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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. Timing of Biomarker Changes in Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease in Estimated Years from Symptom Onset

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2024-02-24 Biomarkers

    The use of an amyloid clock enabled visualization and analysis of biomarker changes as a function of estimated years from symptom onset in sporadic AD.

  2. Highly accurate blood test for Alzheimer's disease is similar or superior to clinical cerebrospinal fluid tests

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Nature medicine 2024-02-21 Biomarkers

    With the emergence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) disease-modifying therapies, identifying patients who could benefit from these treatments becomes critical.

  3. Plasma proteomic profiles predict future dementia in healthy adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature aging 2024-02-12 Getting a diagnosis

    The advent of proteomics offers an unprecedented opportunity to predict dementia onset.

  4. Evaluation of ATNPD Framework and Biofluid Markers to Predict Cognitive Decline in Early Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2024-02-02 Biomarkers

    In patients with early PD, CSF p-tau 181 and t-tau were low compared with those in controls and did not increase over 5 years of follow-up.

  5. Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics in patients with Alzheimer's disease reveals five molecular subtypes with distinct genetic risk profiles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature aging 2024-01-09 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is heterogenous at the molecular level.

  6. Can integration of Alzheimer’s plasma biomarkers with MRI, cardiovascular, genetics, and lifestyle measures improve cognition prediction?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain Communications 2024-01-01 Risk factors

    For amyloid positive individuals Aβ42/Aβ40, glial fibrillary acidic protein and p-tau181 were the top predictors of cognitive decline while Aβ42/Aβ40 was prominent for amyloid negative participants across all age groups.

  7. Plasma Biomarker Strategy for Selecting Patients With Alzheimer Disease for Antiamyloid Immunotherapies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2024-01-01 Biomarkers

    Of a total 912 participants, there were 499 males (54.7%) and 413 females (45.3%), and the mean (SD) age was 71.1 (8.49) years.

  8. Relationships of Cognitive Measures with Cerebrospinal Fluid but Not Imaging Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease Vary between Black and White Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2023-12-19 Biomarkers

    Relationships between CSF biomarkers but not imaging biomarkers varied by racialized groups.

  9. Using a large and diverse community‐based cohort, we demonstrate that ethno‐racial differences in AD‐specific plasma biomarkers are, in part, due to modifiable health and comorbidity factors.

  10. Diagnostic Utility of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Patients with Rapidly Progressive Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2023-11-10 Biomarkers

    Selected CSF biomarkers at presentation were associated with etiologic diagnoses and treatment responsiveness in patients with heterogeneous causes of RPD.

  11. Menopausal vasomotor symptoms and plasma Alzheimer disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2023-11-07 Biomarkers

    Nighttime vasomotor symptoms may be a marker of women at risk of Alzheimer disease.

  12. Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers: Moving from CSF to Plasma for Reliable Detection of Amyloid and tau Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2023-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Development of validated biomarkers to detect early Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology is needed for therapeutic AD trials.

  13. Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease in Women With and Without HIV

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-11-01 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that increases in certain plasma AD biomarkers are associated with NP in WLWH and WLWOH and may be associated with later onset of AD, and measuring these biomarkers could be a pivotal advancement in monitoring aging brain health and development of AD among women with and without HIV.

  14. Systematic review: fluid biomarkers and machine learning methods to improve the diagnosis from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-10-14 Digital health tools

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is often considered an early stage of dementia, with estimated rates of progression to dementia up to 80-90% after approximately 6 years from the initial diagnosis.

  15. The Memory Alteration Test Is Correlated with Clinical, Cerebrospinal Fluid, and Brain Imaging Markers of Alzheimer Disease in Lima, Peru

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2023-10-12 Tau biomarkers

    As disease-modifying therapies become available for Alzheimer's disease (AD), detection of AD in early stages of illness (mild cognitive impairment [MCI], early dementia) becomes increasingly important.

  16. Association of Chronic Pain with Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration, Microglial Activation, and Inflammation in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Impaired Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2023-10-03 Tau biomarkers

    Debate surrounds the role of chronic pain as a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia.

  17. Effect of Neurotoxin Exposure on Blood Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2023-09-13 Tau biomarkers

    Blood cadmium, lead, neurofilament light (NfL) chain, total tau (TTau), and amyloid beta (Aβ) 40 and Aβ42 concentrations were measured in 1516 participants in the Beaver Dam Offspring Study.

  18. Astrocyte biomarkers GFAP and YKL-40 mediate early Alzheimer's disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-09-10 Biomarkers

    Our results suggest that reactive astrogliosis, as indicated by different fluid biomarkers, influences the pathogenic cascade during the preclinical stage of AD.

  19. Plasma Alzheimer's biomarkers and brain amyloid in Hispanic and non-Hispanic older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-09-06 Biomarkers

    Three-hundred seventy nine participants underwent blood draw (71.9 ± 7.8 years old, 60.2% female, 57% Hispanic of which 88% were Cuban or South American) and 240 completed Aβ-PET.

  20. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the pathologies that the scientific world is still desperate for.

  21. Peripheral inflammatory biomarkers are associated with cognitive function and dementia: Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Aging cell 2023-08-16 Long-term cohort studies

    Inflammatory protein biomarkers induced by immune responses have been associated with cognitive decline and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Association of Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease With Cognition and Medical Comorbidities in a Biracial Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2023-08-14 Biomarkers

    We observed no differences in plasma AD biomarker levels between AA and NHW participants.

  23. Plasma neurofilament light chain in relation to 10-year change in cognition and neuroimaging markers: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. GeroScience 2023-08-03 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a promising biomarker for risk stratification and disease monitoring of dementia, but its utility in the preclinical disease stage remains uncertain.

  24. Alzheimer's disease diagnostic accuracy by fluid and neuroimaging ATN framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2023-07-12 Biomarkers

    Our findings suggest that plasma, CSF, and neuroimaging biomarkers differ considerably within the ATN framework; the most accurate target biomarkers for diagnosing AD were the CSF-A, neuroimaging-T, and neuroimaging-N within each ATN modality.

  25. Proteomics of brain, CSF, and plasma identifies molecular signatures for distinguishing sporadic and genetic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2023-07-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Proteomic studies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are instrumental in identifying AD pathways but often focus on single tissues and sporadic AD cases.

  26. Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid are stable with the Elecsys immunoassay to most pre-analytical influencing factors except freezing at -80 °C

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neurological research and practice 2023-06-29 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer´s disease is considered a neurodegenerative disease and is diagnosed by exclusion, while the detection of specific cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, namely amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptides Aβ1-42 (Aß42), phospho-tau (181P; P-tau), and total-tau (T-tau), has been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy.

  27. Plasma biomarkers for prediction of Alzheimer's disease neuropathologic change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2023-06-03 Biomarkers

    While plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are increasingly being evaluated for clinical diagnosis and prognosis, few population-based autopsy studies have evaluated their utility in the context of predicting neuropathological changes.

  28. Association of Chronic Kidney Disease With Plasma NfL and Other Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration: The H70 Birth Cohort Study in Gothenburg

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2023-05-24 Biomarkers

    In a community-based cohort of 70-year olds, P-NfL was associated with both prevalent and incident CKD, while CSF and/or imaging measures did not differ by CKD status.

  29. Blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in clinical practice and trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-05-18 Getting a diagnosis

    Blood-based biomarkers hold great promise to revolutionize the diagnostic and prognostic work-up of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical practice.

  30. Longitudinal Relationships of White Matter Hyperintensities and Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers Across the Adult Life Span

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2023-05-18 Tau biomarkers

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) correlate with Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers cross-sectionally and modulate AD pathogenesis.

  31. CSF Synaptic Biomarkers in AT(N)-Based Subgroups of Lewy Body Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2023-05-15 Biomarkers

    LBD/A+T+ and AD cases showed significantly increased CSF levels of synaptic and neuroaxonal biomarkers compared with LBD/A-T- and control subjects.

  32. Correlations between kynurenines in plasma and CSF, and their relation to markers of Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2023-05-04 Tau biomarkers

    Altered levels of kynurenines in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been reported in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  33. Associations of CSF PDGFRβ With Aging, Blood-Brain Barrier Damage, Neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer Disease Pathologic Changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2023-05-03 Biomarkers

    Pericyte damage, reflected by CSF PDGFRβ, may be involved in age-related BBB disruption together with neuroinflammation, but is not related to Alzheimer-related pathologic changes.

  34. Mitigating the Associations of Kidney Dysfunction With Blood Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease by Using Phosphorylated Tau to Total Tau Ratios

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-05-01 Biomarkers

    Higher eGFR was associated with increased levels of plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, Tau212-221, and Tau181-190 in individuals with cognitive impairment (cohort 1: R range, -0.24 to -0.59; P Conclusions and relevance In this study, CKD was associated with increased plasma levels of soluble tau, but for p-tau217 the associations were considerably lower than the association with Aβ positivity.

  35. Diagnostic performance of plasma Aβ 1-42 , Aβ 1-40 and pTau 181 in the LUMIPULSE automated platform for the detection of Alzheimer disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2023-04-26 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Recently-developed blood markers for Alzheimer’s (AD) detection have high accuracy but usually require ultra-sensitive analytic tools not commonly available in clinical laboratories.

  36. Prognostic value of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Neurologia 2023-04-07 Tau biomarkers

    We performed a retrospective analysis of the patients assessed at our memory unit for whom Alzheimer disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid biomarker results were available.

  37. Evaluation of Plasma Biomarkers for A/T/N Classification of Alzheimer Disease Among Adults of Caribbean Hispanic Ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-04-03 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that plasma biomarkers can augment detection of preclinical AD among asymptomatic individuals and improve the specificity of AD diagnosis.

  38. Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers in Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-04-01 Biomarkers

    In this case-control study, blood biomarkers indicative of AD pathology demonstrated different dynamics of change after cardiac arrest.

  39. Plasma GFAP effectively distinguished AD dementia from multiple neurodegenerative diseases, gradually increased across the AD continuum, predicted the individual risk of AD progression, and strongly correlated with AD CSF/neuroimaging biomarkers.

  40. Prediction of Longitudinal Cognitive Decline in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Using Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-04-01 Biomarkers

    Among 171 Aβ-positive CU participants included in the main analyses, 119 (mean [SD] age, 73.0 [5.4] years; 60.5% female) were from the BioFINDER-1 study, and 52 (mean [SD] age, 64.4 [4.6] years; 65.4% female) were from the WRAP study.

  41. Blood biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment patients: Relationship between analytes and progression to Alzheimer disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2023-03-20 Biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers are promising tools for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) at prodromal stages (mild cognitive impairment [MCI]) and are hoped to be implemented as screening tools for patients with cognitive complaints.

  42. Associations Between CSF Markers of Inflammation, White Matter Lesions, and Cognitive Decline in Individuals Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2023-03-07 Biomarkers

    Most neuroinflammatory CSF biomarkers were associated with WML in individuals without dementia.

  43. Blood Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Implications for the Clinical Neurologist

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2023-03-06 Biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers offer a major advance in the clinical evaluation of neurodegenerative diseases.

  44. Aerobic exercise does not affect serum neurofilament light in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2023-01-24 Biomarkers

    The findings do not support an effect of the exercise intervention on a single measure of neurodegeneration in AD.

  45. Association of Kidney Function With Development of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias and Dementia-Related Blood Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-01-03 Biomarkers

    Of 6256 participants (3402 women [54.4%]; mean [SD] age at baseline, 61.7 [6.6] years), 510 received an all-cause dementia diagnosis within 17 years of baseline.

  46. NEURONORMA Cognitive Battery Associations with Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β and Tau Levels in the Continuum of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Neuropsychological assessments are essential to define the cognitive profile and contribute to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  47. Accelerated longitudinal changes and ordering of Alzheimer disease biomarkers across the adult lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-12-01 Tau biomarkers

    The temporal evolutions and relative orderings of Alzheimer disease biomarkers, including CSF amyloid-β42 (Aβ42), Aβ40, total tau (Tau) and phosphorylated tau181 (pTau181), standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) from the molecular imaging of cerebral fibrillar amyloid-β with PET using the 11C-Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB), MRI-based hippocampal volume and cortical thickness and cognition have been hypothesized but not yet fully tested with longitudinal data for all major biomarker modalities among cognitively normal individuals across the adult lifespan starting from 18 years.

  48. Preclinical Alzheimer's disease biomarkers accurately predict cognitive and neuropathological outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-12-01 Biomarkers

    Among cognitively normal participants with positive biomarkers, 34.4% developed cognitive impairment (Clinical Dementia Rating > 0) as compared to 8.4% of those with negative biomarkers.

  49. Diagnostic Performance and Clinical Applicability of Blood-Based Biomarkers in a Prospective Memory Clinic Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-30 Biomarkers

    Performance was assessed in comparison to clinical diagnosis (blinded to plasma results) and amyloid status (CSF/PET).

  50. Longitudinal Changes in Blood Biomarkers of Clinical Alzheimer Disease in a Biracial Population Sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-29 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers showed significant longitudinal changes corresponding to cognitive decline, clinical AD, and structural MRI characteristics.

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