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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. Tracer kinetic model detecting heterogeneous blood–brain barrier permeability to water and contrast agent in Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    AD patients exhibited a significant reduction in the water exchange rates across the BBB, whereas DLB patients showed a significant increase in BBB permeability to contrast agent.

  2. UK Biobank MRI data can power the development of generalizable brain clocks: A study of standard ML/DL methodologies and performance analysis on external databases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage 2025-01-30 Long-term cohort studies

    In this study, we present a comprehensive pipeline to train and compare a broad spectrum of machine learning and deep learning brain clocks, integrating diverse preprocessing strategies and correction terms.

  3. Changes in the Parietal Lobe Subregion Volume at Various Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease and the Role in Cognitively Normal and Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 2025-01-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    The left inferior parietal lobule (IPL)_6_5 (rostroventral area 39) showed the best ability to discriminate between patients with AD and those with CN (AUC = 0.688).

  4. Data from 262 records (260 unique participants) were analyzed.

  5. Biomarker Investigation Using Multiple Brain Measures from MRI Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Alzheimer’s Disease Classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Bioengineering 2025-01-17 Digital health tools

    As the leading cause of dementia worldwide, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has prompted significant interest in developing Deep Learning (DL) approaches for its classification.

  6. Machine Learning-Based Alzheimer’s Disease Stage Diagnosis Utilizing Blood Gene Expression and Clinical Data: A Comparative Investigation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Diagnostics 2025-01-17 Digital health tools

    Utilizing clinical data, the highest ROC AUC scores attained were 0.989, 0.927, and 0.907 for the identification of the CN, MCI, and dementia stages, respectively.

  7. Artificial intelligence models using F-wave responses predict amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain 2025-01-16 Digital health tools

    Model scores two standard deviations below the mean had 4 months increased survival (two standard deviations below had 3 months decreased survival).

  8. Amygdala Nuclei Atrophy in Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Insights from High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Medicina 2025-01-15 Getting a diagnosis

    Significant amygdala atrophy was observed in multiple amygdala nuclei across cognitive performance groups, with more pronounced changes in the low-performance group.

  9. The global research of magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer’s disease: a bibliometric analysis from 2004 to 2023

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-01-15 Brain scans and imaging

    A total of 13,659 articles were obtained in this study.

  10. Antiamyloid Therapy and Cerebral Blood Flow Changes on MRI: A Potential Longitudinal Biomarker of Treatment Response?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2025-01-13 Treatments

    Amyloid-targeting therapy has recently become widely available in the United States for the treatment of patients with symptomatic mild Alzheimer disease (AD).

  11. Anterior-temporal network hyperconnectivity is key to Alzheimer’s disease: from ageing to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain 2025-01-09 Getting a diagnosis

    Our findings revealed distinct patterns of connectivity linked to normal ageing or Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Pragmatic algorithm for visual assessment of 4-Repeat tauopathies in [18F]PI-2620 PET Scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage 2025-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with 4R-tauopathies in contrast to non-4R-tauopathies were detected at higher sensitivity in the 20-40-minute frame (common: 79%, scaled: 76%) compared to the 40-60-minute frame (common: 55%, scaled: 62%), albeit with reduced specificity in the common setting (20-40-min: 78%, 40-60-min: 95%), which was ameliorated in the intensity-scaled setting (20-40-min: 91%, 40-60-min: 96%).

  13. The potential role of machine learning and deep learning in differential diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and FTD using imaging biomarkers: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Neuroradiology Journal 2025-01-09 Digital health tools

    IntroductionThe prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases has significantly increased, necessitating a deeper understanding of their symptoms, diagnostic processes, and prevention strategies.

  14. Experiences from Clinical Research and Routine Use of Florbetaben Amyloid PET-A Decade of Post-Authorization Insights

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 2025-01-08 Health systems and care delivery

    Florbetaben (FBB) is a radiopharmaceutical approved by the FDA and EMA in 2014 for the positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of brain amyloid deposition in patients with cognitive impairment who are being evaluated for Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other causes of cognitive decline.

  15. ReIU: an efficient preliminary framework for Alzheimer patients based on multi-model data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2025-01-03 Brain scans and imaging

    The rising incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses significant challenges to traditional diagnostic methods, which primarily rely on neuropsychological assessments and brain MRIs.

  16. In Vivo Head-to-Head Comparison of [18F]GTP1 with [18F]MK-6240 and [18F]PI-2620 in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2025-01-02 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]GTP1 exhibited retention patterns that correlated with [18F]PI-2620 and [18F]MK-6240 for all Braak regions (except Braak II).

  17. A Novel Approach to the Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression by Leveraging Neural Processes and a Transformer Encoder Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. IEEE Access 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) presents a significant global health challenge, necessitating accurate and early prediction methods for effective intervention and treatment planning.

  18. A survey on various Alzheimer classification techniques using 3D MRI images: a challenging overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 25 out of 100. International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences 2025-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

  19. A survey on various Alzheimer classification techniques using 3D MRI images: a challenging overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 25 out of 100. International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences 2025-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    This survey presents 50 research papers focussed on various techniques in Alzheimer classification techniques using 3D MRI images, and the categorisation of the techniques is made based on the fusion-based, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based, random forest (RF)-based and support vector machine (SVM)-based approaches.

  20. Agentic artificial intelligence in cognitive screening: A translational roadmap for dementia care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2025-01-01 Digital health tools

    Conventional dementia screening tools, whether paper tests or static artificial intelligence (AI) models, capture only a snapshot of cognition and need to be adminstered periodically.

  21. Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: Two decades of pioneering Alzheimer's disease research and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-01-01 Treatments

    This special issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia celebrates the accomplishments of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) project as it approaches its 20th anniversary in 2024, supported by funding from the National Institute on Aging.

  22. Deep Learning-Based Framework for Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment Progression in Neurology Using Longitudinal MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. IEEE Access 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a leading neurodegenerative disorder, progresses from an intermediary stage known as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), characterized by measurable cognitive decline with retained functional independence.

  23. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia From Electroencephalography Signals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the most burdensome neurodegenerative disorders in older populations as they pose significant challenges because of subtle cognitive decline in the initial stages.

  24. Exploring the Effectiveness of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques for EEG Signal Classification in Neurological Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. IEEE Access 2025-01-01 Digital health tools

    Neurological disorders are among the leading causes of both physical and cognitive disabilities worldwide, affecting approximately 15% of the global population.

  25. Multidimensional MRI reveals cortical astrogliosis linked to dementia in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain Communications 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Finally, we showed that the MD-MRI-derived astrogliosis biomarker is the only MRI measure capable of predicting cognitive state.

  26. Self-Attention Augmented Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network-based Detection of Brain Alzheimer Disease Using MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Scope 2025-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurological condition that leads to dementia.

  27. Tablet-based cognitive assessment in a multisite study of early-onset AD: association with pen-and-paper tests and PET measures of amyloid and tau

    ⚠ Conference abstract — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia (AAIC 2025 conference abstract) 2025 Getting a diagnosis

    Researchers tested whether a tablet-based cognitive test (TabCAT) could substitute for traditional paper-and-pencil memory tests in people with early-onset Alzheimer's. Scores on the tablet's attention/executive tasks correlated strongly (above 0.7) with standard tests like the MMSE and MoCA, and one subtest could distinguish people with amyloid plaques from those without with good accuracy (AUC 0.82).

  28. Portable, low-field magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-12-02 Digital health tools

    Portable, low-field magnetic resonance imaging (LF-MRI) of the brain may facilitate point-of-care assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in settings where conventional MRI cannot.

  29. Can the clinical sign "head-turning sign" and simple questions in "Neucop-Q" predict amyloid β pathology?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-11-21 Biomarkers

    The specificity and positive predictive value (PPV) of HTS positivity (HTSpos) were the highest (amyloid PET: 0.930 and 0.870, tau PET: 0.944 and 0.957, respectively), while Cimp and Nimp had a high negative predictive value (NPV) for amyloid PET (negativity) (0.750 and 0.725).

  30. Cerebral perfusion and amyloidosis in the oldest-old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Participants with CIND displayed lower perfusion in the PCC+PCu relative to participants who were CN, but there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in amyloid burden in this region.

  31. [18F]PI-2620 Tau PET signal across the aging and Alzheimer's disease clinical spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) 2024-10-24 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]PI-2620 is a second generation tracer that has shown high binding affinity for tau aggregation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  32. Detection and staging of Alzheimer's disease by plasma pTau217 on a high throughput immunoassay platform

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2024-10-21 Biomarkers

    Plasma pTau217 had a high correlation with both Aβ Centiloid (r = 0.76) and tau SUVR meta-temporal (r = 0.78).

  33. Argentina-Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: pioneering Alzheimer's Research in Latin America and its Implications for Regional Advancement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-06 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has fostered collaboration among researchers around the world, catalyzing innovation and accelerating progress in the field.

  34. The amyloid beta 42/38 ratio as a plasma biomarker of early memory deficits in cognitively unimpaired older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-09-03 Biomarkers

    The amyloid beta (Aβ) 42/40 ratio has been widely studied as a biomarker in Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, other Aβ peptides could also represent relevant biomarkers.

  35. Refractory Status Epilepticus in a Patient With Aducanumab-Induced Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2024-08-09 Drug development

    The patient was participating in an extended open-label trial of aducanumab when she was admitted to hospital for focal seizures and ARIA in 2 noncontiguous regions of the left frontal and occipital lobes.

  36. Harmonizing tau positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease: The CenTauR scale and the joint propagation model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-23 Brain scans and imaging

    A strong linear relationship was observed between CTR values across brain regions.

  37. Predicting continuous amyloid PET values with CSF tau phosphorylation occupancies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-23 Tau biomarkers

    Concentration of CSF pT217/T217 had low predictive error (average error: 13%), but also a low predictive range (ceiling 63 Centiloids).

  38. 18F-Flortaucipir (AV1451) imaging identifies grey matter atrophy in retired athletes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2024-07-22 Brain scans and imaging

    47 retired contact sport athletes negative for AD (age:51 ± 14; concussions/athlete:15 ± 2) and 54 normal controls (age:50 ± 13) were included.

  39. Plasma p-tau217 concordance with amyloid PET among ethnically diverse older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-07-17 Biomarkers

    A total of 239 participants underwent blood draw and Aβ-PET (age 70.8 ± 7.8, 55.2% female, education 15.6 ± 3.4 years, 48.9% Hispanic/Latino, 94.9% white).

  40. Spatial extent as a sensitive amyloid-PET metric in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-10 Biomarkers

    These findings indicate EXT may be more sensitive to Aβ's role in preclinical AD than level and improve targeting of individuals for AD prevention trials.

  41. Florbetaben amyloid PET acquisition time: Influence on Centiloids and interpretation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-04 Brain scans and imaging

    CL values increased significantly over the scan using the whole cerebellum, cerebellar gray matter, and brainstem as reference regions, particularly in amyloid-positive individuals.

  42. Neuroimaging biomarkers and CSF sTREM2 levels in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Scientific reports 2024-07-03 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Understanding the exact pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the involvement of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) related microglia activation is crucial for the development of clinical trials targeting microglia activation at different stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  43. Relationships between PET and blood plasma biomarkers in corticobasal syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-06-17 Biomarkers

    CBS Aβ+ group showed a reduced Aβ42/40 ratio, with elevated phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and neurofilament light (NfL) concentrations, while CBS Aβ- group only showed elevated NfL concentration compared to CU.

  44. Remote and unsupervised digital memory assessments can reliably detect cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-06-12 Digital health tools

    Our results demonstrate that unsupervised digital memory assessments might be used for diagnosis and prognosis in Alzheimer's disease, potentially in combination with plasma biomarkers.

  45. A multimodal machine learning model for predicting dementia conversion in Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2024-05-29 Health systems and care delivery

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounts for 60-70% of the population with dementia.

  46. Combining plasma Aβ and p-tau217 improves detection of brain amyloid in non-demented elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-05-23 Biomarkers

    Aβ-PET was abnormal in 81 participants from J-TRC and 71 participants from BioFINDER.

  47. Impact of PET Reconstruction on Amyloid-β Quantitation in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2024-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In the cross-sectional study, CLs in both the Aβ- and the Aβ+ groups were impacted by the FWHM of the reconstruction method.

  48. Neuroinflammation in dementia: A meta-analysis of PET imaging studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Medicine 2024-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    This study summarizes the existing literature on TSPO expression in specific regions of the brain in patients with dementia, and also provides some preliminary evidence on the possible association between neuroinflammation and dementia.

  49. Quantitative Brain Amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2024-05-01 Biomarkers

    Since the development of amyloid tracers for PET imaging, there has been interest in quantifying amyloid burden in the brains of patients with Alzheimer disease.

  50. Expression of regional brain amyloid-β deposition with [18F]Flutemetamol in Centiloid scale -a multi-site study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuroradiology 2024-04-27 Brain scans and imaging

    14 out of 16 regional conversions from [18F]Flutemetamol SUVr to Centiloid successfully passed the quality control, showing good reliability and relative variance, especially precuneus/posterior cingulate and prefrontal regions with good stability for Centiloid scaling.

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