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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. Plasma phosphorylated tau181 predicts cognitive and functional decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 2022-12-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma p‐tau181 differentiated pathology‐confirmed AD from NC with negative amyloid PET scans with an AUC of 0.93.

  2. Quantification of [18 F]florbetaben amyloid-PET imaging in a mixed memory clinic population: The ABIDE project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-07 Brain scans and imaging

    CL was associated with syndromic (F = 4.42, p = 0.014) and etiological diagnosis (F = -12.66, p < 0.001), with Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients showing the highest amyloid burden (62.9 ± 27.5), followed by dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (25.3 ± 35.5) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) (16.7 ± 24.5), and finally frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD) (5.0 ± 17.22, t = -12.66, p < 0.001).

  3. TDP-43 pathology effect on volume and flortaucipir uptake in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Older participants had lower hippocampal volumes and overall flortaucipir uptake.

  4. Fast and Accurate Amyloid Brain PET Quantification Without MRI Using Deep Neural Networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-11-03 Biomarkers

    Quantification results using the proposed deep learning-based method showed stronger correlations with the FreeSurfer estimates than SPM-based SN using MRI did.

  5. SPARE-Tau: A flortaucipir machine-learning derived early predictor of cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. PloS one 2022-11-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Compared to CSF p-tau, meta-temporal, and averaged Braak tau PET ROIs, SPARE-Tau showed the strongest association with baseline ADAS-cog13 scores and diagnosis.

  6. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities: An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2022-11-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) is a term introduced in 2010 to encompass a spectrum of MRI findings observed in patients receiving investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) immunotherapies for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  7. Semiquantitative Approach to Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Interpretation in Clinical Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. World journal of nuclear medicine 2022-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Visual assessment and semiquantitative analysis provide highly congruent results, thereby enhancing reader confidence and improving scan interpretation.

  8. Magnetic Resonance Images Implicate That Glymphatic Alterations Mediate Cognitive Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-10-26 Brain scans and imaging

    ALPS-index may provide useful disease progression or treatment biomarkers for patients with AD as an indicator of modulation of glymphatic activity.

  9. Genetically identical twins show comparable tau PET load and spatial distribution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-10-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau accumulation starts during the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease and is closely associated with cognitive decline.

  10. Development and clinical validation of CT-based regional modified Centiloid method for amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-10-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Both MRI-based and CT-based rdcCL scales showed that FMM and FBB were highly correlated with each other, globally and regionally (R2 = 0.96~0.99).

  11. Generalizable deep learning model for early Alzheimer's disease detection from structural MRIs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-10-17 Long-term cohort studies

    Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease plays a pivotal role in patient care and clinical trials.

  12. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in the DIAN-TU-001 Trial of Gantenerumab and Solanezumab: Lessons from a Trial in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-10-13 Biomarkers

    In DIAD, solanezumab was not associated with ARIA.

  13. Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy: LATE-Breaking Updates in Clinicopathologic Features and Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2022-10-03 Brain tissue and pathology

    Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) is a recently defined neurodegenerative disease characterized by amnestic phenotype and pathological inclusions of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43).

  14. Data from 17 107 individuals (321 Asian, 635 Black, 829 Hispanic, and 15 322 White) with MCI or dementia and amyloid PET were analyzed between April 2020 and January 2022.

  15. A deep learning model for detection of Alzheimer's disease based on retinal photographs: a retrospective, multicentre case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The Lancet. Digital health 2022-09-30 Caregiving

    We tested the trained model using five other studies, three of which used PET as a biomarker of significant amyloid β burden (testing the deep learning model between amyloid β positive vs amyloid β negative).

  16. Clinical performance and robustness evaluation of plasma amyloid-β42/40 prescreening

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-09-23 Biomarkers

    Elecsys plasma Aβ42 /Aβ40 could potentially rule out amyloid pathology in populations with low-to-moderate amyloid positivity prevalence.

  17. The RSNA QIBA Profile for Amyloid PET as an Imaging Biomarker for Cerebral Amyloid Quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-09-22 Biomarkers

    On achieving conformance, sites can justify a claim that brain amyloid burden reflected by the SUVR is measurable to a within-subject coefficient of variation of no more than 1.94% when the same radiopharmaceutical, scanner, acquisition, and analysis protocols are used.

  18. Incidence of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Patients With Alzheimer Disease Treated With Anti-β-Amyloid Immunotherapy: A Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-29 Drug development

    The PubMed and Embase databases were searched for clinical trials of anti-Aβ immunotherapy published on or before January 12, 2022.

  19. Microglial Activation and Connectivity in Alzheimer Disease and Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-08-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Microglial activation distributes preferentially along highly connected brain regions, similar to tau pathology.

  20. Atypical Alzheimer's disease phenotypes with normal or borderline PET biomarker profiles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2022-08-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) and logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA) are clinical syndromes that commonly have underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD), although non-AD pathologies have also been reported.

  21. Amyloid PET ordering practices in a memory disorders clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2022-08-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Among 565 veterans, 34.9% of received an amyloid PET scan and 98.0% of these were consistent with appropriate use criteria.

  22. Investigating Tau and Amyloid Tracer Skull Binding in Studies of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-08-11 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that 50 of 313 (∼16%) FTP scans had high levels of skull signal.

  23. Astrocyte biomarker signatures of amyloid-β and tau pathologies in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-08-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Astrocytes can adopt multiple molecular phenotypes in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  24. Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using machine learning: a multi-diagnostic, generalizable approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-08-03 Digital health tools

    In sum, we present a diagnostic tool for MCI and AD trained using baseline scans and a follow-up diagnosis regardless of progression, which is multi-diagnostic, generalizable across independent data sources and acquisition protocols, and with transparently reported performance.

  25. Evaluation of tau deposition using 18F-PI-2620 PET in MCI and early AD subjects-a MissionAD tau sub-study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-07-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Percentage of visually tau-positive scans increased with amyloid-beta deposition measured in 18F-florbetaben Centiloids (CL) (7.7% (<36 CL), 80% (>83 CL)). 18F-PI-2620 standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) was correlated with increased 18F-florbetaben CL in several regions of interest.

  26. Early-phase 18F-Florbetapir and 18F-Flutemetamol images as proxies of brain metabolism in a memory clinic setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Positive correlations were found between eFBP/eFMM and 18F-FDG-PET SUVR independently of Aβ status and Aβ radiotracer (R>0.72, p<0.001). eFBP/eFMM single-subject analysis revealed clusters of significant hypoperfusion with good correspondence to hypometabolism topographies, independently of the underlying neurodegenerative patterns.

  27. Plasma Aβ42/40 ratio, p-tau181, GFAP, and NfL across the Alzheimer's disease continuum: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study in the AIBL cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-21 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that plasma biomarkers are altered cross-sectionally and longitudinally, along the AD continuum, and are prospectively associated with cognitive decline and brain Aβ-PET load.

  28. The relationship between plasma biomarkers and amyloid PET in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2022-07-19 Biomarkers

    All four plasma markers significantly correlated with 18F-florbetapir SUVR (|β| = 0.40-0.49; p < .05).

  29. Findings of 18 F‐PI‐2620 tau PET imaging in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and healthy controls in relation to the plasma P‐tau181 levels in a Japanese sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology Reports 2022-07-17 Biomarkers

    The uptake of 18 F‐PI‐2620 was distinctly increased in the AD group across all the ROIs.

  30. Comparative analytical performance of multiple plasma Aβ42 and Aβ40 assays and their ability to predict positron emission tomography amyloid positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-12 Biomarkers

    Measurement of Aβ in plasma contributes to addressing the amyloid component of the ATN (amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration) framework and could be a first step before or in place of a PET or cerebrospinal fluid screening study.

  31. Automated semi-quantitative amyloid PET analysis technique without MR images for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of nuclear medicine 2022-07-11 Brain scans and imaging

    SUVr calculated by our method and CortexID were highly correlated (R2 = 0.9657).

  32. Staging of Alzheimer's disease: past, present, and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2022-06-15 Tau biomarkers

    For many years Alzheimer's disease (AD) was associated with the dementia stage of the disease, the tail end of a pathophysiological process that lasts approximately two decades.

  33. Longitudinal evaluation of neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease using positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-06-09 Biomarkers

    TSPO and x c - overexpression can be assessed by [ 18 F]DPA-714 and [ 18 F]FSPG, respectively, and correlate with the level of Aβ plaque deposition obtained with a PET amyloid tracer.

  34. A combination model of AD biomarkers revealed by machine learning precisely predicts Alzheimer's dementia: China Aging and Neurodegenerative Initiative (CANDI) study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-06-06 Digital health tools

    These results revealed a universal applicability of the "A/T/N" framework in a Chinese population and established an optimal diagnostic model consisting of cost-effective and non-invasive approaches for diagnosing AD.

  35. 18F-MK-6240 tau-PET in genetic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-06-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau is one of several proteins associated with frontotemporal dementia.

  36. 18F-FDG PET Imaging in Neurodegenerative Dementing Disorders: Insights into Subtype Classification, Emerging Disease Categories, and Mixed Dementia with Copathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Each of these subtypes is associated with differential 18 F-FDG PET findings.

  37. The Role of Amyloid PET in Imaging Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-06-01 Biomarkers

    Imaging of amyloid deposition using PET has been available in research studies for 2 decades and has been approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency, and other regulatory agencies around the world.

  38. Automated Detection of Speech Timing Alterations in Autopsy-Confirmed Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-27 Digital health tools

    We evaluated 22 persons with nfvPPA (mean age: 67.3 years; 13 female patients) and confirmed underlying 4-repeat tauopathy, 15 persons with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA; mean age: 66.5 years; 8 female patients), and 10 healthy controls (HCs; 70 years; 5 female patients).

  39. Choroid Plexus Volume and Permeability at Brain MRI within the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Radiology 2022-05-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Among patients with cognitive symptoms, larger choroid plexus volume was associated with severity of cognitive impairment in the Alzheimer disease spectrum.

  40. Menopause Status Moderates Sex Differences in Tau Burden: A Framingham PET Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-05-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Clear divergence in tauopathy between the sexes are apparent approximately 20 years earlier than previously reported.

  41. Association of the top 20 Alzheimer's disease risk genes with [18F]flortaucipir PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-05-11 Brain scans and imaging

    APOE ε4 showed significant (P < .05) associations with tau deposition across all disease stages.

  42. The cerebrospinal fluid biomarker ratio Aβ42/40 identifies amyloid positron emission tomography positivity better than Aβ42 alone in a heterogeneous memory clinic cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-04-26 Biomarkers

    CSF Aβ42/40 ratio can predict PET amyloid positivity with high accuracy in patients with a range of cognitive disorders when evaluating Aβ pathology independent of tau and neurodegeneration for research purposes.

  43. Biomarker modeling of Alzheimer's disease using PET-based Braak staging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature aging 2022-04-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Gold-standard diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) relies on histopathological staging systems.

  44. Quantification of amyloid beta and tau PET without a structural MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-04-16 Brain scans and imaging

    The best-performing MRI-free approaches had high continuous and dichotomous agreement with MRI-dependent SUVRs for Aβ PET and temporal flortaucipir (R2 ≥0.95; ± agreement ≥92%) and for Alzheimer's disease-related effect sizes; agreement was slightly lower for entorhinal flortaucipir and longitudinal slopes.

  45. Brain MRI Analysis for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using CNN-Based Feature Extraction and Machine Learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-04-11 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and the fifth-leading cause of death among people over the age of 65.

  46. Quantification of amyloid PET for future clinical use: a state-of-the-art review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2022-04-07 Caregiving

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology is one of the earliest detectable brain changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  47. Attention-Guided Hybrid Network for Dementia Diagnosis With Structural MR Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. IEEE transactions on cybernetics 2022-04-05 Long-term cohort studies

    Deep-learning methods (especially convolutional neural networks) using structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) data have been successfully applied to computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal stage [i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)].

  48. A Time-to-Event Exposure-Response Model for Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities Following Administration of Aducanumab to Subjects With Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of clinical pharmacology 2022-04-04 Drug development

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities with edema (ARIA-E) have been reported in patients with early Alzheimer disease treated with aducanumab.

  49. Assessment of a Plasma Amyloid Probability Score to Estimate Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Findings Among Adults With Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-04-01 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that this blood biomarker test could allow for distinguishing individuals with brain amyloid-positive PET findings from individuals with amyloid-negative PET findings and serve as an aid for Alzheimer disease diagnosis.

  50. Dual-Phase 18F-Florbetaben PET/CT: Unsuspected Thalamic Infarction Mimicking Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2022-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Dual-phase amyloid PET is considered a useful protocol to study patients with cognitive impairment.

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