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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. Diffusion imaging changes in grey matter in Alzheimer's disease: a potential marker of early neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2015-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is recognized to have a long presymptomatic period, during which there is progressive accumulation of molecular pathology, followed by inexorable neuronal damage.

  2. Optimal Target Region for Subject Classification on the Basis of Amyloid PET Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-07-01 Biomarkers

    We determined that several iterations of the discriminant analysis improved the classification of subjects into the AβL and AβH groups.

  3. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2 PET Core: 2015

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The PET Core has demonstrated a variety of methods for the standardization of biomarkers such as florbetapir PET in a multicenter setting.

  4. The Worldwide Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: An update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), launched in 2004, has worked to accelerate drug development by validating imaging and blood/cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease clinical treatment trials.

  5. [(18)F]flutemetamol amyloid positron emission tomography in preclinical and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease: specific detection of advanced phases of amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-30 End-of-life care

    [(18)F]flutemetamol amyloid PET detects primarily advanced stages of Aβ pathology in preclinical and symptomatic AD cases.

  6. Recommendations for the use of PET imaging biomarkers in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative conditions associated with dementia: SEMNIM and SEN consensus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2015-06-20 Disease mechanisms

    The new diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) acknowledges the interest given to biomarkers to improve the specificity in subjects with dementia and to facilitate an early diagnosis of the pathophysiological process of AD in the prodromal or pre-dementia stage.

  7. Activated iron-containing microglia in the human hippocampus identified by magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2015-06-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Although amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary pathology play important roles in Alzheimer disease (AD), our understanding of AD is incomplete, and the contribution of microglia and iron to neurodegeneration is unknown.

  8. 2014 Update of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: A review of papers published since its inception

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is an ongoing, longitudinal, multicenter study designed to develop clinical, imaging, genetic, and biochemical biomarkers for the early detection and tracking of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. The relative importance of imaging markers for the prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia in mild cognitive impairment - Beyond classical regression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2015-05-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Selecting a set of relevant markers to predict conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a challenging task given the wealth of regional pathologic information that can be extracted from multimodal imaging data.

  10. A pilot study to assess effects of long-term inhalation of airborne particulate matter on early Alzheimer-like changes in the mouse brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PloS one 2015-05-20 Biomarkers

    Exposure to air pollutants, including particulate matter, results in activation of the brain inflammatory response and Alzheimer disease (AD)-like pathology in dogs and humans.

  11. Prevalence of amyloid PET positivity in dementia syndromes: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. JAMA 2015-05-01 Biomarkers

    The likelihood of amyloid positivity was associated with age and APOE ε4 status.

  12. Florbetapir positron emission tomography and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-04-24 Tau biomarkers

    In HC and MCI subjects, FBP PET anterior and posterior cingulate and composite standard uptake value ratios correlated with CSF amyloid beta (Aβ1-42) and tau/Aβ1-42 ratios.

  13. The lower hippocampus global connectivity, the higher its local metabolism in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2015-04-15 Brain scans and imaging

    In both patient groups, intrinsic connectivity between hippocampus and precuneus was significantly reduced.

  14. Amyloid and FDG-PET study of logopenic primary progressive aphasia: evidence for the existence of two subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2015-04-11 Biomarkers

    The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) has been associated with Alzheimer disease, although this relationship is still subject to debate.

  15. Amyloid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in pharmacological sciences 2015-04-01 Tau biomarkers

    Aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) into oligomers, fibrils, and plaques is central in the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is the main focus of AD drug development.

  16. FIBT versus florbetaben and PiB: a preclinical comparison study with amyloid-PET in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2015-03-28 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that FIBT (2-(p-methylaminophenyl)-7-(2-[(18)F]fluoroethoxy)imidazo[2,1-b]benzothiazole) compares favorably to florbetaben as a high-contrasting PET radiopharmaceutical for imaging Aβ pathology.

  17. Florbetaben PET imaging to detect amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease: Phase 3 study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2015-03-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Florbetaben PET shows high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of histopathology-confirmed neuritic β-amyloid plaques and may thus be a valuable adjunct to clinical diagnosis, particularly for the exclusion of AD.

  18. Cerebellum Can Serve As a Pseudo-Reference Region in Alzheimer Disease to Detect Neuroinflammation Measured with PET Radioligand Binding to Translocator Protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-03-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with an increase in the brain of the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO), which is overexpressed in activated microglia and reactive astrocytes.

  19. Measurement of longitudinal β-amyloid change with 18F-florbetapir PET and standardized uptake value ratios

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2015-03-05 Biomarkers

    Reference region selection has an important influence on the detection of florbetapir change.

  20. Cross-sectional comparison of small animal [18F]-florbetaben amyloid-PET between transgenic AD mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2015-02-23 Brain scans and imaging

    We aimed to compare [18F]-florbetaben PET imaging in four transgenic mouse strains modelling Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the main focus on APPswe/PS2 mice and C57Bl/6 mice serving as controls (WT).

  21. Beta-amyloid imaging with florbetaben

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-02-12 Treatments

    Florbetaben is a fluorine-18 ( 18 F)-labeled stilbene derivative that was developed as a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for routine clinical application to visualize β-amyloid plaques in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

  22. Imaging Amyloidopathy in Parkinson Disease and Parkinsonian Dementia Syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-02-01 Biomarkers

    Dementia arising in patients with Parkinson disease or parkinsonian neurodegeneration comprises a heterogeneous neuropathology.

  23. ¹⁸F-FDG PET for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2015-01-28 Long-term cohort studies

    ¹⁸F-FDFG uptake by brain tissue as measured by positron emission tomography (PET) is a well-established method for assessment of brain function in people with dementia.

  24. Predicting Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Machine Learning Classification of Multimodal Multicenter Diffusion-Tensor and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2015-01-28 Digital health tools

    Our results suggest that DTI data provide better prediction accuracy than GM volume in predementia AD.

  25. Comparing 3T and 1.5T MRI for mapping hippocampal atrophy in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2015-01-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Prior MR imaging studies, primarily at 1.5T, established hippocampal atrophy as a biomarker for Alzheimer disease. 3T MR imaging offers a higher contrast and signal-to-noise ratio, yet distortions and intensity uniformity are harder to control.

  26. Amyloid PET imaging: applications beyond Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2015-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    As a biomarker of beta-amyloid, positron emission tomography (PET) amyloid imaging offers a unique opportunity to detect the presence of this protein in the human body during life.

  27. Synaptic change in the posterior cingulate gyrus in the progression of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered to be an early stage in the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) providing an opportunity to investigate brain pathogenesis prior to the onset of dementia.

  28. Independent information from cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β and florbetapir imaging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2014-12-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography amyloid-β were measured at baseline in 769 persons [161 healthy controls, 68 subjective memory complaints, 419 mild cognitive impairment and 121 Alzheimer's disease dementia, mean age 72 years (standard deviation 7 years), 47% females] and used to predict diagnosis, APOE ε4 carriage status, cerebral blood flow, cerebrospinal fluid total-tau and phosphorylated-tau levels (cross-sectionally); and hippocampal volume, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography results and Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-cognitive subscale scores (longitudinally).

  29. Identification of diabetes-related dementia: Longitudinal perfusion SPECT and amyloid PET studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2014-12-20 Biomarkers

    A subset of a dementia subgroup with characteristics predominantly associated with DM-related factors may underlie a pathophysiology different from AD, although these patients were clinically diagnosed as having AD.

  30. Tau, amyloid, and hypometabolism in a patient with posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-12-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Determining the relative contribution of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles to brain dysfunction in Alzheimer disease is critical for therapeutic approaches, but until recently could only be assessed at autopsy.

  31. Retinal fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy measures depend on the severity of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta ophthalmologica 2014-12-07 Tau biomarkers

    FLIO set-up uses a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (HRA2, Heidelberg Engineering, Germany), which was modified by the use of an excitation pulse laser BLD440 (Becker&Hickl, Berlin, Germany) and detection of fluorescence lifetime by time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC; Becker&Hickl) in two spectral channels (channel 1: 490-560 nm, channel 2: 560-700 nm).

  32. Deep Brain Stimulation Influences Brain Structure in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain stimulation 2014-12-03 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We present the first in-human evidence that, in addition to modulating neural circuit activity, DBS may influence the natural course of brain atrophy in a neurodegenerative disease.

  33. Multimodality imaging of Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2014-11-20 Biomarkers

    Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer disease, result in cognitive decline and dementia and are a leading cause of mortality in the growing elderly population.

  34. Clinical Utility of Amyloid Imaging in a Complex Case of Corticobasal Syndrome Presenting with Psychiatric Symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of neurological disorders 2014-11-01 Biomarkers

    Clinical indications of amyloid imaging in atypical dementia remain unclear.

  35. The Centiloid Project: Standardizing quantitative amyloid plaque estimation by PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2014-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Although amyloid imaging with PiB-PET ([C-11]Pittsburgh Compound-B positron emission tomography), and now with F-18-labeled tracers, has produced remarkably consistent qualitative findings across a large number of centers, there has been considerable variability in the exact numbers reported as quantitative outcome measures of tracer retention.

  36. Anatomical heterogeneity of Alzheimer disease: based on cortical thickness on MRIs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-24 Brain scans and imaging

    This cluster analysis of cortical thickness of the entire brain showed that AD dementia in the earlier stages can be categorized into various anatomical subtypes, with distinct clinical features.

  37. The agreement between Aβ classification with CSF Aβ42 and 18F-flutemetamol positron emission tomography was very high (κ = 0.85).

  38. Brain PET in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2014-10-01 Biomarkers

    FDG-PET and amyloid PET imaging are valuable in the assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  39. Age-specific population frequencies of cerebral β-amyloidosis and neurodegeneration among people with normal cognitive function aged 50-89 years: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2014-09-04 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    As preclinical Alzheimer's disease becomes a target for therapeutic intervention, the overlap between imaging abnormalities associated with typical ageing and those associated with Alzheimer's disease needs to be recognised.

  40. Functional connectivity in autosomal dominant and late-onset Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging changes with progressing AD severity are similar between ADAD and LOAD.

  41. Random Forest ensembles for detection and prediction of Alzheimer's disease with a good between-cohort robustness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2014-08-28 Long-term cohort studies

    Computer-aided diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a rapidly developing field of neuroimaging with strong potential to be used in practice.

  42. Automated quantification of 18F-flutemetamol PET activity for categorizing scans as negative or positive for brain amyloid: concordance with visual image reads

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2014-08-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The derived threshold was used to categorize the 172 scans in the test cohort as negative or positive, and results were compared with categorization using visual assessment.

  43. Plasma Aβ but not tau is related to brain PiB retention in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2014-08-13 Biomarkers

    Recent advances in biomarkers provide the possibility of early or preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's pathology.

  44. The preclinical Alzheimer cognitive composite: measuring amyloid-related decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-08-01 Genetics

    In ADNI, Aβ-positive participants showed more decline than did Aβ-negative participants with regard to the ADCS-PACC score at 24 months (mean [SE] difference, -1.239 [0.522] [95% CI, -2.263 to -0.215]; P = .02).

  45. Insulin resistance predicts brain amyloid deposition in late middle-aged adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-07-17 Brain scans and imaging

    This is the first human study to demonstrate that insulin resistance may contribute to amyloid deposition in brain regions affected by AD.

  46. Amyloid PET/MRI in the differential diagnosis of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2014-06-01 Biomarkers

    The potential of brain imaging has grown rapidly with new modalities, hybrid combinations of existing modalities, and novel metabolic tracers.

  47. Disease progression model for Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's subjects from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 2014-05-24 Long-term cohort studies

    The objective of this analysis was to develop a nonlinear disease progression model, using an expanded set of covariates that captures the longitudinal Clinical Dementia Rating Scale-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) scores.

  48. Cognitive reserve and clinical expression of Alzheimer's disease: evidence and implications for brain PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2014-04-25 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) refers to the hypothesized capacity of an adult brain to cope with brain damage in order to minimize symptomatology.

  49. TDP-43 is a key player in the clinical features associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-03-23 Brain scans and imaging

    The aim of this study was to determine whether the TAR DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) has any independent effect on the clinical and neuroimaging features typically ascribed to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, and whether TDP-43 pathology could help shed light on the phenomenon of resilient cognition in AD.

  50. Amyloid PET imaging in Alzheimer's disease: a comparison of three radiotracers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2014-03-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Despite differing white and grey matter retention characteristics, cortical retention for each (18)F tracer was highly correlated with that of PiB, enabling conversion of thresholds across tracer measurement scales with a high level of internal consistency.

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