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  1. Early detection of amyloid load using 18F-florbetaben PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-27 Brain scans and imaging

    SUVR using the whole cerebellum as the reference region and centiloid (CL) cutoffs for early and established amyloid pathology were 1.10 (13.5 CL) and 1.24 (35.7 CL), respectively.

  2. Matching Clinical Diagnosis and Amyloid Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2021-01-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid-PET presented higher diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, and NPV than CSF Aβ1-42 but not Aβ42/40 ratio.

  3. Flortaucipir (tau) PET in LGI1 antibody encephalitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2021-01-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The contributors to persistent cognitive impairment and hippocampal atrophy in leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 antibody encephalitis (LGI1) patients are unknown.

  4. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Levels as Markers for Nursing Home Placement and Survival Time in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2021 Tau biomarkers

    After 20 years of follow-up, 123 patients (95%) were deceased.

  5. Combination of plasma amyloid beta (1-42/1-40) and glial fibrillary acidic protein strongly associates with cerebral amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-09-28 Biomarkers

    Abeta (1-42/1-40) and GFAP independently associated with amyloid PET status (p = 0.009 and p < 0.001 respectively), and GFAP and NfL independently associated with syndrome diagnosis (p = 0.001 and p = 0.048 respectively).

  6. The Impact of Amyloid-Beta Positivity with 18F-Florbetaben PET on Neuropsychological Aspects in Parkinson's Disease Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Metabolites 2020-09-23 Brain scans and imaging

    The neuropathology of Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) is heterogenous, and the impacts of each pathophysiology and their synergistic effects are not fully understood.

  7. Multimodal in vivo and postmortem assessments of tau in Lewy body disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2020-08-21 Brain scans and imaging

    We compared regional retention of 18F-flortaucipir between 20 patients with Lewy body disorders (LBD), 12 Alzheimer's disease patients with positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scans (AD+Aβ) and 15 healthy controls with negative amyloid PET scans (HC-Aβ).

  8. Proteome profiling in cerebrospinal fluid reveals novel biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Molecular systems biology 2020-06-01 Genetics

    Neurodegenerative diseases are a growing burden, and there is an urgent need for better biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment efficacy.

  9. CSF angiogenin levels in amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis-Frontotemporal dementia spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration 2019-12-18 Tau biomarkers

    ANG levels didn't differ significantly between cases and controls.

  10. Agreement of amyloid PET and CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease on Lumipulse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2019-08-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Aβ1-42, tTau and pTau (but not Aβ1-40) and the ratios with Aβ1-42 had good diagnostic agreement with 18 F-Florbetapir PET.

  11. Blood NfL: A biomarker for disease severity and progression in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2019-08-16 Biomarkers

    Plasma NfL levels correlated with disease severity and progression in terms of both motor and cognitive functions in PD.

  12. Plasma tau complements CSF tau and P-tau in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-06-28 Tau biomarkers

    Plasma tau was higher in patients with AD than cognitively normal controls (P < .001, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.79) similarly to CSF tau and CSF P-tau and was negatively correlated with cognition in AD.

  13. Is retinal vasculature a biomarker in amyloid proven Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-05-10 Brain scans and imaging

    We found no disease effects on retinal vascular measures (all β's < |0.15|, all P > .2), adjusted for confounders.

  14. Tau Positron-Emission Tomography in Former National Football League Players

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2019-04-10 Biomarkers

    A group of living former NFL players with cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms had higher tau levels measured by PET than controls in brain regions that are affected by CTE and did not have elevated amyloid-beta levels.

  15. Associations between baseline amyloid, sex, and APOE on subsequent tau accumulation in cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-03-07 Tau biomarkers

    We investigated the effect of baseline Aβ, sex, and APOE on longitudinal tau accumulation in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in clinically normal older adults.

  16. Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Related Disorders: Clinical Significance and Metabolic Correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    NFL discriminated patients from controls with an area under the curve of 0.914 (95% CI, 0.843-0.984; p < 0.001) (cut-off: 76.46 pg/mL; 94% sensitivity, 76.9% specificity).

  17. Use of amyloid PET/CT with 18F-Florbetaben in the management of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty-five/38 (65.8%) amyloid PET/CT scans resulted positive for amyloid deposition.

  18. Learnings about the complexity of extracellular tau aid development of a blood-based screen for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-11-09 Biomarkers

    The forms of tau in CSF and plasma are distinct, but in each specimen type, the levels of certain fragments are increased in AD.

  19. Abnormal CSF amyloid-β42 and tau levels in hip fracture patients without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PloS one 2018-09-25 Biomarkers

    Among the hip fracture patients, 88.6% of the cognitively normal (Clinical Dementia Rating-CDR 0; n = 70) and 98.8% with mild cognitive impairment (CDR 0.5; n = 81) fell in the abnormal biomarker categories by the A/T/N classification.

  20. Blood-brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease using MR-guided focused ultrasound

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature communications 2018-07-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound in combination with intravenously injected microbubbles has been shown to transiently open the blood-brain barrier, and reduce beta-amyloid and tau pathology in animal models of Alzheimer's disease.

  21. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers measured by Elecsys assays compared to amyloid imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-03-02 Biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers and amyloid positron emission tomography reflect different aspects of Alzheimer's disease brain pathology, and therefore, less-than-perfect correspondence is expected.

  22. Tract-specific white matter hyperintensities disrupt neural network function in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-07-16 Brain scans and imaging

    WMH volume within the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) was the highest among all tract ROIs and associated with reduced FC in IFOF-connected DMN areas, independently of global AV-45 PET.

  23. Discriminative and prognostic potential of cerebrospinal fluid phosphoTau/tau ratio and neurofilaments for frontotemporal dementia subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-12-14 Biomarkers

    CSF p/t-tau ratio and NfL levels are strongly driven by ALS status.

  24. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2 PET Core: 2015

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The PET Core has demonstrated a variety of methods for the standardization of biomarkers such as florbetapir PET in a multicenter setting.

  25. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities-haemosiderin (ARIA-H) in patients with Alzheimer's disease treated with bapineuzumab: a historical, prospective secondary analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2015-02-10 Treatments

    ARIA-H represents a spectrum of MRI findings due to haemosiderin deposition that appears to be related to impaired vascular integrity.

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