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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. Disturbed choline plasmalogen and phospholipid fatty acid concentrations in Alzheimer's disease prefrontal cortex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by brain deposition of senile (neuritic) plaques containing amyloid-β, neurofibrillary tangles, synaptic loss, neuroinflammation, and overexpression of arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n-6) metabolizing enzymes.

  2. [The role of CSF markers in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie 2011-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are being used increasingly to diagnose early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. YKL-40: a novel prognostic fluid biomarker for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2010-11-01 How common it is

    These data demonstrate that YKL-40, a putative indicator of neuroinflammation, is elevated in AD and, together with Aβ42, has potential prognostic utility as a biomarker for preclinical AD.

  4. Hippocampal atrophy rates and CSF biomarkers in elderly APOE2 normal subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2010-10-27 Genetics

    A slower rate of hippocampal atrophy in normal APOE2 carriers is consistent with the lower risk of Alzheimer disease in these individuals.

  5. Alzheimer's CSF markers in older schizophrenia patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2010-09-27 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitive impairment is prevalent in older schizophrenia patients but its biological basis is unknown.

  6. Biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2010-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    The existence of an effective biomarker for early detection of Alzheimer disease would facilitate improved diagnosis and stimulate therapeutic trials.

  7. Requiring an amyloid-beta1-42 biomarker for prodromal Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment does not lead to more efficient clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-beta(1-42) concentration and high total-tau/Abeta(1-42) ratio have been recommended to support the diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD) in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and also to select patients for clinical trials (Shaw et al, Ann Neurol 2009;65:403-13; Dubois et al, Lancet Neurol 2007;6:734-46).

  8. CSF amyloid {beta} 1-42 predicts cognitive decline in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2010-08-18 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitive decline associated with Parkinson disease (PD) is common and highly disabling.

  9. Altered serum glycomics in Alzheimer disease: a potential blood biomarker?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Rejuvenation research 2010-08-01 Biomarkers

    We investigated whether blood N-glycan changes can be used as a diagnostic biomarker for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  10. Diagnosis-independent Alzheimer disease biomarker signature in cognitively normal elderly people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database.

  11. Association of plasma clusterin concentration with severity, pathology, and progression in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2010-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    These results demonstrate an important role of clusterin in the pathogenesis of AD and suggest that alterations in amyloid chaperone proteins may be a biologically relevant peripheral signature of AD.

  12. Could clinical profile influence CSF biomarkers in early-onset Alzheimer disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2010-07-01 Tau biomarkers

    In common forms of Alzheimer disease (AD), anterograde memory impairment is the first deficit to occur.

  13. Serial MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal aging, MCI, and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2010-07-01 Genetics

    Unlike the CSF biomarkers evaluated, changes in serial structural MRI are correlated with concurrent change on general cognitive and functional indices in impaired subjects, track with clinical disease stage, and are influenced by APOE genotype.

  14. Enrichment through biomarkers in clinical trials of Alzheimer's drugs in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-11 Long-term cohort studies

    Clinical trials of disease modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) might benefit from enrichment with true AD cases.

  15. Cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities and rate of decline in everyday function across the dementia spectrum: normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-06-01 Tau biomarkers

    Immunoassays of total tau (t-tau), tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-tau(181)), and beta-amyloid 1-42 (Abeta(42)) concentrations were performed in CSF obtained from participants in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

  16. CSF biomarkers predict a more malignant outcome in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2010-05-01 Genetics

    A subgroup of patients with Alzheimer disease with extreme levels of CSF biomarkers exhibits worse clinical outcomes over time, including faster progression of cognitive deficits, no response to ChEI treatment, and a higher mortality.

  17. Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2010-02-16 Tau biomarkers

    Intense multidisciplinary research has provided detailed knowledge of the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  18. Correlation of longitudinal cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers with cognitive decline in healthy older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-02-01 Genetics

    Changes in CSF biomarker levels may identify early neurodegenerative processes of Alzheimer disease.

  19. CSF biomarkers in prediction of cerebral and clinical change in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Brain atrophy and altered CSF levels of amyloid beta (Abeta(42)) and the microtubule-associated protein tau are potent biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related pathology.

  20. Serum levels of S100B and NSE proteins in Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2010-01-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common dementia in the elderly, and the potential of peripheral biochemical markers as complementary tools in the neuropsychiatric evaluation of these patients has claimed further attention.

  21. Biomarkers as predictors for conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer-type dementia: implications for trial design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Disease modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are likely to be most effective when given in non-demented subjects.

  22. Osteopontin is increased in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer's disease and its levels correlate with cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Inflammation is believed to play a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Hypothetical model of dynamic biomarkers of the Alzheimer's pathological cascade

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet Neurology 2009-12-15 Biomarkers

    This study proposes a model that relates disease stages to Alzheimer's disease biomarkers.

  24. Atrial fibrillation is independently associated with senile, vascular, and Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Heart rhythm 2009-12-11 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with dementia were older and had higher rates of hypertension, coronary artery disease, renal failure, heart failure, and prior strokes.

  25. Absence of Pittsburgh compound B detection of cerebral amyloid beta in a patient with clinical, cognitive, and cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer disease: a case report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Clinical, cognitive, and CSF markers consistent with AD may precede detection of cerebral amyloid beta using amyloid imaging agents such as PiB that primarily label fibrillar amyloid beta plaques.

  26. Association of plasma leptin levels with incident Alzheimer disease and MRI measures of brain aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA 2009-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Circulating leptin was associated with a reduced incidence of dementia and AD and with cerebral brain volume in asymptomatic older adults.

  27. Changes of some oxidative stress markers in the serum of patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2009-11-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a nosological entity proposed as an intermediate state between normal aging and dementia.

  28. CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer disease in HIV-associated neurologic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2009-11-11 Tau biomarkers

    HIV-associated neurologic disorders (HAND) continue to develop in many patients with HIV.

  29. Specific human astrocyte subtype revealed by affinity purified GFAP antibody; unpurified serum cross-reacts with neurofilament-L in Alzheimer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2009-11-04 Biomarkers

    The human GFAP splice variants GFAPDelta164 and GFAPDeltaexon6 both result in a GFAP protein isoform with a unique out-of-frame carboxy-terminus that can be detected by the GFAP+1 antibody.

  30. Amyloid-beta(1-42), total tau, and phosphorylated tau as cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2009-10-15 Tau biomarkers

    We have used these markers and evaluated their performance.

  31. CSF biomarkers predict rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2009-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers amyloid beta 1-42 (Abeta(42)), total tau (tau), and tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-tau-181) are useful diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  32. Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid tau/beta-amyloid(42) ratio as diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. European neurology 2009-09-26 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia.

  33. Patients with Alzheimer disease with multiple microbleeds: relation with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Stroke 2009-09-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Microbleeds (MBs) are commonly observed in Alzheimer disease.

  34. Relationship of cerebrospinal fluid markers to 11C-PiB and 18F-FDDNP binding

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2009-08-18 Tau biomarkers

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential relationships between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measurements of beta-amyloid-1-42 (Abeta(1-42)) and total tau to (11)C-Pittsburgh compound B ((11)C-PiB) and 2-(1-{6-[(2-(18)F-fluoroethyl)(methyl)amino]-2-naphthyl}ethylidene) malononitrile ((18)F-FDDNP) binding as measured using PET.

  35. Concentrations of metals, beta-amyloid and tau-markers in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-08-12 Tau biomarkers

    The AD subjects showed positive correlations between CSF-T-tau and CSF-P-tau versus CSF-Mn (r(s) = 0.22, p = 0.004; r(s) = 0.18, p = 0.021).

  36. Cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta(40) is decreased in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2009-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is caused by deposition of the amyloid beta protein in the cerebral vasculature.

  37. CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA 2009-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    During follow-up, 271 participants with MCI were diagnosed with AD and 59 with other dementias.

  38. MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal, MCI, and AD subjects: diagnostic discrimination and cognitive correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2009-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found no significant correlation between CSF biomarkers and cognitive scores in any of the 3 clinical groups individually.

  39. MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal, MCI, and AD subjects: predicting future clinical change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2009-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    MRI and CSF provide complimentary predictive information about time to conversion from amnestic mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease and combination of the 2 provides better prediction than either source alone.

  40. The CSF AD profile was more common in patients with SCI (31 of 60 [52%]), naMCI (25 of 37 [68%]), and aMCI (56 of 71 [79%]) than in healthy controls (28 of 89 [31%]).

  41. Population variation in glial fibrillary acidic protein levels in brain ageing: relationship to Alzheimer-type pathology and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-05-07 Biomarkers

    In a population-based sample, increasing gliosis precedes development of Alzheimer lesions.

  42. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and rate of cognitive decline in very mild dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of Abeta peptide 1-42 (Abeta 42), tau, and phosphorylated tau (ptau) are potential biomarkers of Alzheimer disease.

  43. Five out of 16 plasma signaling proteins are enhanced in plasma of patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2009-04-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic neuropathological changes of the brain.

  44. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker signature in Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2009-03-19 Biomarkers

    CSF A beta(1-42) was the most sensitive biomarker for AD in the autopsy cohort of CSF samples: receiver operating characteristic area under the curve of 0.913 and sensitivity for AD detection of 96.4%.

  45. Cerebrospinal fluid {beta}-amyloid 42 and tau proteins as biomarkers of Alzheimer-type pathologic changes in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    There is a clear need to develop an objective diagnostic test for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  46. CSF biomarkers in relationship to cognitive profiles in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2009-03-01 Genetics

    Clusters of CSF biomarker levels are related to cognitive profiles in Alzheimer disease.

  47. [CSF levels of total tau protein in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie 2008-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    In recent studies, patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) showed significantly elevated CSF levels of tau protein.

  48. Cerebrospinal fluid alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disorders-a marker of synapse loss?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2008-11-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The association of alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) neuropathology with Parkinson's disease (PD) and several related disorders has led to an intense research effort to develop cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)- or blood-based alpha-syn biomarkers for these types of diseases.

  49. Effect of copper intake on CSF parameters in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease: a pilot phase 2 clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2008-10-30 Treatments

    A plethora of reports suggest that copper (Cu) homeostasis is disturbed in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  50. The brain injury biomarker VLP-1 is increased in the cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2008-08-14 Genetics

    These results suggest that neuronal injury markers such as VLP-1 may have utility as biomarkers for AD.

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