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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

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1,163 studies carry this tag.

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1983 to 2026

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  • 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. FDA approval of the Lumipulse G pTau217/β-amyloid 1-42 plasma ratio test: a new era in accessible Alzheimer's diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Annals of Medicine and Surgery 2025-12-17 Getting a diagnosis

    This review article discusses the FDA's May 2025 clearance of Fujirebio's Lumipulse G blood test, the first FDA-cleared blood test for aiding Alzheimer's diagnosis (via the pTau217/beta-amyloid 1-42 ratio).

  2. MRI measures of cortical microstructural damage associate with tau accumulation in presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2025-12-16 Treatments

    NODDI-derived ODI is associated with tau PET signal, even in preclinical disease and may discriminate individuals with-and without tau beyond the MTL.

  3. Ophthalmic imaging and artificial intelligence in early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Neurology Bulletin 2025-12-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer disease represents a major medical and social challenge owning to the complexity of its diagnosis, especially at the preclinical stage.

  4. Radionuclide Selection Influences Imaging Outcomes in Immuno-PET with a Brain-Penetrating Anti–Amyloid-β Antibody

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2025-12-11 Treatments

    PET imaging demonstrated high cortical brain uptake of all 3 radiotracers in Tg-ArcSwe mice.

  5. Alzheimer disease predicting from clinical and MRI data using DeepALZNET dual pathway framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-12-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a significant neurological condition characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration, with prevalence rising exponentially with age.

  6. Exploring Centiloid Robustness: Impact of Sample Size and Image Resolution on Centiloid Conversion Accuracy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2025-12-03 Brain scans and imaging

    In the smallest required sample of 15 cAD and 10 Aβ-negative participants, conversion error was 1.7 Centiloids at 25 Centiloids and 3.4 Centiloids at 100 Centiloids.

  7. Longitudinal assessment of cognitive decline and resilience in high-level Alzheimer disease neuropathologic change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-12-03 Genetics

    Individuals with rapid progression were more likely to have at least one APOE ε4 allele (OR: 2.08 [95% CI: 1.16–3.74], p < 0.01), higher Braak stage (2.19 [1.20–3.98], p < 0.01), higher Thal phase (2.45 [1.24–4.83], p < 0.01), more severe white matter rarefaction (1.68 [1.21–2.35], p < 0.01), and in the final 24 months of life, more frequent untreated/undertreated hyperlipidemia (1.74 [1.35–5.56], p < 0.01) and less frequent untreated/undertreated depression (0.40 [0.17–0.91], p < 0.05).

  8. Clinical and pathologic correlations of machine learning quantification of Aβ deposits across 3 brain regions of decedents with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 2025-12-02 Genetics

    Machine learning enables scalable quantification of neuropathology, offering deeper phenotyping of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  9. Physical and Cognitive Activities and Trajectories of AD Neuroimaging Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2025-12-02 Disease mechanisms

    = 0.038) over time. Physical activity was associated with less synaptic dysfunction and cognitive activity with less synaptic dysfunction and lower amyloid burden over time, albeit effect sizes were small.

  10. AD-HOLDER: Alzheimer’s Disease Detection via Machine Learning based Histograms of Light GBM Classifier using MRI and PET Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Measurement Science Review 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible brain condition that impairs memory and cognitive processes.

  11. Participants did not differ significantly based on sex.

  12. Correlating antemortem amyloid PET burden, postmortem MRI volumes, with neuropathological measures: Insights from Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The ABC-DS cohort showed similar Aβ PET burden but had a lower prevalence of ApoE4 carriers, younger age at clinical diagnosis and autopsy, shorter PET-autopsy interval, smaller amygdala and hippocampal volumes, more advanced CERAD scores, and no atherosclerosis compared to ADRC cohort (Figure 1).

  13. Diagnostic Accuracy of FDG‐PET‐CT in Dementia: Assessing False Negatives in Clinical Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The proportion of false negatives from FDG-PET ranged from 11-55%.

  14. Imaging‐neuropathology evaluation of Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormality sulcal effusion in a DIAN‐TU‐001 participant treated with gantenerumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Treatments

    Overall PiB-PET uptake increased during the first two years (before ARIA-E) and decreased during the last two years (including ARIA-E episodes) (0.03±0.05 vs. -0.04±0.04 SUVR/year, p-value=0.01, Figure 2).

  15. Imaging‐neuropathology evaluation of Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormality sulcal effusion in a DIAN‐TU‐001 participant treated with gantenerumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Treatments

    Overall PiB-PET uptake increased during the first two years (before ARIA-E) and decreased during the last two years (including ARIA-E episodes) (0.03±0.05 vs. -0.04±0.04 SUVR/year, p-value=0.01, Figure 2).

  16. Metabolomic Signatures and Machine Learning Models for Distinguishing Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Digital health tools

    AD patients exhibited a significantly higher prevalence of APOE e3/e4 and e4/e4 genotypes compared to DLB and HC (p <0.001).

  17. Multi-modal data analysis for early detection of alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Until recently, accurate early detection of clinical symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD) has been difficult.

  18. Multimodal sensing and machine learning for continuous monitoring of agitation in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Digital health tools

    So far, we included 42 patients in our study, that were monitored for at least 7 consecutive days and nights, to form the largest database of its kind in the world.

  19. Neuropathological evaluation of the Boston Criteria v2.0 for cerebral amyloid angiopathy in Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Treatments

    The Boston v2.0 criteria have low accuracy in patients with AD dementia.

  20. Here we present our research design and preliminary results in ADAD mutation carriers and controls.

  21. Quantitative EEG obtained from Dual‐Task paradigms for the study of preclinical populations at risk of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The most notable effect sizes were observed in entropy for Beta1 and Beta3 bands in frontal regions for the DTS7 and DTS1 tasks, Beta2 relative power in C4 during DTAN, Theta modulation in the Theta and alpha-1 bands in frontal regions during DTS7, and Alpha2 modulations in the same task.

  22. Quantitative EEG obtained from Dual‐Task paradigms for the study of preclinical populations at risk of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The most notable effect sizes were observed in entropy for Beta1 and Beta3 bands in frontal regions for the DTS7 and DTS1 tasks, Beta2 relative power in C4 during DTAN, Theta modulation in the Theta and alpha-1 bands in frontal regions during DTS7, and Alpha2 modulations in the same task.

  23. White Matter Hyperintensities Predict Driving Behavior Changes in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Our study included 74,275 weeks of driving data (2015-2024, average follow-up 6.1 years).

  24. White Matter Hyperintensities Predict Driving Behavior Changes in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Our study included 74,275 weeks of driving data (2015-2024, average follow-up 6.1 years).

  25. The spectrum of Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025-11-19 Tau biomarkers

    While hippocampal (H) and inferior parietal lobule (IPL) atrophy are used routinely in Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnostics, the role of enlarged choroid plexus (ChP) remains unclear.

  26. EEG spectral power differences in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. International Journal of Neuroscience 2025-11-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Both patient groups showed significant deviations from HC, but with distinct patterns.

  27. Detecting Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis With Artificial Intelligence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA Cardiology 2025-11-10 Digital health tools

    ATTRACTnet was developed in an internal test set of 799 patients (mean [SD] age, 75.1 [11.1] years; 516 [64.7%] male and 283 [35.3%] female) using 5-fold cross-validation with an additional external test set of 422 patients.

  28. Artificial Intelligence–Enhanced Multi-Algorithm R Shiny Application for Predictive Modeling and Analytics: Case Study of Alzheimer Disease Diagnostics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-11-05 Brain scans and imaging

    The Neural Network classifier achieved an accuracy of 91% with a 95% CI ranging from 0.79-0.97 and an AUC of 94%, on the test set after identifying the most significant features for AD prediction.

  29. Amygdalar and hippocampal volume loss in limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2025-11-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathological change (LATE-NC) refers to the aberrant accumulation of TDP-43 in the brains of ageing individuals either in isolation or in combination with neurodegenerative disease.

  30. Combining CSF MTBR-tau243 and plasma pTau217 ratio enhances the prediction of continuous regional tau PET burden in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Plasma pTau217R matched CSF eMTBR-tau243 and outperformed MTBR-tau243.

  31. Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease Progression by fMRI Using Convolutional Neural Network and Long-short Term Memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal 2025-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The results showed that the best validation scores were achieved by the CNN-LSTM model after integrating clinical attributes, with an accuracy of 92.47%.

  32. Neurometabolic and vascular dysfunction as an early diagnostic for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Our findings suggest that disease progression follows a stage-dependent MVD pattern that can identify at-risk regions.

  33. A Cohort Study on Alzheimer's Disease in Relation to Residential Magnetic Fields From Indoor Transformer Stations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Bioelectromagnetics 2025-10-31 Health systems and care delivery

    Meta-analyses of epidemiological studies have suggested that Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be linked with exposure to extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields (MF).

  34. EEG Microstate Differences Between Alzheimer’s Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, and Healthy Controls Using 4 and 7 Clustering Classes with a Ratio Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Medicina 2025-10-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The four- and seven-class clustering solutions achieved high variance overlap with published microstate templates.

  35. Development of [18F]ACI-19626 as a first-in-class brain PET tracer for imaging TDP-43 pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-10-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    Aggregated TDP-43 is a hallmark of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), and a common co-pathology in other neurodegenerative diseases.

  36. Automated Speech Markers of Alzheimer Dementia: Test of Cross-Linguistic Generalizability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025-10-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In the within-language condition, combined speech timing and lexico-semantic features yielded maximal classification (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC]=0.88), outperforming single-feature models (AUC=0.79 for timing features; AUC=0.80 for lexico-semantic features).

  37. A radiomics model predicts progression from mild cognitive impairment to alzheimer’s disease using structural MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-10-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    The aim of this study is to build and validate a model based on structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) to predict the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Regional tau PET patterns predict prospective domain-specific cognitive decline in early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Differential FTP-PET signal patterns showed significant negative associations with domain-specific annual rates of decline.

  39. Are Deep White Matter Hyperintensities Associated with Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Patients with Alzheimer Disease Treated with Lecanemab?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2025-10-02 Treatments

    ARIA-positive patients had significantly higher Fazekas scores compared with ARIA-negative patients (1.37 versus 1.0; P = .0262), indicating a greater DWMH burden.

  40. Body mass index and blood volume influence plasma biomarkers and positron emission tomography classification in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    Elevated BMI/BV associated with lower BBM concentrations, especially for p-Tau217 and NfL, independent of brain amyloid burden.

  41. Classification of AD and bvFTD using neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric variables: a machine learning study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Digital health tools

    Among 1616 participants (AD = 1498, bvFTD = 118), all algorithms achieved high accuracy (80% to 90%) and discriminatory ability (AUC = 0.89 to 0.95).

  42. Gamma sensory stimulation in mild Alzheimer's dementia: An open‐label extension study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    No adverse events occurred over the study period.

  43. Identifying Distinct Spatiotemporal Patterns of Juxtacortical Microstructure in Alzheimer Disease Using Diffusion MRI–derived Free Water Fraction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Radiology 2025-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Juxtacortical free water fraction, determined at diffusion MRI, was higher in participants with Alzheimer disease compared with cognitively normal controls and associated with amyloid-β, tau, and neurodegeneration biomarkers, revealing two distinct spatiotemporal progression patterns with different impacts on neuroanatomic signatures and cognitive performance.

  44. Neuroimaging Compendium of Microglia, Amyloid, Tau, and Neurodegeneration Across Clinical Variants of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 2025-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer disease and its clinical variants have characteristic spatial and temporal progression patterns of amyloid and tau driving symptomatology, but the distribution of microglia density, as measured by 18kDa translocator protein (TSPO) PET, is unknown.

  45. Predicting cognitive decline with amyloid-PET, plasma p-tau217, Aβ42/40, and p-tau217/Aβ42 in a community-based cohort - relevance for clinical trial enrollment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    In the CU, using combined plasma Aβ42/40 and p-tau217 cut-offs for eligibility yielded the lowest sample size estimates for a comprehensive multidomain cognitive composite score, whereas sample sizes were higher for all other inclusion criteria based on single biomarkers.

  46. FDG-PET brain glucose hypometabolism predicts Alzheimer's disease progression pathways in cognitively normal adults: A longitudinal competing risks modeling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Metabolism Open 2025-09-27 Mild cognitive impairment

    Four progression pathways were concluded from our analyses, cognitive stability (32.8 %), sequential MCI-only decline (34.9 %), accelerated MCI-to-dementia progression (15.8 %), and rapid direct conversion (16.5 %).

  47. Machine learning and data-driven inverse modeling of metabolomics unveil key processes of active aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. npj Systems Biology and Applications 2025-09-24 Digital health tools

    Physical inactivity and low fitness have become global health concerns.

  48. Added Value of Amyloid PET Quantification with the Centiloid Scale in Clinical Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2025-09-18 Biomarkers

    Fifty-three scans (31.74%) were rated amyloid-positive by all readers, while 62 scans (37.13%) were rated as amyloid-negative by all readers.

  49. Muti-band Morlet mutual information functional connectivity for classifying Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia with a deep learning technique

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Computers in Biology and Medicine 2025-09-05 Getting a diagnosis

    Accurate differentiation of Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and healthy control (HC) is critical for early diagnosis and intervention of brain disorders.

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