased CSF neurogranin concentration is specific to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2016-01-29 Digital health tools

    An optimized immunoassay was used to analyze CSF Ng in a retrospective cohort of 331 participants with different neurodegenerative diseases, including healthy controls (n = 19), biomarker-proven Alzheimer disease (AD) (n = 100), genetic AD (n = 2), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 20), speech variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 21), Lewy body dementia (n = 13), Parkinson disease (n = 31), progressive supranuclear palsy (n = 46), multiple system atrophy (n = 29), as well as a heterogeneous group with non-neurodegenerative cognitive impairment (n = 50).

  15. Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Neurofilament Light Concentration With Alzheimer Disease Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid NFL concentration (median [interquartile range]) was higher in the AD dementia group (1479 [1134-1842] pg/mL), stable MCI group (no progression to AD during follow-up; 1182 [923-1687] pg/mL), and progressive MCI group (MCI with progression to AD dementia during follow-up; 1336 [1061-1693] pg/mL) compared with control participants (1047 [809-1265] pg/mL) (P Conclusions and relevance Cerebrospinal fluid NFL concentration is increased by the early clinical stage of AD and is associated with cognitive deterioration and structural brain changes over time.

  16. Association of Elevated Amyloid Levels With Cognition and Biomarkers in Cognitively Normal People From the Community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In persons selected from a population-based study, elevated amyloid levels at baseline were associated with worse cognition and imaging biomarkers at baseline and with greater clinical decline and neurodegeneration.

  17. Cerebrospinal Fluid Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 3 is Related to Dementia Development in a Population-Based Sample of Older Adult Women Followed for 8 Years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Between 1992 and 2000, 8 women developed dementia (4 AD, 3 vascular dementia, 1 mixed vascular dementia and AD).

  18. CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios: better diagnostic markers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    The CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios are significantly better than CSF Aβ42 to detect brain amyloid deposition in prodromal AD and to differentiate AD dementia from non-AD dementias.

  19. Performance of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease in a Memory Clinic in Norway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2016-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Although Alzheimer disease (AD) remains a clinical diagnosis, biomarkers are in use to support the diagnosis.

  20. Predictive Value of Cerebrospinal Fluid Visinin-Like Protein-1 Levels for Alzheimer's Disease Early Detection and Differential Diagnosis in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Visinin-like protein 1 (VILIP-1) recently emerged as a potential biomarker of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Combined Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Signature for the Prediction of Midterm Progression From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-12-14 Long-term cohort studies

    A reliable method of detecting Alzheimer disease (AD) in its prodromal state is needed for patient stratification in clinical trials or for personalizing existing or potential upcoming therapies.

  22. Identification of novel CSF biomarkers for neurodegeneration and their validation by a high-throughput multiplexed targeted proteomic assay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2015-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Currently there are no effective treatments for many neurodegenerative diseases.

  23. Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin and YKL-40 as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2015-11-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Widespread implementation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical settings requires improved accuracy for diagnosis of prodromal disease and for distinguishing AD from non-AD dementias.

  24. Quantitative validation of a visual rating scale for frontal atrophy: associations with clinical status, APOE e4, CSF biomarkers and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. European radiology 2015-11-11 Long-term cohort studies

    The AddNeuroMed and ADNI cohorts were combined giving a total of 329 healthy controls, 421 mild cognitive impairment patients, and 286 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  25. Altered microRNA profiles in cerebrospinal fluid exosome in Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Oncotarget 2015-11-01 Biomarkers

    The differential diagnosis of Parkinson's diseases (PD) is challenging, especially in the early stages of the disease.

  26. Neurogranin as a Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker for Synaptic Loss in Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Baseline CSF levels of NGRN in patients with AD (median level, 2381 pg/mL [interquartile range, 1651-3416 pg/mL]) were higher than in cognitively normal participants (median level, 1712 pg/mL [interquartile range, 1206-2724 pg/mL]) (P = .04).

  27. Use of amyloid-PET to determine cutpoints for CSF markers: A multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2015-10-14 Biomarkers

    Amyloid-PET-based CSF Aβ42 cutpoints were higher and tended to reduce intercenter variability compared with clinical-based cutpoints.

  28. Cerebrospinal Fluid Patterns and the Risk of Future Dementia in Early, Incident Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-10-01 Biomarkers

    Among the 128 study participants, the 104 patients with early PD had a different CSF pattern compared with the 13 patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (baseline area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.87; P < .0001) and the 30 control participants (baseline area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.69; P = .0021).

  29. Cerebrospinal fluid VILIP-1 and YKL-40, candidate biomarkers to diagnose, predict and monitor Alzheimer's disease in a memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2015-09-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    CSF levels of YKL-40 may have utility for discriminating between cognitively normal individuals and patients with MCI or AD.

  30. Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin: relation to cognition and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-09-15 Disease mechanisms

    Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin was increased in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia (P < 0.001), progressive mild cognitive impairment (P < 0.001) and stable mild cognitive impairment (P < 0.05) compared with controls, and in Alzheimer's disease dementia (P < 0.01) and progressive mild cognitive impairment (P < 0.05) compared with stable mild cognitive impairment.

  31. Detailed comparison of amyloid PET and CSF biomarkers for identifying early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2015-09-09 Biomarkers

    The best CSF measures for identifying MCI-AD were Aβ42/total tau (t-tau) and Aβ42/hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) (area under the curve [AUC] 0.93-0.94).

  32. Longitudinal Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Changes in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease During Middle Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-09-01 Genetics

    Within-person changes in CSF biomarkers were also compared with changes in cortical PiB binding and progression to a CDR higher than 0 at follow-up.

  33. A major difference in the revised diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the incorporation of biomarkers to support a clinical diagnosis and allow the identification of preclinical AD due to AD neuropathological processes.

  34. Cerebral Microbleeds, CSF p-Tau, and Cognitive Decline: Significance of Anatomic Distribution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2015-07-30 Biomarkers

    The distribution of microbleeds revealed different associations with amyloid-β and phosphorylated tau 181 protein levels and cognition.

  35. Lower Cerebrospinal Fluid Concentration of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Predicts Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuromolecular medicine 2015-07-03 Biomarkers

    There is little information on the dynamics of BDNF in the CSF in the continuum between healthy aging, MCI and AD.

  36. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and amyloid-β1-42 in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-06-30 Brain tissue and pathology

    Progressive cognitive decline in combination with a cerebrospinal fluid biomarker pattern of low levels of amyloid-β1-42 and high levels of total tau and phosphorylated tau is typical of Alzheimer's disease.

  37. Proteomic analysis of host brain components that bind to infectious particles in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Proteomics 2015-06-09 Biomarkers

    Transmissible encephalopathies (TSEs), such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, are caused by infectious agents that provoke strain-specific patterns of disease.

  38. Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers of Neurodegeneration and Rates of Brain Atrophy in Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Measures of neuronal loss are likely good surrogates for clinical and radiological disease progression in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  39. Effect of Cognitive Reserve on Age-Related Changes in Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Although advancing age is the strongest risk factor for the development of symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD), recent studies have shown that there are individual differences in susceptibility to age-related alterations in the biomarkers of AD pathophysiology.

  40. Ferritin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid predict Alzheimer's disease outcomes and are regulated by APOE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Nature communications 2015-05-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    Brain iron elevation is implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, but the impact of iron on disease outcomes has not been previously explored in a longitudinal study.

  41. Cognitive performance and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neurodegeneration: a study of patients with bipolar disorder and healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. PloS one 2015-05-08 Biomarkers

    The purpose of the present study was to investigate if cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of neurodegeneration are associated with cognition in bipolar disorder and healthy controls, respectively.

  42. Nonlinear Association Between Cerebrospinal Fluid and Florbetapir F-18 β-Amyloid Measures Across the Spectrum of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-05-01 Genetics

    The association between both biomarkers is limited to a middle range of values, is modified by the APOE genotype, and is absent for longitudinal changes; 4 different approaches in 2 different platforms converge on similar pathological Aβ cutoff levels; and different pipelines to process PET scans showed correlated but not identical results.

  43. Odor identification and Alzheimer disease biomarkers in clinically normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2015-05-01 Genetics

    Our objective was to investigate cross-sectional associations between odor identification ability and imaging biomarkers of neurodegeneration and amyloid deposition in clinically normal (CN) elderly individuals, specifically testing the hypothesis that there may be an interaction between amyloid deposition and neurodegeneration in predicting odor identification dysfunction.

  44. Development and evaluation of a multiplexed mass spectrometry based assay for measuring candidate peptide biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) CSF

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Proteomics. Clinical applications 2015-04-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    These data provide potential insights into the biology of CSF in AD and MCI progression and provide a novel tool for AD researchers and clinicians working to improve diagnostic accuracy, evaluation of treatment efficacy, and early diagnosis.

  45. Biomarkers of lipid peroxidation in Alzheimer disease (AD): an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of toxicology 2015-04-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Increasing evidence suggests that free radical-mediated oxidation of biological substrates is a key feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  46. Brain glutathione levels--a novel biomarker for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2015-04-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Extant data from in vivo animal models and postmortem studies indicate that Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is associated with reduction of the brain antioxidant glutathione (GSH), yet direct clinical evidence has been lacking.

  47. Importance and impact of preanalytical variables on Alzheimer disease biomarker concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2015-04-13 Tau biomarkers

    Analyses of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers (β-amyloid protein, total tau protein, and hyperphosphorylated tau protein) are part of the diagnostic criteria of Alzheimer disease.

  48. Nutrient patterns and brain biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2015-04-01 Prevention and risk

    None of the participants were diabetics, smokers, or met criteria for obesity.

  49. Association of cerebrospinal fluid prion protein levels and the distinction between Alzheimer disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    Although typical forms of Alzheimer disease (AD) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are clinically distinguishable, atypical AD phenotypes may pose a diagnostic challenge.

  50. Associations between biomarkers and age in the presenilin 1 E280A autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease kindred: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-03-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Age-associated changes in brain imaging and fluid biomarkers are characterized and compared in presenilin 1 (PSEN1)E280A mutation carriers and noncarriers from the world's largest known autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (AD) kindred.

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