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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. CSF biomarkers in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with known pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2008-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    It is important to distinguish FTLD from other neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer disease (AD), but this may be difficult clinically because of atypical presentations.

  2. CSF multianalyte profile distinguishes Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. American journal of clinical pathology 2008-04-01 Genetics

    The therapeutic imperative for Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD) calls for discovery and validation of biomarkers.

  3. Biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease: 'ALZheimer ASsociated gene'--a new blood biomarker?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 2008-03-19 Biomarkers

    Simple, non-invasive tests for an early detection of degenerative dementia by use of biomarkers are urgently required.

  4. Diagnostic value of CSF biomarker profile in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2008-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers have been increasingly studied in dementia clinical and differential diagnosis.

  5. Do CSF total tau, phosphorylated tau, and beta-amyloid 42 help to predict progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2008-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The search for biomarkers as a diagnostic aid to the identification of patients in pre-dementia stages is a fast growing research area.

  6. Core candidate neurochemical and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2007-12-21 Getting a diagnosis

    A number of in vivo neurochemistry and neuroimaging techniques, which can reliably assess aspects of physiology, pathology, chemistry, and neuroanatomy, hold promise as biomarkers.

  7. Classification and prediction of clinical Alzheimer's diagnosis based on plasma signaling proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2007-10-14 Biomarkers

  8. Peripheral inflammatory cytokines as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2007-10-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    These results agree with a persistent inflammatory status in AD, reinforcing the hypothesis of a progressive impairment of the immune response in this disorder and suggesting that monocytes may be good targets to study the progression from MCI to AD.

  9. The relationship between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and depression in elderly women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2007-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers including the 42 amino-acid form of beta-amyloid (Abeta42), total tau protein (T-tau), and the CSF/serum albumin ratio are markers of brain pathology and metabolism.

  10. Plasma and CSF serpins in Alzheimer disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2007-08-29 Tau biomarkers

    Serine protease inhibitors (serpins), the acute phase reactants and regulators of the proteolytic processing of proteins, have been recognized as potential contributors to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  11. Levels of beta-secretase (BACE1) in cerebrospinal fluid as a predictor of risk in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2007-06-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Elevated beta-secretase (beta-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1 [BACE1]) activity has been found in the brains of patients with sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) compared with controls.

  12. Blood-brain barrier impairment in Alzheimer disease: stability and functional significance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2007-05-01 Genetics

    Blood-brain barrier (BBB) impairment is a stable characteristic over 1 year and present in an important subgroup of patients with Alzheimer disease.

  13. The application of proteomics and genomics to the study of age-related neurodegeneration and neuroprotection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Antioxidants & redox signaling 2007-02-01 Biomarkers

    The present study aimed to acquire more information on aging-related alterations, using proteomic and genomic analyses of hippocampus from young (8 months) and old (27 months) rats.

  14. Cerebrospinal fluid tau/beta-amyloid(42) ratio as a prediction of cognitive decline in nondemented older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-01-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The very mildest symptomatic stage of AD exhibits the same CSF biomarker phenotype as more advanced AD.

  15. Cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid 1-42 concentration may predict cognitive decline in older women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2006-11-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Low levels of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) beta-amyloid 1-42 (Abeta42) and high total tau (T-tau) are diagnostic for manifest Alzheimer's disease.

  16. CSF markers in Alzheimer disease patients are not related to the different degree of cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2006-11-09 Tau biomarkers

    Standard markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), as soluble amyloid beta 1-42 (Abeta1-42) and total tau protein (t-tau), may contribute to dementia subtypes diagnostic accuracy.

  17. Proteome-based plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Alzheimer's disease is a common and devastating disease for which there is no readily available biomarker to aid diagnosis or to monitor disease progression.

  18. The relationship between cerebral Alzheimer's disease pathology and odour identification in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2006-09-29 Caregiving

    The results suggest that difficulty in identifying familiar odours in old age is partly due to the accumulation of neurofibrillar pathology in central olfactory regions.

  19. Staging of Alzheimer disease-associated neurofibrillary pathology using paraffin sections and immunocytochemistry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2006-08-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    Assessment of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related neurofibrillary pathology requires a procedure that permits a sufficient differentiation between initial, intermediate, and late stages.

  20. Detection of biomarkers with a multiplex quantitative proteomic platform in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2006-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Biomarkers are needed to assist in the diagnosis and medical management of various neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and dementia with Lewy body (DLB).

  21. BDNF serum and CSF concentrations in Alzheimer's disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus and healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2006-03-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) are common forms of dementia in the elderly.

  22. Association between CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2006-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    During follow-up, 57 (42%) patients with MCI developed Alzheimer's disease, 21 (15%) developed other forms of dementia, and 56 (41%) remained cognitively stable for 5.2 years (range 4.0-6.8).

  23. Neurobiological studies of dementia--biological markers and neuroprotective strategies for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Acta neurologica Taiwanica 2006-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    Tau protein and amyloid s (Abeta), two major components of neuropathology in Alzheimer disease (AD), have been applied for establishment of more useful biomarkers and therapeutic approaches.

  24. Stage-dependent BDNF serum concentrations in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2005-12-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by cognitive decline and loss of neurons in specific brain regions.

  25. CSF amyloid beta42 and tau levels correlate with AIDS dementia complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2005-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    There is concern that AIDS dementia complex (ADC) may be complicated by Alzheimer disease (AD).

  26. Relationship between serum insulin-like growth factor-1 levels and Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

  27. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and beta-amyloid in Alzheimer patients, disease controls and an age-matched random sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-08-08 Tau biomarkers

    We prospectively evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-beta-amyloid1-42 (Abeta42), -total-tau (tau) and -phosphorylated-tau181 (p-tau181) as measured by sandwich ELISAs in the clinical routine of a community state hospital to discriminate between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), healthy controls (HC), non-AD-dementias, a group composed of various psychiatric disorders (non-AD-dementias, mental diseases) and an age-matched random sample (RS) (total N=219).

  28. Precursor form of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and mature brain-derived neurotrophic factor are decreased in the pre-clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2005-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is critical for the function and survival of neurons that degenerate in the late stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. Quantitative proteomics of cerebrospinal fluid from patients with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2005-04-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Biomarkers to assist in the diagnosis and medical management of Alzheimer disease (AD) are a pressing need.

  30. CSF tau and β-amyloid as biomarkers for mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 2004-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    Early diagnosis of Alzheimer s disease (AD) is relevant in order to initiate symptomatic treatment with antidementia drugs.

  31. Increased proNGF levels in subjects with mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2004-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Nerve growth factor (NGF) is critical for the regulation, differentiation, and survival of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons that degenerate in the late stage of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. Amyloid beta(1-42) and phosphorylated tau in CSF as markers for early-onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2004-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    CSF Abeta42 was significantly lower and CSF total tau and CSF Ptau-181 significantly higher in EAD patients than FTLD patients and control subjects.

  33. Cerebrospinal fluid protein biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. NeuroRx : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2004-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The introduction of acetylcholine esterase (AChE) inhibitors as a symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has made patients seek medical advice at an earlier stage of the disease.

  34. Neurochemical diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia by CSF Abeta42, Abeta42/Abeta40 ratio and total tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2004-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of amyloid beta peptides ending at positions 42 and 40 (Abeta42 and Abeta40, respectively), and total tau (tTau) protein were measured by ELISA in order to compare their accuracy in discriminating patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 22), non-Alzheimer dementia (nAD, n = 11) and control subjects (CON, n=35).

  35. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and beta-amyloid: how well do these biomarkers reflect autopsy-confirmed dementia diagnoses?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Elevated CSF tau levels are associated with AD pathology and can help discriminate AD from other dementing disorders.

  36. CSF markers for incipient Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2003-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is needed to initiate symptomatic treatment with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, and will be of even greater significance if drugs aimed at slowing down the degenerative process, such as vaccination regimes and beta-secretase and gamma-secretase inhibitors, prove to affect AD pathology and to have clinical effect.

  37. Biochemical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease by measuring the cerebrospinal fluid ratio of phosphorylated tau protein to beta-amyloid peptide42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    The antemortem diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) requires time-consuming and costly procedures.

  38. Cerebrospinal fluid markers in dementia with lewy bodies compared with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Most patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) exhibit diffuse plaque-only pathology with rare neocortical neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), as opposed to the widespread cortical neurofibrillary-tau involvement in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  39. A panel of cerebrospinal fluid potential biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Proteomics 2003-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia in the general population, usually relies upon the presence of typical clinical features and structural changes on brain magnetic resonance imaging.

  40. Acute procoagulant stress response as a dynamic measure of allostatic load in Alzheimer caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2003-08-01 Digital health tools

    Allostasis designates processes of bodily adaptation to stressful challenges, whereas allostatic load means the costs of wear and tear to the body as a consequence of inefficient allostasis.

  41. Decreased β-Amyloid1-42and Increased Tau Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients With Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. JAMA 2003-04-22 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease is associated with a significant decrease in CSF beta-amyloid1-42 levels along with an increase in CSF tau levels.

  42. A pilot study of vitamins to lower plasma homocysteine levels in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2003-03-01 Treatments

    High-dose vitamin supplementation reduces homocysteine levels in patients with AD.

  43. CSF Abeta 42 levels correlate with amyloid-neuropathology in a population-based autopsy study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2003-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The current study suggests that lower Abeta 42 levels reflect neuropathologic processes implicated in amyloid-related pathologies, such as NP and CAA.

  44. Role of protein kinase B in Alzheimer's neurofibrillary pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2002-12-18 Tau biomarkers

    Protein kinase B (PKB) is an important intermediate in the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase signaling cascade that acts to phosphorylate glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) at its serine 9 residue, thereby inactivating it.

  45. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and beta-amyloid 42 proteins identify Alzheimer disease in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our results indicate that altered tau and Abeta42 concentrations may be detectable in subjects who are clinically diagnosed as having MCI but demonstrate the pathological changes of AD.

  46. 24S-hydroxycholesterol in cerebrospinal fluid is elevated in early stages of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2002-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The brain is the most cholesterol-rich organ in the human body.

  47. Cerebrospinal fluid S100B is elevated in the earlier stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2001-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Postmortem demonstration of increased expression of biologically active S100B in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its relation to progression of neuropathological changes across the cortical regions suggests involvement of this astrocytic cytokine in the pathophysiology of AD.

  48. Evaluation of CSF-tau and CSF-Abeta42 as diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease in clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2001-03-01 Genetics

    Cerebrospinal fluid tau and CSF-Abeta42 have so far been studied in research settings, under conditions providing data on the optimal performance.

  49. Fatty acid analysis of blood plasma of patients with Alzheimer's disease, other types of dementia, and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Lipids 2000-12-01 Risk factors

    Fatty acid differences, including docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n-3) have been shown in the brains of Alzheimer's patients (AD) as compared with normal age-matched individuals.

  50. N-myc and c-myc expression in Alzheimer disease, Huntington disease and Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Brain research. Molecular brain research 2000-05-01 Biomarkers

    The present study examines N-myc and c-myc protein expression with Western blotting and single and double-labeling immunohistochemistry in the hippocampus in Alzheimer disease (AD), the striatum in Huntington disease (HD) and the substantia nigra in Parkinson disease (PD).

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