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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 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Longitudinal cerebrospinal fluid tau load increases in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2002-11-01 Biomarkers

    Cross-sectional cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of tau and amyloid (A) beta (beta) are of diagnostic importance for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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).

  15. Plasma 24S-hydroxycholesterol (cerebrosterol) is increased in Alzheimer and vascular demented patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of lipid research 2000-02-01 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuronal cell loss associated with membrane cholesterol release. 24S-hydroxycholesterol (24S-OH-Chol) is an enzymatically oxidized product of cholesterol mainly synthesized in the brain.

  16. Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid levels of amyloid beta proteins 1-40 and 1-42 in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2000-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Mean plasma Abeta40 levels were higher in the AD group than in controls (P = .005), but there was substantial overlap; Abeta42 levels were similar between the groups.

  17. Cerebrospinal fluid markers of pathogenetic processes in vascular dementia, with special reference to the subcortical subtype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 1999-10-01 Biomarkers

    There is a need for improvement of the diagnosis of vascular dementia (VaD).

  18. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of MMP-2, 7, and 9 are elevated in association with human immunodeficiency virus dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1999-09-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Pathological evidence suggests that alterations of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may occur in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dementia (HIVD).

  19. Cerebrospinal fluid tau and Abeta42 as predictors of development of Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1999-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We studied CSF-tau and CSF-Abeta42 in 16 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who at follow-up investigations 6-27 months later had progressed to Alzheimer's disease (AD) with dementia.

  20. Cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid(1-42) in Alzheimer disease: differences between early- and late-onset Alzheimer disease and stability during the course of disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1999-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The sensitivity of CSF-beta-amyloid(1-42) level as a diagnostic marker for AD is high.

  21. Improved discrimination of AD patients using beta-amyloid(1-42) and tau levels in CSF

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 1999-05-01 Genetics

    The combined measure of CSF Abeta42 and tau meets the requirements for clinical use in discriminating AD from normal aging and specific neurologic disorders.

  22. Cerebrospinal fluid A beta42 is increased early in sporadic Alzheimer's disease and declines with disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1999-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    All mutations known to cause familial Alzheimer's disease (AD) act by increasing the levels of soluble beta-amyloid peptide (A beta), especially the longer form, A beta42.

  23. Cholinergic markers in elderly patients with early signs of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA 1999-04-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    A central tenet of Alzheimer disease (AD) is the loss of cortical cholinergic function and cholinergic markers in postmortem brain specimens.

  24. The biochemical pathway of neurofibrillary degeneration in aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 1999-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The relationship between NFD and Alzheimer-type dementia, and the criteria for a biochemical diagnosis of AD, are documented, and an association between AD and the extent of NFD in defined brain areas is shown.

  25. Neurofilament protein levels in CSF are increased in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1999-03-01 Biomarkers

    The neurofilament is the major cytoskeletal structure of myelinated axons.

  26. Chemokines/chemokine receptors in the central nervous system and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurovirology 1999-02-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, and the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.

  27. Interindividual differences in the levels of the glutamate transporters GLAST and GLT, but no clear correlation with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 1999-01-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease is a common progressive neurodegenerative disease of unknown etiology.

  28. Neurotransmitters, peptides, and neural cell adhesion molecules in the cortices of normal elderly humans and Alzheimer patients: a comparison

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 1999-01-01 Biomarkers

    Immunocytochemical techniques was used to compare the proportion of neurons expressing various neurotransmitters (tyrosine hydroxylase, choline acetyltransferase and gamma-aminobutyric acid), neuropeptides (Leu-enkephalin and substance P) and neural cell adhesion molecules (NCAM) in the hippocampus, frontal (area 10) and occipital (area 17) cortices of neurologically normal elderly humans to that of age-matched Alzheimer disease (AD) patients.

  29. Folate, vitamin B12, and serum total homocysteine levels in confirmed Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1998-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Serum tHcy levels were significantly higher and serum folate and vitamin B12 levels were lower in patients with DAT and patients with histologically confirmed AD than in controls.

  30. High cerebrospinal fluid tau and low amyloid beta42 levels in the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease and relation to apolipoprotein E genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1998-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Levels of CSF Abeta42 decrease and levels of CSF tau increase in AD.

  31. Total serum homocysteine in senile dementia of Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 1998-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The main hypothesis was that subtle vitamin B12 deficiencies occur more commonly in senile dementia of Alzheimer type (SDAT) that in healthy elderly individuals, and may be revealed by elevated total serum homocysteine (tHcy).

  32. Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma insulin levels in Alzheimer's disease: relationship to severity of dementia and apolipoprotein E genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 1998-01-01 Risk factors

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have elevations of fasting plasma insulin that are hypothesized to be associated with disrupted brain insulin metabolism.

  33. Detection of 14-3-3 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid supports the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1998-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The analysis of 14-3-3 protein in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was shown to be highly sensitive and specific for the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

  34. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF/SF) in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain research 1998-01-01 Biomarkers

    Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF/SF), is a heparin-binding polypeptide which stimulates DNA synthesis in a variety of cell types and also promotes cell migration and morphogenesis.

  35. The level of cerebrospinal fluid tau correlates with neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroreport 1997-12-01 Biomarkers

    We measured tau concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples taken during the lifetime of 43 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and correlated these values with neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) scores as well as glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression as a marker of astrocytosis in the brain post-mortem.

  36. To determine whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) viral burden measurements can assist in the evaluation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated neurocognitive disorders, we quantified HIV type 1 (HIV-1) RNA in CSF.

  37. Levels of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in cerebrospinal fluid correlate with AIDS dementia stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of infectious diseases 1997-04-01 Caregiving

    The relationship between the presence and severity of AIDS dementia complex (ADC) and the levels of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were assessed.

  38. Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases have increased levels of neurofilament protein in CSF

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1996-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    In the present study we describe an ELISA to quantify the light subunit of the neurofilament triplet protein (NFL) in CSF.

  39. Glial fibrillary acidic protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia (Basel, Switzerland) 1996-09-01 Biomarkers

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is the structural protein of the astroglial intermediate filament that forms the morphological basis of astrogliosis.

  40. Localization and cell association of C1q in Alzheimer's disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Experimental neurology 1996-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The complement protein, C1q, has been shown to bind to fibrillar beta-amyloid, resulting in the activation of the classical complement pathway.

  41. Fas antigen expression in brains of patients with Alzheimer-type dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain research 1995-10-01 Biomarkers

    Fas antigen (CD95) is a cell surface protein that mediates apoptosis.

  42. Neurochemical correlates of dementia severity in Alzheimer's disease: relative importance of the cholinergic deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 1995-02-01 How common it is

    Cholinergic markers, neuropeptides, and amines and their metabolites were sampled from identical specimens across 10 neocortical regions in a large sample of Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases and controls.

  43. Alterations of glial fibrillary acidic protein mRNA level in the aging brain and in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1993-03-01 Biomarkers

    The GFAP mRNA levels were compared to the density of the senile plaques (SP) in postmortem brain samples of 8 cases, either non-demented or affected by senile dementia of the Alzheimer type.

  44. Abnormal brain spectrin immunoreactivity in sprouting neurons in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1991-08-01 Biomarkers

    Brain spectrin is a major membrane skeleton protein that participates in cellular transport, cell morphogenesis, neurotransmitter release and growth cone adhesion.

  45. Synapse loss in frontal cortex biopsies in Alzheimer's disease: Correlation with cognitive severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 1990-05-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Ultrastructural studies of biopsied cortical tissue from the right frontal lobe of 8 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) revealed that the number of synapses in lamina III of Brodmann's area 9 was significantly decreased when compared with the number in age-matched control brains (n = 9; postmortem time, less than 13 hours).

  46. Reactive microglia in patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type are positive for the histocompatibility glycoprotein HLA-DR

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1987-08-01 Biomarkers

    HLA-DR is a class II cell surface glycoprotein of the human histocompatibility complex usually expressed on the surface of cells that are simultaneously presenting foreign antigen to T-lymphocytes.

  47. Determination in human cerebrospinal fluid of glial fibrillary acidic protein, S-100 and myelin basic protein as indices of non-specific or specific central nervous tissue pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 1986-03-01 Biomarkers

    The nervous system specific proteins glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAp), S-100 and myelin basic protein (MBP) were determined in 535 human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples.

  48. Measurement of GFAP in hepatic encephalopathy by ELISA and transblots

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 1985-09-01 Biomarkers

    Basal ganglia, cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter were studied for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in four cases of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) with Alzheimer II gliosis and five age-matched controls.

  49. Reduced amounts of immunoreactive somatostatin in the temporal cortex in senile dementia of Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1980-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Post-mortem brain tissue from 15 patients dying with a diagnosis of senile dementia of Alzheimer type (SDAT) was compared with tissue obtained from 16 control patients at routine post-mortem.

  50. Glial fibrillary acidic protein and Alzheimer-type senile dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 1980-07-01 Biomarkers

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), a protein that is associated with 9-nm filaments of astrocytes, was observed to be increased in the astrocytes surrounding senile plaques in patients with Alzheimer dementia and in aged subjects without dementia.

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