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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. Validation of Plasma Amyloid-β 42/40 for Detecting Alzheimer Disease Amyloid Plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2021-12-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 is a robust measure for detecting amyloid plaques and can be utilized to aid in the diagnosis of AD, identify those at risk for future dementia due to AD, and improve the diversity of populations enrolled in AD research and clinical trials.

  2. Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in Black and non-Hispanic White cohorts: A contextualized review of the evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12-06 Disparities

    Black Americans are disproportionately affected by dementia.

  3. Differences Between Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Levels Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-12-01 Biomarkers

    This study suggests that plasma GFAP is a sensitive biomarker for detecting and tracking reactive astrogliosis and Aβ pathology even among individuals in the early stages of AD.

  4. We established AD diagnostic models using plasma biomarkers for Chinese participants.

  5. Neurofilament light: a possible prognostic biomarker for treatment of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2021-10-15 Biomarkers

    We previously demonstrated that PNA5, a novel glycosylated angiotensin 1-7 (Ang-(1-7)) Mas receptor (MasR) agonist peptide, is an effective therapy to rescue cognitive impairment in our preclinical model of VCID.

  6. Cerebrospinal fluid markers for synaptic function and Alzheimer type changes in late life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Scientific reports 2021-10-13 Tau biomarkers

    To explore markers for synaptic function and Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology in late life depression (LLD), predementia AD and normal controls (NC).

  7. Biomarkers of neurodegeneration and glial activation validated in Alzheimer's disease assessed in longitudinal cerebrospinal fluid samples of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. PloS one 2021-10-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Except for αSyn, the additional biomarkers did not differentiate PD and HC, and none showed longitudinal differences, but most markers predict cognitive decline in PD during follow-up.

  8. CSF Synaptic Biomarkers in the Preclinical Stage of Alzheimer Disease and Their Association With MRI and PET: A Cross-sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-23 Biomarkers

    CSF synaptic biomarkers increase in the early preclinical stages of the Alzheimer continuum even when a low burden of Aβ pathology is present, and they differ in their association with age, sex, APOE ε4 , and markers of neurodegeneration.

  9. Associations of Fully Automated CSF and Novel Plasma Biomarkers With Alzheimer Disease Neuropathology at Autopsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-20 Biomarkers

    Elecsys-derived CSF biomarkers detect AD neuropathologic changes with very high discriminative accuracy in vivo.

  10. Impact of C-Reactive Protein on Cognition and Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers in Homozygous APOE ɛ4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-20 Tau biomarkers

    Previous research has shown that elevated blood C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with increased Alzheimer disease (AD) risk only in APOE ε4 allele carriers; the objective of this study was to examine the interactive effects of plasma CRP and APOE genotype on cognition and AD biomarkers.

  11. Diagnostic and prognostic plasma biomarkers for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-09-08 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These findings highlight the diagnostic and longitudinal monitoring potential of GFAP and p-tau for preclinical AD.

  12. β-Amyloid in Cerebrospinal Fluid: How to Keep It Floating (Not Sticking) by Standardization of Preanalytic Processes and Collection Tubes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. The journal of applied laboratory medicine 2021-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Phosphorylated tau (pTau), total tau (tTau), and β-amyloid (Aβ) are established cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers used to help diagnose Alzheimer disease.

  13. In the current study, we aimed to develop an algorithm based on biomarkers obtained through non- or minimally invasive procedures to identify healthy elderly subjects who have an increased risk of abnormal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta42 (Aβ) levels consistent with the presence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  14. Amyloid and tau positive mild cognitive impairment: clinical and biomarker characteristics of dementia progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2021-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    According to the amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration research framework classification, amyloid and tau positive (A+T+) mild cognitive impairment (MCI) individuals are defined as prodromal Alzheimer disease.

  15. Transitioning from cerebrospinal fluid to blood tests to facilitate diagnosis and disease monitoring in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2021-06-26 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasingly prevalent worldwide, and disease-modifying treatments may soon be at hand; hence, now, more than ever, there is a need to develop techniques that allow earlier and more secure diagnosis.

  16. Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Brain Atrophy in Old Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2021-06-15 Genetics

    Importantly, they suggest that these associations might be explained by a decrease of amyloidosis and tau-pathology.

  17. Astrocyte Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurology 2021-06-14 Biomarkers

    Despite significant progress, applications of astrocyte biomarkers in AD remain in their early days.

  18. Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2021-06-01 Biomarkers

    This review presents an overview of the latest advances in the field of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases.

  19. Association of Aortic Stiffness With Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation, Synaptic Dysfunction, and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2021-05-24 Biomarkers

    One hundred forty-six participants were examined (age 72 ± 6 years).

  20. A neurologist's perspective on serum neurofilament light in the memory clinic: a prospective implementation study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-18 Biomarkers

    SNfL was perceived as useful in 53% (n = 58) of the cases.

  21. Novel noninvasive biomarkers of prodromal Alzheimer disease: The role of optical coherence tomography and optical coherence tomography-angiography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2021-04-30 Tau biomarkers

    A reduction of retinal thickness and an alteration of retinal perfusion have been found in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  22. Temporal Correlation of CSF and Neuroimaging in the Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration Model of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2021-04-30 Biomarkers

    CSF Aβ 42 and PiB PET showed maximal correlation when collected within 6 years of each other ( R ≈ -0.5).

  23. Machine Learning Driven Profiling of Cerebrospinal Fluid Core Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurological Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-03-31 Digital health tools

    Amyloid-beta (Aβ) 42/40 ratio, tau phosphorylated at threonine-181 (p-tau), and total-tau (t-tau) are considered core biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Resting-State Functional Connectivity Disruption as a Pathological Biomarker in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain connectivity 2021-03-31 Biomarkers

    The gFC was reduced in MC compared with NC participants.

  25. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein detects Alzheimer pathology and predicts future conversion to Alzheimer dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-27 Biomarkers

    Baseline plasma GFAP could detect abnormal CSF Aβ42/40 and CSF Aβ42/T-tau with an AUC of 0.79 (95% CI 0.72-0.86) and 0.80 (95% CI 0.72-0.86), respectively.

  26. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein detects Alzheimer pathology and predicts future conversion to Alzheimer dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2021-03-27 Laboratory science

    A simple blood test for GFAP, a protein released by activated star-shaped brain support cells called astrocytes, could identify which patients with mild memory problems had underlying Alzheimer's pathology and predict, years in advance, who would go on to develop Alzheimer's dementia.

  27. Neurogranin as a Novel Biomarker in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Laboratory medicine 2021-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    In this study, we investigated the possible role of 2 novel biomarkers of synaptic damage, namely, neurogranin and α-synuclein, in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  28. Cognitive Profile and Markers of Alzheimer Disease-Type Pathology in Patients With Lewy Body Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2021-02-16 Tau biomarkers

    We selected 57 patients with LBD (dementia with Lewy bodies [DLB], n = 38; Parkinson disease dementia [PDD], n = 19) with available AD CSF biomarkers and neuropsychological data.

  29. Cognitively normal APOE ε4 carriers have specific elevation of CSF SNAP-25

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-02-11 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) synaptosomal-associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) and neurogranin (Ng) are recently described biomarkers for pre- and postsynaptic integrity known to be elevated in symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD).

  30. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-02-10 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, clinically heterogeneous, and particularly complex neurodegenerative disease characterized by a decline in cognition.

  31. Resting state EEG biomarkers of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PloS one 2021-02-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    Compared to age matched controls, in the AD group, we found increases in both spectral power and coherence at the slower frequencies (Delta, Theta).

  32. Association of Early β-Amyloid Accumulation and Neuroinflammation Measured With [11C]PBR28 in Elderly Individuals Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2021-01-29 Tau biomarkers

    We examined 54 volunteers (mean age 70.0 years, 56% women, 51% APOE ɛ4 carriers) with the translocator protein (TSPO) tracer [ 11 C]PBR28 to assess neuroinflammation and with [ 11 C] Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) to assess cerebral Aβ accumulation. [ 11 C]PBR28 and [ 11 C]PiB standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) were quantified in 6 regions of interests by using the cerebellar cortex as a pseudo-reference and reference region, respectively.

  33. Both high baseline GFAP (hazard ratio 3·6, 95% CI 2·2-5·7; p 42/40 , both GFAP (2·6, 1·4-5·0; p=0·0026) and amyloid β 42/40 (2·1, 1·2-3·6; p=0·0091) were independently associated with incident dementia whereas NfL was not (1·4, 0·8-2·5; p=0·28).

  34. Validation of the Alzheimer Disease Dementia Conversion-Related Pattern as an ATN Biomarker of Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2021-01-06 Biomarkers

    The mean subject score of the ADCRP was significantly higher in the A+T+ group compared to each of the other group (all p p > 0.1).

  35. Obesity and White Matter Neuroinflammation Related Edema in Alzheimer's Disease Dementia Biomarker Negative Cognitively Normal Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Obesity is related to quantitative neuroimaging abnormalities including reduced gray matter volumes and impaired white matter microstructural integrity, although the underlying mechanisms are not well understood.

  36. Prospective Associations between Plasma Amyloid-Beta 42/40 and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Brain amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, a hallmark of the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease, have been associated with frailty.

  37. Spicy food consumption is associated with cognition and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2020-12-21 Tau biomarkers

    This study aimed to investigate whether spicy food consumption is associated with cognition and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of AD in the Chinese population.

  38. Added value of cerebrospinal fluid multimarker analysis in diagnosis and progression of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2020-12-14 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that emerging biomarkers in conjunction with core AD markers improve diagnosis of AD, are associated with the conversion from MCI into AD, and predict a faster progression of dementia.

  39. Stage-specific links between plasma neurofilament light and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Neurofilament light (NfL) is a marker of neuroaxonal injury, a prominent feature of Alzheimer's disease.

  40. Prognostic value of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurologia 2020-10-31 Tau biomarkers

    We performed a retrospective analysis of the patients assessed at our memory unit for whom Alzheimer disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid biomarker results were available.

  41. Functional connectivity of white matter as a biomarker of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2020-10-16 Digital health tools

    The white matter FC decreased in late MCI and AD dementia patients compared to CN participants, and this decrease was correlated with cognitive measures.

  42. Plasma Aβ and neurofilament light chain are associated with cognitive and physical function decline in non-dementia older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-10-08 Prevention trials

    Combined low plasma Aβ 42 /Aβ 40 ratio and high plasma NfL level was associated with greater declines in cognition and gait speed over time, providing further evidence of the links between cognitive and physical function.

  43. Measurement of CSF core Alzheimer disease biomarkers for routine clinical diagnosis: do fresh vs frozen samples differ?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-09-29 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-beta (Aβ) 42/40 ratio, threonine-181-phosphorylated-tau (p-tau), and total-tau (t-tau) represent core biomarkers of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  44. Remote Blood Biomarkers of Longitudinal Cognitive Outcomes in a Population Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2020-09-29 Biomarkers

    Higher concentrations of serum biomarkers were associated with the development of clinical AD; especially, the time-specific associations were notable: t-tau 8 to 16 years, and Nf-L and GFAP 4 to 8 years prior to clinical AD.

  45. β-Amyloid and tau biomarkers and clinical phenotype in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-28 Genetics

    Alzheimer disease pathologic changes are common in DLB and are associated with the clinical phenotype. β-Amyloid is associated with cognitive impairment, and tau pathology is associated with lower frequency of clinical features of DLB.

  46. Plasma amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration biomarker profiles predict Alzheimer's disease pathology and clinical progression in older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-24 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma markers have been reported to be associated with brain amyloid burden, tau pathology, or neurodegeneration.

  47. Interrelations of Alzheimer´s disease candidate biomarkers neurogranin, fatty acid-binding protein 3 and ferritin to neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2020-09-18 Tau biomarkers

    There is growing evidence that promising biomarkers of inflammation in Alzheimer´s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases correlate strongest to levels of tau or neurofilament, indicating an inflammatory response to neuronal damage or death.

  48. Alzheimer's disease biomarkers as predictors of trajectories of depression and apathy in cognitively normal individuals, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-09-11 Long-term cohort studies

    The trajectories of depression and apathy (measured with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory or its questionnaire) were separately modeled using growth mixture models for two cohorts (National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, NACC, n = 22 760 and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, ADNI, n = 1 733).

  49. Sequence of Alzheimer disease biomarker changes in cognitively normal adults: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cross-sectional data, including CSF analytes, molecular imaging of cerebral fibrillar β-amyloid (Aβ) with PET using the [ 11 C] benzothiazole tracer Pittsburgh compound B (PiB), MRI-based brain structures, and clinical/cognitive outcomes harmonized from 8 studies, collectively involving 3,284 cognitively normal individuals 18 to 101 years of age, were analyzed.

  50. Proteomic Profiling of Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Cerebrospinal Fluid of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cells 2020-08-25 Mild cognitive impairment

    Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are deposits of amyloid beta (Aβ) and hyper-phosphorylated tau aggregates in brain plaques.

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