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  1. Diagnostic accuracy of remote self-administered digital cognitive assessment by clinical diagnosis and Alzheimer's disease PET imaging biomarkers 2026-09-25
  2. Multi-scale 3D CNN with imbalance-aware training for structural MRI-based six-class Alzheimer disease staging 2026-09-22
  3. T1 mapping in Alzheimer’s disease: a quantitative MRI study with amyloid-PET correlation 2026-09-21

Studies

842 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1983 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 83
  • Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 34
  • NeuroImage 31
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 30

283 journals in all.

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  1. Diverging longitudinal changes in astrocytosis and amyloid PET in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-01-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    The 52 baseline participants comprised autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease mutation carriers (n = 11; 49.6 ± 10.3 years old) and non-carriers (n = 16; 51.1 ± 14.2 years old; 10 male), and patients with sporadic mild cognitive impairment (n = 17; 61.9 ± 6.4 years old; nine male) and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (n = 8; 63.0 ± 6.5 years old; five male); for confidentiality reasons, the gender of mutation carriers is not revealed.

  2. A Survey of Knowledge and Views Concerning Genetic and Amyloid PET Status Disclosure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that stakeholders in AD prevention research generally wish to know biological test information about their risk for developing AD to assist in making life plans.

  3. Amyloid PET Screening for Enrichment of Early-Stage Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trials: Experience in a Phase 1b Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is being investigated as a screening tool to identify amyloid-positive patients as an enrichment strategy for Alzheimer disease (AD) clinical trial enrollment.

  4. Optimization of Statistical Single Subject Analysis of Brain FDG PET for the Prognosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment-to-Alzheimer's Disease Conversion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Positron emission tomography (PET) with the glucose analog F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is widely used in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases.

  5. Early detection of Alzheimer's disease using MRI hippocampal texture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2015-12-21 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with reduction in hippocampal volume in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

  6. Alzheimer Disease and Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Automatic Classification Based on Cortical Atrophy for Single-Subject Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Radiology 2015-12-11 Digital health tools

    The SVM can be used in single-subject discrimination and can help the clinician arrive at a diagnosis.

  7. Visual Versus Fully Automated Analyses of 18F-FDG and Amyloid PET for Prediction of Dementia Due to Alzheimer Disease in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-11-19 Biomarkers

    Both (18)F-FDG and (11)C-PiB imaging appear to be of limited use for predicting the progression from MCI to dementia due to AD in short-term follow-up, irrespective of the strategy of analysis.

  8. 18F-THK5351: A Novel PET Radiotracer for Imaging Neurofibrillary Pathology in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-11-05 Brain scans and imaging

    (18)F-THK5351 is a useful PET tracer for the early detection of neurofibrillary pathology in AD patients.

  9. Partial-Volume Effect Correction Improves Quantitative Analysis of 18F-Florbetaben β-Amyloid PET Scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-11-05 Biomarkers

    In cohort 1, PVEC increased the effect on AD-versus-HC discrimination from a Cohen d value of 1.68 to 2.0 for composite SUVRs and from 0.04 to 1.04 for mesial temporal cortex SUVRs.

  10. Integrating longitudinal information in hippocampal volume measurements for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. NeuroImage 2015-10-26 Long-term cohort studies

    Structural MRI measures for monitoring Alzheimer's Disease (AD) progression are becoming instrumental in the clinical practice, and more so in the context of longitudinal studies.

  11. Different definitions of neurodegeneration produce similar amyloid/neurodegeneration biomarker group findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-09-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We recently demonstrated that the frequencies of biomarker groups defined by the presence or absence of both amyloidosis (A+) and neurodegeneration (N+) changed dramatically by age in cognitively non-impaired subjects.

  12. The Vallecas Project: A Cohort to Identify Early Markers and Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2015-09-30 Digital health tools

    We have established a valuable homogeneous single-center cohort which, by identifying groups of variables associated with high risk of MCI or dementia conversion, should help to clarify the early physiopathological mechanisms of AD and should provide avenues for prompt diagnosis and AD prevention.

  13. Magnetic resonance imaging biomarkers for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a machine learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2015-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Determination of sensitive and specific markers of very early AD progression is intended to aid researchers and clinicians to develop new treatments and monitor their effectiveness, as well as to lessen the time and cost of clinical trials.

  14. Optical Coherence Tomography in Alzheimer's Disease: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. PloS one 2015-08-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    11 studies were identified, including 380 patients with AD, 68 with MCI and 293 healthy controls (HC).

  15. 18F-FDG PET Improves Diagnosis in Patients with Focal-Onset Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-08-06 Biomarkers

    Brain 18F-FDG PET scans interpreted with Neurostat and 3D-SSP displays accurately detected Alzheimer disease in patients with primary progressive aphasia or corticobasal syndrome as focal-onset dementias.

  16. Brain Imaging and Blood Biomarker Abnormalities in Children With Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-08-01 Biomarkers

    Similar to findings in adult mutation carriers, in the later preclinical and clinical stages of ADAD, mutation-carrying children were distinguished from control individuals by significantly higher plasma Aβ1-42 levels (mean [SD]: carriers, 18.8 [5.1] pg/mL and noncarriers, 13.1 [3.2] pg/mL; P Conclusions and relevance Children at genetic risk for ADAD have functional and structural brain changes and abnormal levels of plasma Aβ1-42.

  17. Amyloid-β 11C-PiB-PET imaging results from 2 randomized bapineuzumab phase 3 AD trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2015-07-24 Genetics

    The (11)C-PiB-PET imaging results demonstrated reduction of fibrillar Aβ accumulation in patients with Alzheimer disease treated with bapineuzumab; however, as no clinical benefit was observed, the findings are consistent with the hypotheses that bapineuzumab may not have been initiated early enough in the disease course, the doses were insufficient, or the most critical Aβ species were inadequately targeted.

  18. Anosognosia in Alzheimer disease: Disconnection between memory and self-related brain networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Anosognosia in AD is due not only to functional changes within cortical midline structures involved in self-referential processes (OFC, PCC), but also to disconnection between these regions as well as with the medial temporal lobe.

  19. Diffusion imaging changes in grey matter in Alzheimer's disease: a potential marker of early neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2015-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is recognized to have a long presymptomatic period, during which there is progressive accumulation of molecular pathology, followed by inexorable neuronal damage.

  20. Optimal Target Region for Subject Classification on the Basis of Amyloid PET Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-07-01 Biomarkers

    We determined that several iterations of the discriminant analysis improved the classification of subjects into the AβL and AβH groups.

  21. The Worldwide Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: An update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), launched in 2004, has worked to accelerate drug development by validating imaging and blood/cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease clinical treatment trials.

  22. Recommendations for the use of PET imaging biomarkers in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative conditions associated with dementia: SEMNIM and SEN consensus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2015-06-20 Disease mechanisms

    The new diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) acknowledges the interest given to biomarkers to improve the specificity in subjects with dementia and to facilitate an early diagnosis of the pathophysiological process of AD in the prodromal or pre-dementia stage.

  23. Activated iron-containing microglia in the human hippocampus identified by magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-06-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Although amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary pathology play important roles in Alzheimer disease (AD), our understanding of AD is incomplete, and the contribution of microglia and iron to neurodegeneration is unknown.

  24. 2014 Update of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: A review of papers published since its inception

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is an ongoing, longitudinal, multicenter study designed to develop clinical, imaging, genetic, and biochemical biomarkers for the early detection and tracking of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. The relative importance of imaging markers for the prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia in mild cognitive impairment - Beyond classical regression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2015-05-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Selecting a set of relevant markers to predict conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a challenging task given the wealth of regional pathologic information that can be extracted from multimodal imaging data.

  26. A pilot study to assess effects of long-term inhalation of airborne particulate matter on early Alzheimer-like changes in the mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PloS one 2015-05-20 Biomarkers

    Exposure to air pollutants, including particulate matter, results in activation of the brain inflammatory response and Alzheimer disease (AD)-like pathology in dogs and humans.

  27. Prevalence of amyloid PET positivity in dementia syndromes: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. JAMA 2015-05-01 Biomarkers

    The likelihood of amyloid positivity was associated with age and APOE ε4 status.

  28. The lower hippocampus global connectivity, the higher its local metabolism in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2015-04-15 Brain scans and imaging

    In both patient groups, intrinsic connectivity between hippocampus and precuneus was significantly reduced.

  29. Amyloid and FDG-PET study of logopenic primary progressive aphasia: evidence for the existence of two subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2015-04-11 Biomarkers

    The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) has been associated with Alzheimer disease, although this relationship is still subject to debate.

  30. Florbetaben PET imaging to detect amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease: Phase 3 study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2015-03-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Florbetaben PET shows high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of histopathology-confirmed neuritic β-amyloid plaques and may thus be a valuable adjunct to clinical diagnosis, particularly for the exclusion of AD.

  31. Cerebellum Can Serve As a Pseudo-Reference Region in Alzheimer Disease to Detect Neuroinflammation Measured with PET Radioligand Binding to Translocator Protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-03-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with an increase in the brain of the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO), which is overexpressed in activated microglia and reactive astrocytes.

  32. Measurement of longitudinal β-amyloid change with 18F-florbetapir PET and standardized uptake value ratios

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-03-05 Biomarkers

    Reference region selection has an important influence on the detection of florbetapir change.

  33. Imaging Amyloidopathy in Parkinson Disease and Parkinsonian Dementia Syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-02-01 Biomarkers

    Dementia arising in patients with Parkinson disease or parkinsonian neurodegeneration comprises a heterogeneous neuropathology.

  34. ¹⁸F-FDG PET for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2015-01-28 Long-term cohort studies

    ¹⁸F-FDFG uptake by brain tissue as measured by positron emission tomography (PET) is a well-established method for assessment of brain function in people with dementia.

  35. Predicting Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Machine Learning Classification of Multimodal Multicenter Diffusion-Tensor and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2015-01-28 Digital health tools

    Our results suggest that DTI data provide better prediction accuracy than GM volume in predementia AD.

  36. Comparing 3T and 1.5T MRI for mapping hippocampal atrophy in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2015-01-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Prior MR imaging studies, primarily at 1.5T, established hippocampal atrophy as a biomarker for Alzheimer disease. 3T MR imaging offers a higher contrast and signal-to-noise ratio, yet distortions and intensity uniformity are harder to control.

  37. Synaptic change in the posterior cingulate gyrus in the progression of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered to be an early stage in the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) providing an opportunity to investigate brain pathogenesis prior to the onset of dementia.

  38. Independent information from cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β and florbetapir imaging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-12-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography amyloid-β were measured at baseline in 769 persons [161 healthy controls, 68 subjective memory complaints, 419 mild cognitive impairment and 121 Alzheimer's disease dementia, mean age 72 years (standard deviation 7 years), 47% females] and used to predict diagnosis, APOE ε4 carriage status, cerebral blood flow, cerebrospinal fluid total-tau and phosphorylated-tau levels (cross-sectionally); and hippocampal volume, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography results and Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-cognitive subscale scores (longitudinally).

  39. Identification of diabetes-related dementia: Longitudinal perfusion SPECT and amyloid PET studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2014-12-20 Biomarkers

    A subset of a dementia subgroup with characteristics predominantly associated with DM-related factors may underlie a pathophysiology different from AD, although these patients were clinically diagnosed as having AD.

  40. Retinal fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy measures depend on the severity of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta ophthalmologica 2014-12-07 Tau biomarkers

    FLIO set-up uses a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (HRA2, Heidelberg Engineering, Germany), which was modified by the use of an excitation pulse laser BLD440 (Becker&Hickl, Berlin, Germany) and detection of fluorescence lifetime by time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC; Becker&Hickl) in two spectral channels (channel 1: 490-560 nm, channel 2: 560-700 nm).

  41. Deep Brain Stimulation Influences Brain Structure in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain stimulation 2014-12-03 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We present the first in-human evidence that, in addition to modulating neural circuit activity, DBS may influence the natural course of brain atrophy in a neurodegenerative disease.

  42. Multimodality imaging of Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2014-11-20 Biomarkers

    Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer disease, result in cognitive decline and dementia and are a leading cause of mortality in the growing elderly population.

  43. Clinical Utility of Amyloid Imaging in a Complex Case of Corticobasal Syndrome Presenting with Psychiatric Symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of neurological disorders 2014-11-01 Biomarkers

    Clinical indications of amyloid imaging in atypical dementia remain unclear.

  44. The Centiloid Project: Standardizing quantitative amyloid plaque estimation by PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2014-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Although amyloid imaging with PiB-PET ([C-11]Pittsburgh Compound-B positron emission tomography), and now with F-18-labeled tracers, has produced remarkably consistent qualitative findings across a large number of centers, there has been considerable variability in the exact numbers reported as quantitative outcome measures of tracer retention.

  45. Anatomical heterogeneity of Alzheimer disease: based on cortical thickness on MRIs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-24 Brain scans and imaging

    This cluster analysis of cortical thickness of the entire brain showed that AD dementia in the earlier stages can be categorized into various anatomical subtypes, with distinct clinical features.

  46. The agreement between Aβ classification with CSF Aβ42 and 18F-flutemetamol positron emission tomography was very high (κ = 0.85).

  47. Brain PET in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2014-10-01 Biomarkers

    FDG-PET and amyloid PET imaging are valuable in the assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Age-specific population frequencies of cerebral β-amyloidosis and neurodegeneration among people with normal cognitive function aged 50-89 years: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2014-09-04 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    As preclinical Alzheimer's disease becomes a target for therapeutic intervention, the overlap between imaging abnormalities associated with typical ageing and those associated with Alzheimer's disease needs to be recognised.

  49. Functional connectivity in autosomal dominant and late-onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging changes with progressing AD severity are similar between ADAD and LOAD.

  50. Random Forest ensembles for detection and prediction of Alzheimer's disease with a good between-cohort robustness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2014-08-28 Long-term cohort studies

    Computer-aided diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a rapidly developing field of neuroimaging with strong potential to be used in practice.

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