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  1. Development of software for measuring brain amyloid accumulation using 18 F-florbetapir PET and calculating global Centiloid scale and regional Z-score values

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2023-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The CL calculation was validated with the 18 F-florbetapir dataset in the GAAIN repository.

  2. Optical coherence tomography angiography in neuro-ophthalmology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current opinion in ophthalmology 2023-04-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel, noninvasive imaging technique, which provides depth resolved visualization of microvasculature of the retina and choroid.

  3. Retinal imaging in animal models: Searching for biomarkers of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in ophthalmology 2023-04-06 Brain scans and imaging

    There is a pressing need for novel diagnostic and progression biomarkers of neurodegeneration.

  4. Protein fibril length in cerebrospinal fluid is increased in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Communications biology 2023-03-08 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) associated proteins exist in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  5. The Eye as a Diagnostic Tool for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder impacting cognition, function, and behavior in the elderly population.

  6. Acceptability and feasibility of plasma phosphorylated-tau181 in two memory services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2023-03 Biomarkers

    Twenty-nine participants' plasma p-tau181 samples were included (mean age 74 SD 8.5, 65% female).

  7. Integration of amyloid-β oligomerization tendency as a plasma biomarker in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-01-17 Biomarkers

    A systematic interpretation strategy could support accurate diagnosis and staging of AD.

  8. Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease with Blood Test; Tempting but Challenging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular and cellular medicine 2023 Biomarkers

    The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has led to a health crisis.

  9. Hybrid PET/MRI with Flutemetamol and FDG in Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    High Aβ deposition (increased temporal [18F]-Flutemetamol standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr) and centiloid score), low glucose metabolism (decreased temporal lobe and posterior cingulate [18F]-FDG SUVr), low parietal CBF and right hemispheric cortical thickness were independent predictors of low cognitive test performance.

  10. Automatic lesion detection and segmentation in 18F-flutemetamol positron emission tomography images using deep learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedical engineering online 2022-12-20 Brain scans and imaging

    The following intersection over union values were obtained for the various slices in the verification dataset: frontal lobe axial/sagittal: 0.733/0.804; posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus coronal/sagittal: 0.661/0.726; lateral temporal lobe axial/coronal: 0.864/0.892; parietal lobe axial/coronal: 0.542/0.759; and striatum axial/sagittal: 0.679/0.752.

  11. Recent diagnostic techniques for the detection of Alzheimer's disease: a short review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Irish journal of medical science 2022-12-16 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurological condition that affects millions of individuals around the world and for which there are few effective therapies.

  12. Causal association between systemic lupus erythematosus and the risk of dementia: A Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2022-12-08 Genetics

    No significant causal association was found between SLE and any type of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies.

  13. β-Synuclein as a candidate blood biomarker for synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-11-30 Biomarkers

    Synaptic degeneration is an early event closely associated with the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in iNPH: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-11-28 Tau biomarkers

    Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a neurological syndrome characterized by the clinical triad of gait disorder, cognitive impairment and urinary incontinence.

  15. Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy: LATE-Breaking Updates in Clinicopathologic Features and Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2022-10-03 Brain tissue and pathology

    Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) is a recently defined neurodegenerative disease characterized by amnestic phenotype and pathological inclusions of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43).

  16. A literature review of hypertensive retinopathy: systemic correlations and new technologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European review for medical and pharmacological sciences 2022-09 Brain scans and imaging

    HR signs have a significative association with cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and other systemic diseases.

  17. Stage-independent biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease from the living retina: an animal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-08-11 Brain scans and imaging

    The early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders is still an open issue despite the many efforts to address this problem.

  18. Clinical course and serum amyloid β levels in elderly patients with major depressive disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2022-08-03 Biomarkers

    The analysis revealed decreased Aβ42 levels and increased Aβ42/40 ratios in elderly patients with depression at admission compared with healthy subjects.

  19. The relationship between plasma biomarkers and amyloid PET in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2022-07-19 Biomarkers

    All four plasma markers significantly correlated with 18F-florbetapir SUVR (|β| = 0.40-0.49; p < .05).

  20. Staging of Alzheimer's disease: past, present, and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2022-06-15 Tau biomarkers

    For many years Alzheimer's disease (AD) was associated with the dementia stage of the disease, the tail end of a pathophysiological process that lasts approximately two decades.

  21. Evidence of beta amyloid independent small vessel disease in familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2022-06-13 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We studied small vessel disease (SVD) pathology in Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) subjects carrying the presenilin 1 (PSEN1) p.Glu280Ala mutation in comparison to those with sporadic Alzheimer's disease (SAD) as a positive control for Alzheimer's pathology and Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) bearing different NOTCH3 mutations, as positive controls for SVD pathology.

  22. An immuno-enrichment free, validated quantification of tau protein in human CSF by LC-MS/MS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2022-06-02 Drug development

    Tau protein is a key target of interest in developing therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.

  23. Neuropathology of Dementia Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2022-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    This article provides an overview of the neuropathology of common age-related dementing disorders, focusing on the pathologies that underlie Alzheimer disease (AD) and related dementias, including Lewy body dementias, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, limbic-predominant age-related transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) encephalopathy (LATE), and mixed-etiology dementias.

  24. α-synuclein as an emerging pathophysiological biomarker of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Expert review of molecular diagnostics 2022-05-06 Brain tissue and pathology

    α-syn aggregates represent the pathological hallmark of synucleinopathies as well as a frequent copathology (almost 1/3 of cases) in AD.

  25. Multimer Detection System-Oligomerized Amyloid Beta (MDS-OAβ): A Plasma-Based Biomarker Differentiates Alzheimer's Disease from Other Etiologies of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of Alzheimer's disease 2022-05-02 Biomarkers

    With emerging amyloid therapies, documentation of the patient's amyloid status to confirm the etiology of a clinical diagnosis is warranted prior to instituting amyloid-based therapy.

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