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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

188 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

89 journals in all.

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  1. Prospective Memory and Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity in Normal and Pathological Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that the dementia groups showed worse PM performance and altered FC within the DMN as compared to the normal aging individuals.

  2. Amyloid-driven disruption of default mode network connectivity in cognitively healthy individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain communications 2021-09-06 Biomarkers

    We demonstrated that higher amyloid burden as measured by both CSF amyloid beta 42/40 ratio and non-displaceable binding potential in the posterior cingulate cortex was associated with lower functional connectivity in the default mode network.

  3. Brain Network Integrity Changes in Subjective Cognitive Decline: A Possible Physiological Biomarker of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2021-08-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Both DELPHI analysis of network function and DTI analysis detected a significant decrease in connectivity, excitability, and WM integrity in the SCD group compared to healthy control (HC) subjects; a significant decrease was also noted for aMCI and Dementia groups compared to HC.

  4. Segregation of functional networks is associated with cognitive resilience in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive resilience is an important modulating factor of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease, but the functional brain mechanisms that support cognitive resilience remain elusive.

  5. Bilingual experience and intrinsic functional connectivity in adults, aging, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2021-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    The past decade marked the beginning of the use of resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) imaging in bilingualism studies.

  6. Diagnostic power of resting-state fMRI for detection of network connectivity in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2021-05-04 Digital health tools

    Resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) detects functional connectivity (FC) abnormalities that occur in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  7. Functional Brain Connectivity Patterns Associated with Visual Hallucinations in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2021-04-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Seed-based analyses reported decreased connectivity of the lateral geniculate nucleus, the superior parietal lobule and the putamen with the medial frontal gyrus in DLB patients with VH.

  8. Tau and Amyloid Relationships with Resting-state Functional Connectivity in Atypical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2021-02-05 Brain scans and imaging

    The mechanisms through which tau and amyloid-beta (Aβ) accumulate in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients may differ but both are related to neuronal networks.

  9. Bilingualism's Effects on Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain connectivity 2021-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    We found no significant differences between the groups in age, sex, education, or cognitive level, but bilinguals showed higher FC than monolinguals between the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus and the precuneus, positively correlated with Mini-Mental State Examination scores, and higher fALFF in the thalamus bilaterally.

  10. Crosstalk between Depression and Dementia with Resting-State fMRI Studies and Its Relationship with Cognitive Functioning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicines 2021-01-16 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and depression is a risk factor for developing AD.

  11. High-resolution functional connectivity of the default mode network in young adults with down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2020-10-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Studies of resting-state functional connectivity MRI in Alzheimer's disease suggest that disease stage plays a role in functional changes of the default mode network.

  12. Brain Amyloid Burden and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2020-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Non-linear relations of brain amyloid beta (Aβ) with task- based functional connectivity (tbFC) measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been reported in late middle age.

  13. Selective Aberrant Functional-Structural Coupling of Multiscale Brain Networks in Subcortical Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2020-09-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment (svMCI) is a common prodromal stage of vascular dementia.

  14. APOE ε4 and resting-state functional connectivity in racially/ethnically diverse older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Compared to APOE ε4 non-carriers, APOE ε4 carriers had lower rsFC in temporal DMN, but only in non-Hispanic Whites.

  15. The Role of Resting-State Network Functional Connectivity in Cognitive Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-06-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Aging is associated with disruptions in the resting-state functional architecture of the brain.

  16. Network localization of clinical, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    There is both clinical and neuroanatomical variability at the single-subject level in Alzheimer's disease, complicating our understanding of brain-behaviour relationships and making it challenging to develop neuroimaging biomarkers to track disease severity, progression, and response to treatment.

  17. Effective differentiation of mild cognitive impairment by functional brain graph analysis and computerized testing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2020-03-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Community-dwelling African American elders are twice as likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer's disease and related dementias than older white Americans and therefore represent a significant at-risk group in need of early monitoring.

  18. Race modifies default mode connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2020-02-19 Tau biomarkers

    We found that race modifies the relationship between functional connectivity of default mode network subsystems and cognitive performance, tau, and amyloid levels.

  19. Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-01-17 Brain scans and imaging

    In Alzheimer's diseases (AD), tau pathology is strongly associated with cognitive decline.

  20. Contributions of Cerebro-Cerebellar Default Mode Connectivity Patterns to Memory Performance in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results showed that compared to healthy older adults, aMCI patients showed lower anti-correlation between the cerebellar DMN and several cerebral DMN regions.

  21. Synaptic Plasticity Shapes Brain Connectivity: Implications for Network Topology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2019-12-08 Disease mechanisms

    Studies of brain network connectivity improved understanding on brain changes and adaptation in response to different pathologies.

  22. Intrinsic functional connectivity, CSF biomarker profiles and their relation to cognitive function in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Acta neuropsychiatrica 2019-12-05 Tau biomarkers

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often precedes Alzheimer's Dementia (AD), and in a high proportion of individuals affected by MCI, there are already neuropathological processes ongoing that become more evident when patients progress to AD.

  23. Estimation of Brain Functional Connectivity in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain sciences 2019-11-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Mild cognitive impairment is defined as greater cognitive decline than expected for a person at a particular age and is sometimes considered a stage between healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease or other dementia syndromes.

  24. Cognitive Control Network Homogeneity and Executive Functions in Late-Life Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2019-11-07 Risk factors

    Older adults with depression showed increased ReHo in the bilateral dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the right middle temporal gyrus, with no significant findings for network homogeneity.

  25. Do the posterior midline cortices belong to the electrophysiological default-mode network?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage 2019-06-22 Brain scans and imaging

    The default-mode network (DMN) and its principal core hubs in the posterior midline cortices (PMC), i.e., the precuneus and the posterior cingulate cortex, play a critical role in the human brain structural and functional architecture.

  26. Functional connectivity associated with tau levels in ageing, Alzheimer's, and small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In Alzheimer's disease, tau pathology spreads hierarchically from the inferior temporal lobe throughout the cortex, ensuing cognitive decline and dementia.

  27. Attention network dysfunction underlies memory impairment in posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-03-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulating evidence suggests that memory is impaired in posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), alongside the early and defining visual disorder.

  28. Resting state network modularity along the prodromal late onset Alzheimer's disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-01-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is considered a disconnection syndrome, motivating the use of brain network measures to detect changes in whole-brain resting state functional connectivity (FC).

  29. Brain Network Connectivity Mediates Education-related Cognitive Performance in Healthy Elderly Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that education level was positively associated with a wide range of complex cognitive domains including general mental status, episodic memory, language, attention, executive function and visuospatial processing, and it showed significantly negative correlations with FC of multiple areas in the Default Mode Network (DMN) and Left Frontal-parietal Network (LFP) which are related to complex cognition.

  30. Default Mode Network Connectivity in Alzheimers Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    Studies generally indicate a progressive impairment in DMN connectivity during the course of AD.

  31. Tau covariance patterns in Alzheimer's disease patients match intrinsic connectivity networks in the healthy brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2019-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    According to the network model of neurodegeneration, the spread of pathogenic proteins occurs selectively along connected brain regions.

  32. Functional Re-organization of Cortical Networks of Senior Citizens After a 24-Week Traditional Dance Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-12-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Neuroscience is developing rapidly by providing a variety of modern tools for analyzing the functional interactions of the brain and detection of pathological deviations due to neurodegeneration.

  33. Resting-state fMRI in Parkinson's disease patients with cognitive impairment: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2018-12-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Seventeen studies with cognitively impaired Parkinson's disease patients were included consisting of 222 Parkinson's disease patients with mild cognitive impairment, 68 patients with Parkinson's disease dementia, 289 cognitively unimpaired Parkinson's disease patients and 353 healthy controls.

  34. Intrinsic connectivity networks in posterior cortical atrophy: A role for the pulvinar?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-12-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with PCA showed disproportionate deficits in the visuospatial domain; they also showed preserved social sensitivity and endorsed more depressive symptoms than HCs.

  35. Identifying Brain Connectivity Using Network-Based Statistics in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Stratified by β-Amyloid Positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2018-11-29 Brain scans and imaging

    One hundred sixteen participants (Aβ- cognitively normal [CN], n = 35; Aβ- aMCI, n = 42; Aβ+ aMCI, n = 39) were included.

  36. Disrupted structural and functional brain networks in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-11-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Studies have demonstrated that the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with abnormal connections in either functional connectivity networks (FCNs) or structural connectivity networks (SCNs).

  37. Default Mode Network Complexity and Cognitive Decline in Mild Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-10-23 Brain scans and imaging

    The default mode network (DMN), one of so-called resting-state networks, has been associated with cognitive processes that are directed toward the self, such as introspection and autobiographic memory.

  38. Cognitive Reserve Relates to Functional Network Efficiency in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-08-21 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with no means of cure or prevention.

  39. Classification and Prediction of Brain Disorders Using Functional Connectivity: Promising but Challenging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-08-06 Digital health tools

    Brain functional imaging data, especially functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, have been employed to reflect functional integration of the brain.

  40. Functional and structural connectivity of the amygdala underpins locus of control in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-07-23 Brain scans and imaging

    Locus of control (LOC) is an important personality trait.

  41. Working definitions, subjective and objective assessments and experimental paradigms in a study exploring social withdrawal in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2018-06-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Social withdrawal is one of the first and common signs of early social dysfunction in a number of important neuropsychiatric disorders, likely because of the enormous amount and complexity of brain processes required to initiate and maintain social relationships (Adolphs, 2009).

  42. Overview of the clinical implementation of a study exploring social withdrawal in patients with schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2018-06-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Trans-diagnostic, domain- or symptom-focused approaches have been heralded as advancing psychiatric research, but relatively few clinical research programmes have been undertaken to leverage their potential.

  43. The cingulum bundle: Anatomy, function, and dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2018-05-16 Risk factors

    The cingulum bundle is a prominent white matter tract that interconnects frontal, parietal, and medial temporal sites, while also linking subcortical nuclei to the cingulate gyrus.

  44. Functional Disconnectivity during Inter-Task Resting State in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2018-05-03 Brain scans and imaging

    While the DLB patients scored well and did not differ from the control and AD groups in terms of functional activity and connectivity during the task conditions, they showed decreased functional connectivity in visuoperceptual regions during the resting state condition, along with a temporal impairment of the default-mode network activity.

  45. Resting-state connectivity in neurodegenerative disorders: Is there potential for an imaging biomarker?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-03-16 Costs and economics

    In addition to an overview of the results, we briefly outline the methods applied to the concept of resting-state functional connectivity.

  46. Fibre-specific white matter reductions in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is increasingly considered a large-scale network disconnection syndrome, associated with progressive aggregation of pathological proteins, cortical atrophy, and functional disconnections between brain regions.

  47. Networks of tau distribution in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Second, to investigate if regions of high tau burden are associated with functional connectivity networks, we extracted the region with the maximum z-value in each of the generated tau pathology networks and used them as seeds in a subsequent resting-state functional MRI analysis, conducted in a group of healthy adults (n = 26) who were part of the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project.

  48. Default Mode Network Lateralization and Memory in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    Lateralization of default mode network (DMN) functioning has been shown to change with age.

  49. Functional connectivity in dementia with Lewy bodies: A within- and between-network analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2017-11-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common form of dementia and is characterized by cognitive fluctuations, visual hallucinations, and Parkinsonism.

  50. Applications of Resting-State Functional Connectivity to Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuroimaging clinics of North America 2017-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Neurodegenerative diseases target specific large-scale neuronal networks, leading to distinct behavioral and cognitive dysfunctions.

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