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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

1,163 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1983 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 88
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 58
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 52
  • Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 52
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 34

337 journals in all.

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  1. Data-driven discovery of probable Alzheimer's disease and related dementia subphenotypes using electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Learning health systems 2020-09-10 Digital health tools

    Four subphenotypes were computationally derived that correlated with cardiovascular diseases and mental health illnesses.

  2. 18F-MK-6240 PET for early and late detection of neurofibrillary tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-09-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Braak stages of tau neurofibrillary tangle accumulation have been incorporated in the criteria for the neuropathological diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

  3. Sex Mediates Relationships Between Regional Tau Pathology and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2020-08-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau vulnerability in women is not just limited to the medial temporal lobe and significantly contributed to greater risk of faster cognitive decline.

  4. Multimodal in vivo and postmortem assessments of tau in Lewy body disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-08-21 Brain scans and imaging

    We compared regional retention of 18F-flortaucipir between 20 patients with Lewy body disorders (LBD), 12 Alzheimer's disease patients with positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scans (AD+Aβ) and 15 healthy controls with negative amyloid PET scans (HC-Aβ).

  5. Post-mortem analyses of PiB and flutemetamol in diffuse and cored amyloid-β plaques in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2020-08-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Fixed tissue sections of frontal cortex and caudate from 10 of the AD cases were processed for microscopy using fluorescent derivatives of flutemetamol (cyano-flutemetamol) and PiB (cyano-PiB) and compared to Aβ immunohistochemistry and pan-amyloid (X-34) histology.

  6. Predicting Alzheimer's disease progression using deep recurrent neural networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. NeuroImage 2020-08-04 Long-term cohort studies

    Early identification of individuals at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia is important for developing disease-modifying therapies.

  7. Determining Amyloid-β Positivity Using 18F-AZD4694 PET Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020-07-31 Biomarkers

    We observed good convergence among the 4 Good convergence was obtained among several methods for determining an optimal cutoff for 18 F-AZD4694 PET positivity.

  8. Multitracer model for staging cortical amyloid deposition using PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2020-07-16 Biomarkers

    SUVr abnormality was most frequently observed in cingulate, followed by orbitofrontal, precuneal, and insular cortices and then the associative, temporal, and occipital regions.

  9. Longitudinal validity of PET-based staging of regional amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2020-07-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Positron emission tomography (PET)-based staging of regional amyloid deposition has recently emerged as a promising tool for sensitive detection and stratification of pathology progression in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  10. 18F-SMBT-1: A Selective and Reversible PET Tracer for Monoamine Oxidase-B Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020-07-09 Brain scans and imaging

    In vitro binding assays demonstrated a high binding affinity of 18 F-SMBT-1 to MAO-B (dissociation constant, 3.7 nM).

  11. One-Stop Shop: 18F-Flortaucipir PET Differentiates Amyloid-Positive and -Negative Forms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020-07-03 Biomarkers

    Pattern expression strengths predicted amyloid status with a sensitivity of 0.94 and a specificity of 0.83.

  12. Biomarkers for dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT) are sought to facilitate accurate prediction of the disease onset, ideally predating the onset of cognitive deterioration.

  13. Positron Emission Tomography Imaging With [18F]flortaucipir and Postmortem Assessment of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This study's findings suggest that PET imaging with [18F]flortaucipir could be used to identify the density and distribution of AD-type tau pathology and the presence of high levels of AD neuropathological change, supporting a neuropathological diagnosis of AD.

  14. Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Assessment of Brain Iron Level in Alzheimer Disease Using 3-T MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Radiology 2020-06-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Iron concentration in the deep gray matter and neocortical regions was higher in patients with Alzheimer disease than in healthy control participants.

  15. Defining a Centiloid scale threshold predicting long-term progression to dementia in patients attending the memory clinic: an [18F] flutemetamol amyloid PET study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-06-29 Brain scans and imaging

    In the 98 participants with long follow-up, Centiloid = 26 provided the highest overall predictive value = 87% (NPV = 85%, PPV = 88%).

  16. Sex-driven modifiers of Alzheimer risk: A multimodality brain imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2020-06-24 Genetics

    Groups were comparable on clinical and cognitive measures.

  17. Tau PET imaging with 18F-PI-2620 in aging and neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-06-23 Brain scans and imaging

    SUVRs in target regions were relatively stable 60 to 90 min post-injection, with the exception of very high binders who continued to show increases over time.

  18. Using amyloid PET imaging to diagnose Alzheimer's disease in patients with multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2020-06-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Two patients were diagnosed with AD based on positive Amyloid PET imaging and were subsequently started on cholinesterase inhibitor treatment.

  19. Harnessing peripheral DNA methylation differences in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) to reveal novel biomarkers of disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Clinical epigenetics 2020-06-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our work shows that peripheral differential methylation between age-matched subjects with AD relative to healthy controls will provide opportunities to further investigate and validate differential methylation as a surrogate of disease.

  20. A Machine Learning Approach for the Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer and Vascular Dementia Fed by MRI Selected Features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2020-06-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Among dementia-like diseases, Alzheimer disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) are two of the most frequent.

  21. Generalizable, Reproducible, and Neuroscientifically Interpretable Imaging Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 2020-06-09 Digital health tools

    Precision medicine for Alzheimer's disease (AD) necessitates the development of personalized, reproducible, and neuroscientifically interpretable biomarkers, yet despite remarkable advances, few such biomarkers are available.

  22. Longitudinal trajectories of Alzheimer's ATN biomarkers in elderly persons without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-05-11 Long-term cohort studies

    Models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology posit that amyloidosis [A] precedes and accelerates tau pathology [T] that leads to neurodegeneration [N].

  23. Amyloid PET in Dementia Syndromes: A Chinese Multicenter Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020-05-08 Biomarkers

    Of the 1,193 CI patients, 860 (72.1%) were amyloid-positive.

  24. The relationships between neuroinflammation, beta-amyloid and tau deposition in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal PET study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2020-05-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Our baseline and 2-year imaging findings are compatible with a biphasic trajectory of inflammation in Alzheimer's disease: MCI cases with low baseline but subsequently rising β-amyloid load show correlated levels of microglial activation which then later decline when the β-amyloid load approaches AD levels.

  25. Cerebral Microhemorrhage at MRI in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Alzheimer Disease: Association with Tau and Amyloid β at PET Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Radiology 2020-05-05 Tau biomarkers

    Growing evidence indicates an association between cerebral microhemorrhages (MHs) and amyloid β accumulation in Alzheimer disease (AD), but to the knowledge of the authors the association with tau burden is unknown.

  26. Relationship between cortical iron and tau aggregation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A growing body of evidence suggests that the dysregulation of neuronal iron may play a critical role in Alzheimer's disease.

  27. Reshaping the Amyloid Buildup Curve in Alzheimer Disease? Partial-Volume Effect Correction of Longitudinal Amyloid PET Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020-05-01 Biomarkers

    Compared with non-PVE-corrected data, PVE-corrected data yielded significantly higher changes in regional and composite SUV ratio (SUVR) over time ( P = 0.0002 for composite SUVRs).

  28. Longitudinal neuroimaging biomarkers differ across Alzheimer’s disease phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Brain 2020-04-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Principal component analysis identified patterns of variation in baseline and longitudinal measures of tau uptake and volume that were significantly different across phenotypes.

  29. Individual brain metabolic connectome indicator based on Kullback-Leibler Divergence Similarity Estimation predicts progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-04-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Positron emission tomography (PET) with 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) reveals altered cerebral metabolism in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's dementia (AD).

  30. Early-phase [18F]PI-2620 tau-PET imaging as a surrogate marker of neuronal injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-04-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Highest agreement with [18F]FDG-PET quantification was reached for [18F]PI-2620-PET acquisition from 0.5 to 2.5 min p.i. for global mean (lowest R = 0.69) and cerebellar scaling (lowest R = 0.63).

  31. Longitudinal flortaucipir ([18F]AV-1451) PET uptake in semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-04-18 Brain scans and imaging

    To assess volume loss and flortaucipir uptake in patients with semantic dementia (SD) over time.

  32. Longitudinal evaluation of the natural history of amyloid-β in plasma and brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Brain communications 2020-04-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma amyloid-β peptide concentration has recently been shown to have high accuracy to predict amyloid-β plaque burden in the brain.

  33. Quantitative amyloid PET in Alzheimer's disease: the AMYPAD prognostic and natural history study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-04-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Primary include several amyloid PET measurements (Centiloid, SUVr, BPND , R1 ), and secondary are their changes from baseline, relationship to other amyloid markers (cerebrospinal fluid and visual assessment), and predictive value of AD-related decline.

  34. Independent and reproducible hippocampal radiomic biomarkers for multisite Alzheimer's disease: diagnosis, longitudinal progress and biological basis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Science bulletin 2020-04-03 Long-term cohort studies

    Hippocampal morphological change is one of the main hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Analytical and Clinical Performance of Amyloid-Beta Peptides Measurements in CSF of ADNIGO/2 Participants by an LC-MS/MS Reference Method

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2020-04-01 Biomarkers

    CRM-adjusted Aβ42 calibrator concentrations were calculated using the regression equation Y (CRM-adjusted) = 0.89X (calibrators) + 32.6.

  36. Medial temporal lobe connectivity and its associations with cognition in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We found that amyloid-β-positive cognitively unimpaired individuals were mainly characterized by decreased functional connectivity between the medial temporal lobe and regions in the anterior-temporal system, most prominently between left perirhinal/entorhinal cortices and medial prefrontal cortex.

  37. Elecsys CSF biomarker immunoassays demonstrate concordance with amyloid-PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-03-31 Biomarkers

    Strong concordance between CSF biomarkers and Aβ-PET status was observed overall, including for cognitively normal participants, further strengthening the association between these markers of AD neuropathological burden for both developmental research studies and for use in clinical trials.

  38. APOEε4 potentiates the relationship between amyloid-β and tau pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-03-11 Brain scans and imaging

    APOEε4 is the most well-established genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease and is associated with cerebral amyloid-β.

  39. Structural magnetic resonance imaging for the early diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease in people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2020-03-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    In clinical samples, people with amnestic MCI are at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease dementia, with annual rates of progression from MCI to Alzheimer's disease estimated at approximately 10% to 15% compared with the base incidence rates of Alzheimer's disease dementia of 1% to 2% per year.

  40. Hippocampal atrophy based Alzheimer's disease diagnosis via machine learning methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience methods 2020-02-29 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and is a serious health problem.

  41. Neuroticism, conscientiousness, and in vivo Alzheimer pathologies measured by amyloid PET and MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2020-02-23 Biomarkers

    The present findings suggest that amyloid-independent regional neurodegeneration might underlie relations of neuroticism and conscientiousness with AD.

  42. Amyloid duration is associated with preclinical cognitive decline and tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-02-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid chronicity provides unique information about cognitive decline and neurofibrillary tangle development and may be useful to investigate preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

  43. A Deep Siamese Convolution Neural Network for Multi-Class Classification of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain sciences 2020-02-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) may cause damage to the memory cells permanently, which results in the form of dementia.

  44. Differential neurocognitive network perturbation in amnestic and aphasic Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurology 2020-01-22 Biomarkers

    Despite the presumptive common underlying neuropathology of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, the 2 groups displayed 2 different patterns of network perturbation, each concordant with the clinical presentation and the anatomy of neurodegeneration.

  45. Temporal and anatomical distribution of 18F-flutemetamol uptake in canine brain using positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMC veterinary research 2020-01-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the six cerebral cortical regions, the cingulate cortices and frontal lobe showed the highest SUVRs.

  46. Clinical significance of focal ß-amyloid deposition measured by 18F-flutemetamol PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-01-04 Brain scans and imaging

    53/310 (17.1%) subjects were classified as Focal-FMM.

  47. Tau-positron emission tomography correlates with neuropathology findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Elevated FTP-PET reflects Braak IV or greater neuropathology.

  48. Real-space navigation testing differentiates between amyloid-positive and -negative aMCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2020-01-02 Biomarkers

    Navigation testing in real space is a promising approach to identify patients with aMCI with underlying Alzheimer pathology.

  49. Challenges in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic Work-Up: Amyloid Biomarker Incongruences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Tau biomarkers

    CSF AβR better agreed with Amy-PET compared to CSF Aβ42 (Cohen's K 0.431 versus 0.05).

  50. Classification of Alzheimer's Disease with Respect to Physiological Aging with Innovative EEG Biomarkers in a Machine Learning Implementation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Digital health tools

    EEG connectivity analysis via a combination of source/connectivity biomarkers, highly correlating with neuropsychological AD diagnosis, could represent a promising tool in identification of AD patients.

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