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Newest in this topic

  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. Plasma neurofilament light as blood marker for poor brain white matter integrity among middle-aged urban adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-10-21 Biomarkers

    Plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL)'s link to dementia may be mediated through white matter integrity (WMI).

  2. Associations of digital neuro-signatures with molecular and neuroimaging measures of brain resilience: The altoida large cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2022-08-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    DNS-br total score and majority of the 11 DNS-br neurocognitive subdomain scores were significantly associated with FDG-PET resilience signature, PIB ratio, cerebral gray matter and white matter volume after adjusting for multiple testing.

  3. Hippocampus- and thalamus-related fiber-specific white matter reductions in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2022-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) fascinates screening high-risk Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Impact of cerebral blood flow and amyloid load on SUVR bias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2022-05-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Despite high correlations (GCA: R2 ≥ 0.85), large overestimation and proportional bias of SUVR relative to DVR was observed.

  5. Perceived social isolation is correlated with brain structure and cognitive trajectory in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. GeroScience 2022-05-08 Risk factors

    Both objective and perceived social isolations were associated with future cognitive decline and increase risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. Delusional Severity Is Associated with Abnormal Texture in FLAIR MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain sciences 2022-05-05 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers were extracted from a total of 42 participants with longitudinal time points representing 164 imaging volumes.

  7. Cortical hypometabolism reflects local atrophy and tau pathology in symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-04-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Regression analyses were run within cohorts to identify variables associated with retrosplenial or inferior parietal FDG standard uptake value ratios.

  8. Crossed cerebellar diaschisis in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nuclear medicine communications 2022-04-01 Drug development

    Comparison of SUVR in different brain regions demonstrated significant differences in the temporal, occipital and cerebellar cortices.

  9. Plasma neurofilament light levels correlate with white matter damage prior to Alzheimer's disease: results from ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2022-02-28 Biomarkers

    Our findings demonstrated a significant association between plasma NFL levels and disrupted WM microstructure across the brain.

  10. Structural brain splitting is a hallmark of Granulin-related frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Frontotemporal dementia associated with granulin (GRN) mutations presents asymmetric brain atrophy.

  11. Cognitive Reserve Modulates Brain Structure and Cortical Architecture in the Alzheimer's Disease

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

    aMCI-HCR compared to aMCI-LCR patients showed significant decrease of CTh in the right temporal and in the left prefrontal lobe.

  12. Effects of ApoE4 and ApoE2 genotypes on subcortical magnetic susceptibility and microstructure in 27,535 participants from the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2022 Genetics

    Disrupted iron homeostasis is associated with several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), and may be partially modulated by genetic risk factors.

  13. Quantitative MRI Evidence for Cognitive Reserve in Healthy Elders and Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Risk factors

    We observed significant differences in the association between CR and white matter tract MTV in aMCI versus HC when age, gender, intracranial volume, and memory ability were held constant.

  14. Associations between Brain Reserve Proxies and Clinical Progression in Alzheimer's Disease Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-11-19 Risk factors

    The purpose of this study was to investigate whether brain and cognitive reserves were associated with the clinical progression of AD dementia.

  15. The role of multimodal MRI in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2021-11-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Classification of MCI and HC displayed highest accuracy based on diffusion MRI, which besides demonstrated high correlation with clinical scores.

  16. Infratentorial pathology in frontotemporal dementia: cerebellar grey and white matter alterations in FTD phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2021-05-13 Brain scans and imaging

    The contribution of cerebellar pathology to cognitive and behavioural manifestations is increasingly recognised, but the cerebellar profiles of FTD phenotypes are relatively poorly characterised.

  17. Increased excitatory to inhibitory synaptic ratio in parietal cortex samples from individuals with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-05-10 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Synaptic disturbances in excitatory to inhibitory (E/I) balance in forebrain circuits are thought to contribute to the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia, although direct evidence for such imbalance in humans is lacking.

  18. Plasma neurofilament light chain predicts cerebellar atrophy and clinical progression in spinocerebellar ataxia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2021-02-23 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a marker of brain atrophy and predictor of disease progression in rare diseases such as Huntington Disease, but also in more common neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

  19. 18F-AV-1451 positron emission tomography in neuropathological substrates of corticobasal syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-02-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Subjects without amyloid, including three with pathologically confirmed corticobasal degeneration, showed greater regional 18F-AV-1451 retention and associated regional atrophy in areas commonly associated with corticobasal degeneration pathology than healthy control subjects [retention was higher compared to healthy controls (P = 0.0011), driven especially by the precentral gyrus (P = 0.011) and pallidum (P < 0.0001), and greater atrophy was seen in subjects compared to control subjects (P = 0.0004)].

  20. Plasma neurofilament light protein correlates with diffusion tensor imaging metrics in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2020-10-27 Biomarkers

    Neurofilaments are structural components of neurons and are particularly abundant in highly myelinated axons.

  21. Depression Is Associated With Preserved Cortical Thickness Relative to Apathy in Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2020-10-08 Brain scans and imaging

    Apathy severity was significantly associated with cortical thinning of the lateral parts of the right sided frontal, temporal and parietal lobes.

  22. The Brain Chart of Aging: Machine-learning analytics reveals links between brain aging, white matter disease, amyloid burden, and cognition in the iSTAGING consortium of 10,216 harmonized MR scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-09-13 Digital health tools

    A Brain Chart quantifying brain-aging trajectories was established, enabling the systematic evaluation of individuals' brain-aging patterns relative to this large consortium.

  23. Interaction between Cognitive Reserve and Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-08-30 Risk factors

    Patients with comparable degree of neuropathology could show different cognitive impairments.

  24. Global Brain Involvement in Posterior Cortical Atrophy: Multimodal MR Imaging Investigation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain topography 2020-08-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), considered a visual variant of Alzheimer's disease, has similar pathological characteristics yet shows a selective visual manifestation with relative preservation of other cortical areas, at least at early stages of disease.

  25. Longitudinal ComBat: A method for harmonizing longitudinal multi-scanner imaging data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. NeuroImage 2020-07-05 Brain scans and imaging

    While aggregation of neuroimaging datasets from multiple sites and scanners can yield increased statistical power, it also presents challenges due to systematic scanner effects.

  26. MRI and flortaucipir relationships in Alzheimer's phenotypes are heterogeneous

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2020-04-15 Brain scans and imaging

    For 50-59 greater medial temporal atrophy and flortaucipir uptake was observed in the typical compared with atypical phenotype.

  27. Cognitive Reserve Is Not Associated With Hippocampal Microstructure in Older Adults Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-01-23 Risk factors

    CR was not associated with hippocampal GM MD and hippocampal GM volume.

  28. Cerebrospinal Fluid and MRI Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Retrospective Memory Clinic-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Tau biomarkers

    Numerous imaging variables differed by clinical diagnosis, including hippocampal, amygdalar and inferior lateral ventricular volumes and entorhinal, lingual, inferior parietal and isthmus cingulate cortical thicknesses, at a false discovery rate (FDR)-corrected threshold for significance (analysis of covariance; p < 0.005).

  29. Regional Amyloid Accumulation and White Matter Integrity in Cognitively Normal Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results indicated that higher global Aβ-SUVR was associated with higher mean diffusivity (MD) in the entire CN group (p = 0.023), and with both higher MD (p = 0.015) and lower fractional anisotropy (FA) (p = 0.026) in APOEɛ4 carriers.

  30. White matter hyperintensities in progranulin-associated frontotemporal dementia: A longitudinal GENFI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-11-06 Biomarkers

    Presence on T2-weighted images of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) has been previously shown to be more commonly associated with GRN mutations rather than other forms of FTD.

  31. Tau and atrophy: domain-specific relationships with cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-07-27 Brain scans and imaging

    FTP and thickness were differentially related to cognitive performance in several domains.

  32. Plasma and CSF neurofilament light: Relation to longitudinal neuroimaging and cognitive measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2019-06-10 Biomarkers

    Elevated baseline plasma NfL is a prognostic marker of cognitive decline and neuroimaging measures of neurodegeneration, and has similar effect sizes to baseline CSF NfL.

  33. Blood amyloid-β oligomerization associated with neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-05-10 Biomarkers

    We found brain volume reduction in the bilateral temporal, amygdala, parahippocampal and lower parietal lobe and left cingulate and precuneus regions (family-wise error, p < 0.05).

  34. Neuroimaging in dementia. Clinical-radiological correlation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Radiologia 2018-10-25 Prevention trials

    Dementia is a syndrome characterised by chronic, multi-domain, acquired cognitive impairment that causes significant functional limitations.

  35. Size matters: Grey matter brain reserve predicts executive functioning in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2018-08-10 Risk factors

    Preserved executive functioning (EF) is crucial for daily functioning in the elderly and it appears to predict dementia development.

  36. Spatial navigation deficits - overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2018-08-01 Risk factors

    Detection of incipient Alzheimer disease (AD) pathophysiology is critical to identify preclinical individuals and target potentially disease-modifying therapies towards them.

  37. Neurofilament relates to white matter microstructure in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-06-28 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NFL) is a protein biomarker of axonal injury.

  38. Brain age and other bodily 'ages': implications for neuropsychiatry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2018-06-11 Genetics

    As our brains age, we tend to experience cognitive decline and are at greater risk of neurodegenerative disease and dementia.

  39. The ERICA Score: An MR Imaging-based Visual Scoring System for the Assessment of Entorhinal Cortex Atrophy in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Radiology 2018-03-07 Biomarkers

    An ERICA score of 2 or greater indicates probable AD with high diagnostic accuracy. © RSNA, 2018 Online supplemental material is available for this article.

  40. Heterogeneous patterns of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-01-31 Digital health tools

    There is increasing evidence showing that brain atrophy varies between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), suggesting that different anatomical patterns might exist within the same disorder.

  41. Corpus callosum macro and microstructure in late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2017-06-27 Risk factors

    Callosal AFD was lower in patients compared to controls.

  42. A neuroimaging approach to capture cognitive reserve: Application to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2017-06-20 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) explains interindividual differences in the ability to maintain cognitive function in the presence of neuropathology.

  43. High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging reveals nuclei of the human amygdala: manual segmentation to automatic atlas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2017-05-04 Brain scans and imaging

    The amygdala is composed of multiple nuclei with unique functions and connections in the limbic system and to the rest of the brain.

  44. Age-related white matter integrity differences in oldest-old without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-04-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Aging is known to have deleterious effects on cerebral white matter, yet little is known about these white matter alterations in advanced age.

  45. Cognitive reserve and cortical thickness in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2017-04 Risk factors

    This study examined whether cognitive reserve (CR) alters the relationship between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of cortical thickness and risk of progression from normal cognition to the onset of clinical symptoms associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  46. Evaluation of glymphatic system activity with the diffusion MR technique: diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS) in Alzheimer's disease cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Japanese journal of radiology 2017-02-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Activity of the glymphatic system may be evaluated with diffusion images.

  47. Basal forebrain degeneration precedes and predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer’s pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature Communications 2016-11-04 Brain scans and imaging

    There is considerable debate whether Alzheimer's disease (AD) originates in basal forebrain or entorhinal cortex.

  48. Education and Genetic Risk Modulate Hippocampal Structure in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Aging and disease 2016-10-01 Risk factors

    Genetic and environmental protective factors and risks modulate brain structure and function in neurodegenerative diseases and their preclinical stages.

  49. Longitudinal brain structural changes in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-09-28 Tau biomarkers

    At follow-up, stage 1 subjects showed reduced atrophy rates in medial frontal areas and precuneus compared to stage 0 subjects, whereas stage 2/3 subjects presented accelerated atrophy in medial temporal structures.

  50. A Novel Imaging Marker for Small Vessel Disease Based on Skeletonization of White Matter Tracts and Diffusion Histograms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-08-29 Brain scans and imaging

    PSMD is a new, fully automated, and robust imaging marker for SVD.

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