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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. Clinical Research on Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2018-06-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, is becoming a major challenge for global health and social care.

  2. Quantification of [18F]florbetapir: A test-retest tracer kinetic modelling study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2018-06-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of amyloid beta can be visualized using [18F]florbetapir positron emission tomography.

  3. Brain Imaging of Alzheimer Dementia Patients and Elderly Controls with 18F-MK-6240, a PET Tracer Targeting Neurofibrillary Tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2018-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    18F-MK-6240 (18F-labeled 6-(fluoro)-3-(1H-pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridin-1-yl)isoquinolin-5-amine) is a highly selective, subnanomolar-affinity PET tracer for imaging neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs).

  4. Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-06-05 Tau biomarkers

    Compared to controls, all three clinical groups showed a pattern of mainly increased referenced standard uptake values (SUVR) for the amyloid tracer [18F]-AV45 PET, with rank order PTSD > TBI_PTSD > TBI > Control, and same rank order was seen in the deficits of cognitive functions.

  5. Brain properties predict proximity to symptom onset in sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-06-01 Digital health tools

    Within the training set, individuals closer to or beyond their parent's symptom onset demonstrated reduced grey matter volume and altered functional connectivity, specifically in regions known to be vulnerable in Alzheimer's disease.

  6. Distinct dynamic profiles of microglial activation are associated with progression of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although brain neuroinflammation may play an instrumental role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease, its actual impact on disease progression remains controversial, being reported as either detrimental or protective.

  7. Longitudinal brain imaging in preclinical Alzheimer disease: impact of APOE ε4 genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-06-01 Genetics

    While prior work reliably demonstrates that the APOE ɛ4 allele has deleterious group level effects on Alzheimer disease pathology, the homogeneity of its influence across the lifespan and spatially in the brain remains unknown.

  8. Antibody-Based In Vivo PET Imaging Detects Amyloid-β Reduction in Alzheimer Transgenic Mice After BACE-1 Inhibition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2018-05-31 Biomarkers

    The concentration of 124 I-RmAb158-scFv8D3, as measured in vivo with PET, increased with age and corresponded well with the ex vivo autoradiography and Aβ immunohistochemistry results.

  9. Amyloid positron emission tomography candidates may focus more on benefits than risks of results disclosure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-05-30 Biomarkers

    Future research should examine whether minimizing drawbacks at the pre-imaging stage has adverse consequences on results disclosure.

  10. MRI Characterizes the Progressive Course of AD and Predicts Conversion to Alzheimer's Dementia 24 Months Before Probable Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-05-24 Digital health tools

    There is no disease-modifying treatment currently available for AD, one of the more impacting neurodegenerative diseases affecting more than 47.5 million people worldwide.

  11. PET staging of amyloidosis using striatum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-05-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    PET can evaluate amyloid expansion from cortex to subcortex.

  12. Alzheimer Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Integrated Pulsed Arterial Spin-Labeling MRI and 18F-FDG PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Radiology 2018-05-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Analyses revealed high overlap between components, regional and quantitative hypoperfusion, and hypometabolism in patients with AD compared with HC participants in precuneus, parietal, temporal, and occipital cortex.

  13. Modulation of functional activity and connectivity by acupuncture in patients with Alzheimer disease as measured by resting-state fMRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PloS one 2018-05-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Acupuncture has been used in the therapy of Alzheimer disease (AD); however, its neural mechanisms are still unclear.

  14. Japanese and North American Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative studies: Harmonization for international trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-05-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    These results support the feasibility of bridging of clinical trials in the prodromal stage of AD between Asia and western countries.

  15. Electromagnetic signatures of the preclinical and prodromal stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Biomarkers useful for the predementia stages of Alzheimer's disease are needed.

  16. Longitudinal tau PET in ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    At a group-wise level, observable rates of short-term serial tau accumulation were only seen in the presence of abnormal amyloid.

  17. Combining Polygenic Hazard Score With Volumetric MRI and Cognitive Measures Improves Prediction of Progression From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-04-30 Long-term cohort studies

    Improved prediction of progression to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) among older individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is of high clinical and societal importance.

  18. Simultaneous resting-state FDG-PET/fMRI in Alzheimer Disease: Relationship between glucose metabolism and intrinsic activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. NeuroImage 2018-04-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Simultaneously evaluating resting-state brain glucose metabolism and intrinsic functional activity has potential to impact the clinical neurosciences of Alzheimer Disease (AD).

  19. Subthreshold Amyloid Predicts Tau Deposition in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018-04-23 Treatments

    Current approaches to the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) rely upon classifying individuals as "positive" or "negative" for biomarkers related to the core pathology of β-amyloid (Aβ).

  20. Amyloid PET Positivity in Different Primary Progressive Aphasia Phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2018-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the 12 patients with PPA syndrome, 8 (66.7%) were considered as amyloid positive.

  21. FDG-PET in tau-negative amnestic dementia resembles that of autopsy-proven hippocampal sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Age-related hippocampal sclerosis may account for a significant proportion of elderly participants with amnestic dementia.

  22. Memory decline accompanies subthreshold amyloid accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2018-03-23 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Memory decline accompanies Aβ accumulation in otherwise healthy, Aβ-negative older adults.

  23. Machine Learning-based Individual Assessment of Cortical Atrophy Pattern in Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum: Development of the Classifier and Longitudinal Evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-03-07 Digital health tools

    To develop a new method for measuring Alzheimer's disease (AD)-specific similarity of cortical atrophy patterns at the individual-level, we employed an individual-level machine learning algorithm.

  24. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers measured by Elecsys assays compared to amyloid imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-03-02 Biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers and amyloid positron emission tomography reflect different aspects of Alzheimer's disease brain pathology, and therefore, less-than-perfect correspondence is expected.

  25. Rates of Amyloid Imaging Positivity in Patients With Primary Progressive Aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-03-01 Biomarkers

    Inclusion criteria included clinical diagnosis of PPA; availability of complete speech, language, and cognitive testing; magnetic resonance imaging performed within 6 months of the cognitive evaluation; and PET carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound-B or florbetapir F 18 brain scan results.

  26. Cognitive and neuroimaging features and brain β-amyloidosis in individuals at risk of Alzheimer's disease (INSIGHT-preAD): a longitudinal observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-02-27 Genetics

    The amyloid β subgroups did not differ for any psychobehavioural, cognitive, actigraphy, and structural and functional neuroimaging results after adjustment for age, sex, and level of education More participants positive for amyloid β deposition had the APOE ε4 allele (33 [38%] vs 29 [13%], p 1-42 concentration in CSF significantly correlated with mean 18 F-florbetapir uptake at baseline (r=-0·62, p 1-42 to amyloid β 1-40 (r=-0·61, p 18 F-florbetapir uptake at baseline (mean standard uptake value ratio 1·46 [SD 0·16] vs 1·02 [SD 0·20]), and more were carriers of the APOE ε4 allele (three [75%] of four vs 33 [39%] of 83).

  27. Topographic staging of tau positron emission tomography images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-02-14 Brain scans and imaging

    All three schemes estimated stages that were significantly associated with amyloid status and when dichotomized to tau positive or negative were 90% to 94% concordant in the populations identified.

  28. Design and first baseline data of the DZNE multicenter observational study on predementia Alzheimer's disease (DELCODE)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-02-07 Prevention and risk

    In this publication, we report cognitive and clinical data as well as apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker results of the first 394 baseline data sets.

  29. Spatial patterns of neuroimaging biomarker change in individuals from families with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found a sequence to pathological changes, with rates of Aβ deposition in mutation carriers being significantly different from those in non-carriers first (across regions that showed a significant difference, at a mean of 18·9 years [SD 3·3] before expected onset), followed by hypometabolism (14·1 years [5·1] before expected onset), and lastly structural decline (4·7 years [4·2] before expected onset).

  30. Brain and blood metabolite signatures of pathology and progression in Alzheimer disease: A targeted metabolomics study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2018-01-25 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that distinct sphingolipid species including sphingomyelin (SM) with acyl residue sums C16:0, C18:1, and C16:1 (SM C16:0, SM C18:1, SM C16:1) and hydroxysphingomyelin with acyl residue sum C14:1 (SM (OH) C14:1) were consistently associated with severity of AD pathology at autopsy and AD progression across prodromal and preclinical stages.

  31. Use of multimodality imaging and artificial intelligence for diagnosis and prognosis of early stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine 2018-01-10 Digital health tools

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

  32. Tau-PET imaging with [18F]AV-1451 in primary progressive apraxia of speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2018-01-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder characterized by combinations of slow speaking rate, abnormal prosody, distorted sound substitutions, and trial-and-error articulatory movements.

  33. 18F-Flortaucipir Binding in Choroid Plexus: Related to Race and Hippocampus Signal

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

    B/AA individuals had elevated CP and HC SUVR (p < 0.007), whereas other ROI SUVR and HC SUVR covaried for CP SUVR did not show race differences (p > 0.05).

  34. Amyloid Accumulation and Cognitive Decline in Clinically Normal Older Individuals: Implications for Aging and Early Alzheimer's Disease

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

    The aberrant accumulation of the amyloid protein is a critical and early event in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) cascade.

  35. Amyloid PET Imaging: Standardization and Integration with Other Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid plaques are a neuropathologic hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which can be imaged through positron emission tomography (PET) technology using radiopharmaceuticals that selectively bind to the fibrillar aggregates of amyloid-β plaques (Amy-PET).

  36. Amyloid PET in neurodegenerative diseases with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition characterized by progressive cognitive decline and memory loss, and is the most common form of dementia.

  37. Comprehension of an Elevated Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Biomarker Result by Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    The Study of Knowledge and Reactions to Amyloid Testing, a substudy of an AD prevention trial, involved 2 semistructured telephone interviews with 80 participants recruited from 9 study sites: 50 received elevated and 30 received not elevated amyloid PET scan results.

  38. Deep Brain Stimulation of Frontal Lobe Networks to Treat Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The study objective was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) at the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) region to specifically modulate frontal lobe behavioral and cognitive networks as a novel treatment approach for Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  39. The Vascular Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: A Key to Preclinical Prediction of Dementia Using Neuroimaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Prevention and risk

    The vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (VHAD) was proposed 24 years ago from observations made in our laboratory using aging rats subjected to chronic brain hypoperfusion.

  40. Optical Coherence Tomography in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2017-12-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    Over the past decade, a surge of evidence has documented various pathological processes in the retina of patients suffering from mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and other neurodegenerative diseases.

  41. Generation of Structural MR Images from Amyloid PET: Application to MR-Less Quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2017-12-07 Biomarkers

    Generated MR images from florbetapir PET showed signal patterns that were visually similar to the real MR. The structural similarity index between real and generated MR was 0.91 ± 0.04.

  42. Entorhinal Tau Pathology, Episodic Memory Decline, and Neurodegeneration in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-11-30 Brain scans and imaging

    The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is an early site of tau accumulation and MTL dysfunction may underlie episodic-memory decline in aging and dementia.

  43. Centiloid method evaluation for amyloid PET of subcortical vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-11-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Reference region selection is important for proper amyloid PET analysis, especially in subcortical vascular dementia (SVaD) patients.

  44. Decreased Complexity in Alzheimer's Disease: Resting-State fMRI Evidence of Brain Entropy Mapping

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-11-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a frequently observed, irreversible brain function disorder among elderly individuals.

  45. Prognostic value of amyloid PET scan in normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2017-11-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid positron emission tomography ([18F] florbetaben (FBB) PET) can be used to determine concomitant Alzheimer's disease (AD) in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients.

  46. Low Serum Phosphorus Correlates with Cerebral Aβ Deposition in Cognitively Impaired Subjects: Results from the KBASE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-11-06 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by progressive cognitive decline, is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the elderly.

  47. Tau PET imaging predicts cognition in atypical variants of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2017-11-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of paired helical filament tau contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 18 F-flortaucipir is a positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand sensitive to tau in AD, but its clinical utility will depend in part on its ability to predict cognitive symptoms in diverse dementia phenotypes associated with selective, regional uptake.

  48. Postmortem MRI and histology demonstrate differential iron accumulation and cortical myelin organization in early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Previous MRI studies reported cortical iron accumulation in early-onset (EOAD) compared to late-onset (LOAD) Alzheimer disease patients.

  49. In vivo staging of regional amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2017-10-18 How common it is

    The highly consistent regional hierarchy of PET-evidenced amyloid deposition across participants resembles neuropathologic observations and suggests a predictable regional sequence that may be used to stage an individual's progress of amyloid pathology in vivo.

  50. Considerations and code for partial volume correcting [ 18 F]-AV-1451 tau PET data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Data in brief 2017-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    [ 18 F]-AV-1451 is a leading tracer used with positron emission tomography (PET) to quantify tau pathology.

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