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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

701 studies carry this tag.

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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. Amyloid blood biomarker detects Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2018-05-01 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is currently incurable, but there is general agreement that a minimally invasive blood biomarker for screening in preclinical stages would be crucial for future therapy.

  2. Label-free detection of β-amyloid peptides (Aβ40 and Aβ42): a colorimetric sensor array for plasma monitoring of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nanoscale 2018-04-01 Biomarkers

    Monitoring the ratio of 40- and 42-residue amyloid β peptides (i.e., Aβ40 and Aβ42) in human plasma is considered one of the hallmarks of detection of the early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. An update on diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of molecular diagnostics 2018-01-23 Biomarkers

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major worldwide neurological disorder of epidemic proportions.

  4. A Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease: Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Biomarkers

    Ever since the discovery of APOEɛ4 around 25 years ago, researchers have been excited about the potential of a blood test for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. A Decade of Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Research: An Evolving Field, Improving Study Designs, and the Challenge of Replication

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers represent a less invasive and potentially cheaper approach for aiding Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection compared with cerebrospinal fluid and some neuroimaging biomarkers.

  6. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Early and Differential Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    An accurate and early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important to select optimal patient care and is critical in current clinical trials targeting core AD neuropathological features.

  7. From Cerebrospinal Fluid to Blood: The Third Wave of Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    The past five years have seen an enormous development in the field of fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders.

  8. Reproducibility of Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid-Biomarker Measurements under Clinical Routine Conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Biomarkers

    Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is one of the key tools for the state-of-the-art differential diagnosis of dementias.

  9. Revolution of Alzheimer Precision Neurology. Passageway of Systems Biology and Neurophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Digital health tools

    The Precision Neurology development process implements systems theory with system biology and neurophysiology in a parallel, bidirectional research path: a combined hypothesis-driven investigation of systems dysfunction within distinct molecular, cellular, and large-scale neural network systems in both animal models as well as through tests for the usefulness of these candidate dynamic systems biomarkers in different diseases and subgroups at different stages of pathophysiological progression.

  10. The Past and the Future of Alzheimer's Disease Fluid Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Following the development of the first methods to measure the core Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers total-tau (T-tau), phosphorylated tau (P-tau) and the 42 amino acid form of amyloid-β (Aβ42), there has been an enormous expansion of this scientific research area.

  11. Oligomeric forms of amyloid-β protein in plasma as a potential blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-12-15 Biomarkers

    Plasma levels of Aβ oligomers could be assessed using MDS, which might be a simple, noninvasive, and accessible assay for evaluating brain amyloid deposition related to AD pathology.

  12. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease biomarker amyloid β1-42 in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017-11-23 Tau biomarkers

    CSF Aβ1-42 was higher in the T2DM group than the nondiabetic group.

  13. Cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarkers for neurodegenerative dementias: An update of the Consensus of the Task Force on Biological Markers in Psychiatry of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2017-10-27 Costs and economics

    In the 12 years since the publication of the first Consensus Paper of the WFSBP on biomarkers of neurodegenerative dementias, enormous advancement has taken place in the field, and the Task Force takes now the opportunity to extend and update the original paper.

  14. Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers and Future Decline in Cognitive Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2017-10-13 Biomarkers

    14% participants increased their global Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) score from 0 to 0.5 during follow-up.

  15. Incremental value of biomarker combinations to predict progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-10-10 Biomarkers

    ROC curves of the five best two-, three-, and four-parameter combinations were analyzed for significant superiority by a bootstrapping wrapper around a support vector machine with linear kernel.

  16. Proteomic studies of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Expert review of proteomics 2017-10-03 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting the brain.

  17. Neurofilaments and tau proteins in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in dementias and neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia 2017-09-25 Tau biomarkers

    The ratio CSF p-tau/t-tau was significantly higher in the NC group than that in the AD or OD groups (P<0.0005 for each group).

  18. Evidence that iron accelerates Alzheimer's pathology: a CSF biomarker study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2017-09-22 Tau biomarkers

    In subjects with biomarker-confirmed Alzheimer's pathology, high CSF ferritin (>6.2 ng/mL) was associated with accelerated depreciation of CSF Aβ1-42 (reporting increased plaque formation; p=0.0001).

  19. 18 F-AV-1451 and CSF T-tau and P-tau as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2017-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    To elucidate the relationship between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) total-tau (T-tau) and phosphorylated tau (P-tau) with the tau PET ligand 18 F-AV-1451 in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we examined 30 cognitively healthy elderly (15 with preclinical AD), 14 prodromal AD, and 39 AD dementia patients.

  20. Neurogranin and tau in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma of patients with acute ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC neurology 2017-08-30 Biomarkers

    These findings indicate that although plasma and CSF neurogranin may reflect the volume of acute cerebral ischemia, this synaptic protein is less likely to be a potential AIS biomarker.

  21. Differential role of CSF fatty acid binding protein 3, α-synuclein, and Alzheimer's disease core biomarkers in Lewy body disorders and Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-07-28 Biomarkers

    The combination of CSF biomarkers linked to different aspects of neurodegeneration, such as FABP3, α-syn, and AD biomarkers, improves the biochemical characterization of AD and Lewy body disorders.

  22. A Review of Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Moving from CSF to Blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2017-07-21 Biomarkers

    A set of core cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes total tau (T-tau), phosphorylated tau (P-tau) and β-amyloid 42 (Aβ42).

  23. Elevated plasma ferritin in elderly individuals with high neocortical amyloid-β load

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2017-07-11 Biomarkers

    Ferritin, an iron storage and regulation protein, has been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, it has not been investigated in preclinical AD, detected by neocortical amyloid-β load (NAL), before cognitive impairment.

  24. Strategic roadmap for an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease based on biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2017-07-11 Costs and economics

    The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be improved by the use of biological measures.

  25. Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Neurofilament Light Chain Levels in Definite Subtypes of Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-05-01 Biomarkers

    This study confirms the role of NFL as a biomarker in ALS.

  26. Neuropsychological measures that detect early impairment and decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-04-14 Tau biomarkers

    Identifying which neuropsychological measures detect early cognitive changes associated with Alzheimer disease (AD), brain pathology would be helpful clinically for the diagnosis of early AD and for the design of clinical trials.

  27. Cerebrospinal fluid markers detect Alzheimer's disease in nonamnestic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-02-11 Tau biomarkers

    Nineteen nonamnestic autopsied cases with relevant CSF values were included.

  28. Alzheimer disease: CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer disease - approaching consensus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2017-02-03 Tau biomarkers

    A European working group has provided a new set of recommendations for the use of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in the diagnostic evaluation of Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment.

  29. Markers of neuroinflammation associated with Alzheimer's disease pathology in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2017-02-01 Biomarkers

    Studies on markers of inflammation in subjects with mild cognitive impairment or AD dementia provided inconsistent results.

  30. Alzheimer's biomarkers in daily practice (ABIDE) project: Rationale and design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017-01-23 Brain scans and imaging

    Based on retrospective data, we develop personalized risk estimates for MCI patients.

  31. Biomarkers for the Early Detection and Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2017-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The recent failures of potential disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) may reflect the fact that the enrolled participants in clinical trials are already too advanced to derive a clinical benefit.

  32. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β 42, Total Tau and Phosphorylated Tau are Low in Patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Analogies and Differences with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    Co-existence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a frequent finding, thus a common pathophysiological basis between AD and NPH has been postulated.

  33. Effect of Spinal Manometers on Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β Concentration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Biomarkers

    The effect of spinal manometers on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β (Aβ) concentration was investigated.

  34. Genetic Risk as a Marker of Amyloid-β and Tau Burden in Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    In EDAR and DESCRIPA test data, inclusion of a case/control PGRS was no more predictive of Aβ, and a combined Aβ and tau endpoint than the basic models (accuracies of 66.0%, and 73.3% respectively).

  35. Kidins220 Correlates with Tau in Alzheimer's Disease Brain and Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    Identification of neurodegeneration-monitoring biomarkers would be of great clinical value for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis.

  36. Plasma Tau Association with Brain Atrophy in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    Plasma tau was negatively correlated with GMD in the medial temporal lobe (MTL), precuneus, thalamus, and striatum.

  37. Surface Plasmon Resonance Clinical Biosensors for Medical Diagnostics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. ACS Sensors 2016-12-25 Risk factors

    The design and application of sensors for monitoring biomolecules in clinical samples is a common goal of the sensing research community.

  38. Conflicting cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and progression to dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2016-12-09 Tau biomarkers

    Patients with all biomarkers positive for AD (N = 145) had the highest hazard for progression to dementia due to AD, whilst patients with no positive biomarkers (N = 111) had the lowest.

  39. Reference Intervals for Plasma Amyloid β in Korean Adults Without Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of laboratory medicine 2016-11 Biomarkers

    Amyloid β (Aβ) peptides are important components of plaques in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  40. Recommendations for CSF AD biomarkers in the diagnostic evaluation of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-10-27 Tau biomarkers

    This article presents recommendations, based on the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation method, for the clinical application of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β1-42, tau, and phosphorylated tau in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with dementia.

  41. Cerebrospinal fluid tau, neurogranin, and neurofilament light in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2016-10-04 Biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau (total tau, T-tau), neurofilament light (NFL), and neurogranin (Ng) are potential biomarkers for neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. A Decade of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease in Belgium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-08-10 Tau biomarkers

    During the past ten years, over 5,000 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were analyzed at the Reference Center for Biological Markers of Dementia (BIODEM), UAntwerp, for core Alzheimer's disease (AD) CSF biomarkers: amyloid-β peptide of 42 amino acids (Aβ1-42), total tau protein (T-tau), and tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (P-tau181P).

  43. Estimation of Tau and Phosphorylated Tau181 in Serum of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2016-07-26 Biomarkers

    The elevated level of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Tau and phosphorylated Tau181 (p-Tau181) proteins are well established hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  44. Low Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-Beta Concentration Is Associated with Poorer Delayed Memory Recall in Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2016-07-19 Tau biomarkers

    In women we found a significant correlation between CSF amyloid-beta (Aβ1-42) and several subtests measuring delayed recall.

  45. Neurofilament light chain: a biomarker for genetic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2016-07-01 Biomarkers

    NfL in both serum and CSF has the potential to serve as a biomarker for clinical disease onset and has a prognostic value in genetic FTD.

  46. A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2016-06-25 Biomarkers

    The present study creates the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an AD blood screen.

  47. Neurofilament Light Chain in Blood and CSF as Marker of Disease Progression in Mouse Models and in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuron 2016-06-09 Biomarkers

    A majority of current disease-modifying therapeutic approaches for age-related neurodegenerative diseases target their characteristic proteopathic lesions (α-synuclein, Tau, Aβ).

  48. Blood-Based Biomarker Candidates of Cerebral Amyloid Using PiB PET in Non-Demented Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-03-01 Biomarkers

    Increasingly, clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are being conducted earlier in the disease phase and with biomarker confirmation using in vivo amyloid PET imaging or CSF tau and Aβ measures to quantify pathology.

  49. Diagnostic Impact of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker (Pre-)Analytical Variability in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Tau biomarkers

    Intra- and inter-laboratory variability of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker analyses remains an important issue.

  50. Differential Diagnosis of Dementia with High Levels of Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016 Tau biomarkers

    Patients were diagnosed with AD (n = 148, 73.2%), mixed dementia (n = 38, 18.8%), CJD, vascular dementia (n = 4, 2.0% for each), Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal dementia (n = 3, 1.5% for each).

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