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  1. A digital biomarker of white-matter routing from diffusion MRI as an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease 2026-10-24
  2. Longitudinal associations between neuropsychiatric symptoms, structural and perfusion MRI changes in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment 2026-10-19
  3. Selective vulnerability of human basal forebrain subsystems in ageing and neuropsychiatric disorders 2026-10-15

Studies

171 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1981 to 2026

Top journals

  • Brain : a journal of neurology 12
  • medRxiv 11
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 10
  • Neurobiology of aging 10
  • NeuroImage 9

79 journals in all.

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  1. A digital biomarker of white-matter routing from diffusion MRI as an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed after a decade-long phase in which pathology accumulates; current markers show that pathology is present, but not how far it has advanced.

  2. Longitudinal associations between neuropsychiatric symptoms, structural and perfusion MRI changes in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are highly prevalent in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), conceptualized as an intermediate clinical state between normal aging and dementia.

  3. Selective vulnerability of human basal forebrain subsystems in ageing and neuropsychiatric disorders

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-15 How common it is

    These findings identify an anatomically specific age-related profile of the human BF, with structural vulnerability manifest and pre-diagnostic neurological disorders, which is not substantially explained by common inherited risk.

  4. Turbulent dynamics and in silico perturbation-based measures are disrupted across biological stages of Alzheimers disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-13 Genetics

    According to the AT(N) framework, Alzheimers disease (AD) can be biologically characterised by amyloid deposition, tau pathology, and neurodegeneration, yet how these processes relate to whole-brain dynamics remains unclear.

  5. Upper cervical spinal cord morphometric charts: from population references to individualized clinical assessment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-12 Vascular contributions

    The upper cervical spinal cord is essential for motor, sensory and autonomic function, yet its normative morphometric trajectories and disease-related deviations remain unclear.

  6. A large, comprehensive labeled MRI dataset of the human lateral ventricle choroid plexus

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-11 Brain scans and imaging

    The choroid plexus (ChP) is a highly vascularized structure located in the brain ventricles that plays important roles in multiple central nervous system functions.

  7. A Pipeline for ADNI Resting-State Functional MRI Processing and Quality Control

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-06 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) provides a comprehensive multimodal neuroimaging resource for studying aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  8. Contribution of cerebrovascular lesions to neurodegeneration and cognitive decline

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-06 Vascular contributions

    Vascular risk factors were associated with CSVD burden and progression, and WMH and PVS progression were further associated with cortical atrophy and cognitive decline, underscoring the interconnected contributions of vascular risk, CSVD, and neurodegeneration to cognitive aging and dementia risk.

  9. Volumetric Integrity of Frontotemporal and Perisylvian Regions for Predicting Behavioral and Language Impairment in Behavioral FTD: A Structural MRI Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-05 Risk factors

    In this bvFTD cohort, structural volumes of key frontotemporal and perisylvian regions did not predict behavioral or language impairments after correction for multiple comparisons.

  10. Sex-specific brain reserve and progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-10 Risk factors

    Females with MCI exhibited greater baseline GMV than males primarily in the thalamus, caudate, cerebellum, postcentral gyrus, and middle cingulate gyrus, with no differences at the AD stage.

  11. White Matter Slow-4 fALFF as a Complementary Marker in the Multimodal Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Landscape

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-24 Biomarkers

    WM fALFF was significantly associated with GFAP (partial RZ = 5.35%), amyloid PET (partial RZ = 2.17%), tau PET (partial RZ = 3.52%), executive function (partial RZ = 2.61%), and mPACC (partial RZ = 3.53%).

  12. Regional choroid plexus calcifications and their associations with aging, brain structure, and disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-16 Tau biomarkers

    The choroid plexus (CP) maintains brain homeostasis through cerebrospinal fluid production and formation of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, and its dysfunction has been linked with aging and neurological disease.

  13. Pain is independently associated with agitation and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease: a cross-sectional MRI study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-15 Clinical safety

    Significant positive correlations were observed among pain, cognitive impairment, agitation, and neuropsychiatric symptoms (all p < 0.001).

  14. Tissue- and compartment-resolved brain age reveals vascular-metabolic and neurodegenerative aging

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-11 Long-term cohort studies

    Brain aging reflects heterogeneous vascular-metabolic and neurodegenerative processes, yet brain age is often reduced to a gray matter (GM)-dominant estimate.

  15. Amplitude of physiological brain pulsations in Alzheimer’s disease

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

    Physiological pulsations maintaining brain neurofluidic homeostasis are altered early in the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  16. Universal Dimensional Scaling in Information-Geometric Rendering: Substrate-Independent Metric Conservation Across Holographic, Biological, and Engineered Manifolds

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

    In the primary visual cortex (V1), we show that cortical magnification (M) is a deterministic Riemannian coordinate transformation (M \propto 1/\sqrt{\det g}) that equalizes information pressure between the spherical retina and planar cortex.2.

  17. A biphasic astrocytic PTGDS trajectory marks a metabolic vulnerability stage in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-27 Long-term cohort studies

    PTGDS followed a biphasic astrocytic trajectory with a statistically resolved donor-level inflection (quadratic term −2.27, p = 0.006; vertex at pseudo-progression score 0.47, bootstrap 95% confidence interval 0.32 to 0.53).

  18. Calibration-Aware and Interpretable Graph Learning for Multi-Cohort Diffusion Connectome Brain-Age Modeling

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-24 Long-term cohort studies

    Age-bias-corrected brain-age gap was most consistently associated with reduced diffusion-derived microstructural integrity and structural-network organization across cohorts.

  19. Sex-divergent trajectories of hippocampal and cortical NMDA receptor density across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    While loss of NMDA receptors (NMDARs) is associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) severity, the effect of sex or the relationship between regional NMDAR density and antemortem cognitive status across the AD spectrum has not been examined.

  20. Diffusion MRI of Gray Matter Microstructural Profiles in Healthy Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2026-08-06 Prevention trials

    Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition technique that can provide detailed information about brain microstructure.

  21. Regional Cerebrospinal Fluid Motility as a Key Determinant of Soluble Amyloid-β Levels and Kinetics

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy are characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) species, yet the human fluid-physiological mechanisms that regulate soluble Aβ transport and clearance remain poorly understood.

  22. Altered T1w/T2w-FLAIR Ratio in White Matter Hyperintensities as an Indicator of Structural Integrity Loss: Association with Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Residualized WMH T1w/T2w-FLAIR ratio captures lesion-specific microstructural variation missed by volumetric measures, consistent with vascular-gliotic injury in VD and coexisting amyloid-linked demyelination in AD.

  23. Comparing Harmonization Approaches for Protocol-Related Variability in Multisite Diffusion MRI Data

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Diffusion MRI (dMRI) enables assessment of white matter microstructural abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and multisite datasets enable more robust modeling of non-biological variation that can confound analyses.

  24. Multimodal latent composites are associated with cognition and Alzheimer’s disease dementia: a framework for systems-level brain health

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-02-23 Biomarkers

    Compared to the CN group, both MCI (β=−1.25, SE=0.19, p <.001) and AD dementia (β=−1.52, SE=0.16, p <.001) participants had lower Brain & Vascular Health composite scores.

  25. Performance at digital testing in Alzheimer’s Disease is predicted by selective disruption of microstructural integrity

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-02-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    White matter microstructural abnormalities are increasingly found to be associated with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).

  26. Disproportionately Elevated Sulcal Index (DESI): An automatically driven index representing disproportionate subarachnoid space enlargement in brain MRI scans

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2025-12-02 Clinical trials

    DESI is a robust, fully automated MRI biomarker that sensitively detects CSF redistribution characteristic of DESH in iNPH.

  27. Putaminal hypermetabolism identifies Lewy body co-pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Brain tissue and pathology

    Compared to ADSAA-, ADSAA+ showed putamen SRP hypermetabolism and middle occipital gyrus (MOG) SUVR hypometabolism.

  28. Diffusion tensor imaging analysis of aged dogs with and without canine cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC veterinary research 2025-10-02 Brain scans and imaging

    DTI revealed significant differences in white matter diffusivity between CCD and cognitively healthy aged dogs.

  29. Brain MRI signatures across sex and CSF Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Brain communications 2025-05-30 Tau biomarkers

    Second, we examined volumetric associations with amyloid (amyloid positive, tau negative versus control) and tau in the presence of amyloid (amyloid positive, tau positive versus amyloid positive, tau negative) across 52 brain areas.

  30. White matter lesions rather than amyloid-β burden are associated with cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-02-16 Brain scans and imaging

    We assessed the severity of amyloid-β accumulation and white matter lesions (WML) in the brain, and their association with cognitive decline, in patients (n = 47) with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  31. A data-driven, multi-domain brain gray matter signature as a powerful biomarker associated with several clinical outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-11-23 Prevention trials

    In a separate validation set, the Union Signature demonstrates clinically relevant properties.

  32. Automated Volumetric Software in Dementia: Help or Hindrance to the Neuroradiologist?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2024-11-07 Brain scans and imaging

    There was no statistically significant effect of the report on overall correct diagnoses.

  33. Alterations of the pulvinar in posterior cortical atrophy: A multimodal MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2024-10-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive and visual functions including visuospatial processing, visual perception, episodic memory, and naming were impaired among PCA patients.

  34. Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using Hybrid Meta-ROI of MRI Structural Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2024-10-02 Brain scans and imaging

    An AD diagnostic accuracy of 91.9% was achieved by using a hybrid meta-ROI consisting of thicknesses of entorhinal and middle temporal cortices, and the volumes of the hippocampus and inferior lateral ventricles.

  35. Association of white matter hyperintensities with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-09-12 Tau biomarkers

    Higher WMH volume was associated with older age, lower CSF amyloid-β levels, hypertension, and smoking history (all p ≤ 0.001), as well as cognitive status (MCI, p < 0.001; dementia, p = 0.008), but not with CSF tau levels.

  36. Volumetric and functional connectivity changes of the thalamic nuclei in different stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2024-07-09 Brain scans and imaging

    In the course of AD, the volume of the medial group nuclei, especially the mediodorsal medial magnocellular (MDm) nucleus, decreases.

  37. Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative disease biomarkers in blood predict brain atrophy and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-04-30 Biomarkers

    Brain volume analyses included 622 participants (mean age ± SD: 70.9 ± 10.2) with an average of 3.3 MRI scans over 4.7 years.

  38. Associations of plasma neurofilament light chain with cognition and neuroimaging measures in community-dwelling early old age men

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-04-25 Biomarkers

    After adjusting for age, health status, and young adult general cognitive ability, plasma NfL level was only significantly associated with processing speed and white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume, but not with other cognitive or neuroimaging measures.

  39. A blood biomarker of the pace of aging is associated with brain structure: replication across three cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-01-24 Biomarkers

    Biological aging is the correlated decline of multi-organ system integrity central to the etiology of many age-related diseases.

  40. Correlation studies of Hippocampal Morphometry and Plasma NFL Levels in Cognitively Unimpaired Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. IEEE transactions on computational social systems 2023-11-06 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease(AD) is being the burden of society and family.

  41. Vascular risk, gait, behavioral, and plasma indicators of VCID

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-06 Biomarkers

    VRFs and gait were associated with diffusion changes even in low age strata.

  42. Impact of a multidomain lifestyle intervention on white matter integrity: the SUPERBRAIN exploratory sub-study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-09-20 Prevention trials

    In the South Korean study to prevent cognitive impairment and protect BRAIN health through lifestyle intervention in at-risk elderly people (SUPERBRAIN), we evaluated the impact of a 24-week facility-based multidomain intervention (FMI) and home-based MI (HMI) on white matter integrity.

  43. A blood biomarker of accelerated aging in the body associates with worse structural integrity in the brain: replication across three cohorts

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023-09-08 Biomarkers

    Biological aging is the correlated decline of multi-organ system integrity central to the etiology of many age-related diseases.

  44. Grey matter volume and CSF biomarkers predict neuropsychological subtypes of MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-07-12 Tau biomarkers

    There is increasing evidence of different subtypes of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  45. Association of gout with brain reserve and vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-05-18 Risk factors

    Studies of neurodegenerative disease risk in gout are contradictory.

  46. Educational attainment, structural brain reserve and Alzheimer's disease: a Mendelian randomization analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-05-02 Risk factors

    Higher educational attainment is observationally associated with lower risk of Alzheimer's disease.

  47. Plasma neurofilament light and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged urban adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-05-02 Biomarkers

    Elevated plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) is associated with dementia though underlying mechanisms remain unknown.

  48. Brain iron content in cerebral amyloid angiopathy using quantitative susceptibility mapping

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2023-04-17 Vascular contributions

    No differences were found between regions of interest in CAA compared to NC.

  49. Brain reserve contributes to distinguishing preclinical Alzheimer's stages 1 and 2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-02-28 Risk factors

    In asymptomatic individuals, brain volumes of hippocampal subfields and of the parahippocampal cortex were numerically larger in stage 1 compared to HCs, whereas the opposite was the case in individuals with SCD.

  50. Atypical White Matter Hyperintensities Markedly Impact Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain Variability in GRN Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Biomarkers

    GRN mutations, causing frontotemporal dementia, can be associated with atypical white matter hyperintensities (WMH).

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