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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. Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Towards accuracy and accessibility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of biological methods 2024-03-18 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious dementia afflicting aging population and is characterized by cognitive decline, amyloid-β plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles.

  2. Diffusion MRI relates to plasma Aβ42/40 in PET negative participants without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-03-05 Biomarkers

    Plasma+/PET- demonstrated increased FW (24 regions) and decreased FAt (66 regions) compared to plasma-/PET-.

  3. Characteristics of discordance between amyloid positron emission tomography and plasma amyloid-β 42/40 positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2024-02-10 Biomarkers

    Various plasma biomarkers for amyloid-β (Aβ) have shown high predictability of amyloid PET positivity.

  4. Artificial Intelligence Assistive Software Tool for Automated Detection and Quantification of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-02-05 Drug development

    ARIA monitoring is important to inform treatment dosing decisions and might be improved through assistive software.

  5. Investigating White Matter Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer Disease Using Diffusion-Based Neuroinflammation Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2024-02-05 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is primarily associated with accumulations of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in gray matter, however, it is now acknowledged that neuroinflammation, particularly in white matter (WM), significantly contributes to the development and progression of AD.

  6. Performance of the Lumipulse plasma Aβ42/40 and pTau181 immunoassays in the detection of amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-01-31 Biomarkers

    Lumipulse and IP-MS Aβ42/40 exhibited the highest diagnostic accuracy for detecting an abnormal amyloid-PET (areas under the curve [AUCs] of 0.81 and 0.84, respectively).

  7. Machine Learning Models of Polygenic Risk for Enhanced Prediction of Alzheimer Disease Endophenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology. Genetics 2024-01-10 Biomarkers

    We found that ML-PRS approaches improved upon standard PRS for prediction of AD endophenotypes, partly related to improved accounting for nonlinear effects of genetic susceptibility alleles.

  8. Amyloid PET Imaging: Standard Procedures and Semiquantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid plaques are a neuropathologic hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which can be imaged through positron emission tomography (PET) technology using radiopharmaceuticals that selectively bind to the fibrillar aggregates of amyloid-β plaques (Amy-PET).

  9. Correlation Between Amyloid PET Imaging and Discordant Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers Results in Patients with Suspected Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Tau biomarkers

    Comparing the discordant CSF results of each patient with the cerebral amyloid-PET results, we found that in the group with Aβ1 - 42+ and p-tau-CSF values, the amyloid-PET was positive in 51.2% and negative in 48.8% of patients, while in the group with Aβ1 - 42-and p-Tau+ CSF values, the amyloid-PET was positive in 52.6% of patients and negative in 47.4% of them.

  10. PET/CT/MRI in Clinical Trials of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-01-01 Treatments

    With the advent of PET imaging in 1976, 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG)-PET became the preferred method for in vivo investigation of cerebral processes, including regional hypometabolism in Alzheimer's disease.

  11. Clinical utility of plasma Aβ42/40 ratio by LC-MS/MS in Alzheimer's disease assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-12-14 Biomarkers

    High diagnostic sensitivity and negative predictive value (NPV) for Aβ-PET positivity were observed, consistent with the clinical performance of other plasma LC-MS/MS assays, but with greater separation between Aβ42/40 values for individuals with positive vs negative Aβ-PET results.

  12. A Comprehensive, Community‐Engaged Recruitment Strategy to Increase Minority Representation in New IDEAS – an Amyloid Imaging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    To ensure diversity, we developed a comprehensive recruitment strategy using a diverse, culturally‐trained staff that includes : • Identifying Dementia Specialists experienced recruiting minorities • Embedding high‐impact community engagement in select regions • Increasing capacity of specialists and PET facilities to engage minorities • Increasing pipeline of referrals to Dementia Specialists • Creating a culturally‐informed awareness campaign Result New IDEAS has enrolled 4,524 participants including 954 (21.1%) Black/African American, and 842 (18.6%) Hispanic/Latinx.

  13. It is imperative to recognize and mitigate persistent disparities in the COVID‐19 pandemic, particularly pertaining to participation in long‐COVID research.

  14. A review of the flortaucipir literature for positron emission tomography imaging of tau neurofibrillary tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain communications 2023-11-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is defined by the presence of β-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tau tangles potentially preceding clinical symptoms by many years.

  15. Predicting amyloid PET positivity using plasma p-tau181 and other blood-based biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-11-16 Brain scans and imaging

    In the Asan cohort, after adjusting for age and sex, p-tau181 (AUC = 0.854) or APOE ε4 status (AUC = 0.769) distinguished Aβ status with high accuracy.

  16. Modeling the temporal evolution of plasma p-tau in relation to amyloid beta and tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau is a stronger indicator of a temporally linked response to elevated brain Aβ than of tau pathology.

  17. Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 and phospho-tau217 concentration ratios increase the accuracy of amyloid PET classification in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-06 Biomarkers

    Including plasma p-tau217/np-tau217 along with Aβ42/Aβ40 in predictive algorithms may streamline screening preclinical individuals into anti-amyloid clinical trials.

  18. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA): radiological, biological and clinical characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-11-01 Treatments

    This review provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art conceptual review of radiological features, clinical detection and classification challenges, pathophysiology, underlying biological mechanism(s) and risk factors/predictors associated with ARIA.

  19. Amyloid-related Imaging Abnormalities in Alzheimer Disease Treated with Anti-Amyloid-β Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2023-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

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

  20. Single-cell atlas reveals correlates of high cognitive function, dementia, and resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Cell 2023-09-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia worldwide, but the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment remain poorly understood.

  21. Generative Adversarial Network-Enhanced Ultra-Low-Dose [18F]-PI-2620 τ PET/MRI in Aging and Neurodegenerative Populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2023-08-17 Brain scans and imaging

    The enhanced ultra-low-dose τ images showed apparent noise reduction compared with the ultra-low-dose images.

  22. Utility of amyloid PET Imaging in a Memory Clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2023-08-11 Brain scans and imaging

    There is greater interest in amyloid biomarker for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) with the recent Food and Drug Administration approval of amyloid-targeted therapy.

  23. Artificial intelligence for diagnostic and prognostic neuroimaging in dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-08-10 Digital health tools

    The literature has several methodological limitations including lack of sufficient algorithm development descriptions and standard definitions.

  24. Advanced brain imaging for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2023-08-03 Biomarkers

    The purpose is to review the latest advances of brain imaging for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  25. Associations of the A/T/N profiles in PET, CSF, and plasma biomarkers with Alzheimer's disease neuropathology at autopsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-07-28 Biomarkers

    This study supports that PET- and CSF-related A/T/N profiles can be used to predict accurately the stages of AD neuropathology.

  26. Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes for Persons With Cognitive Impairment and Caregivers Following Amyloid-β PET Scan Disclosure: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2023-07-24 Biomarkers

    Ten papers were identified from 7 studies.

  27. A universal neocortical mask for Centiloid quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    In the GAAIN dataset, the universal mask led to a small reduction in the variance of the YC, and a small increase in the inter-tracer agreement.

  28. Development of software for measuring brain amyloid accumulation using 18 F-florbetapir PET and calculating global Centiloid scale and regional Z-score values

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2023-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The CL calculation was validated with the 18 F-florbetapir dataset in the GAAIN repository.

  29. Clinical Effect of Early vs Late Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography in Memory Clinic Patients: The AMYPAD-DPMS Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-06-01 Biomarkers

    Baseline and 3-month visit data were available for 272 participants in arm 1 and 260 in arm 2 (median [IQR] age: 71 [65-77] and 71 [65-77] years; 150/272 male [55%] and 135/260 male [52%]; 122/272 female [45%] and 125/260 female [48%]; median [IQR] education: 12 [10-15] and 13 [10-16] years, respectively).

  30. Tau accumulation in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal [18F]flortaucipir study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-05-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Cortical tau accumulation is a key pathological event that partly defines Alzheimer's disease (AD) onset and is associated with cognitive decline and future disease progression.

  31. FDG PET (and MRI) for Monitoring Immunotherapy in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2023-05-23 Biomarkers

    We question the validity of the evidence for the removal of amyloid in particular as assessed by amyloid PET imaging, believing that what is observed is more likely a large nonspecific amyloid PET signal in the white matter that diminishes during immunotherapy-in line with dose-dependent increases in amyloid-related imaging abnormalities and increased loss of cerebral volume in treated compared with placebo patients.

  32. Predicting amyloid PET and tau PET stages with plasma biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-05-01 Biomarkers

    We used multinomial regression models to estimate discrimination [concordance (C) statistics] among three amyloid PET stages (low, intermediate, high), four tau PET stages (Braak 0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6) and a combined amyloid and tau PET stage (none/low versus intermediate/high severity) using plasma biomarkers as predictors separately within unimpaired and impaired individuals.

  33. Revealing Individual Neuroanatomical Heterogeneity in Alzheimer Disease Using Neuroanatomical Normative Modeling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2023-05-01 Genetics

    Regions with Z -scores Results Patients with AD (n = 206) had a median of 12 outlier regions (out of a possible 148), with the highest proportion of outliers (47%) in the parahippocampal gyrus.

  34. Large multi-ethnic genetic analyses of amyloid imaging identify new genes for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2023-04-26 Biomarkers

    Amyloid PET imaging has been crucial for detecting the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) deposits in the brain and to study Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Symptomatology in 4-repeat tauopathies is associated with data-driven topology of [18F]-PI-2620 tau-PET signal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2023-04-11 Brain scans and imaging

    As cerebral regions correlating with symptomatology differ depending on the clinical phenotype, a precise knowledge of clinical signs and symptoms is necessary when interpreting [18F]PI-2620 PET results.

  36. [18F]F-DED PET imaging of reactive astrogliosis in neurodegenerative diseases: preclinical proof of concept and first-in-human data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2023-03-11 Biomarkers

    We selected the cerebellum as a pseudo-reference region based on the immunohistochemical comparison of age-matched PS2APP and WT mice.

  37. Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain communications 2023-03-06 Biomarkers

    An accurate blood test for Alzheimer's disease that is sensitive to preclinical proteinopathy and cognitive decline has clear implications for early detection and secondary prevention.

  38. Predicting continuous amyloid PET values with CSF and plasma Aβ42/Aβ40

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-03-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Most participants were cognitively normal (427 of 491 [87%]) and the mean age was 69.0 ± 8.8 years.

  39. CSF biomarker concordance with amyloid PET in Phase 3 studies of aducanumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-02-16 Tau biomarkers

    Robust concordance between CSF biomarkers and amyloid PET visual status was observed (for Aβ42/Aβ40, AUC: 0.90; 95% CI: 0.83-0.97; p < 0.0001), confirming CSF biomarkers as a reliable alternative to amyloid PET in these studies.

  40. Quantitative comparative analysis of amyloid PET images using three radiopharmaceuticals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of nuclear medicine 2023-02-07 Brain scans and imaging

    In the negative images of the HS group, the contrast between the white matter and the gray matter was high in the FMM PET images, while striatal uptake was relatively higher in the FPN PET images.

  41. Integration of amyloid-β oligomerization tendency as a plasma biomarker in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-01-17 Biomarkers

    A systematic interpretation strategy could support accurate diagnosis and staging of AD.

  42. Multimodal brain age estimates relate to Alzheimer disease biomarkers and cognition in early stages: a cross-sectional observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. eLife 2023-01-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Both FC-BAG and S-BAG are elevated in CI participants.

  43. Polygenic Effect on Tau Pathology Progression in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2023-01-04 Genetics

    We found that a higher PGS was associated with higher rates of tau-PET accumulation, in particular at elevated amyloid-PET levels.

  44. Analysis of Psychological Symptoms Following Disclosure of Amyloid-Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Results to Adults With Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-01-03 Biomarkers

    After disclosure, 27 patients with amyloid-positive SCD+ (median [IQR] age, 70 [66-74] years; gender: 14 men [52%]; median [IQR] education: 15 [13 to 17] years, median [IQR] Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] score, 29 [28 to 30]) had higher median (IQR) IES-R total score (10 [2 to 14] vs 0 [0 to 2]; P Conclusions and relevance The disclosure of a positive amyloid-PET result to patients with SCD+ was associated with a bigger psychological change, yet such change did not reach the threshold for clinical concern.

  45. Brain PET Imaging: Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. PET clinics 2023-01-01 Biomarkers

    Brain PET adds value in diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders, especially frontotemporal dementia (FTD) due to its syndromic presentation that overlaps with a variety of other neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. 18F-FDG-PET has improved sensitivity and specificity compared with structural MR imaging, with optimal diagnostic results achieved when both techniques are utilized.

  46. Chinese Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease Study (C-PAS): Design and Challenge from PET Acceptance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    There were 571 participants in the normal cognition group, 625 participants in the subjective cognitive decline group, 155 participants in the objectively defined subtle cognitive decline group, 501 participants in the mild cognitive impairment group, 471 participants in Alzheimer's disease group, and 128 participants with cognitive impairment from other known causes.

  47. Evaluation of Blood-Based Plasma Biomarkers as Potential Markers of Amyloid Burden in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 demonstrated the highest association for Aβ accumulation in the brain with an AUC 0.76 (95%CI = 0.69, 0.82) at C2 N and 0.80 (95%CI = 0.75, 0.86) at Shimadzu.

  48. Hybrid PET/MRI with Flutemetamol and FDG in Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    High Aβ deposition (increased temporal [18F]-Flutemetamol standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr) and centiloid score), low glucose metabolism (decreased temporal lobe and posterior cingulate [18F]-FDG SUVr), low parietal CBF and right hemispheric cortical thickness were independent predictors of low cognitive test performance.

  49. Assessment of perfusion deficit with early phases of [18F]PI-2620 tau-PET versus [18F]flutemetamol-amyloid-PET recordings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2022-12-27 Brain scans and imaging

    The z-scores of perfusion-weighted images of both tracers showed high correlations across the brain, especially in the frontal and parietal lobes, which were the brain regions with pronounced perfusion deficit in the patient group (R = 0.83 ± 0.08; range, 0.61-0.95).

  50. Deep learning-based speech analysis for Alzheimer's disease detection: a literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-12-14 Digital health tools

    Fifty-two papers were finally retained after screening.

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