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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

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1,163 studies carry this tag.

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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. A pilot study of fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Eye (London, England) 2019-03-28 Tau biomarkers

    This prospective, observational study enrolled patients with early AD undergoing Alzheimer's biomarker analysis and matched controls.

  2. Optimized dual-time-window protocols for quantitative [18F]flutemetamol and [18F]florbetaben PET studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2019-03-27 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]Flutemetamol and [18F]florbetaben data demonstrated an increased bias in amyloid estimate for larger intervals and higher noise levels.

  3. Trajectories of the Hippocampal Subfields Atrophy in the Alzheimer's Disease: A Structural Imaging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2019-03-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    The trend changes in the hippocampus subfields and further illustrates that SCD is the preclinical stage of AD earlier than aMCI.

  4. Centiloid cut-off values for optimal agreement between PET and CSF core AD biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-03-21 Brain scans and imaging

    All Centiloid cut-offs fell within the range of 25-35, except for CSF Aβ42 that rendered an optimal cut-off value of 12 CL.

  5. Association of short-term cognitive decline and MCI-to-AD dementia conversion with CSF, MRI, amyloid- and 18F-FDG-PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-03-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Disease-modifying treatment trials are increasingly advanced to the prodromal or preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and inclusion criteria are based on biomarkers rather than clinical symptoms.

  6. Quantification of white matter cellularity and damage in preclinical and early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-03-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Interest in understanding the roles of white matter (WM) inflammation and damage in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) has been growing significantly in recent years.

  7. Amyloid PET and cognitive decline in cognitively normal individuals: the SCIENCe project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    We examined the relationships between amyloid-β PET and concurrent and longitudinal cognitive performance in 107 cognitively normal individuals with subjective cognitive decline (age: 64 ± 8 years, 44% female, Mini-Mental State Examination score 29 ± 1).

  8. CSF biomarkers and amyloid PET: concordance and diagnostic accuracy in a MCI cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neurologica Belgica 2019-03-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain amyloid deposition is one of the main hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and two approaches are available for assessing amyloid pathology in vivo: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers levels and amyloid load visualized by amyloid beta positron emission tomography imaging (Amy-PET) probes.

  9. Our findings suggest that dCDT is a suitable screening tool to identify early cognitive dysfunction.

  10. Microglial activation in early Alzheimer trajectory is associated with higher gray matter volume

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2019-02-22 Brain scans and imaging

    In this in vivo study, we have demonstrated that microglial activation quantified using [ 11 C]PBR28 PET was associated with higher gray matter volume and higher hippocampal volume in patients with MCI.

  11. Diffusion MRI Indices and Their Relation to Cognitive Impairment in Brain Aging: The Updated Multi-protocol Approach in ADNI3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2019-02-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Brain imaging with diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is sensitive to microstructural white matter (WM) changes associated with brain aging and neurodegeneration.

  12. Predicting Alzheimer's disease progression using multi-modal deep learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-02-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition marked by a decline in cognitive functions with no validated disease modifying treatment.

  13. Comparison between amyloid-PET and CSF amyloid-β biomarkers in a clinical cohort with memory deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2019-02-05 Tau biomarkers

    With increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and advances in research of therapeutic approaches, an early and accurate in-vivo diagnosis is crucial.

  14. 18F-Florbetaben PET/CT to Assess Alzheimer's Disease: A new Analysis Method for Regional Amyloid Quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2019-02-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Forty-four consecutive patients with clinical evidence of dementia, were retrospectively evaluated.

  15. The impact of amyloid-beta and tau on prospective cognitive decline in older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results are consistent with the supposition that both Aβ and tau are necessary for memory decline in the preclinical stages of AD.

  16. Entorhinal cortex tau, amyloid-β, cortical thickness and memory performance in non-demented subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain 2019-01-20 Brain scans and imaging

    As more biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and age-related brain conditions become available, more sophisticated analytic approaches are needed to take full advantage of the information they convey.

  17. A parameter-efficient deep learning approach to predict conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. NeuroImage 2019-01-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    The most novel characteristics of our machine learning model compared to previous ones are the following: 1) our deep learning model is multi-tasking, in the sense that it jointly learns to simultaneously predict both MCI to AD conversion as well as AD vs. healthy controls classification, which facilitates relevant feature extraction for AD prognostication; 2) the neural network classifier employs fewer parameters than other deep learning architectures which significantly limits data-overfitting (we use ∼550,000 network parameters, which is orders of magnitude lower than other network designs); 3) both structural MRI images and their warp field characteristics, which quantify local volumetric changes in relation to the MRI template, were used as separate input streams to extract as much information as possible from the MRI data.

  18. Brain Amyloid-β Deposition and Blood Biomarkers in Patients with Clinically Diagnosed Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    Brain amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition is a hallmark to define Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β Subtypes in Confirmed Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Cases: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    To investigate amyloid-β (Aβ) in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD; N = 18 genetically and/or pathologically confirmed and N = 8 FTD with concomitant amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) were compared with Alzheimer's disease (AD; pathological or Pittsburgh-compound-B Positron-emission-tomography (PIB-PET) positive; N = 25) and controls (N = 24).

  20. Tau PET Distributional Pattern in AD Patients with Visuospatial Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggested that occipitoparietal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus, which were particularly affected by increased tau accumulation in VS-AD patients, may associate with visuospatial dysfunction of AD.

  21. Ultrasensitive Detection of Plasma Amyloid-β as a Biomarker for Cognitively Normal Elderly Individuals at Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ ratios in this study are a potential biomarker for brain Aβ deposition and therefore, for preclinical AD.

  22. Use of amyloid PET/CT with 18F-Florbetaben in the management of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty-five/38 (65.8%) amyloid PET/CT scans resulted positive for amyloid deposition.

  23. Gradual Disturbances of the Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (ALFF) and Fractional ALFF in Alzheimer Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-12-20 Caregiving

    In the machine learning verification, the identification accuracy of SCD, aMCI, d-AD from NC was higher when fused ALFF and fALFF features (76.44, 81.94, and 91.83%, respectively) than only using ALFF or fALFF features.

  24. Parametric methods for [18F]flortaucipir PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2018-12-20 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]Flortaucipir is a PET tau tracer used to visualize tau binding in Alzheimer's disease (AD) in vivo.

  25. Regional tau pathology and loneliness in cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2018-12-18 Risk factors

    Loneliness is a perception of social and emotional isolation that increases in prevalence among older adults during the eighth decade of life.

  26. Increased Alzheimer's risk during the menopause transition: A 3-year longitudinal brain imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. PloS one 2018-12-12 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Two thirds of all persons with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are women.

  27. Centiloid scaling for quantification of brain amyloid with [ 18 F]flutemetamol using multiple processing methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2018-12-05 Treatments

    [ 18 F]flutemetamol data can now be expressed in Centiloid units, enhancing its utility in clinical and research applications for β-amyloid imaging.

  28. Tau Accumulation in Clinically Normal Older Adults Is Associated with Hippocampal Hyperactivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018-11-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Animal studies demonstrate that hyperactive neurons facilitate early accumulation and spread of tau and amyloid-β proteins in the pathological cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. In vivo molecular imaging of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2018-11-26 TREM2 and immune genetics

    It has become increasingly evident that neuroinflammation plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders.

  30. Signs and Artifacts in Amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2018-11-01 Biomarkers

    Establishing a diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia can be challenging, particularly early in the course of the disease.

  31. Secondary prevention of Alzheimer's dementia: neuroimaging contributions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-10-30 Treatments

    MRI can also be used to assess comorbid vascular pathology and define homogeneous groups for inclusion or for subject stratification.

  32. Detection of tau in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (PRNP F198S) by [18F]Flortaucipir PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-10-29 Brain scans and imaging

    This study aimed to determine the pattern of [18F]flortaucipir uptake in individuals affected by Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) associated with the PRNP F198S mutation.

  33. Multisite study of the relationships between antemortem [ 11 C]PIB‐PET Centiloid values and postmortem measures of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2018-10-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Our study demonstrated the robustness of a multisite Centiloid [ 11 C]PIB‐PET study and established a range of pathology‐based CL thresholds.

  34. AMYPAD Diagnostic and Patient Management Study: Rationale and design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Reimbursement of amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET) is lagging due to the lack of definitive evidence on its clinical utility and cost-effectiveness.

  35. Understanding disease progression and improving Alzheimer's disease clinical trials: Recent highlights from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-13 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    (1) Data-driven AD progression models supported multifactorial interactions rather than a linear cascade of events.

  36. Plasma Amyloid as Prescreener for the Earliest Alzheimer Pathological Changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-10-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    Plasma Abeta42/Abeta40 ratio has potential as a prescreener to identify Alzheimer pathological changes in cognitively normal individuals with SCD.

  37. Assessing Synaptic Density in Alzheimer Disease With Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Ten participants with AD (5 male and 5 female; mean [SD] age, 72.7 [6.3] years; 10 [100%] β-amyloid positive) were compared with 11 participants who were cognitively normal (5 male and 6 female; mean [SD] age, 72.9 [8.7] years; 11 [100%] β-amyloid negative).

  38. MRI predictors of amyloid pathology: results from the EMIF-AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-09-27 Digital health tools

    Amyloid pathology is associated with changes in structural MRI measures in CN and MCI.

  39. We investigated the effect of crenezumab, a humanized anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) immunoglobulin (Ig)G4 monoclonal antibody, on biomarkers of amyloid pathology, neurodegeneration, and disease progression in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  40. An MRI measure of degenerative and cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2018-09-14 Biomarkers

    We developed, replicated, and validated an MRI measure of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies that are associated with clinical and neuropathologic diagnosis of AD and related to established biomarkers.

  41. Machine learning identified an Alzheimer's disease-related FDG-PET pattern which is also expressed in Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-09-05 Digital health tools

    Utilizing the publicly available neuroimaging database enabled by Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI; http://adni.loni.usc.edu/ ), we have compared the performance of automated classification algorithms that differentiate AD vs. normal subjects using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).

  42. Amyloid PET results were positive for 242 patients (48%).

  43. Discriminative Accuracy of [18F]flortaucipir Positron Emission Tomography for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA 2018-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In secondary analyses, the area under the curve (AUC) of [18F]flortaucipir SUVR was compared with 3 established magnetic resonance imaging measures (hippocampal volumes and AD signature and whole-brain cortical thickness), and sensitivity and specificity of [18F]flortaucipir in MCI due to AD vs non-AD neurodegenerative disorders were determined.

  44. SPECT and PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annals of nuclear medicine 2018-08-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia.

  45. Implementing the centiloid transformation for 11C-PiB and β-amyloid 18F-PET tracers using CapAIBL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2018-08-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Using the calibration images, there was a very strong agreement, and very little bias between the centiloid values computed using CapAIBL and those computed using the standard method with R2 > 0.97 across all tracers.

  46. Machine learning of neuroimaging for assisted diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-08-11 Digital health tools

    Machine learning does not differentiate clinically relevant disease categories yet.

  47. Utilizing semantic intrusions to identify amyloid positivity in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2018-08-03 Biomarkers

    SIs on the LASSI-L related to PSI and frPSI uniquely differentiated Amy+ and Amy- participants with aMCI and likely reflect deficits with inhibition and source memory in preclinical AD not captured by traditional cognitive measures.

  48. In vivo quantification of neurofibrillary tangles with [ 18 F]MK-6240

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-07-31 Brain scans and imaging

    This evaluation shows an [ 18 F]MK-6240 distribution in concordance with postmortem studies and that simplified quantitative approaches such as the SUVR offer valid estimates of neurofibrillary tangle load 90 min post injection. [ 18 F]MK-6240 is a promising tau tracer with the potential to be applied in the disease diagnosis and assessment of therapeutic interventions.

  49. Beta-amyloid imaging in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Yeungnam University journal of medicine 2018-06-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with extracellular plaques, composed of amyloid-beta (Aβ), in the brain.

  50. Neurodegeneration, synaptic dysfunction, and gliosis are phenotypic of Alzheimer dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2018-06-29 Biomarkers

    These results provide evidence that, in the absence of significant neurodegenerative processes, individuals who harbor AD neuropathology may remain cognitively unimpaired.

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