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  1. Inflammatory biomarker candidates in dementia with Lewy bodies: diagnostic classification, clinical associations, and survival 2026-11-01
  2. Longitudinal plasma biomarkers and multimodal PET across APOE ε4 genotypes: a prospective cohort study 2026-11-01
  3. Concurrent cognitive, behavioral and systemic physiological features mark preclinical Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30

Studies

698 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1989 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 123
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 53
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 46
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 36
  • medRxiv 29

196 journals in all.

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  1. Inflammatory biomarker candidates in dementia with Lewy bodies: diagnostic classification, clinical associations, and survival

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-11-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common neurodegenerative dementia that remains difficult to distinguish clinically from Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders because of overlapping clinical features and frequent mixed pathology.

  2. Longitudinal plasma biomarkers and multimodal PET across APOE ε4 genotypes: a prospective cohort study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-11-01 Biomarkers

    These findings support a model in which p-tau217 specifically tracks amyloid-driven pathological progression, while markers of neurodegeneration reflect broader age-related processes that are not associated with APOE genotype.

  3. Concurrent cognitive, behavioral and systemic physiological features mark preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-30 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology accumulates years before overt cognitive impairment, yet its multidomain phenotype remains poorly defined.

  4. Blood-based biomarkers across the Alzheimer's disease continuum in older Korean population

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-29 Biomarkers

    Plasma pTau217 best identified amyloid-PET positivity (AUC > 0.91).

  5. Brain-Derived pTau217 and Plasma Proteomic Profiles Across Cognitive and Dementia Groups in Congolese Older Adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-28 Biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer disease and related dementias have been validated largely in populations of European ancestry.

  6. CSF Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers in Relation to Functional Status and Tofersen Treatment Response in ALS

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-28 Tau biomarkers

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease primarily affecting motor neurons but also frequently involving cognitive impairment.

  7. The full cohort included 1044 participants, of whom 779 comprised the proteomics cohort.

  8. Plasma eMTBR-tau as a marker of clinical stage and progression across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Biomarkers

    Plasma eMTBR-tau243 has been associated with tau pathology and cognitive decline.

  9. Associations of genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease with blood-based biomarkers: a community-based study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-23 Biomarkers

    The blood-based biomarker (BBM) profiles associated with genetic susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in general older populations remain poorly understood.

  10. Amyloid and Tau Neuropathologic Stage, Coexisting Brain Disease, and Cognitive Status in a Population-Based Autopsy Cohort

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-22 Clinical trials

    Among 2711 decedents (mean [SD] age, 73.4 [14.4] years; range, 23 to 111 years; 1340 [49.4%] female), 531 (19.6%) met both thresholds, 270 (10.0%) the amyloid threshold only, 207 (7.6%) the tau threshold only, and 1703 (62.8%) neither.

  11. α-Synuclein Seed Amplification Status Modifies the Relationship Between Plasma p-tau217, Amyloid and Fibrillar Tau

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 is elevated in αSynSAA-positive individuals at equivalent AD pathology measured by amyloid PET or the CSF ratio, and this elevation is attenuated most by fibrillar tau.

  12. Plasma biomarkers and incident clinical stage progression in the specialized memory clinic: a longitudinal study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-21 Biomarkers

    These findings support plasma biomarkers for disease identification and risk stratification while underscoring the need for population□specific approaches.

  13. Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain is Markedly Elevated in General Hospital Inpatients with Delirium

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-20 Biomarkers

    In Phase 1 (n =176), inpatients with delirium showed higher concentrations of both NfL and GFAP than patients with dementia (β = 0.78; 95% CI [0.37, 1.20] and β = 0.39 [0.07, 0.73] respectively) or PPD groups (β = 1.17; [0.69, 1.66] and β = 0.83 [0.51, 1.24] respectively).

  14. Basal Ganglia Iron Accumulation Mediates Stage-Dependent Associations Between Plasma pTau217 and Hippocampal Atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-19 Biomarkers

    Basal ganglia iron serves as a stage-dependent mediator linking pTau217 to hippocampal neurodegeneration, with prodromal AD potentially indicating a particularly vulnerable stage for iron-targeted interventions and iron profiling for patient stratification.

  15. Blood-based neurofilament light (NfL) is associated with all-cause mortality, but whether this reflects neuroaxonal injury or overlaps with cognitive and functional decline remains unclear.

  16. Comparative analysis of plasma pTau217, NfL and eight modifiable risk scores for 11-year dementia prediction in the HUNT Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-16 Biomarkers

    Higher pTau217 was associated with greater likelihood of developing dementia 11 years later.

  17. Alzheimer’s disease blood-based biomarkers in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST): Associations with cognition and depressive symptoms

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-15 Biomarkers

    Distinct biomarker associations with cognitive and emotional functioning support further longitudinal evaluation of BBMs for risk characterization in Latino older adults and potential disease monitoring applications.

  18. Blood Plasma Coenzyme Q 10 and P-Selectin Are Predictive Factors for Mild Cognitive Dysfunction in Elderly Women

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-13 Biomarkers

    Detection of the early phases of cognitive dysfunction is critical for identifying individuals at risk of neurodegeneration before irreversible damage occurs.

  19. Presymptomatic plasma biomarkers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: sequence and timing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2026-10-13 Biomarkers

    Nine proteins (amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42), beta-secretase 1 (BACE1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), pTau181, pTau231, pTau217, t0tal tau (MAPT), neurofilament light (NfL) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE)) robustly differed between carriers and non-carriers cross-sectionally.

  20. Symptom-Guided Blood Biomarker Testing for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2026-10-12 Biomarkers

    Trial Parent study registrations: NCT01231971; NCT02854033.

  21. Locus coeruleus intensity as a marker of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease: associations with plasma pTau 217 and memory

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-09 Genetics

    These findings support MRI-derived LC intensity as a marker of early AD-related processes and suggest that LC intensity may provide complementary information not captured by plasma pTau 217 alone.

  22. Analytical performance of a delayed-centrifugation blood collection tube for remote blood biomarker assessment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-07 Biomarkers

    Current biobanking guidelines require in-person blood collection and immediate processing for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarker assessment.

  23. Interventions targeting lifestyle and health behaviors support cognition in older adults at risk of dementia.

  24. Plasma eMTBR-tau as a robust biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease tangle pathology up to 10 years before death

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Scalable and accessible biomarkers of neurofibrillary tangle pathology are needed for Alzheimer’s disease prognosis, diagnosis and monitoring.

  25. Decoding Dementia from Sweat: A Proof-of-Concept Label-Free Raman Fingerprinting of EVs

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-01 Lewy body dementia

    Dementia is a major global health challenge; however, current diagnostic approaches often rely on invasive or costly procedures.

  26. Evaluation of plasma neurofilament and glial fibrillary acidic protein to predict or detect amyloid related imaging abnormalities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-09-30 Biomarkers

    Baseline NfL and GFAP did not differ between patients with or without ARIA (ln[NfL] ECLIA 1.24 ± 0.38 pg/mL vs 1.25 ± 0.40 pg/mL, p = 0.77; ln[NfL] Simoa 2.87 ± 0.47 pg/mL vs 2.98 ± 0.40 pg/mL, p = 0.30, ln[GFAP] ECLIA 4.95 ± 0.36 pg/mL vs 4.88 ± 0.47 pg/mL, p = 0.69).

  27. A positive Alzheimer's blood biomarker is not a diagnosis: the presence-primacy-permission framework for plasma p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) 2026-09-08 Biomarkers

    Validated plasma phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217) assays identify Alzheimer disease pathology with high accuracy.

  28. Plasma Fibrinogen Correlates with Aβ Clearance of monocytes and AD Biomarkers in Cognitively Normal Individuals

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-08 Biomarkers

    Impaired peripheral clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ) contributes to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  29. Health-related factors and their impact on blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Aging brain 2026-09-03 Biomarkers

    The study included CSF-characterized individuals with AD (mild cognitive impairment due to AD and AD dementia) and cognitively healthy controls (n = 116; mean age 71.2 years).

  30. Brain-derived plasma p-tau217 shows enhanced dynamic range for Alzheimer's disease neuropathological change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-09 Biomarkers

    All markers tracked neuropathological severity, with BD p-tau217 having larger fold-changes than p-tau217 but BD p-tau217/Aβ42 enhancing this further.

  31. Does CSF testing add value after an indeterminate plasma p-tau217 result?

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-01 Biomarkers

    These data are compatible with, but do not establish, equivalence between plasma p-tau217 and CSF biomarkers.

  32. Cerebrospinal fluid YWHAG:NPTX2 ratio predicts clinical severity and future phenoconversion in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-31 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a common cause of early-onset dementias marked by progressive declines in behavior, cognition, and/or movement.

  33. Clinical expression beyond measured Alzheimer disease molecular pathology: a discovery and external evaluation study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-31 Brain scans and imaging

    A prespecified structure–reserve–glial profile captured reproducible cognitive variation beyond measured Alzheimer disease molecular pathology across two cohorts.

  34. A Proof-of-Concept Graphene-Functionalised Embroidered Textile Biosensing Platform for Salivary Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker Detection

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-27 Drug development

    Electrochemical biosensors offer a promising route for the rapid, non-invasive detection of disease biomarkers by converting biochemical interactions into measurable electrical signals.

  35. CSF complement proteins are associated with early tau pathology and synaptic damage in an asymptomatic population at risk of Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Complement-mediated neuroinflammation has been implicated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but its role during the pre-symptomatic phase of the disease remains unclear.

  36. Amyloid and Tau Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Normalization in a Patient with Alzheimer’s Disease treated with Lecanemab: A Case Report

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-25 Treatments

    CSF Aβ42 rose from 526.0 to 1053.0 pg/mL (+ 100.2%), total tau (t-tau) fell from 578.2 to 278.0 pg/mL(-51.9%), and phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau181) fell from 90.8 to 23.1 pg/mL(-74.6%).

  37. Clinically Relevant Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease Are Associated with Age and Cortical Atrophy in Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-18 Biomarkers

    Chimpanzees share a number of age-related brain changes with humans, such as reductions in neurons and increases in neuropathology.

  38. Plasma Biomarker Profiles in a Colombian Cohort of Heterozygous APOE3-Christchurch Carriers

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-18 Biomarkers

    APOE3 Ch -associated resilience is measurably reflected in plasma biomarker trajectories, indicating attenuation of both neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative processes.

  39. Diagnostic Concordance Between Plasma p-Tau217 and Amyloid-β Biomarkers in Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence From a Chinese Cohort

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-11 Biomarkers

    Concordance between p-tau217 and Aβ was high in the AD and MCI groups (observed agreement 90.0% in each), but overall agreement across Cohort II was modest (166/351, 47.3%; Cohen's κ = 0.117, 95% CI 0.029–0.204).

  40. A New Frontier in CWD Detection: Antemortem Plasma Biomarkers and Behavioral Profiling in Transgenic Mouse Models

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-10 Biomarkers

    Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that is confined to cervids (deer, moose, elk, and reindeer) but shares key properties with human neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s disease and frontal-temporal dementia.

  41. Association of age with clinical progression across plasma p-tau217 levels

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-08-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    STRUCTURED ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Chronological age and plasma p⍰tau217 each predicts cognitive decline, but whether their prognostic associations interact is unclear.

  42. Social isolation, loneliness, and blood-based AD/ADRD biomarkers in a nationally-representative study of middle-aged and older adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-08-10 Biomarkers

    Social isolation was associated with elevated blood-based biomarkers of neuronal injury, with variation by patterns of exposure over time.

  43. Multivariate blood biomarkers capture resilience and resistance phenotypes across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-08-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer’s disease pathology and cognitive outcomes frequently diverge, yet current single-axis definitions cannot identify resilient (high pathology, preserved cognition) and resistant (high risk, low pathology) subgroups reliably at scale, obscuring the mechanisms that uncouple pathological burden from cognitive decline.

  44. Heterogeneity in plasma p-tau217 response and its association with cognitive trajectories under lecanemab treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-08 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau217 levels decreased significantly from 3 months, with the greatest decline between 3 and 6 months, followed by a plateau.

  45. Optimized plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 cutoffs enhance detection of pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease across diverse participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-08 Biomarkers

    Among 191 participants (57 Black, 46 Hispanic White, 88 non-Hispanic White), age-adjusted plasma p-tau217 and p-tau217/Aβ42 performed similarly in detecting amyloid-positive individuals (≥ 25 Centiloids), regardless of race/ethnicity.

  46. Plasma p-tau217 detects Alzheimer's disease co-pathology in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: Comparison to CSF biomarkers in the ANGMAR cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-08 Brain tissue and pathology

    Among CAA participants, 29 met CSF criteria for AD co-pathology.

  47. Association of total and brain-derived Alzheimer’s disease plasma biomarkers with brain amyloid deposition in a community-based sample

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-31 Biomarkers

    Bidirectional stepwise linear regression analysis was performed to identify plasma biomarkers associated with brain Aβ deposition.

  48. Functional assessment improves discrimination of clinical and biomarker-defined Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-31 Disparities

    In a contemporary, diverse cohort, most established dementia risk algorithms had limited power in discriminating amyloid positivity, pTau-217 positivity, and current cognitive status despite acceptable calibration.

  49. Biomarker-Informed Interpretation of Dyadic Cognitive Function Index Scores in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid regional extent and tau PET were associated with different features of dyadic CFI data: reporter balance and CFI burden across reporters, respectively.

  50. Serum brain-derived p-tau 217 and SV2A Reduce Peripheral Interference in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Multicohort Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-30 Getting a diagnosis

    Our findings suggest that serum brain-derived p-tau 217 and SV2A are more specific diagnostic biomarkers for reflecting brain damage and may not be disturbed by peripheral damage for AD patients.

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