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  1. Inflammatory biomarker candidates in dementia with Lewy bodies: diagnostic classification, clinical associations, and survival 2026-11-01
  2. Longitudinal plasma biomarkers and multimodal PET across APOE ε4 genotypes: a prospective cohort study 2026-11-01
  3. Concurrent cognitive, behavioral and systemic physiological features mark preclinical Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30

Studies

698 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 123
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 53
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 46
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 36
  • medRxiv 29

196 journals in all.

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  1. Blood-Based Biomarkers for Early Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis in Real-World Settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Cognitive tests and assessment

    As our knowledge about the biology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) expands and we recognize the significance of early intervention for effective treatment, there is a shift in focus toward detecting the disease at an early stage.

  2. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 231 Increases at One-Year Intervals in Cognitively Unimpaired Subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau231 showed a significant rate of change over time.

  3. Potential Biomarkers in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma for Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Genetics

    The molecules released into CSF, namely APOE2 for any dementia, APOE2 and Siglec-3 for AD, APOE2 for vascular dementia, and APOE2 for DLB, might be potential biomarkers.

  4. The potential of blood neurofilament light as a marker of neurodegeneration for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2024-01-01 Biomarkers

    Over the past several years, there has been a surge in blood biomarker studies examining the value of plasma or serum neurofilament light (NfL) as a biomarker of neurodegeneration for Alzheimer's disease.

  5. Plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, and NfL as early indicators of dementia risk in a community cohort: The Shanghai Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-12-22 Biomarkers

    Higher concentrations of plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, and NfL were correlated to higher decline speed of Mini-Mental State Examination score, and higher risk of incident dementia and AD.

  6. High-Performance Plasma Biomarker Panel for Alzheimer's Disease Screening Using a Femtomolar-Level Label-Free Biosensing System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. ACS nano 2023-12-20 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older people.

  7. Blood Neurofilament Levels Predict Cognitive Decline across the Alzheimer's Disease Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-12-11 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a potential diagnostic and prognostic plasma biomarker for numerous neurological diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Plasma p-tau212: antemortem diagnostic performance and prediction of autopsy verification of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-12-11 Biomarkers

    Blood phosphorylated tau (p-tau) biomarkers, including p-tau217, show high associations with Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathologic change and clinical stage.

  9. A Blood Screening Test for Dementia with Lewy Bodies for Primary Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease & Parkinsonism 2023-12-04 Biomarkers

    The proteomic profile discriminated DLB and PD from NC with an AUC (Area Under the Curve) of 0.96 with demographics of age, sex and education.

  10. Blood-based biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: Future directions for implementation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-12-04 Biomarkers

    Current diagnostic pathways are heterogeneous, meaning many AD patients are missed while low-risk patients undergo unnecessary procedures.

  11. Alzheimer's disease and inflammatory biomarkers positively correlate in plasma in the UK-ADRC cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-27 Biomarkers

    Unique AD-inflammatory biomarker correlations in a community-based cohort reveal a new avenue for utilizing plasma-based biomarkers in the assessment of AD and related dementias.

  12. Biological variation estimates of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers in healthy individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-20 Biomarkers

    BV estimates for AD plasma biomarkers can potentially refine their clinical and research interpretation.

  13. A novel ultrasensitive assay for plasma p-tau217: Performance in individuals with subjective cognitive decline and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-17 Biomarkers

    UGOT p-tau217 can be an easily accessible and efficient way to screen and monitor patients with suspected AD pathophysiology, even in the early stages of the continuum.

  14. Alzheimer's Disease CSF Biomarkers as Possible Indicators of Tap-Test Response in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2023-11-15 Biomarkers

    The aim of the present study is the evaluation of established Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in patients with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH), both individually and as a total profile, and the investigation of their use as potential predictors of Tap-test responsiveness.

  15. Trajectories of CSF and plasma biomarkers across Alzheimer's disease continuum: disease staging by NF-L, p-tau181, and GFAP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2023-11-15 Biomarkers

    CSF-to-plasma transition will open new avenues for molecular phenotyping of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Genetic risk scores enhance the diagnostic value of plasma biomarkers of brain amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-11-02 Genetics

    Blood-based biomarkers offer strong potential to revolutionize diagnosis, trial enrolment and treatment monitoring in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2023-10-25 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of people worldwide.

  18. Cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluation of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein to detect and predict clinical syndromes of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-10-25 Biomarkers

    Plasma GFAP discriminated AD dementia from normal cognition (adjusted mean difference = 0.90 standard deviation [SD]) and mild cognitive impairment (adjusted mean difference = 0.72 SD), and demonstrated superior discrimination compared to alternative plasma biomarkers.

  19. Plasma biomarkers predict Alzheimer's disease before clinical onset in Chinese cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-10-24 Biomarkers

    Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ)42, phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181, and neurofilament light chain (NfL) are promising biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. The role of plasma neurofilament light chain and glial fibrillary acidic protein in subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2023-09-19 Biomarkers

    GFAP was lower in NB compared to prodromal AD (p = 0.003, d = 1.463) and AD-D (p = 0.002, d = 1.695).

  21. Early Alzheimer's Disease Screening Approach Using Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-09-15 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent dementia, but it shows similar initial symptoms to other neurocognitive diseases (Lewy body disease (LBD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)).

  22. CSF proteome profiling reveals biomarkers to discriminate dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer´s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-09-13 Tau biomarkers

    Diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is challenging and specific biofluid biomarkers are highly needed.

  23. The potential clinical value of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-09-11 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers could revolutionize many areas of the AD diagnostic pathway and care continuum, but further research is needed.

  24. Plasma Neurofilament Light Chains as Blood-Based Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis of Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-09-06 Biomarkers

    The number of elderly dogs is increasing significantly worldwide, and many elderly dogs develop canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CCDS).

  25. Plasma phosphorylated tau-217 exhibits sex-specific prognostication of cognitive decline and brain atrophy in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-08-28 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 may capture earlier Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related cognitive and brain atrophy hallmarks in females compared to males, possibly reflective of increased susceptibility to AD pathophysiology.

  26. Non-invasive Biomarkers for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease: a New-Age Perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2023-08-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects the elderly population.

  27. High diagnostic performance of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid beta-synuclein for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2023-08-08 Biomarkers

    Beta-synuclein is a promising cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarker of synaptic damage.

  28. A blood biomarker test for brain amyloid impacts the clinical evaluation of cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2023-08-07 Biomarkers

    A 95% (347/366) concordance rate was noted between clinicians' patient selection and the test's intended use criteria.

  29. Plasma-derived biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and neuropsychiatric symptoms: A community-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-07-30 Biomarkers

    P-tau181 (odds ratio [OR] 2.06, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.41-3.00, p < 0.001), p-tau217 (OR 1.70, 95% CI 1.10-2.61, p = 0.016), and t-tau (OR 1.44, 95% CI 1.08-1.92, p = 0.012) were associated with appetite change.

  30. Alzheimer's polygenic risk scores, APOE, Alzheimer's disease risk, and dementia-related blood biomarker levels in a population-based cohort study followed over 17 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-07-29 Biomarkers

    The use of PRSs may be beneficial for increased precision in risk estimates among APOE4 carriers.

  31. Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction and Aβ42/40 Ratio Dose-Dependent Modulation with the ApoE Genotype within the ATN Framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-07-29 Biomarkers

    The definition of Alzheimer's disease (AD) now considers the presence of the markers of amyloid (A), tau deposition (T), and neurodegeneration (N) essential for diagnosis.

  32. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-07-25 Biomarkers

    Biomarkers were correlated with one another.

  33. Profiling of plasma biomarkers in the context of memory assessment in a tertiary memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2023-07-25 Biomarkers

    Plasma biomarkers have shown promising performance in research cohorts in discriminating between different stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  34. Vertical Graphene-Based Printed Electrochemical Biosensor for Simultaneous Detection of Four Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biosensors 2023-07-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Early detection and timely intervention play a vital role in the effective management of Alzheimer's disease.

  35. Associations of Alzheimer's-related plasma biomarkers with cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2023-07-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein significantly correlated with cognitive function tests, including all subdomains, with a notable increase in the PDD group compared with the HC and PDND groups, while plasma neurofilament light chain captured both cognitive decline and disease severity in the PDND and PDD groups.

  36. Novel CSF tau biomarkers can be used for disease staging of sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023-07-16 Tau biomarkers

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

  37. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study in China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Science bulletin 2023-07-10 Biomarkers

    Discrepancies in diagnostic biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) may arise from racial disparities, risk factors, or lifestyle differences.

  38. Neurofilament Light Chain as a Potential Biomarker in Plasma for Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Journal of integrative neuroscience 2023-06-30 Biomarkers

    A total of 24 published articles that included 2397 AD and 3242 MCI patients were analysed.

  39. Longitudinal blood biomarker trajectories in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-06-09 Biomarkers

    Plasma markers can track biological change over time, with plasma pTau181 and GFAP markers showing longitudinal change in individuals with preclinical AD.

  40. Phosphorylated tau in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Advances in clinical chemistry 2023-06-09 Biomarkers

    There is a need for blood biomarkers to detect individuals at different Alzheimer's disease (AD) stages because obtaining cerebrospinal fluid-based biomarkers is invasive and costly.

  41. Comparative evaluation of clinical and cerebrospinal fluid biomarker characteristics in rapidly and non-rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-06-08 Biomarkers

    Lower CSF Amyloid beta 1-42 concentrations (p = 0.048), lower Amyloid beta 42/40 ratio (p = 0.038), and higher Tau/Amyloid-beta 1-42 ratio, as well as pTau/Amyloid-beta 1-42 ratio (each p = 0.004) were associated with rpAD.

  42. Unsupervised [18F]Flortaucipir cutoffs for tau positivity and staging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2023-06-05 Brain scans and imaging

    GMM-based cutoffs classified less subjects as T+, mainly in the A- CN (<3.4% vs >28.5%) and A+ CN (<14.5% vs >42.9%) groups and showed higher agreement with visual rating (ICC=0.91 vs ICC<0.62) than published cutoffs.

  43. Plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) both reflect early changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.

  44. Levels of Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers are altered after food intake-A pilot intervention study in healthy adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-27 Biomarkers

    Our data suggest that AD-related biomarkers are altered by food intake.

  45. Translating blood biomarkers into clinical practice for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges and perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-23 Biomarkers

    Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical practice is urgent with advances in AD treatment.

  46. Longitudinal changes in Alzheimer's-related plasma biomarkers and brain amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40${{\rm A}\beta }_{42}/{{\rm A}\beta }_{40}$ may begin declining decades prior to brain amyloid accumulation, whereas p-tau ratios, GFAP, and NfL increase closer in time.

  47. Design and feasibility of an Alzheimer's disease blood test study in a diverse community-based population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-19 Biomarkers

    Of the 859 participants enrolled in this ongoing study, 20.6% self-identified as Black or African American.

  48. Detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease in its preclinical stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-05-18 Treatments

    Longitudinal multimodal biomarker studies reveal that the continuum of Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes a long latent phase, referred to as preclinical AD, which precedes the onset of symptoms by decades.

  49. CSF Aβ40 Levels Do Not Correlate with the Clinical Manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2023-05-15 Biomarkers

    Participants were classified as hyposecretors (n = 22, median Aβ40 5,870.500 pg/mL, interquartile range [IQR] 1,431), normosecretors (n = 47, median Aβ40 10,817 pg/mL, IQR 3,622), and hypersecretors (n = 7, 19,767 pg/mL, IQR 3,088).

  50. Preanalytical stability of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-05-12 Biomarkers

    Phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181), phosphorylated tau 231 (p-tau231), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) concentrations were unchanged both when stored at +4°C and +18°C. Amyloid-β 40 (Aβ40) and amyloid-β 42 (Aβ42) concentrations were stable for 24 h at +4°C but declined when stored at +18°C for longer than 6 h. This decline did not affect the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio.

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