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  1. From group-level neurophysiological biomarkers to individual-level phenotyping to identify mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease 2026-10-28
  2. Beyond reduced alpha power: a weaker temporal link between alpha and other brain rhythms in Alzheimer’s disease 2026-10-26
  3. Network Localization of Anxiety as an Early Manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease-related Neurodegeneration 2026-10-26

Studies

187 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1998 to 2026

Top journals

  • Frontiers in aging neuroscience 10
  • bioRxiv 10
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 9
  • Human brain mapping 7
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 7

88 journals in all.

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  1. From group-level neurophysiological biomarkers to individual-level phenotyping to identify mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Precision medicine approaches require physiological effects to be informative when translated to the individual.

  2. Beyond reduced alpha power: a weaker temporal link between alpha and other brain rhythms in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-26 Inflammation and the immune system

    At the group level, the resting alpha abnormality in AD comprises two partly nonredundant dimensions: reduced expression and a weaker temporal link between alpha and subsequent multi-rhythm activity.

  3. Network Localization of Anxiety as an Early Manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease-related Neurodegeneration

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-26 Risk factors

    Anxiety localizes to a brain circuit resembling the AD-related atrophy network, is consistent across the AD continuum and may extend beyond AD.

  4. NeuroMark dFNC: Transferable Dynamic-State Templates for Subject-Specific and Frequency-Resolved Chronnectomics

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) commonly identifies recurring connectivity states from resting-state fMRI, but states derived independently in each dataset lack guaranteed correspondence across studies and cannot be directly estimated in new participants.

  5. Neurodegenerative disorders: Stereotyped relationships between pathological metabolic topographies and the healthy default mode network

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-13 Brain scans and imaging

    The disorders fell into one of three categories based on the topographic relationship of the disease-specific and healthy networks.

  6. The Somnogenesis System: A Proposed Biological System for Psychiatry

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-08 Brain scans and imaging

    For more than 150 years, since the idea that mental illness is rooted in the brain first emerged in the mid-1800s, psychiatry has searched for a reliable biological system to anchor its understanding of mental illness.

  7. Vibrotactile transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) during working memory: convergent electrophysiological evidence for cortical efficiency

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-08 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results converge on the conclusion that vtaVNS does not uniformly amplify cortical responses to external stimuli.

  8. The Somnogenesis System

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. ScienceOpen Preprints 2026-10-05 Brain scans and imaging

    For more than 150 years, since the idea that mental illness is rooted in the brain first emerged in the mid-1800s, psychiatry has searched for a reliable biological system to anchor its understanding of mental illness.

  9. Alignment with sex-typical brain architecture: Links to mood pathology, sex hormones and transcriptomics of neurodegenerative conditions

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-02 Risk factors

    We tested whether, across sexes, alignment with female-typical, rather than male-typical, patterns of neural functional connectivity (FC) would relate to a diagnosis (adolescent sample) or severity of symptoms (adult sample) associated with internalizing disorders, which tend to be more often diagnosed in females.

  10. Normative Modeling of Molecular-Enriched Functional Connectivity for Detecting Deviations from Healthy Brain Aging

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Of 204 normative reference models, 199 (97.5%) met the predefined diagnostic criteria; median held-out explained variance (EXPV) was 0.174.

  11. rTMS renews long-tract myelination to improve AD cognitive function predicted by baseline myelin and E-field

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study reveals a myelin-mediated mechanism of rTMS action in AD, demonstrating the potential of promoting myelination as a novel therapeutic strategy for alleviating AD-related cognitive impairment.

  12. Hybrid Computational-Human Synthesis of the Human Connectome Project: Network Stability, Lifespan Reorganization and Biomarker Potential

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-09-14 Risk factors

    Launched in 2010 by the National Institutes of Health, the Human Connectome Project (HCP) represents a foundational initiative in systems neuroscience, designed to map the structural and functional architecture of the human brain.

  13. Comparative Analysis of Individual Graph Construction Methods from Static FDG-PET Images: an ADNI study in Alzheimer’s Disease Subjects

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our findings indicate that all methods captured AD disconnection patterns but exhibited variability in preserving connectivity profiles, which seemed non-random but rather systematically linked to clinical measures and predictive power for AD classification.

  14. Specification dependence of EEG theta/alpha ratio associations with cognitive impairment: a multiverse analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-08 Lewy body dementia

    The theta/alpha ratio is a promising but specification-dependent marker of cognitive impairment, contingent particularly on ICA and spectral power quantification.

  15. Network-level functional connectivity is associated with longitudinal tau accumulation and amyloid-dependent cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid-β and tau, pathological hallmarks of AD, silently accumulate years before clinical symptoms’ onset and are associated with neuronal dysfunction and cognitive impairment.

  16. Reliability and disease sensitivity are dissociable properties of EEG foundation-model representations

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-24 Lewy body dementia

    Only the reliability half of that contrast is individually significant.

  17. Mesoscale medial temporal lobe connectivity patterns relate to tau pathology and memory in older adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is crucial for episodic memory.

  18. Stable brain architecture but flexible dynamics: distinct structure - function coupling signatures link aging and genetic Alzheimer's risk to cognitive decline in 34,067 adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-20 Long-term cohort studies

    Understanding how a stable structural connectome supports flexible cognition, especially in aging, is a fundamental question in neuroscience.

  19. Myelin maturation failure and oligodendrocyte precursor loss underlie default mode network disruption in a humanized APP knock-in model of Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-17 Treatments

    Alzheimer’s disease disrupts large-scale brain networks before cognitive symptoms emerge, yet the mechanisms underlying this progression remain unclear.

  20. Determinants of fractal motor activity regulation: insights from a large community-dwelling multi-ethnic population

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-06 Disparities

    We found opposite effects of age on FMAR at both short and long time scales, respectively (ßAge=0.014, 95% C.I. [0.009,0.019] and ßAge=-0.015, 95% C.I. [-0.026,-0.005]), as well as differences between women and men at long time scales (ßSexMen=+0.028, 95% C.I. [0.012,0.044]).

  21. Dysfunctional resting state network connectivity predicts postoperative delirium after major surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. British journal of anaesthesia 2025-12-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Group comparisons revealed significantly decreased within-network connectivity in salience-ventral attention, cognitive control, and default mode network in participants with postoperative delirium (n=31) compared with non-delirious participants (n=89; non-parametric permutation test, 1000 iterations, P<0.05).

  22. Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity As a Transdiagnostic Biomarker of Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2025-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    The default mode network (DMN) is intricately linked with processes such as self-referential thinking, episodic memory recall, goal-directed cognition, self-projection, and theory of mind.

  23. Mediterranean diet and brain functional connectivity in a population without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroimaging 2024-12-06 Prevention and risk

    Rs-fMRI analysis revealed significant associations between FC and MedDietScore.

  24. Cognitive reserve against Alzheimer's pathology is linked to brain activity during memory formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-11-13 Risk factors

    The cognitive reserve (CR) hypothesis posits that individuals can differ in how their brain function is disrupted by pathology associated with aging and neurodegeneration.

  25. Resting-state functional connectivity abnormalities in subjective cognitive decline: A 7T MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-09-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) MRI is sensitive to brain changes in Alzheimer's disease in preclinical stages, however studies in persons with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) have reported conflicting findings, and no study is available at 7T MRI.

  26. Electroacupuncture improves vascular cognitive impairment no dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2024-06-14 Brain scans and imaging

    EA intervention could increase the MoCA score and improve the neutral and consistency response of the STROOP test in VCIND patients (P < 0.05). fMRI functional connectivity analysis showed that, after EA, the default mode network (DMN) function of the posterior cingulate gyrus, left middle frontal gyrus, left anterior cingulate gyrus, left and right superior temporal gyrus, right insula, left precentral gyrus and other brain regions were significantly higher than that in the control group.

  27. Early detection of dementia with default-mode network effective connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Nature. Mental health 2024-06-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Altered functional connectivity precedes structural brain changes and symptoms in dementia.

  28. Resting-state networks and anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-06-05 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that anosognosia was associated with (i) weak functional connectivity within the DMN, in posterior and middle cingulate cortex particularly, (ii) strong functional connectivity within the SN in ACC, and between the SN and basal ganglia, and (iii) a heterogenous effect concerning the functional connectivity of the FPN, with a weak connectivity between the FPN and PCC, and a strong connectivity between the FPN and ACC.

  29. Functional connectivity changes in neurodegenerative biomarker-positive athletes with repeated concussions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2024-04-08 Brain scans and imaging

    Multimodal biomarkers may identify former contact sports athletes with repeated concussions and at risk for dementia.

  30. Altered structural and functional connectivity in Posterior Cortical Atrophy and Dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2024-03-03 Brain scans and imaging

    On DTI, PCA showed degeneration in occipito-parietal white matter, posterior thalamic radiations, splenium of the corpus collosum and sagittal stratum compared to DLB and CU, with greater degeneration in the temporal white matter and the fornix compared to CU.

  31. Resting-state global brain activity affects early β-amyloid accumulation in default mode network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-11-27 Brain scans and imaging

    It remains unclear why β-amyloid (Aβ) plaque, a hallmark pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), first accumulates cortically in the default mode network (DMN), years before AD diagnosis.

  32. Resting-State Functional Connectivity Difference in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Threshold-Free Cluster Enhancement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-09-28 Brain scans and imaging

    The disruption of functional connectivity is one of the early events that occurs in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  33. Sex difference in brain functional connectivity of hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. GeroScience 2023-09-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), affecting nearly 6.5 million people, is the fifth leading cause of death in individuals 65 years or older in the USA.

  34. A neural mechanism of cognitive reserve: The case of bilingualism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage 2023-09-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive Reserve (CR) refers to the preservation of cognitive function in the face of age- or disease-related neuroanatomical decline.

  35. Functional and structural connectivity in the Papez circuit in different stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2023-06-30 Brain scans and imaging

    The FC between the retrosplenial (RSC) and parahippocampal cortices (PHC) was the earliest affected FC, while a manifest SC change in the ventral cingulum and fornix was observed in the later ADD stage.

  36. Altered within- and between-network functional connectivity in atypical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain communications 2023-06-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Reduced within-network connectivity was observed in the language network in both phenotypes, with stronger evidence of reductions in logopenic progressive aphasia compared to controls.

  37. The functional role of the precuneus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain 2023-05-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent advancements in computational approaches and neuroimaging techniques have refined our understanding of the precuneus.

  38. Preclinical Brain Network Abnormalities in Patients with Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    No between-group differences in grey matter volumes were detected.

  39. Disease specific and nonspecific metabolic brain networks in behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2022-11-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is common among young-onset dementia patients.

  40. Abnormal characterization of dynamic functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2022-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Numerous studies have shown abnormal brain functional connectivity in individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).

  41. Four Distinct Subtypes of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Resting-State Connectivity Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2022-06-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Individuals with AD were clustered into 4 subtypes reproducibly, which included those with 1) diffuse and mild functional connectivity disruption (subtype 1), 2) predominantly decreased connectivity in the default mode network accompanied by an increase in the prefrontal circuit (subtype 2), 3) predominantly decreased connectivity in the anterior cingulate cortex accompanied by an increase in prefrontal cortex connectivity (subtype 3), and 4) predominantly decreased connectivity in the basal ganglia accompanied by an increase in prefrontal cortex connectivity (subtype 4).

  42. Functional connectivity correlates of reduced goal-directed behaviors in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2022-06-25 Brain scans and imaging

    We explored the resting state functional connectivity correlates of apathy assessed as a multidimensional construct, using behavioral metrics, in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

  43. Functional Connectivity Dynamics Altered of the Resting Brain in Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-06-24 Brain scans and imaging

    When comparing SCD (N = 40) with NC (N = 45), mdALFFmean decreased at right inferior parietal lobule (IPL) of the frontoparietal network (FPN).

  44. Novelty-Related fMRI Responses of Precuneus and Medial Temporal Regions in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2022-06-03 Biomarkers

    In the precuneus, we observed an inverted U-shaped pattern of novelty-related activity across groups, with higher activity in SCD and MCI compared with HC, but not in patients with AD who showed relatively lower activity than MCI.

  45. Dynamic functional connectivity patterns associated with dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-05-23 Risk factors

    Associations were found between times spent in (i) a "weakly connected" state and lower self-reported engagement in early- and mid-life cognitive activity and higher LDL cholesterol; (ii) a "SN-negatively connected" state and higher blood pressure, higher depression score, and lower body mass index (BMI); (iii) a "strongly connected" state and higher self-reported engagement in early-life cognitive activity, Preclinical Alzheimer's cognitive composite-5 score, and BMI; and (iv) a "DMN-negatively connected" state and higher self-reported engagement in early- and mid-life stimulating activities and lower LDL cholesterol and blood pressure.

  46. Assessment of Cognitive Reserve using Near Infrared Spectroscopy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of analytical techniques and research 2022-05-19 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) is the ability to preserve cognitive functions in the presence of brain pathology.

  47. Predicting brain age from functional connectivity in symptomatic and preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage 2022-04-20 Brain scans and imaging

    "Brain-predicted age" quantifies apparent brain age compared to normative neuroimaging trajectories.

  48. Negative affective burden is associated with higher resting-state functional connectivity in subjective cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-04-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD), as expressed by older adults, is associated with negative affect, which, in turn, is a likely risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  49. Tau and the fractionated default mode network in atypical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-03-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease-related atrophy in the posterior cingulate cortex, a key node of the default mode network, is present in the early stages of disease progression across clinical phenotypic variants of the disease.

  50. Inflammation Disrupts Cognitive Integrity via Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain Coupling Brain Networks in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    Discrimination of disease-related interactions of the core subsystem and FPN was found in AD-spectrum patients, which was the neural circuit fundamental to plasma NFL disrupting cognitive integrity.

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