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  1. Validation of amyloid PET positivity thresholds in centiloids: a multisite PET study approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-10 Brain scans and imaging

    The FBB threshold based on the young sample (1.08; 18 CL) was consistent with that of the data-driven approach (1.10; 21 CL), and the existing FBP threshold converted to CL with the derived transformation (1.11; 20 CL).

  2. Prospective longitudinal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease correlates with the intensity and topography of baseline tau-PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2020-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    β-Amyloid plaques and tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles are the two neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are thought to play crucial roles in a neurodegenerative cascade leading to dementia.

  3. Association between increased levels of amyloid-β oligomers in plasma and episodic memory loss in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-10-25 Biomarkers

    The elevated levels of OAβ in the plasma distinguished the AD and control groups and were associated with the severity of symptoms, especially memory performance, in patients with AD.

  4. Subthreshold Amyloid Predicts Tau Deposition in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018-04-23 Treatments

    Current approaches to the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) rely upon classifying individuals as "positive" or "negative" for biomarkers related to the core pathology of β-amyloid (Aβ).

  5. Neurofilament light as a blood biomarker for neurodegeneration in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-04-10 Biomarkers

    NF-L is a biomarker for neurodegeneration in DS with potential for use in future clinical trials to prevent or delay dementia.

  6. Entorhinal Tau Pathology, Episodic Memory Decline, and Neurodegeneration in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-11-30 Brain scans and imaging

    The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is an early site of tau accumulation and MTL dysfunction may underlie episodic-memory decline in aging and dementia.

  7. Reference Tissue-Based Kinetic Evaluation of 18F-AV-1451 for Tau Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2016-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The goal of this paper was to evaluate the in vivo kinetics of the novel tau-specific PET radioligand 18 F-AV-1451 in cognitively healthy control (HC) and Alzheimer disease (AD) subjects, using reference region analyses.

  8. 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.

  9. Association of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light chain with retinal cell layer thickness: A cross-sectional study of ophthalmic surgical patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2026-05-30 Biomarkers

    BackgroundRetinal thickness has been associated with neurocognitive conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).ObjectiveRetinal cell layer thickness was evaluated for associations with neurodegenerative protein biomarkers glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and neurofilament light chain (NfL) in plasma, vitreous humor, and aqueous humor.

  10. Multimorbidity and Associations with Cognition and Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2026-05-04 Biomarkers

    Greater multimorbidity burden was associated with worse cognition and biomarkers of AD (PET amyloid standardized uptake value ratios and positivity, p-tau181, and p-tau217), neurodegeneration (neurofilament light, total tau, cortical thickness, and hippocampal volume), and SVD (white matter hyperintensity volume and presence of lacune and cerebral microbleeds).

  11. Real-world experience with baseline characteristics and safety of lecanemab for Alzheimer's disease in Eastern China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-12-15 Treatments

    BackgroundLecanemab reduces amyloid levels and modestly slows cognitive decline in a large cohort of early Alzheimer's disease (AD) but lacks real-world safety data in Chinese population.

  12. Plasma biomarkers have emerged as promising less invasive alternatives for Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection.

  13. Combined use of plasma p-tau217, NfL, and GFAP predicts domain-specific cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired and MCI individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-12 Biomarkers

    Among all participants, high p-tau217 alone [p-tau217(+)NfL(-)GFAP(-)] was associated with a steeper decline in episodic/semantic memory and processing speed compared to the all-low group (p ≤ 0.02).

  14. Performance of blood biomarkers in internal jugular vein for Alzheimer's disease pathologies: the Delta Method study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Science bulletin 2025-10-30 Biomarkers

    Systemic factors confound blood tests for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Combining plasma neurofilament light chain and frontotemporal atrophy improves differentiation of bvFTD from primary psychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    Both atrophy (AUC = 0.87, 95% confidence interval [95% CI: 0.79 to 0.94]) and NfL (AUC = 0.89, 95% CI: 0.81 to 0.96) showed significant predictive ability, which improved when combined (AUC = 0.93, 95% CI: 0.87 to 0.99).

  16. Predicting cognitive decline with amyloid-PET, plasma p-tau217, Aβ42/40, and p-tau217/Aβ42 in a community-based cohort - relevance for clinical trial enrollment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Biomarkers

    In the CU, using combined plasma Aβ42/40 and p-tau217 cut-offs for eligibility yielded the lowest sample size estimates for a comprehensive multidomain cognitive composite score, whereas sample sizes were higher for all other inclusion criteria based on single biomarkers.

  17. Hearing loss, plasma neurodegenerative biomarkers, and cognitive function: Independent and additive effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-09-17 Biomarkers

    BackgroundHearing loss is one of the most prominent modifiable risk factors for dementia, accounting for one of the largest population-attributable risk among midlife exposures according to the Lancet Commission on Dementia.

  18. Association of plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarkers with cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-09 Biomarkers

    The study included 381 MCSA and 584 BioFINDER-2 participants.

  19. Plasma neurofilament light reflects more severe manifestation of Alzheimer's disease in men

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2025-08-12 Biomarkers

    Plasma neurofilament light (NfL) protein is a promising non-invasive biomarker for detecting neuronal damage in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. Genome-wide association of tau neuroimaging and plasma biomarkers in adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-07 Genetics

    Three genome-wide significant associations were identified for p-tau181: TUBAP/rs76523946, P = 2.21E-08; CTNND2/rs142510573, P = 3.04E-08; CLSTN2/rs112448655, P = 3.04E-08, and one for t-tau (JHY/rs77264104, P = 2.84E-08).

  21. Analytical and clinical performance of eight Simoa® and Lumipulse® assays for automated measurement of plasma p-tau181 and p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-12-19 Biomarkers

    We found a strong, positive correlation between all the measurements.

  22. Plasma neurofilament light outperforms glial fibrillary acidic protein in differentiating behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from primary psychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2024-11-08 Biomarkers

    Plasma GFAP levels were significantly (all p < 0.001) elevated in bvFTD (n = 22, mean (M) = 273 pg/mL) compared to BPAD (n = 121, M = 96 pg/mL), MDD (n = 42, M = 105 pg/mL), TRS (n = 82, M = 67.9 pg/mL), and HC (n = 120, M = 76.8 pg/mL).

  23. Detection and staging of Alzheimer's disease by plasma pTau217 on a high throughput immunoassay platform

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2024-10-21 Biomarkers

    Plasma pTau217 had a high correlation with both Aβ Centiloid (r = 0.76) and tau SUVR meta-temporal (r = 0.78).

  24. Plasma p-tau217 concordance with amyloid PET among ethnically diverse older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-07-17 Biomarkers

    A total of 239 participants underwent blood draw and Aβ-PET (age 70.8 ± 7.8, 55.2% female, education 15.6 ± 3.4 years, 48.9% Hispanic/Latino, 94.9% white).

  25. Neuron-level explainable AI for Alzheimer's Disease assessment from fundus images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Scientific reports 2024-04-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and the leading cause of dementia.

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