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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.

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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. [Formula: see text]Practice effects and longitudinal cognitive change in clinically normal older adults differ by Alzheimer imaging biomarker status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2016-10-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloidosis in the absence of neurodegeneration did not have an adverse impact on practice effects or the 30-month cognitive trajectories.

  2. Predicting Regional Pattern of Longitudinal β-Amyloid Accumulation by Baseline PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-10-06 Biomarkers

    Pseudotemporal measurements from baseline PET data explained 87% ( P Pseudotemporal analysis of baseline PET images is capable of predicting the regional pattern of longitudinal Aβ accumulation in AD at a group level.

  3. Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity in Early and Late Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results From the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2016-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results suggest that the breakdown of DMN connectivity may occur in the early stage of MCI.

  4. Heterogeneity in Suspected Non-Alzheimer Disease Pathophysiology Among Clinically Normal Older Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    In this study, clinically normal adults with SNAP did not exhibit evidence of elevated tau levels, which suggests that this biomarker construct does not represent amyloid-independent tauopathy.

  5. Longitudinal β-Amyloid Deposition and Hippocampal Volume in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease and Suspected Non-Alzheimer Disease Pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the 174 participants (81 men [46.6%]; 93 women [53.4%]; mean [SD] age, 65.7 [8.9] years), a proportion (14%-17%) of individuals with neurodegeneration alone (SNAP) later demonstrated Aβ+.

  6. Defining imaging biomarker cut points for brain aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2016-09-30 Biomarkers

    The reliable worsening method produced a cut point only for amyloid PET.

  7. Medial temporal lobe subregional morphometry using high resolution MRI in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2016-09-30 Long-term cohort studies

    Autopsy studies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have found that neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) pathology of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) demonstrates selective topography with relatively stereotyped subregional involvement at early disease stages, prompting interest in more granular measurement of these structures with in vivo magnetic resonance imaging.

  8. Florbetapir-PET to diagnose cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2016-09-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The CAA and HTN-ICH groups had similar age (66.9 vs 67.1), sex, and leukoaraiosis volumes (31 vs 30 mL, all p > 0.8).

  9. Application of advanced machine learning methods on resting-state fMRI network for identification of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2016-09-01 Digital health tools

    The study of brain networks by resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a promising method for identifying patients with dementia from healthy controls (HC).

  10. Reference Tissue-Based Kinetic Evaluation of 18F-AV-1451 for Tau Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The goal of this paper was to evaluate the in vivo kinetics of the novel tau-specific PET radioligand 18 F-AV-1451 in cognitively healthy control (HC) and Alzheimer disease (AD) subjects, using reference region analyses.

  11. Prevalence of Amyloid Positron Emission Tomographic Positivity in Poststroke Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Stroke 2016-08-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Thirty-eight (68%) patients who consented to PET imaging had PS-MCI.

  12. The A(+)N(-) and A(+)N(+) groups had significantly faster cognitive decline than the A(-)N(-) group (0·08 SD per year for AIBL-Preclinical AD Cognitive Composite [PACC]; p Interpretation Brain amyloidosis, a surrogate marker of Alzheimer's disease pathology, is a risk factor for cognitive decline and for progression from preclinical stages to symptomatic stages of the disease, with neurodegeneration acting as a compounding factor.

  13. Pittsburgh compound B imaging and cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β in a multicentre European memory clinic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-07-07 Disparities

    The aim of this study was to assess the agreement between data on cerebral amyloidosis, derived using Pittsburgh compound B positron emission tomography and (i) multi-laboratory INNOTEST enzyme linked immunosorbent assay derived cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of amyloid-β42; (ii) centrally measured cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β42 using a Meso Scale Discovery enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; and (iii) cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β42 centrally measured using an antibody-independent mass spectrometry-based reference method.

  14. A/T/N: An unbiased descriptive classification scheme for Alzheimer disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2016-07-01 Biomarkers

    Biomarkers have become an essential component of Alzheimer disease (AD) research and because of the pervasiveness of AD pathology in the elderly, the same biomarkers are used in cognitive aging research.

  15. Comparison of Feature Selection Techniques in Machine Learning for Anatomical Brain MRI in Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroinformatics 2016-07-01 Digital health tools

    We present a comparative split-half resampling analysis of various data driven feature selection and classification methods for the whole brain voxel-based classification analysis of anatomical magnetic resonance images.

  16. In Vivo Tau, Amyloid, and Gray Matter Profiles in the Aging Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2016-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that Tau and amyloid-β deposits are associated with distinctive spatial patterns of brain tissue loss.

  17. The ARIC-PET amyloid imaging study: Brain amyloid differences by age, race, sex, and APOE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2016-07-01 Disparities

    In this community-based cohort without dementia, florbetapir uptake is associated with older age and APOE genotype.

  18. 18F-AV-1451 tau PET imaging correlates strongly with tau neuropathology in MAPT mutation carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-06-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau positron emission tomography ligands provide the novel possibility to image tau pathology in vivo However, little is known about how in vivo brain uptake of tau positron emission tomography ligands relates to tau aggregates observed post-mortem.

  19. A large-scale comparison of cortical thickness and volume methods for measuring Alzheimer's disease severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2016-05-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) researchers commonly use MRI as a quantitative measure of disease severity.

  20. White matter hyperintensities are a core feature of Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from the dominantly inherited Alzheimer network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-04-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Autosomal-dominant AD is associated with increased WMH well before expected symptom onset.

  21. Amyloid Proteins and Their Role in Multiple Sclerosis. Considerations in the Use of Amyloid-PET Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2016-03-31 Biomarkers

    Thioflavin T derivatives are used in positron-emission tomography (PET) studies to detect amyloid protein deposits in patients with Alzheimer disease.

  22. Early and protective microglial activation in Alzheimer's disease: a prospective study using 18F-DPA-714 PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-03-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    While emerging evidence suggests that neuroinflammation plays a crucial role in Alzheimer's disease, the impact of the microglia response in Alzheimer's disease remains a matter of debate.

  23. Canadian Consensus Guidelines on Use of Amyloid Imaging in Canada: Update and Future Directions from the Specialized Task Force on Amyloid imaging in Canada

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques 2016-02-26 Biomarkers

    Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of brain amyloid beta is now clinically available in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom, but not Canada.

  24. Effect of intellectual enrichment on AD biomarker trajectories: Longitudinal imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2016-02-24 Brain scans and imaging

    There were minimal effects of lifestyle enrichment on AD biomarker trajectories (specifically rates).

  25. Standardized Expression of 18F-NAV4694 and 11C-PiB β-Amyloid PET Results with the Centiloid Scale

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-02-16 Biomarkers

    The results for both (11)C-PiB and (18)F-NAV4694 can now be expressed in centiloids, an important step that should allow better clinical and research use of Aβ imaging.

  26. Brain fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2016-02-11 Disease mechanisms

    The purpose of this article is to present a selective and concise summary of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in dementia imaging.

  27. Amyloid pathology and axonal injury after brain trauma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2016-02-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Increased Aβ burden was observed in TBI.

  28. Impact of Training Method on the Robustness of the Visual Assessment of 18F-Florbetaben PET Scans: Results from a Phase-3 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-01-28 End-of-life care

    Florbetaben scans were assessed visually and quantitatively, and results were compared with amyloid plaque scores.

  29. Diverging longitudinal changes in astrocytosis and amyloid PET in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-01-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    The 52 baseline participants comprised autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease mutation carriers (n = 11; 49.6 ± 10.3 years old) and non-carriers (n = 16; 51.1 ± 14.2 years old; 10 male), and patients with sporadic mild cognitive impairment (n = 17; 61.9 ± 6.4 years old; nine male) and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (n = 8; 63.0 ± 6.5 years old; five male); for confidentiality reasons, the gender of mutation carriers is not revealed.

  30. A Survey of Knowledge and Views Concerning Genetic and Amyloid PET Status Disclosure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that stakeholders in AD prevention research generally wish to know biological test information about their risk for developing AD to assist in making life plans.

  31. Amyloid PET Screening for Enrichment of Early-Stage Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trials: Experience in a Phase 1b Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2016-01-01 Biomarkers

    Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is being investigated as a screening tool to identify amyloid-positive patients as an enrichment strategy for Alzheimer disease (AD) clinical trial enrollment.

  32. Optimization of Statistical Single Subject Analysis of Brain FDG PET for the Prognosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment-to-Alzheimer's Disease Conversion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Positron emission tomography (PET) with the glucose analog F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is widely used in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases.

  33. Amyloid positron emission tomography and cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. World journal of radiology 2015-12-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a non-linear progressive course and several aspects influence the relationship between cerebral amount of AD pathology and the clinical expression of the disease.

  34. Early detection of Alzheimer's disease using MRI hippocampal texture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2015-12-21 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with reduction in hippocampal volume in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

  35. Alzheimer Disease and Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Automatic Classification Based on Cortical Atrophy for Single-Subject Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Radiology 2015-12-11 Digital health tools

    The SVM can be used in single-subject discrimination and can help the clinician arrive at a diagnosis.

  36. Visual Versus Fully Automated Analyses of 18F-FDG and Amyloid PET for Prediction of Dementia Due to Alzheimer Disease in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-11-19 Biomarkers

    Both (18)F-FDG and (11)C-PiB imaging appear to be of limited use for predicting the progression from MCI to dementia due to AD in short-term follow-up, irrespective of the strategy of analysis.

  37. 18F-THK5351: A Novel PET Radiotracer for Imaging Neurofibrillary Pathology in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-11-05 Brain scans and imaging

    (18)F-THK5351 is a useful PET tracer for the early detection of neurofibrillary pathology in AD patients.

  38. Partial-Volume Effect Correction Improves Quantitative Analysis of 18F-Florbetaben β-Amyloid PET Scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-11-05 Biomarkers

    In cohort 1, PVEC increased the effect on AD-versus-HC discrimination from a Cohen d value of 1.68 to 2.0 for composite SUVRs and from 0.04 to 1.04 for mesial temporal cortex SUVRs.

  39. Integrating longitudinal information in hippocampal volume measurements for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. NeuroImage 2015-10-26 Long-term cohort studies

    Structural MRI measures for monitoring Alzheimer's Disease (AD) progression are becoming instrumental in the clinical practice, and more so in the context of longitudinal studies.

  40. Imaging β-amyloid using [(18)F]flutemetamol positron emission tomography: from dosimetry to clinical diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2015-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) is hypothesized to result in a series of secondary neurodegenerative processes, leading ultimately to synaptic dysfunction and neuronal loss.

  41. Different definitions of neurodegeneration produce similar amyloid/neurodegeneration biomarker group findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-09-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We recently demonstrated that the frequencies of biomarker groups defined by the presence or absence of both amyloidosis (A+) and neurodegeneration (N+) changed dramatically by age in cognitively non-impaired subjects.

  42. The Vallecas Project: A Cohort to Identify Early Markers and Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2015-09-30 Digital health tools

    We have established a valuable homogeneous single-center cohort which, by identifying groups of variables associated with high risk of MCI or dementia conversion, should help to clarify the early physiopathological mechanisms of AD and should provide avenues for prompt diagnosis and AD prevention.

  43. Magnetic resonance imaging biomarkers for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a machine learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2015-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Determination of sensitive and specific markers of very early AD progression is intended to aid researchers and clinicians to develop new treatments and monitor their effectiveness, as well as to lessen the time and cost of clinical trials.

  44. Optical Coherence Tomography in Alzheimer's Disease: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. PloS one 2015-08-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    11 studies were identified, including 380 patients with AD, 68 with MCI and 293 healthy controls (HC).

  45. 18F-FDG PET Improves Diagnosis in Patients with Focal-Onset Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-08-06 Biomarkers

    Brain 18F-FDG PET scans interpreted with Neurostat and 3D-SSP displays accurately detected Alzheimer disease in patients with primary progressive aphasia or corticobasal syndrome as focal-onset dementias.

  46. Brain Imaging and Blood Biomarker Abnormalities in Children With Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-08-01 Biomarkers

    Similar to findings in adult mutation carriers, in the later preclinical and clinical stages of ADAD, mutation-carrying children were distinguished from control individuals by significantly higher plasma Aβ1-42 levels (mean [SD]: carriers, 18.8 [5.1] pg/mL and noncarriers, 13.1 [3.2] pg/mL; P Conclusions and relevance Children at genetic risk for ADAD have functional and structural brain changes and abnormal levels of plasma Aβ1-42.

  47. Clinical use of amyloid-positron emission tomography neuroimaging: Practical and bioethical considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Until recently, estimation of β-amyloid plaque density as a key element for identifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology as the cause of cognitive impairment was only possible at autopsy.

  48. Amyloid-β 11C-PiB-PET imaging results from 2 randomized bapineuzumab phase 3 AD trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2015-07-24 Genetics

    The (11)C-PiB-PET imaging results demonstrated reduction of fibrillar Aβ accumulation in patients with Alzheimer disease treated with bapineuzumab; however, as no clinical benefit was observed, the findings are consistent with the hypotheses that bapineuzumab may not have been initiated early enough in the disease course, the doses were insufficient, or the most critical Aβ species were inadequately targeted.

  49. Anosognosia in Alzheimer disease: Disconnection between memory and self-related brain networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Anosognosia in AD is due not only to functional changes within cortical midline structures involved in self-referential processes (OFC, PCC), but also to disconnection between these regions as well as with the medial temporal lobe.

  50. [(18)F]Florbetaben: a review in β-amyloid PET imaging in cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. CNS drugs 2015-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Intravenous (18)F-labelled florbetaben ([(18)F]florbetaben) [Neuraceq™] is a polyethylene glycol stilbene derivative that is approved in the USA, EU and South Korea for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the brain.

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