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  1. Large-scale head-to-head comparison of on- and off-target profiles of [18F]Tauvid and [18F]MK6240 tau-PET in aging and Alzheimer’s disease 2026-11-01
  2. Detection of tau spatial extent using MK6240 and flortaucipir PET 2026-10-28
  3. Soluble amyloid composition links proximal APP processing, fibrillar burden and the p-tau181 response 2026-10-22

Studies

1,161 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1983 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 88
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 57
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 52
  • Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 51
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 34

337 journals in all.

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  1. Large-scale head-to-head comparison of on- and off-target profiles of [18F]Tauvid and [18F]MK6240 tau-PET in aging and Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    [ 18 F]Tauvid and [ 18 F]MK6240 capture largely overlapping patterns of tau pathology, but differ notably in the magnitude of off-target binding.

  2. Detection of tau spatial extent using MK6240 and flortaucipir PET

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-28 Biomarkers

    TSE showed stronger unadjusted associations than SUVR in selected region- and outcome-specific comparisons, supporting its potential as a complementary measure.

  3. Soluble amyloid composition links proximal APP processing, fibrillar burden and the p-tau181 response

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-22 Biomarkers

    Amyloid biomarkers sample distinct levels of an open, kinetically coupled biochemical system, yet scalar summaries may obscure biologically relevant configuration.

  4. Performance boundaries of plasma-centred prediction across PET- and MRI-defined AT(N): QC-first internal validation in ADNI with separate axis-specific assessments

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Biomarkers

    ADNI identified task-dependent performance boundaries, particularly attenuated conditional T discrimination within A+.

  5. When Is Amyloid Really Cleared? Substantial Discordance Between Centiloid Quantitation and Visual Reads of Amyloid PET after Amyloid-Targeting Therapy

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    : Treated patients were 74±7 years old; 57% were female, 59% were apolipoprotein E ε4 carriers, and 78% had mild cognitive impairment (22% mild dementia).

  6. Tau-PET subtype modifies the association between plasma p-tau217 and memory in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-09-28 Biomarkers

    Tau-PET subtype modified the p-tau217–memory association, suggesting that the cognitive implications of plasma p-tau217 may vary with tau topography.

  7. Diagnostic accuracy of remote self-administered digital cognitive assessment by clinical diagnosis and Alzheimer's disease PET imaging biomarkers

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-25 Getting a diagnosis

    MTD showed excellent discrimination of CU versus MCI/DEM (AUC=.89; 95% CI=.87-.92), and discriminability remained high for CU versus MCI (AUC=.88; 95% CI=.85-.92).

  8. Multi-scale 3D CNN with imbalance-aware training for structural MRI-based six-class Alzheimer disease staging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Computers in Biology and Medicine 2026-09-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease staging from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is challenging when clinically adjacent stages and severe class imbalance are considered simultaneously.

  9. T1 mapping in Alzheimer’s disease: a quantitative MRI study with amyloid-PET correlation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. European Radiology Experimental 2026-09-21 Biomarkers

    Thirty-three AD subjects, aged 69.3 ± 8.2 years (mean ± standard deviation), 18 females, and 22 HCs aged 70.5 ± 13.3 years, 15 females, were evaluated.

  10. Artificial Intelligence–Based Detection of ARIA on MRI During Alzheimer Disease Therapy: Expert Opinion on Responsible Clinical Integration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. American Journal of Roentgenology 2026-09-16 Treatments

    Amyloid-targeted monoclonal antibody therapies have introduced a new era in the treatment of early Alzheimer disease.

  11. Comparison of Expert Reads Versus Local Clinical Reads of Amyloid PET Scans in the IDEAS Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2026-09-10 Health systems and care delivery

    Expert panels interpreted 1497 scans. Participants were a median age of 75 y (range, 65-96 y), 51.4% were female, and 60.5% had mild cognitive impairment.

  12. Errorless learning of a video call in Alzheimer Disease: verbal motor error dissociation as a potential marker of procedural learning (a pilot study)

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-10 Risk genes beyond APOE

    BackgroundDementia is rising worldwide, and in Alzheimer Disease (AD) the loss of communication adds to the burden.

  13. MRI-derived periventricular diffusivity contextualizes plasma pTau217 associations with Alzheimer pathology: a discovery–validation study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-10 Brain scans and imaging

    PVeD reproducibly contextualized associations between plasma pTau217 and PET-defined Alzheimer pathology across cohorts with different participant composition, pTau217 assays, PET tracers, and cognitive measures.

  14. Elecsys pT181p immunoassay: Clinical performance for ruling out amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-09-08 Biomarkers

    At a care setting-agnostic cutoff of 0.934 pg/ml, high negative predictive value (NPV) (93.8%) and acceptable positive predictive value (PPV) (46.6%) were observed against amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET).

  15. Machine learning-derived Alzheimer's disease dimensions: neuroanatomical, cognitive, clinical, functional, and genetic risk heterogeneity signatures

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-07 Genetics

    Alzheimers disease (AD) is characterized by substantial clinical and biological heterogeneity, with diverse neuroanatomical, cognitive, clinical, functional, and genetic risk profiles that are poorly captured by current diagnostic frameworks.

  16. Data-driven subtyping of Alzheimer's emergency presentations using unsupervised machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. IBRO neuroscience reports 2026-09-06 Risk factors

    Older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD) frequently present to emergency departments (EDs) with multiple coexisting conditions.

  17. Evaluating Clinical Foundation Models for Early Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Prediction from Longitudinal EHRs

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-03 How common it is

    Early identification of Alzheimers disease and related dementias (ADRD) remains challenging despite its importance for timely intervention, management of modifiable risk factors, and care planning.

  18. Real-World Challenges in the MRI Detection and Classification of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. American Journal of Roentgenology 2026-09-02 Treatments

    Anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody therapies (AATs) are increasingly used for the treatment of early symptomatic Alzheimer disease.

  19. Digital cognitive phenotyping enhances risk stratification in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2026-09-01 Treatments

    Four cognitive phenotypes emerged. One phenotype (18% of Aβ+ participants) showed the steepest cognitive decline, highest progression on the CDR, greater baseline medial temporal tau, and fastest neocortical tau accumulation over 4.6 years (hazard ratio [HR] for decline ≈ 2.9).

  20. A data-driven regional amyloid PET score predicts cognitive decline beyond Centiloid

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-31 Biomarkers

    BackgroundThe Centiloid (CL) scale standardizes global amyloid PET quantification and is widely used to define amyloid positivity.

  21. A multimodal investigation of perceptual awareness in Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Understanding how the contents of consciousness, particularly perceptual awareness, change with the progression of AD is crucial for meaningful person-centred care.

  22. Explainable Deep Learning Reveals Distributed Neurodegeneration Signatures of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Across the Alzheimer's Continuum

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are increasingly recognized as critical components of the disease progression in Alzheimers disease (AD), yet their relationship with neurodegeneration remain poorly characterized.

  23. MRI-derived brain aging trajectories across the Alzheimer's continuum: links to cognition, pathology and lifestyle risk factors

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-22 Prevention and risk

    BackgroundThe brain age gap (BAG), the difference between neuroimaging-predicted and chronological age, captures inter-individual variation in brain aging.

  24. Amyloid-PET pipeline choice influences classification of preclinical Alzheimers disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-19 Biomarkers

    BACKGROUNDQuantitative amyloid-beta (A{beta})-PET is increasingly used in AD prevention trials.

  25. Estimating amyloid-β deposition using brain perfusion SPECT in Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain perfusion SPECT revealed AD-typical hypoperfusion patterns and demonstrated modest potential to estimate the presence or absence of Aβ deposition with left parietal rCBF.

  26. Amyloid-Tau PET Fusion Reveals Covarying Network Territories Linked to Disease Stage, Cognition, and APOE4 in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Ninety-six non-artifactual Amyloid-Tau components were identified, of which 73 showed appreciable spatial correspondence between their paired Amyloid and Tau maps, while 17 were Tau-localized and 6 Amyloid-localized.

  27. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Diagnostic Performance of Plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2026-08-14 Biomarkers

    Combining plasma p-tau with Aβ42 or the Aβ42/40 ratio reduced the intermediate zone.

  28. Arterial Spin‐Labeling MRI at the Cortical‐ CSF Interface: A Novel Biomarker in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 2026-08-07 Brain scans and imaging

    A total of 51 patients with AD, age (median: 73 years) and 53 cognitively normal subjects (median age: 69) were included.

  29. Mapping Amyloid-PET Uptake in the White Matter in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-07 Brain scans and imaging

    This study investigated whether WM measures derived from amyloid-PET are associated with AD biomarkers and to determine whether they offer added diagnostic and prognostic value beyond established biomarkers.

  30. An efficient hybrid quantum machine learning framework for Alzheimer classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2026-08-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Effect size analysis proves the fact that the hybrid model produces statistically significant performance, as well as cases of clinically meaningful improvements over lightweight CNN baselines.

  31. Multi-dimensional attention framework for personalised Alzheimer's disease progression prediction across sporadic and genetic risk cohorts

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-03 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Alzheimer's disease progresses heterogeneously across diverse cohorts, yet current predictive models fail to capture this complexity while remaining clinically interpretable.

  32. Predicting Alzheimer progression using EEG-based digital twins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. npj Digital Medicine 2026-08-03 Genetics

    Early and accurate prognosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains limited by current biomarkers, which are often invasive, require expensive equipment, or fail to predict individual trajectories of cognitive decline.

  33. Small-Data Deep Learning for Alzheimer-Spectrum Classification from Structural MRI: A Feasibility Study Using OASIS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Imaging 2026-08-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Accurate estimation of Alzheimer's disease (AD) severity from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains difficult, as disease-associated anatomical alterations are often subtle and publicly available datasets are typically too small to support robust deep learning model training.

  34. Determining the metabolic profile measured using ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography associated with Beta Amyloid burden in the brain in individuals with mild cognitive impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-31 Brain scans and imaging

    As the world's population ages, Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is becoming more common.

  35. Amyloid PET Quantitation and Centiloid Thresholds in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA 2026-07-13 Getting a diagnosis

    The double-cutoff approach revealed high confidence for interpreting scans as negative when Centiloid values were lower than 11 (95% CI, 9-13; I2 = 95%) and interpreting scans as positive if Centiloid values were higher than 26 (95% CI, 24-28; I2 = 95%).

  36. Amyloid PET Quantitation and Centiloid Thresholds in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Apollo (University of Cambridge) 2026-07-13 Biomarkers

    This meta-analysis included cross-sectional amyloid PET scans acquired with 5 radiotracers from 49 227 participants across 53 studies from 15 countries (mean age, 71 years; 54% female, 62% cognitively impaired).

  37. Biomarker Variability Limits Individualized Amyloid Time Estimation in Alzheimer Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-13 Brain scans and imaging

    DPM is fundamentally constrained by dynamic range, variability, and test–retest reliability of the biomarker of interest.

  38. Comparison of a multi-analyte algorithmic immunoassay blood test with immunoprecipitation mass spectrometry for the detection of amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-07-11 Health systems and care delivery

    Alzheimer's blood-based biomarker (BBM) tests using single biomarkers or ratios are well characterized, but head-to-head comparisons of multi-analyte algorithmic tests on shared cohorts are lacking.

  39. Artificial Intelligence That Changes Clinical Neurology Practice: Translating Algorithms Into Actionable Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) 2026-07-09 Health systems and care delivery

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has stimulated extensive research in clinical neurology, but relatively few AI systems have meaningfully changed bedside decision-making.

  40. Amyloid probability in Alzheimer disease from plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, and amyloid imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. npj Dementia 2026-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Blood-based biomarkers are increasingly used to triage patients for amyloid confirmation, yet performance is often reported versus a single comparator despite discordance between amyloid PET and CSF.

  41. ENHANCED ALZHEIMER DISEASE DIAGNOSIS THROUGH DEEP LEARNING-BASED MRI SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. RCHUB JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (JCISE) 2026-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The accurate diagnosis tends to remain critical for the improvement of the patient outcomes in the Alzheimer’s disease (AD), where a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with the growing of the global impact.

  42. PET Imaging in Alzheimer Disease: Diagnostic and Prognostic Applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. International Journal of Clinical and Medical Research 2026-06-30 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by amyloid-β deposition, tau pathology, synaptic dysfunction, neuronal injury and cerebral atrophy.

  43. Hierarchical-circular model of biological memory: a multilevel hypothesis for pathogenesis and allostatic integrity in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in Dementia 2026-06-24 Prevention trials

    The Hierarchical-Circular Model of Biological Memory offers a unifying hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias that bridges genetic, epigenetic, physiological, neuroimmune, and interoceptive processes across the lifespan.

  44. TACDAR: Tetra Alzheimer Disease Classification via Dilated Coordinate Attention Based RegNet

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 2026-06-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer disease (AD) destroys brain cells and the patient’s memory is lost as a result of a progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disease.

  45. Attention Networks Connectivity After Cognitive Rehabilitation in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2026-06-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Enhanced connectivity between attention networks may be a characteristic of CR benefits in individuals with mild Alzheimer disease.

  46. Plasma p-tau217, p-tau181, and Aβ42 predict amyloid PET positivity in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-05-20 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 showed the strongest individual association with Aβ PET status (area under the curve [AUC], 0.85).

  47. Explainable machine learning for predicting longitudinal dementia status: Establishing a leakage-free benchmark

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PLOS Digital Health 2026-05-18 Digital health tools

    Dementia research often suffers from methodological pitfalls such as label-information and subject-information leakages.

  48. The AHEPA EEG benchmark: setting the standard for machine learning in dementia diagnosis, a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cognitive Neurodynamics 2026-05-18 Digital health tools

    Accurate and reproducible electroencephalography (EEG)-based classification of dementia remains a key challenge in computational neurodiagnostics.

  49. A longitudinal analysis of T1-weighted MRI features associated with progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC Medical Imaging 2026-05-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    We identified 8 brain structural features from 192 MRI features that were associated with the risk of MCI progressing to AD, including: left hippocampus, left inferior lateral ventricle, left amygdala, right middle temporal gyrus, left fusiform gyrus, right amygdala, left cortical total volume, and brain parenchyma total volume.

  50. Association of plasma biomarkers with amyloid and tau PET in pre-dementia stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-05 Biomarkers

    Comparing those having MCI, both CU and SCD participants had significantly lower amyloid PET standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) (p < 0.001; p = 0.005).

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