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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. Functional connectivity and microstructural white matter changes in phenocopy frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European radiology 2016-07-19 Brain scans and imaging

    PhFTD showed subtly increased DMN connectivity and subtle microstructural changes in frontal WM tracts.

  2. Tract-specific white matter hyperintensities disrupt neural network function in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-07-16 Brain scans and imaging

    WMH volume within the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) was the highest among all tract ROIs and associated with reduced FC in IFOF-connected DMN areas, independently of global AV-45 PET.

  3. Hydrogen Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Multidomain Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Cognitive Impairment Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2016-03-14 Prevention trials

    To investigate the value of hydrogen proton magnet resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) in the differential diagnosis of multiple-domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment (M-aMCI) and vascular cognitive impairment with no dementia (VCIND); (1)H-MRS was performed in patients with M-aMCI and VCIND.

  4. Brain atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease and aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2016-01-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Thanks to its safety and accessibility, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively used in clinical routine and research field, largely contributing to our understanding of the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Episodic memory in normal aging and Alzheimer disease: Insights from imaging and behavioral studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2015-08-28 Digital health tools

    Age-related cognitive changes often include difficulties in retrieving memories, particularly those that rely on personal experiences within their temporal and spatial contexts (i.e., episodic memories).

  6. An MCI-like hypometabolic pattern was documented in 5 patients (7%) by SVA and 7 patients (10%) by SPM analysis; however, only 2 of these patients were selected by both methods.

  7. Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2 Clinical Core: Progress and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Plans for the next phase of the ADNI project include maintaining longitudinal follow-up of the normal and mild cognitive impairment cohorts, augmenting specific clinical cohorts, and incorporating novel computerized cognitive assessments and patient-reported outcomes.

  8. Atrophy of presubiculum and subiculum is the earliest hippocampal anatomical marker of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-03-29 Brain scans and imaging

    The volumes of the presubiculum and subiculum presented the most remarkable reduction in the patient's groups.

  9. White Matter Microstructural Damage in Small Vessel Disease Is Associated With Montreal Cognitive Assessment But Not With Mini Mental State Examination Performances

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Stroke 2015-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    MoCA is suited for the cognitive screening of patients with small vessel disease.

  10. Accurate automatic estimation of total intracranial volume: a nuisance variable with less nuisance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2014-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Total intracranial volume (TIV/ICV) is an important covariate for volumetric analyses of the brain and brain regions, especially in the study of neurodegenerative diseases, where it can provide a proxy of maximum pre-morbid brain volume.

  11. Recommended implementation of arterial spin-labeled perfusion MRI for clinical applications: A consensus of the ISMRM perfusion study group and the European consortium for ASL in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Magnetic resonance in medicine 2014-04-08 Vascular contributions

    This review provides a summary statement of recommended implementations of arterial spin labeling (ASL) for clinical applications.

  12. What is normal in normal aging? Effects of aging, amyloid and Alzheimer's disease on the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2014-02-16 Brain scans and imaging

    What can be expected in normal aging, and where does normal aging stop and pathological neurodegeneration begin?

  13. Hippocampal subfield volumetry in mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-08-14 Brain scans and imaging

    The findings suggest that CA1 measurement is more sensitive than global hippocampal volumetry to detect structural changes at the pre-dementia stage, although the predominance of CA1 atrophy does not appear to be specific to AD pathophysiological processes.

  14. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: a review of papers published since its inception

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-08-07 Tau biomarkers

    This article reviews all papers published since the inception of the initiative and summarizes the results as of February 2011.

  15. Effectiveness of regional DTI measures in distinguishing Alzheimer's disease, MCI, and normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2013-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) recently added diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), among several other new imaging modalities, in an effort to identify sensitive biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Region-specific hierarchy between atrophy, hypometabolism, and β-amyloid (Aβ) load in Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Gray matter atrophy, glucose hypometabolism, and β-amyloid Aβ deposition are well-described hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, but their relationships are poorly understood.

  17. Spatial navigation in normal aging and the prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease: insights from imaging and behavioral studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2012-07-05 Digital health tools

    Normal aging and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with declines in navigational skills, including allocentric and egocentric representations, cognitive mapping, landmark processing, and spatial memory.

  18. NODDI: practical in vivo neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging of the human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2012-03-30 Brain scans and imaging

    This paper introduces neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI), a practical diffusion MRI technique for estimating the microstructural complexity of dendrites and axons in vivo on clinical MRI scanners.

  19. Decreased brain stiffness in Alzheimer's disease determined by magnetic resonance elastography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2011-07-12 Brain scans and imaging

    3D MRE of the brain can be performed reproducibly and demonstrates significantly reduced brain tissue stiffness in patients with AD.

  20. DTI measures in crossing-fibre areas: increased diffusion anisotropy reveals early white matter alteration in MCI and mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-12-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Significant differences between MCI and AD were essentially confined to the corpus callosum.

  21. Spatial correlation between brain aerobic glycolysis and amyloid-β (Aβ ) deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-09-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque deposition can precede the clinical manifestations of dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) by many years and can be associated with changes in brain metabolism.

  22. MRI quantification of non-Gaussian water diffusion by kurtosis analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NMR in biomedicine 2010-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Quantification of non-Gaussianity for water diffusion in brain by means of diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) is reviewed.

  23. Prediction of MCI to AD conversion, via MRI, CSF biomarkers, and pattern classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patterns were examined together with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in serial scans of Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  24. Selective Changes in Thin Spine Density and Morphology in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex Correlate with Aging-Related Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Neuroscience 2010-06-02 Disease mechanisms

    Age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) occurs in many mammalian species, including humans.

  25. Clinical Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: progress and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    The Clinical Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has provided clinical, operational, and data management support to ADNI since its inception.

  26. Update on the magnetic resonance imaging core of the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Functions of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) core fall into three categories: (1) those of the central MRI core laboratory at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, needed to generate high quality MRI data in all subjects at each time point; (2) those of the funded ADNI MRI core imaging analysis groups responsible for analyzing the MRI data; and (3) the joint function of the entire MRI core in designing and problem solving MR image acquisition, pre-processing, and analyses methods.

  27. High-resolution structural and functional MRI of hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus in patients with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-03-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have observed hyperactivity in the hippocampal region in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

  28. Relationship between atrophy and beta-amyloid deposition in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    There is a strong relationship between beta-amyloid deposition and atrophy very early in the disease process.

  29. Structural brain changes in aging: courses, causes and cognitive consequences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Reviews in the neurosciences 2010-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The structure of the brain is constantly changing from birth throughout the lifetime, meaning that normal aging, free from dementia, is associated with structural brain changes.

  30. One-year brain atrophy evident in healthy aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    An accurate description of changes in the brain in healthy aging is needed to understand the basis of age-related changes in cognitive function.

  31. Absolute diffusivities define the landscape of white matter degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-11-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent imaging evidence in Alzheimer's disease suggests that neural involvement in early-stage disease is more complex than is encapsulated in the commonly held position of predominant mesial temporal lobe degeneration-there is also early posterior cingulate cortex and diencephalic damage.

  32. Atlas-based whole brain white matter analysis using large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping: application to normal elderly and Alzheimer's disease participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The purpose of this paper is to establish single-participant white matter atlases based on diffusion tensor imaging.

  33. Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using cortical thickness: impact of cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-05-12 Getting a diagnosis

    Normalized thickness index at baseline differed significantly among all the four diagnosis groups (P < 0.001) and correctly distinguished Alzheimer's disease patients from healthy controls with an 85% cross-validated accuracy.

  34. Heterogeneity of white matter hyperintensities in Alzheimer's disease: post-mortem quantitative MRI and neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2008-10-16 Biomarkers

    WMH are only weakly and inconsistently associated with cognitive decline, which may be explained by heterogeneity of the underlying neuropathological substrates.

  35. Utility of different MR modalities in mild cognitive impairment and its use as a predictor of conversion to probable dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Academic radiology 2008-09-01 Biomarkers

    Rationale and objectives Mild cognitive impairment has been regarded as a pre-Alzheimer condition, but some patients do not develop dementia.

  36. Neuroanatomical correlates of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2008-07-11 Clinical safety

    Alzheimer's disease research has largely concentrated on the study of cognitive decline, but the associated behavioural and neuropsychiatric symptoms are of equal importance in the clinical profile of the disease.

  37. Stereotaxic probabilistic maps of the magnocellular cell groups in human basal forebrain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The basal forebrain contains several interdigitating anatomical structures, including the diagonal band of Broca, the basal nucleus of Meynert, the ventral striatum, and also cell groups underneath the globus pallidus that bridge the centromedial amygdala to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

  38. Direct voxel-based comparison between grey matter hypometabolism and atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain 2007-12-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Although the patterns of structural and metabolic brain alterations in Alzheimer's disease are being refined and discrepancies between them are being underlined, the exact relationships between atrophy and hypometabolism are still unclear.

  39. The topography of grey matter involvement in early and late onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-02-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Clinical observations have suggested that the neuropsychological profile of early and late onset forms of Alzheimer's disease (EOAD and LOAD) differ in that neocortical functions are more affected in the former and learning in the latter, suggesting that they might be different diseases.

  40. Patterns of brain atrophy that differentiate corticobasal degeneration syndrome from progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Distinct patterns of brain atrophy exist in CBDS and PSP that can be used to differentiate the 2 diseases.

  41. Neuroanatomical correlates of behavioural disorders in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2005-09-29 Clinical safety

    Neurodegenerative diseases are associated with profound changes in social and emotional function.

  42. White matter changes in mild cognitive impairment and AD: A diffusion tensor imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-07-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can detect, in vivo, the directionality of molecular diffusion and estimate the microstructural integrity of white matter (WM) tracts.

  43. Pattern of cerebral hypoperfusion in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment measured with arterial spin-labeling MR imaging: initial experience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Radiology 2005-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Arterial spin-labeling MR imaging showed regional hypoperfusion with AD, in brain regions similar to those seen in FDG PET and HMPAO SPECT studies of similar populations; this hypoperfusion persists after accounting for underlying cortical gray matter atrophy.

  44. Imaging iron stores in the brain using magnetic resonance imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Magnetic resonance imaging 2005-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    For the last century, there has been great physiological interest in brain iron and its role in brain function and disease.

  45. Focal decline of cortical thickness in Alzheimer's disease identified by computational neuroanatomy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2004-11-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a heterogeneous distribution of pathological changes throughout the brain.

  46. Medial temporal lobe function and structure in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2004-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study memory-associated activation of medial temporal lobe (MTL) regions in 32 nondemented elderly individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  47. Differential vulnerability of anterior white matter in nondemented aging with minimal acceleration in dementia of the Alzheimer type: evidence from diffusion tensor imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2004-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    White matter microstructural integrity was assessed using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in 25 young adults, 25 nondemented older adults, and 25 age-matched older adults with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT).

  48. What's in a name: voxel-based morphometric analyses of MRI and naming difficulty in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2004-02-04 Digital health tools

    Confrontation naming is impaired in neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD).

  49. Mapping cortical change in Alzheimer's disease, brain development, and schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2004-01-01 Prevention and risk

    This paper describes algorithms that can identify patterns of brain structure and function associated with Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, normal aging, and abnormal brain development based on imaging data collected in large human populations.

  50. White matter damage in Alzheimer's disease assessed in vivo using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2002-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    White matter changes in patients with Alzheimer's disease are likely to be secondary to wallerian degeneration of fibre tracts due to neuronal loss in cortical associative areas.

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