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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. Concordance of Lumipulse cerebrospinal fluid t-tau/Aβ42 ratio with amyloid PET status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01 Tau biomarkers

    Virtually identical t-tau/Aβ42 cut-points (∼0.54) performed best in both test cohorts and with similar accuracy (areas under ROC curve [AUCs] [A/B: 0.95; C: 0.94]).

  2. Head-to-Head Comparison of 18F-Florbetaben and 18F-Flutemetamol in the Cortical and Striatal Regions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Brain scans and imaging

    The cortical SUVR (R2 = 0.97) and striatal SUVR (R2 = 0.95) demonstrated an excellent linear correlation between FBB and FMM using a WC as reference region.

  3. Mild behavioral impairment is associated with β-amyloid but not tau or neurodegeneration in cognitively intact elderly individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We demonstrate for the first time a link between MBI and early AD pathology in a cognitively intact elderly population, supporting the use of the MBI-C as a metric to enhance clinical trial enrolment.

  4. Particulate matter and episodic memory decline mediated by early neuroanatomic biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-01-01 Digital health tools

    Therefore, we conducted a longitudinal study to examine whether PM2.5 affects the episodic memory decline, and also explored the potential mediating role of increased neuroanatomic risk of Alzheimer's disease associated with exposure.

  5. Prospective longitudinal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease correlates with the intensity and topography of baseline tau-PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2020-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    β-Amyloid plaques and tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles are the two neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are thought to play crucial roles in a neurodegenerative cascade leading to dementia.

  6. Objective subtle cognitive difficulties predict future amyloid accumulation and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2019-12-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Relative to CN participants, Obj-SCD was associated with faster amyloid accumulation and selective vulnerability of entorhinal cortical thinning, whereas MCI was associated with faster entorhinal and hippocampal atrophy.

  7. Multi-modal latent space inducing ensemble SVM classifier for early dementia diagnosis with neuroimaging data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Medical image analysis 2019-12-28 Long-term cohort studies

    Fusing multi-modality data is crucial for accurate identification of brain disorder as different modalities can provide complementary perspectives of complex neurodegenerative disease.

  8. β-Amyloid PET and neuropathology in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2019-12-20 Biomarkers

    Lower PiB uptake accurately distinguishes cases with LBD from cases with AD or mixed pathology, correlating with the Thal Aβ phase.

  9. A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Diagnosis and Multi-Class Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Stages Using Resting-State fMRI and Residual Neural Networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of medical systems 2019-12-18 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder accounting for 70%-80% dementia cases worldwide.

  10. A metabolite-based machine learning approach to diagnose Alzheimer-type dementia in blood: Results from the European Medical Information Framework for Alzheimer disease biomarker discovery cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-12-18 Digital health tools

    This study showed that plasma metabolites have the potential to match the AUC of well-established AD CSF biomarkers in a relatively small cohort.

  11. Association of brain amyloidosis with the incidence and frequency of neuropsychiatric symptoms in ADNI: a multisite observational cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-12-18 Long-term cohort studies

    275 cognitively normal controls (NC), 100 subjective memory complaint (SMC), 559 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 143 Alzheimer's disease dementia subjects from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative received ( 18 F)-florbetapir positron emission tomography (PET) scans.

  12. A multi-model deep convolutional neural network for automatic hippocampus segmentation and classification in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. NeuroImage 2019-12-16 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and irreversible brain degenerative disorder.

  13. OASIS-3: Longitudinal Neuroimaging, Clinical, and Cognitive Dataset for Normal Aging and Alzheimer Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2019-12-15 Genetics

    OASIS-3 is a compilation of MRI and PET imaging and related clinical data for 1098 participants who were collected across several ongoing studies in the Washington University Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center over the course of 15 years.

  14. A novel multi-modal machine learning based approach for automatic classification of EEG recordings in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society 2019-12-14 Digital health tools

    Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings generate an electrical map of the human brain that are useful for clinical inspection of patients and in biomedical smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) applications.

  15. A new Centiloid method for 18F-florbetaben and 18F-flutemetamol PET without conversion to PiB

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2019-12-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Following the conversion of FBB or FMM SUVRs into CL units, a direct relationship was formed between the FBB or FMM SUVRs and the CL units using dcCL method (FBB dcCL = 151.42 × FBB dcSUVR - 142.24 and FMM dcCL = 148.52 × FMM dcSUVR - 137.09).

  16. The Spatial-Temporal Ordering of Amyloid Pathology and Opportunities for PET Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2019-12-13 Biomarkers

    Although clinical routine focuses on dichotomous and visual interpretation of amyloid PET, regional image assessment in research settings may yield additional opportunities.

  17. Neurophysiological Markers of Alzheimer's Disease: Quantitative EEG Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2019-12-12 Disease mechanisms

    Currently established and employed biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) predominantly mirror AD-associated molecular and structural brain changes.

  18. Spatial-Temporal Dependency Modeling and Network Hub Detection for Functional MRI Analysis via Convolutional-Recurrent Network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2019-12-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Early identification of dementia at the stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial for timely diagnosis and intervention of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Plasma Aβ42/40 ratio alone or combined with FDG-PET can accurately predict amyloid-PET positivity: a cross-sectional analysis from the AB255 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-12-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma TP42/40 ratio showed a relevant and significant potential as a screening tool to identify brain Aβ positivity in preclinical and prodromal stages of Alzheimer's disease.

  20. Functional Connectivity between the Resting-State Olfactory Network and the Hippocampus in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2019-11-25 Long-term cohort studies

    Olfactory impairment is associated with prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is a risk factor for the development of dementia.

  21. Staging β-Amyloid Pathology With Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2019-11-01 Biomarkers

    Among 641 participants with CSF Aβ42 data and at least two 18F-florbetapir scans, 335 (52.3%) were male.

  22. Amyloid PET, FDG-PET or MRI? - the power of different imaging biomarkers to detect progression of early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC neurology 2019-10-31 Biomarkers

    Amyloid imaging with PET and measuring cortical thickness with MRI are suitable biomarkers to detect disease progression in early AD within a small sample.

  23. Machine Learning-Based Framework for Differential Diagnosis Between Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease Using Structural MRI Features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2019-10-25 Digital health tools

    The experimental results demonstrate that the SVM with RBF achieved an encouraging performance with sensitivity (SEN), specificity (SPE), and accuracy (ACC) values of 82.65%, 87.17%, and 84.35%, respectively (AUC = 0.861, 95% CI = 0.820-0.902), for the differential diagnosis between VaD and AD.

  24. Predictive Value of 18F-Florbetapir and 18F-FDG PET for Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2019-10-18 Biomarkers

    On the basis of the independent validation dataset, the 18 F-FDG PET model yielded a significantly higher predictive value than the amyloid PET model.

  25. Prediction and Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Combined Features From Apolipoprotein-E Genotype, Cerebrospinal Fluid, MR, and FDG-PET Imaging Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in computational neuroscience 2019-10-16 Digital health tools

    As a result, our combined method achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic (AU-ROC) curve of 98.33, 93.59, 96.83, 94.64, 96.43, and 95.24% for AD vs. MCIs subjects which are high relative to single modality results and other state-of-the-art approaches.

  26. Amyloid PET Quantification Via End-to-End Training of a Deep Learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2019-10-14 Biomarkers

    We suggest a one-step quantification method for amyloid PET via a deep learning model.

  27. Head-to-head comparison of tau positron emission tomography tracers [18F]flortaucipir and [18F]RO948

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2019-10-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Neocortical tracer retention was highly comparable using both SUVR and distribution volume ratio-1 values obtained from dynamic scans.

  28. Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using combined features from voxel-based morphometry and cortical, subcortical, and hippocampus regions of MRI T1 brain images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. PloS one 2019-10-04 Long-term cohort studies

    In recent years, several high-dimensional, accurate, and effective classification methods have been proposed for the automatic discrimination of the subject between Alzheimer's disease (AD) or its prodromal phase {i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)} and healthy control (HC) persons based on T1-weighted structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI).

  29. Applications of amyloid, tau, and neuroinflammation PET imaging to Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2019-09-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating and progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure.

  30. Agreement of amyloid PET and CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease on Lumipulse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2019-08-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Aβ1-42, tTau and pTau (but not Aβ1-40) and the ratios with Aβ1-42 had good diagnostic agreement with 18 F-Florbetapir PET.

  31. Classification of Alzheimer's Disease with and without Imagery using Gradient Boosted Machines and ResNet-50

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain sciences 2019-08-22 Digital health tools

    A gradient boosted machine (GBM) predicted the presence of AD as a function of gender, age, education, socioeconomic status (SES), and a mini-mental state exam (MMSE).

  32. Amyloid imaging of dutch-type hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-08-12 Biomarkers

    D-CAA M + showed greater age-dependent FLR PiB retention (p - , and serially imaged asymptomatic M + demonstrated greater longitudinal increases (p = 0.004).

  33. Added value of amyloid PET in individualized risk predictions for MCI patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-07-29 Brain scans and imaging

    The combined model (Harrell's C = 0.82 [0.78-0.86]) was significantly superior to demographics (β = 0.100, P < .001), magnetic resonance imaging (β = 0.037, P = .011), and PET only models (β = 0.053, P = .003).The models can be used to calculate individualized risk, for example, a female MCI patient (age = 60, APOE ε4 positive, Mini-Mental State Examination = 25, hippocampal volume = 5.8 cm3, amyloid PET positive) has 35% (19-57) risk in one year and 85% (64-97) risk in three years.

  34. Plasma amyloid beta levels are associated with cerebral amyloid and tau deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-07-26 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ measures may be useful biomarkers for predicting cerebral Aβ and tau.

  35. Neuroinflammation and Functional Connectivity in Alzheimer's Disease: Interactive Influences on Cognitive Performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2019-07-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Multiple linear regression models identified sources of signal covariance between neuroinflammation and brain connectivity profiles, in relation to the diagnostic group (patients, controls) and cognitive status.

  36. The final algorithm demonstrated an AUROC of 0.88, sensitivity of 77.7%, and a specificity of 79.9% on excluded test data.

  37. FDG-PET as an independent biomarker for Alzheimer's biological diagnosis: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-06-29 Mild cognitive impairment

    The prevalence of A+T+N+F+ profile was 66.24% in clinically diagnosed AD dementia patients; similarly, the majority of individuals with reduced FDG-PET were AD dementia subjects.

  38. The Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) as a Measure of Picture Naming Ability in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2019-06-28 Long-term cohort studies

    The present study investigated the ability of the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT), a picture naming test recently added to the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's (NACC) Uniform Data Set neuropsychological test battery, to detect naming impairment (i.e., dysnomia) across stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  39. A deep learning model for early prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia based on hippocampal magnetic resonance imaging data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-06-11 Prevention and risk

    The deep-learning time-to-event model predicted individual subjects' progression to AD dementia with a concordance index of 0.762 on 439 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative testing MCI subjects with follow-up duration from 6 to 78 months (quartiles: [24, 42, 54]) and a concordance index of 0.781 on 40 Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Study of Aging testing MCI subjects with follow-up duration from 18 to 54 months (quartiles: [18, 36, 54]).

  40. Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Currently, over five million Americans suffer with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  41. Tau Positron Emission Tomography Binding Is Not Elevated in HIV-Infected Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of infectious diseases 2019-06-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Regional standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) for tau positron emission tomography (PET) were compared among 19 cognitively normal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative control individuals, 20 HIV-negative patients with symptomatic Alzheimer disease, 15 cognitively normal HIV-positive individuals, and 17 cognitively impaired HIV-positive individuals.

  42. A multicentre longitudinal study of flortaucipir (18F) in normal ageing, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-06-01 Caregiving

    There was a statistically significant increase in the global estimate of cortical tau burden as measured by standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr) from baseline to 18 months in amyloid-β+ but not amyloid-β- subjects (least squared mean change in flortaucipir SUVr : 0.0524 ± 0.0085, P < 0.0001 and 0.0007 ± 0.0024 P = 0.7850, respectively), and a significant association between magnitude of SUVr increase and baseline tau burden.

  43. Plasma amyloid β 40/42 ratio predicts cerebral amyloidosis in cognitively normal individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-05-18 Digital health tools

    Our results encourage an independent validation cohort study to confirm the indication that the plasma Aβ 1-40 /Aβ 1-42 ratio, assessed via Simoa, may improve future standard of care and clinical trial design.

  44. Prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia with MRI beyond the short-term: Implications for the design of predictive models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-04-30 Digital health tools

    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volumetric measures have become a standard tool for the detection of incipient Alzheimer's Disease (AD) dementia in mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  45. 18F-Flortaucipir in TDP-43 associated frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-04-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Retention of 18F-Flortaucipir is reportedly increased in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), which is dominated by TDP-43 pathology.

  46. Tau Positron-Emission Tomography in Former National Football League Players

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2019-04-10 Biomarkers

    A group of living former NFL players with cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms had higher tau levels measured by PET than controls in brain regions that are affected by CTE and did not have elevated amyloid-beta levels.

  47. Machine learning based hierarchical classification of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-04-03 Digital health tools

    In the present study, our automated classifier successfully classified FTD clinical subtypes with good to excellent accuracy.

  48. Among 16 008 registered participants, 11 409 (71.3%) completed study procedures and were included in the analysis (median age, 75 years [interquartile range, 71-80]; 50.9% women; 60.5% with MCI).

  49. The metabolic brain signature of cognitive resilience in the 80+: beyond Alzheimer pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Our main findings were: (i) FDG-PET uptake in the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex and anterior temporal pole was associated with baseline global cognition in cognitively stable 80+ (the resilience signature); (ii) established Alzheimer's disease imaging biomarkers did not predict baseline global cognition in this subset of participants; (iii) in the full MCSA 80+ and ADNI cohorts, amyloid burden and FDG-PET in the resilience signature were the stronger predictors of baseline global cognition; (iv) sex and systemic vascular health predicted FDG-PET in the resilience signature, suggesting vascular health maintenance as a potential pathway to preserve the metabolism of these areas; and (v) the resilience signature provided significant information about global longitudinal cognitive change even when considering amyloid status in both the MCSA and ADNI cohorts.

  50. Radiomics: a novel feature extraction method for brain neuron degeneration disease using 18F-FDG PET imaging and its implementation for Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders 2019-03-29 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of progressive and irreversible dementia, and accurate diagnosis of AD at its prodromal stage is clinically important.

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