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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. Cerebrospinal Fluid Classical Biomarker Levels in Mixed vs. Pure A+T+ (A+T1+) Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicines 2024-12-20 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) may present with pure (typical or atypical) and mixed phenotypes, sometimes causing difficulties in (differential) diagnosis.

  2. Disentangling relationships between Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers and established biomarkers in patients of tertiary memory clinics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2024-12-18 Biomarkers

    Although plasma pTau181, pTau217, pTau231, and GFAP were significantly associated with both Aβ-PET and CSF pTau181, Aβ-PET explained more variance in the levels of these biomarkers.

  3. Strong diagnostic performance of plasma ptau217 for CSF biomarker-defined young-onset Alzheimer disease in a diagnostically heterogeneous clinical cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2024-12-12 Biomarkers

    Plasma ptau217 has strong diagnostic performance in distinguishing CSF biomarker-defined AD in a clinically relevant, younger cohort of people with symptoms, adding further weight for a simple diagnostic blood test for AD as a cause of a patient's symptoms.

  4. Comparison of plasma p‐tau217 and Aβ42/Aβ40 biomarkers by race to detect Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    P‐tau217/Aβ42 had the highest performance to discriminate Aβ+ from Aβ‐ (Table 1A,1B; all AUC≥0.90), and p‐tau217 showed excellent accuracy in ADNI sample (0.96; Table 1B).

  5. Impact of race/ethnicity and area deprivation index on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders biomarkers in the POINTER Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    The analyses of the community‐based U.S. POINTER indicate that AA/B individuals present differences in AD and related dementia biomarker values. nHW had higher fully adjusted cognitive scores.

  6. NEIGHBORHOOD DISADVANTAGE AND THE ASSOCIATION OF PLASMA BIOMARKERS WITH COGNITION IN A COHORT OF DIVERSE ADULTS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    We found ADI*pTau217 interactions on immediate and delayed word recall.

  7. Comparative neurofilament light chain trajectories in CSF and plasma in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-11-18 Biomarkers

    Disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are likely to be most beneficial when initiated in the presymptomatic phase.

  8. Associations of plasma SMOC1 and soluble IL6RA levels with the progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Brain, behavior, & immunity - health 2024-11-16 Tau biomarkers

    Despite the central role attributed to neuroinflammation in the etiology and pathobiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the direct link between levels of inflammatory mediators in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) compartments, as well as their potential implications for AD diagnosis and progression, remains inconclusive.

  9. Lumipulse-Measured Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2024-11-04 Biomarkers

    The average age at LP was 79.3 years (SD = 5.6), and the average age at death was 87.1 years (SD = 6.5).

  10. A head-to-head comparison of plasma biomarkers to detect biologically defined Alzheimer in a memory clinic

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2024-10-27 Tau biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been widely studied, but direct comparisons of several biomarkers in clinical settings remain limited.

  11. Blood Biomarkers to Detect Alzheimer Disease in Primary Care and Secondary Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA 2024-10-15 Biomarkers

    This Swedish study of over 1,200 people with memory symptoms found that a blood test combining p-tau217 with an amyloid ratio (the 'Amyloid Probability Score 2') was far more accurate at identifying Alzheimer's disease than doctors' clinical judgment alone.

  12. Changes in Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers and Associations With Incident All-Cause Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA 2024-10-15 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers of AD neuropathology, neuronal injury, and astrogliosis increase with age and are associated with known dementia risk factors.

  13. Clarifying the association of CSF Aβ, tau, BACE1, and neurogranin with AT(N) stages in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2024-10-08 Tau biomarkers

    Current AT(N) stratification for Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounts for complex combinations of amyloid (A), tau proteinopathy (T) and neurodegeneration (N) signatures.

  14. Blood Biomarkers to Detect Alzheimer Disease in Primary Care and Secondary Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA 2024-10-01 Biomarkers

    The mean age was 74.2 years (SD, 8.3 years), 48% were women, 23% had subjective cognitive decline, 44% had mild cognitive impairment, and 33% had dementia.

  15. Core CSF Biomarker Profile in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Updated Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2024-09-13 Tau biomarkers

    There is a clear need to characterize and validate molecular biomarkers of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), in an effort to improve diagnostics, especially in the context of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) receiving immunotherapies (for whom underlying CAA is the driver of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities).

  16. Can cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers tell us something about financial capacity in Alzheimer's disease patients? A preliminary study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater 2024-09-11 Tau biomarkers

    Although diagnostic markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have become a rapidly growing research field, they have not as yet been investigated in relation to capacities that are of interest to geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychology, such as financial capacity.

  17. Plasma Biomarkers of Brain Injury and Their Association With Brain MRI and Cognition in Type 1 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Diabetes care 2024-09-01 Biomarkers

    Participants were 60 (range 44-74) years old with 38 (30-51) years' T1D duration.

  18. CSF α-Synuclein Seed Amplification Assay in Patients With Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2024-08-29 Biomarkers

    We tested the CSF of 40 patients with CBS (19 female patients, 65.9 ± 8.6 years) and 28 with PSP (13 female patients, 72.5 ± 8.7 years old), mostly White (n = 50) or Asian (n = 14). αSyn-SAA positivity was observed in 35.9% patients with CBS and 28.6% with PSP.

  19. Prognostic value of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers in the oldest-old: a prospective primary care-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet regional health. Europe 2024-08-16 Biomarkers

    Higher levels of P-tau181 (HR = 1.32 [95% CI: 1.17-1.51]), NfL (HR = 1.19 [95% CI: 1.03-1.36]), and GFAP (HR = 1.36 [95% CI: 1.22-1.52]), and a lower Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio (HR = 0.80 [95% CI: 0.68-0.95]) were associated with an increased risk of progressing to clinically-diagnosed DAT.

  20. Psychosis in Alzheimer Disease and Elevations in Disease-Relevant Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2024-08-01 Biomarkers

    In the longitudinal analysis of p-tau181 trajectories of the AD+P group, the group of patients who showed incidence of psychosis over the course of follow-up (AD+P incident) demonstrated an associated increase in plasma p-tau181 levels compared with the group of patients who had psychosis at baseline (AD+P baseline) and showed an associated decrease in plasma p-tau181 levels (F4, 117 = 3.24; P = .01).

  21. Sleep, 24-Hour Activity Rhythms, and Subsequent Amyloid-β Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2024-08-01 Biomarkers

    Among community-dwelling adults included in this study, higher fragmentation of the 24-hour activity rhythms was associated with greater subsequent Aβ burden, especially in APOE4 carriers.

  22. Association of oxidative stress and inflammatory metabolites with Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-07-30 Tau biomarkers

    Isoprostanes and prostaglandins are biomarkers for oxidative stress and inflammation.

  23. Blood Astrocyte Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2024-07-10 Biomarkers

    We demonstrated significant elevations in blood GFAP and YKL-40 levels in patients on the AD continuum compared with CU individuals.

  24. Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature human behaviour 2024-07-10 Long-term cohort studies

    Recent expansion of proteomic coverage opens unparalleled avenues to unveil new biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker panel for synaptic dysfunction in a broad spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2024-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    SNAP-25 and 14-3-3 zeta/delta also had the strongest associations with tau-PET, amyloid-β-PET and cortical thickness at baseline and were associated with longitudinal changes in these imaging biomarkers [β(standard error, SE) = -0.056(0.0006) to 0.058(0.005), P < 0.0001].

  26. Diagnostic performance of plasma pTau217, pTau181, Aβ1-42 and Aβ1-40 in the LUMIPULSE automated platform for the detection of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-06-26 Biomarkers

    The evaluation of blood biomarkers on an automated platform exhibited high diagnostic accuracy for AD pathophysiology, and pTau 217 showed excellent diagnostic accuracy to identify participants with AD in a consecutive sample representing the routine clinical practice in a specialized memory unit.

  27. Alzheimer Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in a Tertiary Neurology Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Mayo Clinic proceedings 2024-06-25 Tau biomarkers

    There were 534 patients who underwent AD CSF biomarkers (Roche Elecsys Aβ42, p-Tau181, total-Tau) from April 1, 2020, through April 23, 2021.

  28. Effects of time of the day at sampling on CSF and plasma levels of Alzheimer' disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-06-22 Biomarkers

    Importantly, Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio remained unaltered, suggesting that it is more suitable for implementation in clinical workup than individual Aβ peptides.

  29. CSF and plasma biomarkers in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A single-center study and a systematic review/meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. European stroke journal 2024-06-13 Tau biomarkers

    There are limited data regarding cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma biomarkers among patients with Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA).

  30. Acceptable performance of blood biomarker tests of amyloid pathology - recommendations from the Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Nature Reviews Neurology 2024-06-12 Biomarkers

    Anti-amyloid treatments for early symptomatic Alzheimer disease have recently become clinically available in some countries, which has greatly increased the need for biomarker confirmation of amyloid pathology.

  31. Association of Plasma Amyloid, P-Tau, GFAP, and NfL With CSF, Clinical, and Cognitive Features in Patients With Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2024-06-03 Biomarkers

    Our study suggests a possible utility of plasma Aβ42/40, P-tau181, and P-tau231 as a noninvasive biomarkers to assess amyloid copathology in DLB, and plasma GFAP and NfL as monitoring biomarkers for cognitive symptoms in DLB.

  32. [Blood biomarkers open a window to brain pathophysiology in Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Lakartidningen 2024-05-31 Tau biomarkers

    Technical developments have paved the way for the development of ultrasensitive analytical methods that allow for precise quantification of brain-specific proteins in blood samples.

  33. Irisin Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid Correlate with Biomarkers and Clinical Dementia Scores in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2024-05-23 Tau biomarkers

    Irisin, released by muscles during exercise, was recently identified as a neuroprotective factor in mouse models of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  34. Alzheimer blood biomarkers: practical guidelines for study design, sample collection, processing, biobanking, measurement and result reporting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2024-05-15 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, remains challenging to understand and treat despite decades of research and clinical investigation.

  35. Peripheral GFAP and NfL as early biomarkers for dementia: longitudinal insights from the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. BMC medicine 2024-05-13 Long-term cohort studies

    Peripheral glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and neurofilament light chain (NfL) are sensitive markers of neuroinflammation and neuronal damage.

  36. Serum GFAP levels correlate with astrocyte reactivity, post-mortem brain atrophy and neurofibrillary tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain 2024-05-03 Biomarkers

    The main findings demonstrated an association between serum GFAP level and post-mortem tau pathology (β = 12.85; P < 0.001) that was independent of amyloid deposits (β = 13.23; P = 0.02).

  37. Alterations of human CSF and serum-based mitophagy biomarkers in the continuum of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Autophagy 2024-05-02 Biomarkers

    Defective mitophagy is consistently found in postmortem brain and iPSC-derived neurons from Alzheimer disease (AD) patients.

  38. This study validated PrecivityAD2, a mass-spectrometry blood test made by C2N Diagnostics that combines two markers (%p-tau217 and the amyloid-beta 42/40 ratio) into a single 'Amyloid Probability Score 2.'

  39. Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2 in at-risk adults and autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer brains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2024-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    Insulin, insulin-like growth factors (IGF) and their receptors are highly expressed in the adult hippocampus.

  40. Associations of Serum Isoleucine with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Annals of geriatric medicine and research 2024-04-23 Tau biomarkers

    Most branched-chain amino acids, except isoleucine (Ile), are correlated with both mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD.

  41. Associations Between Blood-Based Biomarkers and Cognitive and Functional Trajectories Among Participants of the MEMENTO Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2024-04-16 Biomarkers

    Higher baseline p-tau181 and NfL were associated with significantly faster decline in most cognitive, physical, and functional outcomes (+1 SD p-tau181: β MMSE = -0.055, 95% CI -0.067 to -0.043, β FCSRT = -0.034, 95% CI -0.043 to -0.025, β fluency = -0.029, 95% CI -0.038 to -0.020, β SPPB = -0.040, 95% CI -0.057 to -0.022, and β 4IADL = -0.115, 95% CI 0.091-0.140. +1 SD NfL: β MMSE = -0.039, 95% CI -0.053 to -0.025, β FCSRT = -0.022, 95% CI -0.032 to -0.012, β fluency = -0.014, 95% CI -0.024 to -0.004, and β 4IADL = 0.077, 95% CI 0.048-0.105).

  42. Predicting Driving Cessation Among Cognitively Normal Older Drivers: The Role of Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Clinical Assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2024-04-15 Tau biomarkers

    With the aging US population and increasing incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD), understanding factors contributing to driving cessation among older adults is crucial for clinicians.

  43. Neurofilaments as biomarkers in neurological disorders - towards clinical application

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2024-04-12 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament proteins have been validated as specific body fluid biomarkers of neuro-axonal injury.

  44. Evidence of Pericyte Damage in a Cognitively Normal Cohort: Association With CSF and PET Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2024-04-01 Biomarkers

    We demonstrated a moderate positive correlation between PDGFRβ and both total Tau and phosphorylated Tau 181 in cognitively normal individuals.

  45. Explaining the Variability of Alzheimer Disease Fluid Biomarker Concentrations in Memory Clinic Patients Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2024-03-25 Biomarkers

    This comprehensive analysis demonstrated that the variance in AD blood biomarker concentrations was mainly explained by age, with minor contributions from cognition, brain atrophy, and genetics, conversely to CSF measures.

  46. Disease staging of Alzheimer's disease using a CSF-based biomarker model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Nature aging 2024-03-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Biological staging of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may improve diagnostic and prognostic workup of dementia in clinical practice and the design of clinical trials.

  47. Comparison of cerebrospinal fluid, plasma and neuroimaging biomarker utility in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain communications 2024-03-15 Biomarkers

    The results demonstrate that, although the number of biomarkers has rapidly expanded, many are interrelated and few strongly predict clinical outcomes.

  48. CSF β-Amyloid and Tau Biomarker Changes in Veterans With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2024-03-13 Tau biomarkers

    Whether mild TBI (mTBI) in veterans confers a similar increased risk of AD is less known.

  49. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Longitudinal Change in Imaging and Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease and Vascular Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2024-03-12 Biomarkers

    Midlife NAFLD shows associations with AD and accumulating vascular pathology, revealing potential pathways linking liver function to dementia.

  50. CSF Biomarkers in Longitudinal Alzheimer Disease Cohorts: Pre-Analytic Challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2024-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    The sensitivity of amyloid to pre-analytic factors complicates cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diagnostics for Alzheimer disease.

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