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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. Association of short-term cognitive decline and MCI-to-AD dementia conversion with CSF, MRI, amyloid- and 18F-FDG-PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-03-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Disease-modifying treatment trials are increasingly advanced to the prodromal or preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and inclusion criteria are based on biomarkers rather than clinical symptoms.

  2. Quantification of white matter cellularity and damage in preclinical and early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-03-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Interest in understanding the roles of white matter (WM) inflammation and damage in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) has been growing significantly in recent years.

  3. Our findings suggest that dCDT is a suitable screening tool to identify early cognitive dysfunction.

  4. Microglial activation in early Alzheimer trajectory is associated with higher gray matter volume

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2019-02-22 Brain scans and imaging

    In this in vivo study, we have demonstrated that microglial activation quantified using [ 11 C]PBR28 PET was associated with higher gray matter volume and higher hippocampal volume in patients with MCI.

  5. Diffusion MRI Indices and Their Relation to Cognitive Impairment in Brain Aging: The Updated Multi-protocol Approach in ADNI3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2019-02-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Brain imaging with diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is sensitive to microstructural white matter (WM) changes associated with brain aging and neurodegeneration.

  6. Predicting Alzheimer's disease progression using multi-modal deep learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-02-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition marked by a decline in cognitive functions with no validated disease modifying treatment.

  7. A parameter-efficient deep learning approach to predict conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. NeuroImage 2019-01-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    The most novel characteristics of our machine learning model compared to previous ones are the following: 1) our deep learning model is multi-tasking, in the sense that it jointly learns to simultaneously predict both MCI to AD conversion as well as AD vs. healthy controls classification, which facilitates relevant feature extraction for AD prognostication; 2) the neural network classifier employs fewer parameters than other deep learning architectures which significantly limits data-overfitting (we use ∼550,000 network parameters, which is orders of magnitude lower than other network designs); 3) both structural MRI images and their warp field characteristics, which quantify local volumetric changes in relation to the MRI template, were used as separate input streams to extract as much information as possible from the MRI data.

  8. Gradual Disturbances of the Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (ALFF) and Fractional ALFF in Alzheimer Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-12-20 Caregiving

    In the machine learning verification, the identification accuracy of SCD, aMCI, d-AD from NC was higher when fused ALFF and fALFF features (76.44, 81.94, and 91.83%, respectively) than only using ALFF or fALFF features.

  9. Increased Alzheimer's risk during the menopause transition: A 3-year longitudinal brain imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PloS one 2018-12-12 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Two thirds of all persons with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are women.

  10. In vivo molecular imaging of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2018-11-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    It has become increasingly evident that neuroinflammation plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders.

  11. Signs and Artifacts in Amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2018-11-01 Biomarkers

    Establishing a diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia can be challenging, particularly early in the course of the disease.

  12. Multisite study of the relationships between antemortem [ 11 C]PIB‐PET Centiloid values and postmortem measures of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2018-10-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Our study demonstrated the robustness of a multisite Centiloid [ 11 C]PIB‐PET study and established a range of pathology‐based CL thresholds.

  13. Understanding disease progression and improving Alzheimer's disease clinical trials: Recent highlights from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-13 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    (1) Data-driven AD progression models supported multifactorial interactions rather than a linear cascade of events.

  14. Plasma Amyloid as Prescreener for the Earliest Alzheimer Pathological Changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-10-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    Plasma Abeta42/Abeta40 ratio has potential as a prescreener to identify Alzheimer pathological changes in cognitively normal individuals with SCD.

  15. Assessing Synaptic Density in Alzheimer Disease With Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Ten participants with AD (5 male and 5 female; mean [SD] age, 72.7 [6.3] years; 10 [100%] β-amyloid positive) were compared with 11 participants who were cognitively normal (5 male and 6 female; mean [SD] age, 72.9 [8.7] years; 11 [100%] β-amyloid negative).

  16. MRI predictors of amyloid pathology: results from the EMIF-AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-09-27 Digital health tools

    Amyloid pathology is associated with changes in structural MRI measures in CN and MCI.

  17. We investigated the effect of crenezumab, a humanized anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) immunoglobulin (Ig)G4 monoclonal antibody, on biomarkers of amyloid pathology, neurodegeneration, and disease progression in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. An MRI measure of degenerative and cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2018-09-14 Biomarkers

    We developed, replicated, and validated an MRI measure of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies that are associated with clinical and neuropathologic diagnosis of AD and related to established biomarkers.

  19. Machine learning identified an Alzheimer's disease-related FDG-PET pattern which is also expressed in Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-09-05 Digital health tools

    Utilizing the publicly available neuroimaging database enabled by Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI; http://adni.loni.usc.edu/ ), we have compared the performance of automated classification algorithms that differentiate AD vs. normal subjects using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).

  20. Amyloid PET results were positive for 242 patients (48%).

  21. Discriminative Accuracy of [18F]flortaucipir Positron Emission Tomography for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA 2018-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In secondary analyses, the area under the curve (AUC) of [18F]flortaucipir SUVR was compared with 3 established magnetic resonance imaging measures (hippocampal volumes and AD signature and whole-brain cortical thickness), and sensitivity and specificity of [18F]flortaucipir in MCI due to AD vs non-AD neurodegenerative disorders were determined.

  22. SPECT and PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annals of nuclear medicine 2018-08-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia.

  23. Machine learning of neuroimaging for assisted diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-08-11 Digital health tools

    Machine learning does not differentiate clinically relevant disease categories yet.

  24. Utilizing semantic intrusions to identify amyloid positivity in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2018-08-03 Biomarkers

    SIs on the LASSI-L related to PSI and frPSI uniquely differentiated Amy+ and Amy- participants with aMCI and likely reflect deficits with inhibition and source memory in preclinical AD not captured by traditional cognitive measures.

  25. Neurodegeneration, synaptic dysfunction, and gliosis are phenotypic of Alzheimer dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2018-06-29 Biomarkers

    These results provide evidence that, in the absence of significant neurodegenerative processes, individuals who harbor AD neuropathology may remain cognitively unimpaired.

  26. Brain properties predict proximity to symptom onset in sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-06-01 Digital health tools

    Within the training set, individuals closer to or beyond their parent's symptom onset demonstrated reduced grey matter volume and altered functional connectivity, specifically in regions known to be vulnerable in Alzheimer's disease.

  27. Distinct dynamic profiles of microglial activation are associated with progression of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although brain neuroinflammation may play an instrumental role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease, its actual impact on disease progression remains controversial, being reported as either detrimental or protective.

  28. Longitudinal brain imaging in preclinical Alzheimer disease: impact of APOE ε4 genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-06-01 Genetics

    While prior work reliably demonstrates that the APOE ɛ4 allele has deleterious group level effects on Alzheimer disease pathology, the homogeneity of its influence across the lifespan and spatially in the brain remains unknown.

  29. Antibody-Based In Vivo PET Imaging Detects Amyloid-β Reduction in Alzheimer Transgenic Mice After BACE-1 Inhibition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2018-05-31 Biomarkers

    The concentration of 124 I-RmAb158-scFv8D3, as measured in vivo with PET, increased with age and corresponded well with the ex vivo autoradiography and Aβ immunohistochemistry results.

  30. Amyloid positron emission tomography candidates may focus more on benefits than risks of results disclosure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-05-30 Biomarkers

    Future research should examine whether minimizing drawbacks at the pre-imaging stage has adverse consequences on results disclosure.

  31. MRI Characterizes the Progressive Course of AD and Predicts Conversion to Alzheimer's Dementia 24 Months Before Probable Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-05-24 Digital health tools

    There is no disease-modifying treatment currently available for AD, one of the more impacting neurodegenerative diseases affecting more than 47.5 million people worldwide.

  32. PET staging of amyloidosis using striatum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-05-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    PET can evaluate amyloid expansion from cortex to subcortex.

  33. Alzheimer Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Integrated Pulsed Arterial Spin-Labeling MRI and 18F-FDG PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Radiology 2018-05-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Analyses revealed high overlap between components, regional and quantitative hypoperfusion, and hypometabolism in patients with AD compared with HC participants in precuneus, parietal, temporal, and occipital cortex.

  34. Modulation of functional activity and connectivity by acupuncture in patients with Alzheimer disease as measured by resting-state fMRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PloS one 2018-05-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Acupuncture has been used in the therapy of Alzheimer disease (AD); however, its neural mechanisms are still unclear.

  35. Japanese and North American Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative studies: Harmonization for international trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-05-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    These results support the feasibility of bridging of clinical trials in the prodromal stage of AD between Asia and western countries.

  36. Electromagnetic signatures of the preclinical and prodromal stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Biomarkers useful for the predementia stages of Alzheimer's disease are needed.

  37. Combining Polygenic Hazard Score With Volumetric MRI and Cognitive Measures Improves Prediction of Progression From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-04-30 Long-term cohort studies

    Improved prediction of progression to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) among older individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is of high clinical and societal importance.

  38. Simultaneous resting-state FDG-PET/fMRI in Alzheimer Disease: Relationship between glucose metabolism and intrinsic activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. NeuroImage 2018-04-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Simultaneously evaluating resting-state brain glucose metabolism and intrinsic functional activity has potential to impact the clinical neurosciences of Alzheimer Disease (AD).

  39. Memory decline accompanies subthreshold amyloid accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2018-03-23 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Memory decline accompanies Aβ accumulation in otherwise healthy, Aβ-negative older adults.

  40. Machine Learning-based Individual Assessment of Cortical Atrophy Pattern in Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum: Development of the Classifier and Longitudinal Evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-03-07 Digital health tools

    To develop a new method for measuring Alzheimer's disease (AD)-specific similarity of cortical atrophy patterns at the individual-level, we employed an individual-level machine learning algorithm.

  41. Rates of Amyloid Imaging Positivity in Patients With Primary Progressive Aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-03-01 Biomarkers

    Inclusion criteria included clinical diagnosis of PPA; availability of complete speech, language, and cognitive testing; magnetic resonance imaging performed within 6 months of the cognitive evaluation; and PET carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound-B or florbetapir F 18 brain scan results.

  42. Cognitive and neuroimaging features and brain β-amyloidosis in individuals at risk of Alzheimer's disease (INSIGHT-preAD): a longitudinal observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-02-27 Genetics

    The amyloid β subgroups did not differ for any psychobehavioural, cognitive, actigraphy, and structural and functional neuroimaging results after adjustment for age, sex, and level of education More participants positive for amyloid β deposition had the APOE ε4 allele (33 [38%] vs 29 [13%], p 1-42 concentration in CSF significantly correlated with mean 18 F-florbetapir uptake at baseline (r=-0·62, p 1-42 to amyloid β 1-40 (r=-0·61, p 18 F-florbetapir uptake at baseline (mean standard uptake value ratio 1·46 [SD 0·16] vs 1·02 [SD 0·20]), and more were carriers of the APOE ε4 allele (three [75%] of four vs 33 [39%] of 83).

  43. Design and first baseline data of the DZNE multicenter observational study on predementia Alzheimer's disease (DELCODE)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-02-07 Prevention and risk

    In this publication, we report cognitive and clinical data as well as apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker results of the first 394 baseline data sets.

  44. Spatial patterns of neuroimaging biomarker change in individuals from families with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found a sequence to pathological changes, with rates of Aβ deposition in mutation carriers being significantly different from those in non-carriers first (across regions that showed a significant difference, at a mean of 18·9 years [SD 3·3] before expected onset), followed by hypometabolism (14·1 years [5·1] before expected onset), and lastly structural decline (4·7 years [4·2] before expected onset).

  45. Brain and blood metabolite signatures of pathology and progression in Alzheimer disease: A targeted metabolomics study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2018-01-25 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that distinct sphingolipid species including sphingomyelin (SM) with acyl residue sums C16:0, C18:1, and C16:1 (SM C16:0, SM C18:1, SM C16:1) and hydroxysphingomyelin with acyl residue sum C14:1 (SM (OH) C14:1) were consistently associated with severity of AD pathology at autopsy and AD progression across prodromal and preclinical stages.

  46. Use of multimodality imaging and artificial intelligence for diagnosis and prognosis of early stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine 2018-01-10 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia.

  47. Comprehension of an Elevated Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Biomarker Result by Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    The Study of Knowledge and Reactions to Amyloid Testing, a substudy of an AD prevention trial, involved 2 semistructured telephone interviews with 80 participants recruited from 9 study sites: 50 received elevated and 30 received not elevated amyloid PET scan results.

  48. Deep Brain Stimulation of Frontal Lobe Networks to Treat Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The study objective was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) at the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) region to specifically modulate frontal lobe behavioral and cognitive networks as a novel treatment approach for Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  49. The Vascular Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: A Key to Preclinical Prediction of Dementia Using Neuroimaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Prevention and risk

    The vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (VHAD) was proposed 24 years ago from observations made in our laboratory using aging rats subjected to chronic brain hypoperfusion.

  50. Optical Coherence Tomography in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2017-12-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    Over the past decade, a surge of evidence has documented various pathological processes in the retina of patients suffering from mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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