Get help now — free helplines

You can call any of these for free. You do not need a diagnosis, an appointment, or a crisis to call — questions and plain exhaustion are reasons enough.

  • Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Free, confidential support and information for people with dementia, caregivers, families and the public. Master's-level clinicians. Also Spanish.
  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 988 24/7 Call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. For anyone in emotional distress or a mental-health crisis, including caregivers.
  • Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) Helpline 866-232-8484 9:00 am - 9:00 pm ET, seven days a week Licensed social workers providing support, info and referrals. Also text message and web chat. Text: 646-586-5283

In a medical emergency, call 911. More numbers, and what each line does, on the help page.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Plasma neurofilament light protein correlates with diffusion tensor imaging metrics in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2020-10-27 Biomarkers

    Neurofilaments are structural components of neurons and are particularly abundant in highly myelinated axons.

  2. Longitudinal flortaucipir ([18F]AV-1451) PET uptake in semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-04-18 Brain scans and imaging

    To assess volume loss and flortaucipir uptake in patients with semantic dementia (SD) over time.

  3. Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-01-17 Brain scans and imaging

    In Alzheimer's diseases (AD), tau pathology is strongly associated with cognitive decline.

  4. Clinical validation of the Lumipulse G cerebrospinal fluid assays for routine diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-11-23 Biomarkers

    The Lumipulse G assays show a very good analytical performance that makes them well-suited for CSF clinical routine measurements.

  5. Plasma neurofilament light associates with Alzheimer's disease metabolic decline in amyloid-positive individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-09-27 Biomarkers

    These findings indicate that plasma NfL is a proxy for neurodegeneration in AD-related regions in Aβ+ subjects.

  6. Non-invasive in vivo hyperspectral imaging of the retina for potential biomarker use in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature communications 2019-09-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Studies of rodent models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and of human tissues suggest that the retinal changes that occur in AD, including the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ), may serve as surrogate markers of brain Aβ levels.

  7. Neurofilament light chain plasma concentration predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in nondemented elderly adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Aging 2019-09-12 Biomarkers

    Previous studies demonstrated that plasma neurofilament light chain (NFL) played important predictive roles in disease progression and neurodegeneration in the preclinical phase of familial Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Added value of amyloid PET in individualized risk predictions for MCI patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-07-29 Brain scans and imaging

    The combined model (Harrell's C = 0.82 [0.78-0.86]) was significantly superior to demographics (β = 0.100, P < .001), magnetic resonance imaging (β = 0.037, P = .011), and PET only models (β = 0.053, P = .003).The models can be used to calculate individualized risk, for example, a female MCI patient (age = 60, APOE ε4 positive, Mini-Mental State Examination = 25, hippocampal volume = 5.8 cm3, amyloid PET positive) has 35% (19-57) risk in one year and 85% (64-97) risk in three years.

  9. Plasma and CSF neurofilament light: Relation to longitudinal neuroimaging and cognitive measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2019-06-10 Biomarkers

    Elevated baseline plasma NfL is a prognostic marker of cognitive decline and neuroimaging measures of neurodegeneration, and has similar effect sizes to baseline CSF NfL.

  10. Amyloid PET and cognitive decline in cognitively normal individuals: the SCIENCe project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    We examined the relationships between amyloid-β PET and concurrent and longitudinal cognitive performance in 107 cognitively normal individuals with subjective cognitive decline (age: 64 ± 8 years, 44% female, Mini-Mental State Examination score 29 ± 1).

  11. Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Tau as a Biomarker for Brain Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2019 Tau biomarkers

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and phosphorylated tau (ptau) are definite biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  12. Longitudinal cognitive and biomarker changes in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2018-09-14 Biomarkers

    These longitudinal estimates clarify the sequence and temporal dynamics of presymptomatic pathologic changes in autosomal dominant AD, information critical to a better understanding of the disease.

  13. Biomarkers of dementia in obstructive sleep apnea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Sleep medicine reviews 2018-08-13 Risk factors

    Epidemiologic and mechanistic evidence is increasingly supporting the notion that obstructive sleep apnea is a risk factor for dementia.

  14. Plasma Biomarkers Differentiate Parkinson’s Disease From Atypical Parkinsonism Syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2018-04-27 Biomarkers

    Plasma a-synuclein level was significantly increased in patients with PD and APS when compared with controls and FTD without parkinsonism (p<0.01).

  15. Plasma amyloid β 42/40 ratios as biomarkers for amyloid β cerebral deposition in cognitively normal individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017-09-12 Biomarkers

    These findings support the use of plasma Aβ42/40 ratios as surrogate biomarkers of cortical Aβ deposition and enrichment tools, reducing the number of subjects submitted to invasive tests and, consequently, recruitment costs in clinical trials targeting cognitively normal individuals.

  16. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker examination as a tool to discriminate behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia from primary psychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017-03-02 Tau biomarkers

    The best discriminators between probable/definite bvFTD and PSY were the levels of CSF NfL (area under the curve [AUC] 0.93, P < .001, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.85-1.00), p-tau/tau ratio (AUC 0.87, P < .001, 95% CI 0.77-0.97), and YKL40 (AUC 0.82, P = .001, 95% CI 0.68-0.97).

  17. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Cognitive Decline in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. International review of neurobiology 2017-02-08 Tau biomarkers

    Among the nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD), cognitive impairment is one of the most common and devastating.

  18. AV-1451 tau and β-amyloid positron emission tomography imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-12-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Medial temporal lobe AV-1451 uptake distinguishes AD dementia from probable DLB, which may be useful for differential diagnosis.

  19. Cross-sectional comparison of small animal [18F]-florbetaben amyloid-PET between transgenic AD mouse models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2015-02-23 Brain scans and imaging

    We aimed to compare [18F]-florbetaben PET imaging in four transgenic mouse strains modelling Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the main focus on APPswe/PS2 mice and C57Bl/6 mice serving as controls (WT).

  20. Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood-based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-10-01 Biomarkers

    The lack of readily available biomarkers is a significant hindrance toward progressing to effective therapeutic and preventative strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Insulin resistance predicts brain amyloid deposition in late middle-aged adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-07-17 Brain scans and imaging

    This is the first human study to demonstrate that insulin resistance may contribute to amyloid deposition in brain regions affected by AD.

  22. Identification of longitudinally dynamic biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid by targeted proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-06-06 Biomarkers

    Using a targeted proteomics approach, we confirmed previous findings for a subset of markers, defined longitudinal performance of our panel of markers, and established a flexible proteomics method for robust multiplexed analyses.

  23. Amyloid imaging in cognitively normal individuals, at-risk populations and preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-03-05 Treatments

    Recent developments of PET amyloid ligands have made it possible to visualize the presence of Aβ deposition in the brain of living participants and to assess the consequences especially in individuals with no objective sign of cognitive deficits.

  24. Clinical amyloid imaging in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2011-07-01 Treatments

    The hypothesis that amyloid deposition is the leading cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is supported by findings in transgenic animal models and forms the basis of clinical trials of anti-amyloid agents.

  25. Amyloid imaging in mild cognitive impairment subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2009-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Using cutoffs established from a control cohort, we found that 14 (54%) patients had increased levels of PiB retention and were considered "amyloid-positive."

From across this topic

10 of the 1,573 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.

Other topics