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  1. Genetic Architecture of Plasma Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in the Amish 2026-10-19
  2. Elevation in Plasma p-tau217 Concentrations Among Blood Donors: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study 2026-09-24
  3. A Harmonized Visual Reading Framework for Tau PET Staging in Alzheimer Disease 2026-09-21

Studies

739 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 52
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 50
  • JAMA neurology 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 24
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 22

231 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Cyclic 2.5D Perceptual Loss for Cross‐Modal 3D Medical Image Synthesis: T1w MRI to Tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Human Brain Mapping 2026-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Positron emission tomography (PET) provides an in vivo molecular marker for various diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

  2. Florzolotau (18F) retention is linked to neuropsychological performance in tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2026-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    In the AD continuum group, all cognitive test performances significantly correlated with tracer uptake, particularly in the left cortical areas.

  3. Integration of plasma eMTBR-tau243 and p-tau217 in the diagnosis and stratification of Alzheimer's disease: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2026-04 Biomarkers

    In this prospective cohort study, we included adults aged 40 years or older with subjective cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment, or dementia, based on cognitive test results and clinical assessments, consecutively recruited at two memory clinics in Sweden, as part of the Swedish BioFINDER-2 study.

  4. Sex Differences in P-Tau217, Tau Aggregation, and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2026-04-01 Biomarkers

    These findings add to growing evidence that women have a differential tau response to Aβ that may emerge at the point of p-tau secretion.

  5. Vergleich kinetischer [¹⁸F]PI-2620 Tau-PET Parameter zum longitudinalen Monitoring der Alzheimer-Erkrankung

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine 2026-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    5/15 Patient:innen zeigten initial einen visuell negativen Tau-PET Scan zur Baseline, davon konvertierten vier im Follow-up zu einem Tau-positiven Befund.

  6. A pathogenic Tau mutation drives autophagy-lysosome dysfunction that limits Tau degradation in a model of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature Communications 2026-03-31 Lewy body dementia

    Tau accumulates in a group of neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies.

  7. Clinicopathological features of primary tauopathies: a brain bank series

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2026-03-30 Disease mechanisms

    Fifteen cases were identified, spanning argyrophilic grain disease, primary age-related tauopathy, corticobasal degeneration, genetic frontotemporal dementia, and progressive supranuclear palsy.

  8. Study of the utility and impact of a plasma p-tau181 Alzheimer's biomarker (SUITABLE)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2026-03-13 Biomarkers

    Non-elevated plasma p-tau181 results impacted the diagnosis and use of amyloid PET imaging in a memory clinic.

  9. Blood phosphorylated tau elevation as a biomarker in immunoglobulin light chain and transthyretin amyloidosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature medicine 2026-03-11 Tau biomarkers

    Elevated blood levels of phosphorylated tau (p-tau) are diagnostic of Alzheimer disease and are associated with the deposition of amyloid-β in the cerebral neuropil.

  10. MC1 detects tau pathology in chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 2026-03-02 Drug development

    To the Editor: MC1 is a monoclonal anti-tau antibody developed by the Peter Davies laboratory in the 1990s to aid the neuropathological diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD).1 Raised against Alz-50-immunopurified paired helical filaments (PHFs) from an AD brain, MC1 recognizes a conformational, discontinuous epitope involving residues 7-9 in the N-terminus and 313-322 in the third repeat domain of tau (Figure 1A).

  11. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 and Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Older Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2026-03-02 Biomarkers

    Among 2766 participants (mean [SD] age, 69.9 [3.8] years; 486 [17.9%] Black, 196 [7.1%] Hispanic, and 2007 [73.9%] White), 1311 developed the combined end point of MCI or dementia (849 participants with MCI and 752 participants with dementia).

  12. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 Cutoffs for Amyloid Pathology and Kidney Function, Body Mass Index, and Anemia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2026-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In the UGOT cohort, the optimal cutoff improved diagnostic accuracy compared with the standard single cutoff, particularly in CKD and anemia (CKD: from 0.65; 95% CI, 0.57-0.72; to 0.83; 95% CI, 0.76-0.89; anemia: from 0.80; 95% CI, 0.76-0.84; to 0.86; 95% CI, 0.82-0.90), with consistent findings in the Roche cohort.

  13. Predicting onset of symptomatic Alzheimer's disease with plasma p-tau217 clocks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Nature medicine 2026-02-19 Biomarkers

    Predicting not just if, but also when, cognitively unimpaired individuals are likely to develop onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms would be useful to clinical trials and, eventually, clinical practice.

  14. Implications of virus-induced stress granules in tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Translational Neurodegeneration 2026-02-12 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are characterized by aberrant tau structure and function, which is associated with neurodegenerative dementias, such as Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, and frontotemporal dementia, as well as the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  15. Association of Cortical Free Water With Brain Tau Tangle Load in the Alzheimer Disease Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2026-02-06 Biomarkers

    = 0.64). In AD-relevant regions, increased free water correlates with tau load independently of macrostructural metrics or amyloid load.

  16. Head-to-head comparison of plasma p-tau217 immunoassays for incipient Alzheimer's disease in community cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2026-02-06 Biomarkers

    This study directly compared four different commercial/lab p-tau217 blood tests (Lumipulse, ALZpath, Johnson & Johnson, and NULISA) in 344 people from two community cohorts, most of whom were cognitively normal or had only mild changes.

  17. Association of [ 18 F]Flortaucipir–PET and Plasma p-Tau217 With Tau Neuropathology in Alzheimer Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2026-02-02 Biomarkers

    's ≥ 0.75). Both markers identified Braak stage V-VI levels with similarly high performance (entorhinal SUVR, area under the curve [AUC] = 0.92 [95% CI 0.91-0.93]; temporal meta-ROI SUVR, AUC = 0.91 [95% CI 0.90-0.92]; plasma p-tau217, AUC = 0.90 [95% CI 0.89-0.91]), but PET outperformed plasma p-tau217 in identifying high/intermediate ADNCs (entorhinal ROI, AUC = 0.94 [95% CI 0.94-0.95]; temporal meta-ROI AUC = 0.94 [95% CI 0.94-0.95]; plasma p-tau217, AUC = 0.89 [95% CI 0.88-0.90]).

  18. Blood-Based Analysis of Different Tau Variants in Patients With Multiple Traumatic Injuries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA network open 2026-02-02 Tau biomarkers

    With blood-based phosphorylated tau biomarkers soon to be used for diagnosis of Alzheimer disease, analyzing tau levels in other conditions could enhance biomarker interpretability.

  19. Classification of tauopathies from human brain homogenates through salt‐modulated tau amplification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2026-02-01 Disease mechanisms

    This method differentiated eight tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, Pick disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), argyrophilic grain disease (AGD), frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism associated with chromosome 17 with N279K mutation (FTDP-17 N279K), and globular glial tauopathies types II and III.

  20. Plasma p‐tau217 predicts PET‐based pathological staging for precision Alzheimer disease assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2026-02-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217-based biomarkers showed excellent detecting performance for early amyloid (Thal I-II; area under the curve values > 0.96) and intermediate tau (Braak III-IV; area under the curve values > 0.92).

  21. Molecular features of human pathological tau distinguish tauopathy-associated dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Cell 2026-01-29 Digital health tools

    In Alzheimer's disease (AD), pathological tau protein shows a progressive accumulation of post-translational modifications (PTMs), reflecting disease severity, progression, and prion-like activity.

  22. Association Between Longitudinal Rate of Change in CSF Biomarkers and Subsequent Tau PET Burden in Early Braak Stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2026-01-28 Tau biomarkers

    This study investigated whether longitudinal changes in CSF AD biomarkers were associated with 18 F-MK6240 tau PET measures in early Braak stage subregions.

  23. CRISPR screens in iPSC-derived neurons reveal principles of tau proteostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Cell 2026-01-28 Disease mechanisms

    Aggregation of the protein tau defines tauopathies, the most common age-related neurodegenerative diseases, which include Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

  24. Spilling the T: T cells in tauopathy mechanisms, disease progression, and therapeutic horizons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration Advances 2026-01-27 Disease mechanisms

    Primary and secondary tauopathies are major causes of dementia characterized by the abnormal accumulation of microtubule-associated protein tau.

  25. Spinal Cord Tau and Protein Copathologies Associated With Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2026-01-26 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Of 70 autopsied individuals (62 male, 8 female; mean [SD] age, 64.40 [13.94] years), 20 showed CTE-NC in the brain.

  26. Artificial microRNAs targeting tau enable post-symptomatic functional recovery in aged tauopathy mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids 2026-01-23 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and progressive supranuclear palsy, characterized by the pathological accumulation of tau protein.

  27. Subtracting First Principal Component May Improve 4R Tau Detectability on [ 18 F]Flortaucipir Tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2026-01-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Area under the receiver operating characteristic curves differentiating PSP and controls were improved by PC1 subtraction in the frontal white matter (0.54 to 0.67; P = 0.002) and subcortical (0.69 to 0.87; P < 0.001) regions.

  28. It was not possible to demonstrate significant differences on the co-primary clinical endpoints (ADAS-cog 11 and ADCS-ADL 23 ) at 52 weeks due to symptomatic activity in the control arm.

  29. Classification of tauopathies from human brain homogenates through salt-modulated tau amplification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Apollo (University of Cambridge) 2026-01-15 Disease mechanisms

    This method differentiated eight tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, Pick disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), argyrophilic grain disease (AGD), frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism associated with chromosome 17 with N279K mutation (FTDP-17 N279K), and globular glial tauopathies types II and III.

  30. In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Small-Molecule Disassemblers of Pathological Tau Fibrils

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2026-01-05 Disease mechanisms

    Aggregation of the microtubule-binding protein tau is the histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases, which are collectively known as tauopathies.

  31. Associations of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors with longitudinal white matter hyperintensities, amyloid-β and tau - a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Non-modifiable (age, apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 genotype and sex) and modifiable risk factors (co-morbidities at baseline, such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease, BMI, and sleep duration) were analyzed with mixed-effects models, adjusted for age and sex, to predict longitudinal measurements of WMH, Aβ and tau.

  32. Blood-based analysis of different tau variants in patients with multiple traumatic injuries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Digitalen Hochschulbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt) 2026-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Median serum levels of tau variants were increased in patients with multiple traumatic injuries at day 0 compared with controls (t-tau: 43 [IQR, 21-95] vs 3 [IQR, 3-5] pg/mL; BD-tau: 78 [IQR, 30-343] vs 2 [IQR, 2-3] pg/mL; p-tau231: 61 [IQR, 21-79] vs 2 [IQR, 1-3] pg/mL; all, P < .001).

  33. Neuroinflammation demonstrated by 11 C‐ER176 PET with amyloid and tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2026-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    These findings suggest probable amyloid association with early microglial activation, while tau pathology is closely tied to wider distribution of neuroinflammation.

  34. Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 and Amyloid Burden in Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2026-01-01 Biomarkers

    These findings demonstrate that plasma p-tau217 can reliably detect AD pathology in the preclinical stage.

  35. The glymphatic system clears amyloid beta and tau from brain to plasma in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Nature Communications 2026 Laboratory science

    In two randomized crossover studies involving 48 healthy, cognitively normal adults (registered on ClinicalTrials.gov), researchers measured brain and blood markers after normal sleep versus sleep deprivation.

  36. Tau protein: Physiological functions and multifaceted roles in neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Genomic psychiatry : 2025-12-16 Disease mechanisms

    Tau, mainly expressed in neurons and less expressed in glial cells (astrocytes and oligodendrocytes) and peripheral tissues, is involved in the assembly and stabilization of microtubules, and other biological processes such as axonal transport, metal ion transport, etc. Dysfunction of tau, caused by mutations, hyperphosphorylation, aggregation, or reduced expression, is closely associated with tauopathies (e.g., Alzheimer disease) and psychiatric disorders.

  37. Evaluation of Copathology and Clinical Trajectories in Individuals With Tau-Clinical Mismatch

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-12-15 Biomarkers

    A total of 365 participants (mean [SD] age, 75.4 [7.9] years; 192 female [52.6%]) in the ADNI tau-PET group and 524 participants (mean [SD] age, 77.1 [7.9] years; 268 male [51.1%]) in the ADNI p-tau217 group were selected from the 998 individuals who were Aβ+ in the ADNI cohort and used to generate tau-clinical mismatch models with 55.6% to 57.1% classified as canonical (CDR-SB commensurate to tau), 23.7% to 24.7% as resilient (CDR-SB tau).

  38. Evaluating Plasma p-tau217 as an Endpoint for Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2025-12-09 Biomarkers

    A total of 716 individuals were included in the analysis: 413 cognitively unimpaired (CU) participants (58.6% female; mean age = 70.6 years, SD = 7.9) and 303 cognitively impaired (CI) participants (54.7% female; mean age = 73.2 years, SD = 7.4).

  39. Clinical validation of new alzheimer disease diagnosis tools based on plasma p-Tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-12-07 Biomarkers

    Nowadays, there is an unmet need for reliable and minimally-invasive diagnosis tools capable of detecting Alzheimer's disease at early stages.

  40. PS19 mouse tauopathy is associated with sex-dependent sleep loss and hyperarousal, and predicts cognitive performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2025-12-04 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major public health concern in societies with increasingly ageing populations.

  41. [18F] RO948 Tau PET imaging and plasma biomarkers in PART and LATE patients compared with sporadic Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    PART and LATE patients exhibit Tau PET uptake similar to that of controls, except in the putamen.

  42. A human iPSC model of Tauopathies engineered for 4R Tau isoform expression endogenously develops late‐stage neuronal Tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    We found that induction of adult human brain-like 4R Tau isoform expression enables endogenous formation of late-stage Tauopathy hallmarks in iPSC-derived neurons engineered to contain synergistic Tau mutations.

  43. Amygdala nuclei are not uniformly vulnerable to FTLD‐tauopathies in PPA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    The basal nucleus showed significant neuronal loss in PPA versus controls (p <0.05).

  44. Amygdala parcellation reveals unique subregions of atrophy in FTLD‐tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    PPA/3R had a mean age of 63.5 years (SD = 3.9), PPA/4R were 72.5 years (SD = 5.8), and controls were 63.4 years (SD = 6.8).

  45. Amygdala parcellation reveals unique subregions of atrophy in FTLD‐tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    PPA/3R had a mean age of 63.5 years (SD = 3.9), PPA/4R were 72.5 years (SD = 5.8), and controls were 63.4 years (SD = 6.8).

  46. Analytical Qualification of the BD‐Tau Xplorer kit on LUMIPULSE® G1200

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

    The assay demonstrated robust quantification of BD-Tau in CSF, plasma, and serum with measured concentrations ranging from 3 to 20 pg/mL across 15 paired plasma and serum samples.

  47. Analytical validation of plasma p ‐tau217 on the SP‐X platform

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    of 0.928 and bias of 6.0% (n =396, Deming regression, Figure 1).

  48. ApoE Genotyping and 12‐Month Longitudinal Tracking of p ‐Tau217 Using Fingerstick Collection in a Population‐Based Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    Our findings demonstrate the capability of a fingerstick collection to accurately quantify p ‐tau217 levels longitudinally and genotype ApoE.

  49. Associations between tau PET and CSF MTBR243 do not vary by sex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In both cohorts there were significant associations between CSF MTBR-tau243 and the temporal meta-ROI (BioFINDER-2: t = 17.1, p < 0.001, Knight-ADRC: t=11.0, p <0.001).

  50. Baseline Imaging Characteristics of Participants in the Phase II/III DIAN‐TU‐001 Tau NexGen Trial for Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Treatments

    The study includes symptomatic DIAD participants and asymptomatic mutation carriers.

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