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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

1,164 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. 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.

  2. Artificial intelligence in brain MRI analysis of Alzheimer's disease over the past 12 years: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2022-03-28 Digital health tools

    The synthesized evidence is paramount to developing sophisticated AI approaches to reliably capture and quantify multiple subtle MRI changes in the whole brain that exemplify the complexity and heterogeneity of AD and brain aging.

  3. Rapid Biomarker Screening of Alzheimer's Disease by Interpretable Machine Learning and Graphene-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. ACS nano 2022-03-25 Digital health tools

    The study of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, faces challenges in terms of understanding the cause, monitoring the pathogenesis, and developing early diagnoses and effective treatments.

  4. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities With Anti-amyloid Antibodies for the Treatment of Dementia Due to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2022-03-23 Prevention and risk

    Second-generation anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies are emerging as a viable therapeutic option for individuals with prodromal and mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Non-linear Character of Plasma Amyloid Beta Over the Course of Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-03-23 Biomarkers

    Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) was associated with brain Aβ deposition and Alzheimer's disease (AD) development.

  6. Multicenter 18F-PI-2620 PET for In Vivo Braak Staging of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Biomolecules 2022-03-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau aggregates accumulate in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain according to the established Braak staging scheme and spread from transentorhinal over limbic regions to the neocortex.

  7. Spatial-Temporal Patterns of β-Amyloid Accumulation: A Subtype and Stage Inference Model Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2022-03-15 Biomarkers

    Further analyses to determine clinical utility are warranted.

  8. Longitudinal Tau Positron Emission Tomography in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2022-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The annual increase of flortaucipir SUVr was greater in the middle and superior occipital, fusiform, and inferior parietal cortices in DLB (mean: 0.017, 0.019, 0.019, and 0.015, respectively) compared with the CU (mean: -0.006, -0.009, -0.003, and - 0.005, respectively; P < 0.05).

  9. Decreased imaging time of amyloid PET using [18F]florbetapir can maintain quantitative accuracy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Radiological physics and technology 2022-03-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Shortening the amount of time required to acquire amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) brain images while maintaining the accuracy of quantitative evaluation would help to overcome motion artifacts associated with Alzheimer's disease patients.

  10. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities and β-Amyloid-Targeting Antibodies: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-03-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 genotype was the main risk factor for both ARIA types; ARIA-E incidence was further associated with treatment dose, affecting the 55% of ApoE ε4 carriers in the high-dose aducanumab treatment group.

  11. 18F-THK5351 PET Positivity and Longitudinal Changes in Cognitive Function in β-Amyloid-Negative Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Yonsei medical journal 2022-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The results of the present study suggest that increased 18 F-THK5351 uptake might be a useful predictor of poor prognosis among Aβ- aMCI patients, which might be associated with increased neuroinflammation (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02656498).

  12. Tau-PET imaging predicts cognitive decline and brain atrophy progression in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2022-02-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Baseline tau-PET was strongly associated with the subsequent cognitive decline in regions that are usually associated with each cognitive domain.

  13. Increased retention of tau PET ligand [18F]-AV1451 in Alzheimer's Disease Psychosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2022-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Psychosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents a distinct disease subtype with a more rapid progression of illness evidenced by an increased velocity of cognitive decline and a hastened mortality.

  14. Associations of Stages of Objective Memory Impairment With Amyloid PET and Structural MRI: The A4 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-23 Biomarkers

    Participants had a mean age of 71.3 (SD 4.6) years; 40.6% were male; and 34.6% were APOE ε4 positive.

  15. Plasma p-tau231, p-tau181, PET Biomarkers, and Cognitive Change in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-02-18 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau231 showed more robust associations with PET biomarkers than p-tau181 in presymptomatic individuals.

  16. Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau231 as an early indicator of emerging pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2022-02-12 Biomarkers

    All CSF p-tau biomarkers were accurate predictors of cognitive impairment but CSF p-tau217 demonstrated the largest fold-changes in AD patients in comparison to non-AD dementias and cognitively unimpaired individuals.

  17. Software development for quantitative analysis of brain amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2022-02-08 Brain scans and imaging

    When whole cerebellum or whole cerebellum plus brainstem was chosen as the reference area, an excellent correlation was found between the CL scale calculated by this software and the CL scale published by GAAIN.

  18. The accuracy and robustness of plasma biomarker models for amyloid PET positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-02-07 Biomarkers

    Increasing variation greatly impacted the performance of plasma Aβ42/40 in discriminating Aβ status.

  19. TDP-43-associated atrophy in brains with and without frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2022-02-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Transactive response DNA-binding protein of ∼43 kDa (TDP-43), a primary pathologic substrate in tau-negative frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), is also often found in the brains of elderly individuals without FTLD and is a key player in the process of neurodegeneration in brains with and without FTLD.

  20. Assessing Reactive Astrogliosis with 18F-SMBT-1 Across the Alzheimer Disease Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-01-27 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-SMBT-1 yielded high-contrast images at steady state (60-80 min after injection).

  21. First-in-Humans Evaluation of 18F-SMBT-1, a Novel 18F-Labeled Monoamine Oxidase-B PET Tracer for Imaging Reactive Astrogliosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-01-27 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-SMBT-1 showed robust entry into the brain and reversible binding kinetics, with high tracer retention in basal ganglia, intermediate retention in cortical regions, and the lowest retention in cerebellum and white matter, which tightly follows the known regional brain distribution of MAO-B ( R 2 = 0.84).

  22. International consensus on the use of tau PET imaging agent 18F-flortaucipir in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2022-01-03 Brain scans and imaging

    This international consensus and practice guideline will help to promote the standardized use of 18F-flortaucipir PET in patients with AD.

  23. Amyloid PET: A Questionable Single Primary Surrogate Efficacy Measure on Alzheimer Immunotherapy Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022-01-01 Biomarkers

    Using amyloid PET imaging as a single primary surrogate efficacy measure in Alzheimer's disease immunotherapy trials, as happened when the FDA granted accelerated approval of aducanumab, is unjustified.

  24. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities and Other MRI Findings in a Cognitively Unimpaired Population With and Without Cerebral Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Treatments

    ARIA-E is rare in cognitively unimpaired Aβ+ and Aβ- populations prior to anti-amyloid drug intervention.

  25. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in 2 Phase 3 Studies Evaluating Aducanumab in Patients With Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Of 3285 included participants, the mean (SD) age was 70.4 (7.45) years; 1706 participants (52%) were female, 2661 (81%) had mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease, and 1777 (54%) used symptomatic medications for Alzheimer disease.

  26. Limited Longitudinal Change in Self-reported Spatial Navigation Ability in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2022-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Subtle changes in objective spatial navigation ability have been observed in the preclinical stage of Alzheimer disease (AD) cross-sectionally and have been found to predict clinical progression.

  27. Unravelling the Association Between Amyloid-PET and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in the Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum: Who Really Deserves an A+?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    Different pipelines gave highly inter-correlated standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) (rho = 0.93-0.99).

  28. Distributions of Aβ42 and Aβ42/40 in the Cerebrospinal Fluid in View of the Probability Theory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-12-16 Biomarkers

    Amyloid β 42/40 concentration quotient has been empirically shown to improve accuracy of the neurochemical diagnostics of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) compared to the Aβ42 concentration alone, but this improvement in diagnostic performance has not been backed up by a theoretical argumentation so far.

  29. rPOP: Robust PET-only processing of community acquired heterogeneous amyloid-PET data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. NeuroImage 2021-12-07 Long-term cohort studies

    The reference standard for amyloid-PET quantification requires structural MRI (sMRI) for preprocessing in both multi-site research studies and clinical trials.

  30. Longitudinal 18F-MK-6240 tau tangles accumulation follows Braak stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that the cognitively unimpaired amyloid-β-negative individuals had significant longitudinal tau accumulation confined to the PET Braak-like stage I (3.9%) and II (2.8%) areas.

  31. Quantitative Brain Positron Emission Tomography in Female 5XFAD Alzheimer Mice: Pathological Features and Sex-Specific Alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2021-11-26 Biomarkers

    Successful back-translating clinical biomarkers and molecular imaging methods of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including positron emission tomography (PET), are very valuable for the evaluation of new therapeutic strategies and increase the quality of preclinical studies. 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET and 18 F-Florbetaben-PET are clinically established biomarkers capturing two key pathological features of AD.

  32. Astrocyte activation imaging with 11C-acetate and amyloid PET in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nuclear medicine communications 2021-11-01 Biomarkers

    MTL 11C-acetate SUVR was significantly elevated in MCI compared to cognitively normal participants (P = 0.03; Cohen d = 1.76).

  33. Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and discordant amyloid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Do MRI-based metrics of a CSF-dynamics disorder, disproportionately enlarged subarachnoid-space hydrocephalus (DESH), correlate with discordant amyloid biomarkers (low CSF β-amyloid 1-42, normal Aβ-PET scan)?

  34. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that metabolic changes in the brain associated with neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction play an important role in the pathophysiology of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Diffusion Tensor MRI Structural Connectivity and PET Amyloid Burden in Preclinical Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease: The DIAN Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Radiology 2021-10-12 Biomarkers

    White matter structural connectivity was lower in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease mutation carriers compared with noncarriers and correlated with estimated years to symptom onset.

  36. Amyloid-dependent and amyloid-independent effects of Tau in individuals without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2021-10-07 Brain scans and imaging

    In both cohorts, we observed that tau-PET standardized uptake value ratio in medial temporal lobes was associated with clinical dementia rating Sum of Boxes (CDR-SoB) scores independently of local amyloid-PET uptake (FWE corrected at p < 0.001).

  37. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Pathology and Its Association With Amyloid-β PET Signal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-09 Biomarkers

    Forty-one participants (30 male, 11 female) with a mean (SD) age at death of 75.7 (10.6) years were included.

  38. Predicting Symptom Onset in Sporadic Alzheimer Disease With Amyloid PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2021-09-09 Biomarkers

    Amyloid accumulation was evaluated in 236 individuals who underwent >1 amyloid PET scan.

  39. Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia: A Robust Classification Method of EEG Signals and a Comparison of Validation Methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-08-09 Digital health tools

    Dementia is the clinical syndrome characterized by progressive loss of cognitive and emotional abilities to a degree severe enough to interfere with daily functioning.

  40. Clinicians reported high diagnostic confidence in 83% of 18 F-FDG PET compared to 67% for CBF-SPECT (P = 0.001).

  41. The Role of 18F-Flortaucipir (AV-1451) in the Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cureus 2021-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau protein plays a vital role in maintaining the structural and functional integrity of the nervous system; however, hyperphosphorylation or abnormal phosphorylation of tau protein plays an essential role in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative disorders.

  42. [18F]Flortaucipir PET Across Various MAPT Mutations in Presymptomatic and Symptomatic Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2021-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]Flortaucipir BPND images showed overall highest binding in the symptomatic carriers.

  43. Machine learning for modeling the progression of Alzheimer disease dementia using clinical data: a systematic literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. JAMIA open 2021-07-01 Digital health tools

    Identifying individuals at risk for progression of AD dementia could potentially help to personalize disease management to plan future care.

  44. Associations of longitudinal plasma p-tau181 and NfL with tau-PET, Aβ-PET and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2021-06-29 Biomarkers

    P-tau and NfL behave differently within the same individuals over time and may therefore offer complementary diagnostic information.

  45. Automated production of [18F]Flortaucipir for PET imaging of tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2021-06-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Radiotracer [18F]Flortaucipir is an FDA-approved diagnostic agent for PET imaging of density and distribution of abnormal tau protein deposition (tauopathies) in Alzheimer's disease.

  46. GPS driving: a digital biomarker for preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-06-14 Digital health tools

    The findings suggest that GPS driving may serve as an effective and accurate digital biomarker for identifying preclinical AD among older adults.

  47. Brain mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of symptom-general and -specific lesion patterns

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2021-06-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSs) are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are associated with accelerated cognitive impairment and earlier deaths.

  48. Cross-cohort generalizability of deep and conventional machine learning for MRI-based diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2021-06-04 Digital health tools

    This work validates the generalizability of MRI-based classification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and controls (CN) to an external data set and to the task of prediction of conversion to AD in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  49. Fifteen Years of the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) Study: Progress and Observations from 2,359 Older Adults Spanning the Spectrum from Cognitive Normality to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2021-06-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    This fifteen-year study provides a large database of highly characterized individuals with longitudinal cognitive, imaging and lifestyle data and biofluid collections, to aid in the development of interventions to delay onset, prevent or treat AD.

  50. Patterns of tau pathology identified with 18 F-MK-6240 PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-05-31 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-MK-6240 recapitulated Braak staging and correlated with CSF tau and p-tau, normalized to Aβ42 . 18 F-MK-6240 negatively correlated with age across Braak regions in amyloid-positive participants, consistent with greater tau pathology in earlier onset AD.

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