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  1. Midlife and Late-Life Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers and 11-Year Cognitive Decline 2026-10-16
  2. Clinical Factors Associated With Discordant Plasma P-Tau217 and Established Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers 2026-10-01
  3. A neurocognitive speech taxonomy for voice biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease 2026-09-25

Studies

835 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1980 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 131
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 37
  • JAMA neurology 35
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 28
  • Archives of neurology 25

248 journals in all.

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  1. Fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease - current concepts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2013-06-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    The diagnostic guidelines of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have recently been updated to include brain imaging and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, with the aim of increasing the certainty of whether a patient has an ongoing AD neuropathologic process or not.

  2. Identification of altered metabolic pathways in plasma and CSF in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease using metabolomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. PloS one 2013-05-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) currently affects more than 5 million Americans, with numbers expected to grow dramatically as the population ages.

  3. Correlation of specific amyloid-β oligomers with tau in cerebrospinal fluid from cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    The University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Salhgrenska University Hospital, Sweden.

  4. A blood-based predictor for neocortical Aβ burden in Alzheimer's disease: results from the AIBL study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2013-04-30 Digital health tools

    Dementia is a global epidemic with Alzheimer's disease (AD) being the leading cause.

  5. Amyloid imaging and CSF biomarkers in predicting cognitive impairment up to 7.5 years later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2013-04-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Abnormal levels of all biomarkers were associated with faster time to cognitive impairment, and some participants with abnormal biomarker levels remained cognitively normal for up to 6.6 years.

  6. Alzheimer's disease neurodegenerative biomarkers are associated with decreased cognitive function but not β-amyloid in cognitively normal older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    β-Amyloid (Aβ) plaque deposition and neurodegeneration within temporoparietal and hippocampal regions may indicate increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. SOD1 in cerebral spinal fluid as a pharmacodynamic marker for antisense oligonucleotide therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Therapies designed to decrease the level of SOD1 are currently in a clinical trial for patients with superoxide dismutase (SOD1)-linked familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  8. The application of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Medical clinics of North America 2013-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    This article gives an updated account of the clinical application of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  9. Marked increase of the astrocytic marker S100B in the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-infected patients on LPV/r-monotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. AIDS (London, England) 2013-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The Monotherapy Switzerland/Thailand study (MOST) trial compared monotherapy with ritonavir-boosted lopinavir with continued therapy.

  10. Can MRI screen for CSF biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2012-12-26 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) may have overlapping clinical presentations despite distinct underlying neuropathologies, thus making in vivo diagnosis challenging.

  11. Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 is the best predictor of clinical progression in patients with subjective complaints

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-12-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    Low Aβ42 was the strongest predictor of clinical progression in patients with subjective complaints.

  12. Mild cognitive impairment: cerebrospinal fluid tau biomarker pathologic levels and longitudinal changes in white matter integrity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Radiology 2012-11-14 Tau biomarkers

    Thirty patients with MCI and nonpathologic CSF total tau levels, nine patients with MCI and pathologic CSF total tau levels, and 16 age-matched healthy control subjects underwent diffusion-tensor imaging at baseline and after a mean follow-up of 2.6 years ± 0.54 (standard deviation), with range of 1.58-3.98 years.

  13. Altered concentrations of amyloid precursor protein metabolites in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with bipolar disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2012-11-06 Tau biomarkers

    Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of mania/hypomania and depression.

  14. Accuracy of a panel of 5 cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the differential diagnosis of patients with dementia and/or parkinsonian disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-11-01 Biomarkers

    Ascertainment of the -synuclein level in CSF somewhat improves the differential diagnosis of AD vs DLB and PDD when combined with established AD biomarkers.

  15. Cerebrospinal fluid proteins predict longitudinal hippocampal degeneration in early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2012-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers are needed to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of diagnosis, and also prognosis, in individuals with early Alzheimer disease (AD).

  16. Plasma biomarkers associated with the apolipoprotein E genotype and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-10-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarker results confirm cerebrospinal fluid studies reporting increased levels of pancreatic polypeptide and N-terminal protein B-type brain natriuretic peptide in patients with AD and mild cognitive impairment.

  17. Decreased levels of circulating adiponectin in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuromolecular medicine 2012-09-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    Adiponectin, an adipocytokine released by the adipose tissue and has important roles in the metabolic regulation and inflammatory control, may play an important roles in the physiopathology of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

  18. Anxiety is related to Alzheimer cerebrospinal fluid markers in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2012-09-07 Tau biomarkers

    Anxiety, apathy and depression are common in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and may herald Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2012-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Research progress has provided detailed understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  20. Correlations of CSF tau and amyloid levels with Alzheimer pathology in neuropathologically verified dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2012-08-22 Tau biomarkers

    The presence of concomitant Alzheimer pathology has been linked to earlier death in cases with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

  21. Comparison of cerebrospinal fluid levels of tau and Aβ 1-42 in Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal degeneration using 2 analytical platforms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid values of total tau (T-tau) and β-amyloid 1-42 (Aβ 1-42) obtained using the Innotest enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were transformed using a linear regression model to equivalent values obtained using the INNO-BIA AlzBio3 (xMAP; Luminex) assay.

  22. Effect of immunotherapy with bapineuzumab on cerebrospinal fluid biomarker levels in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-08-01 Treatments

    Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers may be useful to monitor the effects of novel disease-modifying anti-Aβ drugs in clinical trials.

  23. Plasma multianalyte profiling in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2012-08-01 Genetics

    Four plasma analytes were consistently associated with the diagnosis of very mild dementia/MCI/AD in 3 independent clinical cohorts.

  24. Antioxidants for Alzheimer disease: a randomized clinical trial with cerebrospinal fluid biomarker measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-07-01 Treatments

    Antioxidants did not influence CSF biomarkers related to amyloid or tau pathology.

  25. Biomarkers for insulin resistance and inflammation and the risk for all-cause dementia and alzheimer disease: results from the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-05-01 Genetics

    In women, increased plasma adiponectin levels are an independent risk factor for the development of both all-cause dementia and AD.

  26. CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer disease correlate with cortical brain biopsy findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2012-04-18 Genetics

    Amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau in cortical brain biopsies are reflected by low CSF Aβ42 and high CSF tau and p-tau levels, respectively.

  27. CSF VILIP-1 predicts rates of cognitive decline in early Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2012-02-22 Tau biomarkers

    Measures of neuronal damage/dysfunction are likely good surrogates for disease progression in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  28. Age and diagnostic performance of Alzheimer disease CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2012-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Core CSF changes in Alzheimer disease (AD) are decreased amyloid β(1-42), increased total tau, and increased phospho-tau, probably indicating amyloid plaque accumulation, axonal degeneration, and tangle pathology, respectively.

  29. Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ and tau level fluctuation in an older clinical cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarker validation in a clinical cohort.

  30. Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer Markers in Depressed Elderly Subjects with and without Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2012-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease (AD) markers and depression in elderly people.

  31. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of β-amyloid 1-42, but not of tau, are fully changed already 5 to 10 years before the onset of Alzheimer dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2012-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Early detection of prodromal Alzheimer disease (AD) is important because new disease-modifying therapies are most likely to be effective when initiated during the early stages of disease.

  32. Proteomic changes in cerebrospinal fluid of presymptomatic and affected persons carrying familial Alzheimer disease mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-01-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We compared proteomic profiles of CSF from individuals with FAD who were mutation carriers (MCs) and related noncarriers (NCs).

  33. MRI cortical thickness biomarker predicts AD-like CSF and cognitive decline in normal adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2011-12-21 Brain scans and imaging

    This approach to the detection of individuals at high risk for preclinical AD-identified in single CN individuals using this quantitative ADsig MRI biomarker-may provide investigators with a population enriched for AD pathobiology and with a relatively high likelihood of imminent cognitive decline consistent with prodromal AD.

  34. Cerebrospinal fluid markers for differential dementia diagnosis in a large memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2011-12-14 Tau biomarkers

    Baseline CSF was collected from 512 patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and 272 patients with other types of dementia (OD), 135 patients with a psychiatric disorder (PSY), and 275 patients with subjective memory complaints (SMC).

  35. Evidence for Elevated Cerebrospinal Fluid ERK1/2 Levels in Alzheimer Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2011-11-24 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 33 patients with Alzheimer dementia (AD), 21 patients with mild cognitive impairment who converted to AD during followup (MCI-AD), 25 patients with stable mild cognitive impairment (MCI-stable), and 16 nondemented subjects (ND) were analyzed with a chemiluminescence immunoassay to assess the levels of the mitogen-activated protein kinase ERK1/2 (extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2).

  36. CSF biomarkers in different phenotypes of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2011-11-08 Tau biomarkers

    CSF biomarker studies were performed in 6 patients each with tremor-dominant (TD) and non-tremor-dominant (NT) Parkinson disease (PD) patients, 27 Alzheimer disease (AD) and 17 age-matched controls.

  37. Progression from mild to pronounced MCI is not associated with cerebrospinal fluid biomarker deviations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2011-11-03 Tau biomarkers

    Detection of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker deviations improve prediction of progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia.

  38. Alzheimer disease biomarkers are associated with body mass index

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2011-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Both low and high body mass index (BMI) has been associated with cognitive impairment and dementia risk, including Alzheimer disease (AD).

  39. Human Alzheimer and inflammation biomarkers after anesthesia and surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2011-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    The prevalence of postoperative cognitive disturbance, coupled with growing in vitro, cell, and animal evidence suggesting anesthetic effects on neurodegeneration, calls for additional study of the interaction between surgical care and Alzheimer neuropathology.

  40. Biomarkers have become increasingly important in understanding neurodegenerative processes associated with Alzheimer disease.

  41. Visinin-like protein-1: diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggest that CSF VILIP-1 and VILIP-1/Aβ42 offer diagnostic utility for early AD, and can predict future cognitive impairment in cognitively normal individuals similarly to tau and tau/Aβ42, respectively.

  42. Factors affecting Aβ plasma levels and their utility as biomarkers in ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2011-07-30 Mild cognitive impairment

    Previous studies of Aβ plasma as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD) obtained conflicting results.

  43. [Patients with mild cognitive impairment and a reduced CSF Aβ₁₋₄₂ protein progress rapidly to Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) 2011-05-31 Tau biomarkers

    Some studies have shown that CSF amyloid-beta 1-42 (Aβ₁₋₄₂), total tau (T-tau) and tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau(181p)) proteins are useful diagnostic markers for distinguishing between clinically stable mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients and those who will develop Alzheimeŕs disease (AD).

  44. Comparison of analytical platforms for cerebrospinal fluid measures of β-amyloid 1-42, total tau, and p-tau181 for identifying Alzheimer disease amyloid plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-05-09 Brain scans and imaging

    The INNOTEST and INNO-BIA CSF platforms perform equally well in identifying individuals with underlying amyloid plaque pathology.

  45. CSF biomarkers in posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2011-04-27 Tau biomarkers

    This prospective observational study included 22 patients with PCA who underwent CSF biomarker analysis of total tau (t-tau), phosphorylated tau on amino acid 181 (p-tau181), and amyloid β (Aβ(42)).

  46. Multiplexed immunoassay panel identifies novel CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and prognosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. PloS one 2011-04-19 Digital health tools

    Using a targeted proteomic screen, we identified novel candidate biomarkers that complement the best current CSF biomarkers for distinguishing very mildly/mildly demented from cognitively normal individuals.

  47. Oxysterols as biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Chemistry and physics of lipids 2011-04-16 Genetics

    In conclusion the analysis of oxysterols in plasma and CSF seems to contribute to investigate the role of cholesterol metabolism in pathogenesis of neurodegeneration and is helpful in the study of patients affected by neurodegenerative diseases.

  48. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Parkinson disease diagnosis and progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-03-11 Tau biomarkers

    There is a clear need to develop biomarkers for Parkinson disease (PD) diagnosis, differential diagnosis of Parkinsonian disorders, and monitoring disease progression.

  49. Identification and validation of novel cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for staging early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. PloS one 2011-01-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    These six markers describe six clinicopathological stages from cognitive normalcy to mild dementia, including stages defined by increased risk of cognitive decline.

  50. Association of plasma beta-amyloid level and cognitive reserve with subsequent cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA 2011-01-01 Disparities

    Lower plasma β-amyloid 42 and 42/40 levels have been associated with incident dementia, but results are conflicting and few have investigated cognitive decline among elders without dementia.

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