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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

1,161 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1983 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 88
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 57
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 52
  • Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 51
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 34

337 journals in all.

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  1. PET-guided Assessment of Amyloid Clearance and Outcomes in a Real-World Cohort of Patients with Alzheimer Disease undergoing Anti-Amyloid Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2026-04-29 Genetics

    Thirty-two patients met inclusion criteria (lecanemab, N=15; donanemab, N=17).

  2. Brain PET in the era of anti-amyloid-β antibody therapy for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Japanese Journal of Radiology 2026-04-25 Biomarkers

    Here the current and emerging roles of brain positron emission tomography (PET) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the era of anti-amyloid-β antibody therapy, with a focus on clinical applications, methodological considerations, and future perspectives were reviewed.

  3. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) in Anti-Amyloid Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease: An Update from the Alzheimer's Association ARIA Workgroup

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2026-04-21 Treatments

    This expert workgroup review summarizes what is known about ARIA, the brain-swelling (ARIA-E) and micro-bleeding (ARIA-H) side effect seen with anti-amyloid drugs.

  4. Cross-Platform Concordance of Quantitative Amyloid PET Z-Scores in a Real-World Clinical Cohort of Patients with Cognitive Impairment and Suspected Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2026-04-15 Biomarkers

    Agreement between Syngo.via and MIMneuro varied by region.

  5. Automated Imaging Differentiation for Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology Open Access 2026-04-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Differentiation of Alzheimer disease dementia (ADD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) remains a challenge.

  6. Imaging-genetics-based dementia risk prediction using deep survival neural networks in the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2026-04-09 Long-term cohort studies

    Accurate dementia risk prediction is challenging, and may be facilitated by better use of imaging and genetic data, including their complex interactions.

  7. AI-driven magnetoencephalography biomarkers in dementia risk prediction: current evidence, challenges and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in Dementia 2026-04-07 Getting a diagnosis

    Fourteen studies met eligibility criteria, covering populations from healthy controls to individuals with subjective cognitive decline, MCI, AD, and other dementias.

  8. Longitudinal Evaluation of 18 F-MK-6240 Along the Alzheimer Disease Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2026-04-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Baseline 18F-MK-6240 PET showed a minimal signal in CU participants, localized signal to the medial temporal lobe in participants with MCI, and a signal spanning the inferolateral temporal lobe and extending posteriorly along the ventral cortex in participants with AD.

  9. Decoupling Alzheimer Disease Pathologic Abnormalities at PET with Improved Clinical Relevance by Interpretable Adversarial Decomposition Learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Radiology 2026-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Pathophysiologic-constrained ADL provided interpretable, personalized pathologic maps and an AI-derived ADAD score that more closely linked PET pathologic abnormalities with multimodal clinical measures. © RSNA, 2026

  10. Incidence of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities and health resource utilization in patients with Alzheimer disease receiving monoclonal antibody treatments: A real-world evidence study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2026-04-01 Drug development

    All recently approved monoclonal antibodies (eg, aducanumab, lecanemab, and donanemab) for Alzheimer disease (AD) were shown to increase the risks of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in randomized clinical trials, which can include brain swelling or hemorrhage.

  11. Long-term impact of disclosing amyloid PET results to individuals with subjective cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2026-03-27 Biomarkers

    Participants’ motivations for testing and long-term adaptation to the results were strongly shaped by cognitive concerns and personal experiences of dementia in relatives.

  12. The Role of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ( MRS ), Diffusion‐Tensor‐Imaging ( DTI ) and Structural MRI in the Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnosis: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2026-03-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurological disorders affecting older adults, with approximately 7.2 million cases only in the United States.

  13. Amyloid spatial extent with florbetapir-PET for early detection of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-03-13 Treatments

    EXT showed high cross-sectional reliability and longitudinal stability.

  14. PI-NIP: Protocolo Neuro-Imune de Precisão para Alzheimer baseado em razão IL-6/IL-10 e estimulação 40Hz/10Hz

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026-03-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Perspectivas futuras O mesmo princípio de modulação glial pode ser aplicado em cenários de morte clínica (parada cardiorrespiratória).

  15. PI-NIP: Protocolo Neuro-Imune de Precisão para Alzheimer baseado em razão IL-6/IL-10 e estimulação 40Hz/10Hz

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026-03-09 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Perspectivas futuras O mesmo princípio de modulação glial pode ser aplicado em cenários de morte clínica (parada cardiorrespiratória).

  16. Comparison of three plasma p-tau217 assays to detect PET-confirmed Alzheimer's pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-03-04 Biomarkers

    All assays distinguished amyloid-positive from -negative individuals with high accuracy (89%-95%).

  17. Discriminative Plasma Lipidomic Signatures of Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Targeted Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2026-03-01 Digital health tools

    Significant alterations were observed in 7 lipid classes and 65 specific lipid species in DLB compared to AD.

  18. Multi-class Alzheimer’s disease (AD) classification using Swin Transformer wavelet and Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Intelligence-Based Medicine 2026-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a slow-growing neurological disorder that destroys human thought and consciousness.

  19. Alzheimer’s related dementia severity classification from magnetic resonance imaging using derivative-free optimization of convolutional neural network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2026-02-21 Getting a diagnosis

    Magnetic resonance imaging based dementia severity assessment facilitates timely diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression.

  20. Advancing Theranostics in Alzheimer Disease: FDA Approval of Amyloid- PET Drugs for Selection of Patients for Amyloid-ߖDirected Therapies and Other Labeling Updates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2026-02-19 Biomarkers

    Theranostics—the use of diagnostic and therapeutic drugs that target the same molecular marker of disease—extends beyond the paradigm of radiopharmaceutical drug pairs used in oncologic settings (e.g., somatostatin receptor subtype 2 and prostate-specific membrane antigen theranostics) to other

  21. Convolutional Neural Network Achieves 97.67 Percent Accuracy for Alzheimer MRI Classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Academia Open 2026-02-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Using approximately 5,000 ADNI MRI images, the model achieved 97.67% accuracy, 97.73% precision, 97.67% recall, and 97.65% F1-score, with AUC values near 1.00.

  22. Across AD, ALS, and FTD, a convergent multimorbidity architecture centered on a shared metabolic and immune core was identified, accompanied by prominent neurobehavioral processes and intermediate systems including gastrointestinal, endocrine, hematological, hepatic, and sensory pathways.

  23. Progression-Aware and Explainable CNN–Transformer Framework for Multiclass Alzheimer’s Disease Staging Using MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Diagnostics 2026-02-16 Brain scans and imaging

    The experimental findings on a multiclass MRI dataset of Alzheimer disease demonstrate consistent and high performance across cross-validation folds (mean F1-score (0.991 ± 0.003) and AUROC (0.9998 ± 0.0002)), without losing transparency and progress awareness.

  24. Centiloids in Amyloid PET: A Practical Guide to Quantitation Interpretation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology 2026-02-10 Biomarkers

    The approval of disease-modifying antiamyloid therapies has expanded the clinical role of amyloid PET beyond diagnostic confirmation to include baseline characterization and longitudinal monitoring of treatment response.

  25. PET Imaging in Alzheimer Disease in the Era of Antiamyloid Therapy in the United States: Clinical Utility, Quantification, and Policy Landscape

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology 2026-02-10 Biomarkers

    Amyloid PET enables improved detection of amyloid-β plaques within the brain.

  26. Quantitative Amyloid Brain Imaging: A Literature Review of the Centiloid Scale in Alzheimer Disease Evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology 2026-02-10 Biomarkers

    The Centiloid method demonstrates strong intertracer and interscanner harmonization when standardized to the 11C-Pittsburgh compound B reference, with high correlation (r2 > 0.9) across 18F-labeled tracers, including florbetapir, flutemetamol, and florbetaben.

  27. Sex Differences in Alzheimer Disease Imaging Biomarkers in a Diverse, Community-Based Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 2026-02-06 Genetics

    Compared with men, women had greater amyloid burden (B = 0.05; 95% CI, 0.02-0.07; P < .001), Braak stages III and IV (B = 0.05; 95% CI, 0.02-0.08; P = .003) and Braak stages V and VI (B = 0.09; 95% CI, 0.06-0.12; P < .001) tau burden, and AD signature thickness (B = 0.04; 95% CI, 0.02-0.05; P < .001).

  28. Failure of 18F-florbetapir Amyloid PET Imaging after Injection With an Automated Injector Using an Air-vent Filter for FDG Injection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2026-02-03 Biomarkers

    A 77-year-old woman with mild cognitive impairment was referred to 18F-florbetapir positron emission tomography (PET) to assess the indication of a disease-modifying drug against Alzheimer disease.

  29. GABAergic activity and gamma oscillations in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: Neuropathology and therapeutic neuromodulatory insights from animal and human studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain Network Disorders 2026-01-30 Mild cognitive impairment

    Disruptions in GABAergic activity and alterations in gamma oscillations are key pathological features of AD associated with amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques.

  30. Sex Differences in Alzheimer Disease Imaging Biomarkers in a Diverse, Community-Based Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2026-01-27 Genetics

    A total of 503 participants (mean [SD] age, 64.6 [2.8] years; 321 [63.8%] women; 305 [60.6%] Hispanic, 120 [23.9%] non-Hispanic Black, and 78 [15.5%] non-Hispanic White) with Aβ PET, MRI (n = 501), and tau PET (n = 355) data were studied.

  31. Copathologies of Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy and Alzheimer Disease: [ 18 F]FDG PET Statistical Mapping and Quantitative MRI Volumetry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2026-01-22 Biomarkers

    Of the 944 clinical cases, 13.0% were characterized as probable LATE (2.4% pure LATE and 10.6% LATE+AD) and 23.7% were characterized as probable AD without LATE.

  32. Measurement of tau protein and Aβ amyloid plaques in postmortem human brains of Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease by using [ 125 I]IPPI and [ 125 I]IBETA autoradiography

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-01-21 Drug development

    The accumulation of tau tangles and Aβ plaques are prominent neuropathologies that characterize Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down Syndrome (DS).

  33. Use of explainable AI (xAI) in dementia detection and prognosis: a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2026-01-16 Disparities

    Dementia poses a significant global health challenge for both clinicians and patients, impacting millions of individuals worldwide, yet its early diagnosis remains underexplored.

  34. Effect of prior traumatic brain injury on Alzheimer’s disease blood biomarkers in Vietnam Veterans

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-01-15 Biomarkers

    In this cross-sectional study (n=272), plasma pTau217/Aβ42 ratio test accuracy was 90% in Veterans without TBI history, but was significantly lower (63-78% accuracy) in Veterans with TBI history, with lowest accuracy in those with greater TBI severity.

  35. Effective deep convolutional neural network with attention mechanism for Alzheimer disease classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Frontiers in Radiology 2026-01-14 Brain scans and imaging

    The proposed Deep-CNN and attention model focuses the model capacity on diagnostically relevant regions.

  36. Synthesis of Amyloid Images Using a Generative Adversarial Network from 2-Dimensional 18 F-FDG Images and Evaluation for Clinical Use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology 2026-01-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Synthetic images were visually consistent, producing plausible negative and positive patterns while preserving continuity in the sagittal plane.

  37. An Ensemble Learning Artificial Intelligence Model for Alzheimer's Disease Detection Using OCT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Ophthalmology Science 2026-01-10 Digital health tools

    For detecting AD-dementia, the ensemble model achieved the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.943 (95% confidence interval, 0.906-0.980), 0.786 (95% confidence interval, 0.673-0.899), and 0.795 (95% confidence interval, 0.716-0.874) in the internal validation, External-1, and External-2, respectively.

  38. EEG-based classification of alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia using functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2026-01-09 Lewy body dementia

    Overall, these findings highlight the potential of EEG connectivity features for dementia classification and emphasize the importance of careful feature engineering and low-complexity models in the case of small-sample datasets.

  39. Additive value of early-phase β-Amyloid-PET for the differential diagnosis of non-Alzheimer’s disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2026-01-01 Biomarkers

    Neurodegeneration status was correctly identified in 78.8% (119/151) of amyloid-negative patients through visual rating, compared to 67.5% (102/151) using logistic regression.

  40. Defining patient-centered amyloid PET thresholds for the onset of tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found a consistent amyloid PET × age interaction on global tau PET increase in men (ADNI/A05: p = 0.0078/0.018), with younger men showing faster amyloid-associated tau accumulation.

  41. Longitudinal Structural MRI-Based Deep Learning And Radiomics Features For Predicting Alzheimer\\\\\\\'s Disease Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer\\\'s disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia worldwide, affects more than 55 million individuals and gen-erates annual healthcare costs exceeding two trillion USD [14].

  42. Longitudinal Structural MRI-Based Deep Learning And Radiomics Features For Predicting Alzheimer\\\\\\\'s Disease Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer\\\'s disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia worldwide, affects more than 55 million individuals and gen-erates annual healthcare costs exceeding two trillion USD [14].

  43. Multimodal Deep Learning for Dynamic and Static Neuroimaging: Integrating MRI and fMRI for Alzheimer Disease Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing 2026-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides detailed structural information, while functional MRI (fMRI) captures temporal brain activity.

  44. Plasma Aβ42/40 predicts progression from Aβ-amyloid negative to positive PET scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2026-01-01 Biomarkers

    At baseline, 283 were Plasma-/PET-, 97 Plasma+/PET-, 76 Plasma-/PETLow, and 51 Plasma+/PETLow.

  45. Structural Brain Correlates With Appetite and Eating Disturbances Across the Alzheimer Disease Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 2026-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Appetite disturbances were present in 9.4% of participants and were associated with greater neuropsychiatric burden and disease severity.

  46. The Diagnostic Role of FDG-PET in Dementias Presenting with Language and Behavioral Symptom

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry 2026-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    This study aimed to assess the diagnostic contribution of Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) in neurodegenerative dementias presenting with language-predominant symptoms, with or without accompanying behavioral changes, and to evaluate the correspondence between PET-derived metabolic patterns and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers.

  47. Application of Convolutional Neural Network Based on ResNet18 for Alzheimer Disease Classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2025-12-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is a form of progressive dementia that significantly impacts the quality of life of patients and their families.

  48. Klasifikasi Penyakit Alzheimer menggunakan CNN dengan pretrained VGG19 dan SMOTE berdasarkan Citra MRI Otak

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Arcitech Journal of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence 2025-12-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Early detection of Alzheimer's disease is crucial for effective treatment, and the use of brain MRI images has become a common method for diagnosis.

  49. Utility of the Amygdalar Atrophy Scale to Identify Patients With Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy in a Memory Clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2025-12-22 Laboratory science

    The analytic sample included 469 participants (mean age 71.2 ± 8.5 years, 53% female).

  50. Immediate reactions to amyloid PET disclosure in Japanese older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2025-12-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty-six percent of participants were PET positive.

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