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  1. Visual interpretation of [18F]Florbetaben PET supported by deep learning-based estimation of amyloid burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-09-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Inter-reader agreements for the visual reading based on a 3-point scale (BAPL score) calculated by Fleiss kappa coefficients were 0.46 and 0.76 for the visual reading without and with the deep learning system, respectively.

  2. The relationships between neuroinflammation, beta-amyloid and tau deposition in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal PET study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2020-05-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Our baseline and 2-year imaging findings are compatible with a biphasic trajectory of inflammation in Alzheimer's disease: MCI cases with low baseline but subsequently rising β-amyloid load show correlated levels of microglial activation which then later decline when the β-amyloid load approaches AD levels.

  3. Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarker trajectories with increasing amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. EMBO molecular medicine 2019-11-11 Biomarkers

    Failures in Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug trials highlight the need to further explore disease mechanisms and alterations of biomarkers during the development of AD.

  4. Multiplex proteomics identifies novel CSF and plasma biomarkers of early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2019-11-06 Genetics

    To date, the development of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has largely focused on the removal of amyloid beta Aβ fragments from the CNS.

  5. Persistent and Progressive Outer Retina Thinning in Frontotemporal Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2019-04-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Compared to controls, returning FTD patients (143 vs. 130 μm, p = 0.005) and the tauopathy subgroup (143 vs. 128 μm, p = 0.03) had thinner outer retinas but similar inner layer thicknesses.

  6. The glymphatic pathway in neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-11-01 Risk factors

    Furthermore, PET studies have revealed that Aβ accumulates in the healthy brain after a single night of sleep deprivation, suggesting that the human glymphatic pathway might also be primarily active during sleep.

  7. Secondary prevention of Alzheimer's dementia: neuroimaging contributions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-10-30 Treatments

    MRI can also be used to assess comorbid vascular pathology and define homogeneous groups for inclusion or for subject stratification.

  8. Brain Imaging of Alzheimer Dementia Patients and Elderly Controls with 18F-MK-6240, a PET Tracer Targeting Neurofibrillary Tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2018-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    18F-MK-6240 (18F-labeled 6-(fluoro)-3-(1H-pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridin-1-yl)isoquinolin-5-amine) is a highly selective, subnanomolar-affinity PET tracer for imaging neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs).

  9. Longitudinal tau PET in ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    At a group-wise level, observable rates of short-term serial tau accumulation were only seen in the presence of abnormal amyloid.

  10. Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers and Future Decline in Cognitive Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2017-10-13 Biomarkers

    14% participants increased their global Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) score from 0 to 0.5 during follow-up.

  11. Differential role of CSF fatty acid binding protein 3, α-synuclein, and Alzheimer's disease core biomarkers in Lewy body disorders and Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-07-28 Biomarkers

    The combination of CSF biomarkers linked to different aspects of neurodegeneration, such as FABP3, α-syn, and AD biomarkers, improves the biochemical characterization of AD and Lewy body disorders.

  12. A Review of Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Moving from CSF to Blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2017-07-21 Biomarkers

    A set of core cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes total tau (T-tau), phosphorylated tau (P-tau) and β-amyloid 42 (Aβ42).

  13. Elevated plasma ferritin in elderly individuals with high neocortical amyloid-β load

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2017-07-11 Biomarkers

    Ferritin, an iron storage and regulation protein, has been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, it has not been investigated in preclinical AD, detected by neocortical amyloid-β load (NAL), before cognitive impairment.

  14. Chemically treated plasma Aβ is a potential blood-based biomarker for screening cerebral amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-03-22 Biomarkers

    MPP-Aβ might be one of the potential blood biomarkers for the prediction of PiB-PET positivity in the brain.

  15. Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ42/40 Corresponds Better than Aβ42 to Amyloid PET in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Biomarkers

    The CSF Aβ42/40 ratio is superior to Aβ42 alone as a marker of amyloid-positivity by PET.

  16. Nonvascular retinal imaging markers of preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2016-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The surface area of inclusion bodies increased as a function of cortical amyloid burden.

  17. An MRI rating scale for amyloid-related imaging abnormalities with edema or effusion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2013-02-22 Treatments

    The proposed rating scale provides a reliable and easily implemented instrument to grade ARIA-E imaging findings.

  18. Detection of elevated levels of α-synuclein oligomers in CSF from patients with Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2010-10-20 Brain tissue and pathology

    The levels of α-synuclein oligomers and oligomers/total-α-synuclein ratio in CSF were higher in the PD group (n = 32; p < 0.0001, Mann-Whitney U test) compared to the control group (n = 28).

  19. Effectiveness, safety, and biomarker dynamics of lecanemab in Chinese Alzheimer's disease population: a multicenter real-world study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-03 Biomarkers

    Lecanemab significantly attenuated cognitive decline versus ADNI.

  20. Discovering the Italian phenotype of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA): the SENECA project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2020-03-12 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is one of the major types of cerebral small vessel disease, and a leading cause of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage and cognitive decline in elderly patients.

  21. Development of a Biochemical Diagnosis of Parkinson Disease by Detection of α-Synuclein Misfolded Aggregates in Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    The findings suggest that detection of αSyn oligomers by αSyn-PMCA in the CSF of patients affected by PD may offer a good opportunity for a sensitive and specific biochemical diagnosis of the disease.

  22. 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).

  23. Serial amyloid PET demonstrates marked reduction in amyloid burden following donanemab treatment: a real-world cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Japanese journal of radiology 2026-07-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Centiloid values significantly decreased from 52.3 ± 23.4 at baseline to - 5.6 ± 16.5 at follow-up, with a mean change of - 58.0 (p < 0.001).

  24. Association of plasma biomarkers with amyloid and tau PET in pre-dementia stages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-05 Biomarkers

    Comparing those having MCI, both CU and SCD participants had significantly lower amyloid PET standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) (p < 0.001; p = 0.005).

  25. Reduced Plasma Aβ Peptides but Stable NfL and GFAP in Major Depressive Disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2026-02-02 Biomarkers

    Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease (AD), prompting interest in peripheral biomarkers related to amyloid metabolism as well as neuroaxonal and astroglial injury.

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