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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. PET imaging of amyloid deposition in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2008 Brain scans and imaging

    Researchers evaluated twenty-one patients diagnosed with MCI using PET studies with (11)C-PIB and (18)F-fluoro-deoxy-glucose (FDG), cognitive assessments, and CSF sampling.

  2. Volumetric MRI vs clinical predictors of Alzheimer disease in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Neurology 2008-01-01 Genetics

    In moderate stages of amnestic mild cognitive impairment, common cognitive tests provide better predictive accuracy than measures of whole brain, ventricular, entorhinal cortex, or hippocampal volumes for assessing progression to Alzheimer disease.

  3. Positron emission tomography imaging in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The British journal of radiology 2007-12-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Positron emission tomography (PET) is a well-established imaging modality.

  4. Longitudinal, quantitative assessment of amyloid, neuroinflammation, and anti-amyloid treatment in a living mouse model of Alzheimer's disease enabled by positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We provide the first evidence for the capability of a high-resolution positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging system in quantitatively mapping amyloid accumulation in living amyloid precursor protein transgenic (Tg) mice.

  5. Reduced hippocampal functional connectivity in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggest a functional disconnection between the hippocampus and other brain regions in patients with Alzheimer disease.

  6. The significance of medial temporal lobe atrophy: a postmortem MRI study in the very old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2007-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA) on postmortem MRI is sensitive to primary degenerative hippocampal pathology in the very old, but not specific for Alzheimer-type pathology.

  7. Three-dimensional gray matter atrophy mapping in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia worldwide.

  8. FDG-PET improves accuracy in distinguishing frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-08-18 Getting a diagnosis

    Distinguishing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) currently relies on a clinical history and examination, but positron emission tomography with [(18)F] fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) shows different patterns of hypometabolism in these disorders that might aid differential diagnosis.

  9. Imaging of amyloid burden and distribution in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2007-08-07 Brain scans and imaging

    We conclude that PiB-positron emission tomography can detect cerebrovascular beta-amyloid and may serve as a method for identifying the extent of CAA in living subjects.

  10. Hippocampal shape analysis of Alzheimer disease based on machine learning methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2007-08-01 Digital health tools

    Subtle and spatially complex deformation patterns of hippocampus between patients with AD and healthy control subjects can be detected by machine learning methods.

  11. Voxel-based morphometry to detect brain atrophy in progressive mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NeuroImage 2007-06-29 Mild cognitive impairment

    Recent research has shown an increased rate of conversion to dementia in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) compared to controls.

  12. Symmetric diffeomorphic image registration with cross-correlation: evaluating automated labeling of elderly and neurodegenerative brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Medical image analysis 2007-06-23 Lewy body dementia

    One of the most challenging problems in modern neuroimaging is detailed characterization of neurodegeneration.

  13. Amyloid deposition begins in the striatum of presenilin-1 mutation carriers from two unrelated pedigrees

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis suggests that the aggregation and deposition of amyloid-beta protein is an initiating event in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. 3D maps from multiple MRI illustrate changing atrophy patterns as subjects progress from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-05-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to assess patterns of grey matter atrophy in the aMCI subjects at each time-point compared to the control group.

  15. Diffusion tensor imaging in preclinical and presymptomatic carriers of familial Alzheimer's disease mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-05-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    Measures are needed that identify persons that will develop Alzheimer's disease in order to target them for preventative interventions.

  16. Imaging beta-amyloid burden in aging and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2007-05-01 Genetics

    Pittsburgh Compound B PET findings match histopathologic reports of beta-amyloid (Abeta) distribution in aging and dementia.

  17. Beta-amyloid imaging and memory in non-demented individuals: evidence for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain 2007-04-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Beta-amyloid (Abeta) deposition is pathognomic for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but may occur in normal elderly people without apparent cognitive effect.

  18. 11C-PIB PET imaging in Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2007-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    PET imaging with (11)C-labeled Pittsburgh Compound-B ((11)C-PIB) helps discriminate Alzheimer disease (AD) from frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

  19. Diffusion tensor imaging of cingulum fibers in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2007-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Assessment of the cingulum fibers using diffusion tensor imaging may aid early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease.

  20. Hypoperfusion in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease by arterial spin labeling MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2006-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease display different spatial distributions of hypoperfusion on arterial spin labeling MRI.

  21. Tracking atrophy progression in familial Alzheimer's disease: a serial MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2006-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mutation carriers had significantly increased hippocampal and whole-brain atrophy rates compared with controls and these differences increased with time.

  22. [11C]PIB in a nondemented population: potential antecedent marker of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2006-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Longitudinal studies will be required to determine the association of elevated [(11)C]PIB binding and risk of developing dementia of the Alzheimer type.

  23. Magnetoencephalographic evaluation of resting-state functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage 2006-07-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Statistical interdependencies between magnetoencephalographic signals recorded over different brain regions may reflect the functional connectivity of the resting-state networks.

  24. Conversion of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease predicted by hippocampal atrophy maps

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-05-01 How common it is

    Smaller hippocampi and specifically CA1 and subicular involvement are associated with increased risk for conversion from MCI to AD.

  25. An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. NeuroImage 2006-03-14 Brain scans and imaging

    In this study, researchers assessed the validity and reliability of an automated labeling system developed to subdivide the human cerebral cortex on magnetic resonance images into gyral based regions of interest.

  26. Diffusion tensor imaging in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2006-03-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Our aim was to investigate the extent of white matter tissue damage in patients with early Alzheimer disease (AD) using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI).

  27. Inverse relation between in vivo amyloid imaging load and cerebrospinal fluid Abeta42 in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2006-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    These observations suggest that brain amyloid deposition results in low CSF Abeta(42), and that amyloid imaging and CSF Abeta(42) may potentially serve as antecedent biomarkers of (preclinical) AD.

  28. Magnetic resonance imaging of iron deposition in neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Topics in magnetic resonance imaging : TMRI 2006-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Deposition of iron in the brain is proposed to play a role in the pathophysiology of the normal aging process and neurodegenerative diseases.

  29. Differential regional atrophy of the cingulate gyrus in Alzheimer disease: a volumetric MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2006-01-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Magnetic resonance imaging-based volumetric measurements provide a useful technique for quantifying in vivo regional cerebral atrophy in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  30. Simplified quantification of Pittsburgh Compound B amyloid imaging PET studies: a comparative analysis.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2005-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Of the simplified methods for PIB analysis examined, CAR90 provided DVR measures that were most comparable to ART90; CER90 was the most reproducible and SUVR90 produced the largest effect size.

  31. Diffusion magnetic resonance histograms as a surrogate marker and predictor of disease progression in CADASIL: a two-year follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Stroke 2005-11-03 Brain scans and imaging

    DTI histograms may be used as an adjunct outcome measure in future therapeutic trials.

  32. Using voxel-based morphometry to map the structural changes associated with rapid conversion in MCI: a longitudinal MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. NeuroImage 2005-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Capturing the dynamics of gray matter (GM) atrophy in relation to the conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to clinically probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) would be of considerable interest.

  33. Visual assessment of atrophy on magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of pathologically confirmed young-onset dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Despite variation and overlap of atrophy patterns, visual inspection of regional atrophy on MRI may aid in discriminating AD and FTLD.

  34. Measuring atrophy in Alzheimer disease: a serial MRI study over 6 and 12 months

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2005-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    This potential benefit must be balanced against the possibility that ventricular volumes may be more likely to be affected by factors other than neurodegeneration.

  35. Kinetic Modeling of Amyloid Binding in Humans using PET Imaging and Pittsburgh Compound-B

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2005-06-09 Brain scans and imaging

    A valid quantitative imaging method for the measurement of amyloid deposition in humans could improve Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and antiamyloid therapy assessment.

  36. MRI predictors of risk of incident Alzheimer disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2005-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In nondemented individuals, entorhinal cortex atrophy is associated with risk of Alzheimer disease.

  37. Brain glucose metabolism in the early and specific diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. FDG-PET studies in MCI and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2005-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The demographics of aging suggest a great need for the early diagnosis of dementia and the development of preventive strategies.

  38. 19F and 1H MRI detection of amyloid beta plaques in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2005-03-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Formation of senile plaques composed of amyloid beta peptide, a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer disease, in human brains precedes disease onset by many years.

  39. EEG coherence reflects regional corpus callosum area in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2005-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Region specific correlations between corpus callosum size and EEG coherence suggest that the decline in interhemispheric connectivity in Alzheimer's disease results from a specific loss of cortical association neurones projecting through the corpus callosum.

  40. Atrophy rate in medial temporal lobe during progression of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2004-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Increased annual atrophy rate in the medial temporal lobe is a potential diagnostic marker of the progression of Alzheimer disease.

  41. Disturbed fluctuations of resting state EEG synchronization in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2004-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized both by a lower mean level of functional connectivity as well as by diminished fluctuations in the level of synchronization.

  42. MRI and CSF studies in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2004-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In cross-section and longitudinally, our results show that evaluations of the P-tau231 level are highly correlated with reductions in the MRI hippocampal volume and by using CSF and MRI measures together one improves the separation of NL and MCI.

  43. PET imaging of amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2004-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and is characterised by progressive impairment in cognitive function and behaviour.

  44. Mapping hippocampal and ventricular change in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. NeuroImage 2004-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We developed an anatomical mapping technique to detect hippocampal and ventricular changes in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  45. Mapping distributed sources of cortical rhythms in mild Alzheimer's disease. A multicentric EEG study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. NeuroImage 2004-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The study aimed at mapping (i) the distributed electroencephalographic (EEG) sources specific for mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to vascular dementia (VaD) or normal elderly people (Nold) and (ii) the distributed EEG sources sensitive to the mild AD at different stages of severity.

  46. 'In the course of time': a PET study of the cerebral substrates of autobiographical amnesia in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2004-04-21 Disease mechanisms

    Neuroimaging studies in healthy subjects have yielded controversial results about the neural substrates of autobiographical memory.

  47. Default-mode network activity distinguishes Alzheimer's disease from healthy aging: Evidence from functional MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2004-03-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent functional imaging studies have revealed coactivation in a distributed network of cortical regions that characterizes the resting state, or default mode, of the human brain.

  48. Comparison of different MRI brain atrophy rate measures with clinical disease progression in AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2004-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These data support the use of rates of change from serial MRI studies in addition to standard clinical/psychometric measures as surrogate markers of disease progression in AD.

  49. Imaging brain amyloid in Alzheimer's disease with Pittsburgh Compound‐B

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2004-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    This report describes the first human study of a novel amyloid-imaging positron emission tomography (PET) tracer, termed Pittsburgh Compound-B (PIB), in 16 patients with diagnosed mild AD and 9 controls.

  50. Imaging cerebral atrophy: normal ageing to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2004-01-01 How common it is

    Alzheimer's disease is associated with progressive cerebral atrophy, which can be seen on MRI with high resolution.

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