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  1. Open Peer Commentary to “Failure to demonstrate efficacy of aducanumab: An analysis of the EMERGE and ENGAGE Trials as reported by Biogen December 2019”

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2020-11-01 Treatments

    The results of the aducanumab studies have not been published in peer-reviewed form and both the analysis presented by Dr Knopman and collaborators and this perspective are based on data presented in 2019 at the Clinical Trials in AD (CTAD) meeting3; both discussions must be seen as tentative until full data are available.

  2. Tau PET imaging with 18F-PI-2620 in aging and neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2020-06-23 Brain scans and imaging

    SUVRs in target regions were relatively stable 60 to 90 min post-injection, with the exception of very high binders who continued to show increases over time.

  3. Aβ deposition is associated with increases in soluble and phosphorylated tau that precede a positive Tau PET in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science advances 2020-04-15 Biomarkers

    The links between β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau in Alzheimer's disease are unclear.

  4. Biomarker potential of brain-secreted extracellular vesicles in blood in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-03-05 Biomarkers

    Blood-isolated BEVs have emerged as a novel player in the study of AD, with enormous potential as a diagnostic, evaluation of therapeutics, and treatment tool.

  5. Plasma biomarkers of astrocytic and neuronal dysfunction in early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-16 Biomarkers

    Principle component analyses identified 3 factors: trophic (BDNF, VEGF, TGFβ), degenerative (GFAP, NfL), and inflammatory (TNFα, IL-6, IP-10, IL-10).

  6. Levels of Retinal Amyloid-β Correlate with Levels of Retinal IAPP and Hippocampal Amyloid-β in Neuropathologically Evaluated Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Biomarkers

    These results show that different isoforms of Aβ can be detected in the human retina and moreover support the growing number of studies indicating that AD-related pathological changes occurring in the brain could be reflected in the retina.

  7. A Review on MS-Based Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2019-12-12 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of neurodegenerative dementia and there is no cure to date.

  8. Optical Coherence Tomography Findings in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Disease -Retinal Changes in Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Noro psikiyatri arsivi 2019-08-26 Brain scans and imaging

    OCT measurements did show significant decrease in temporal, nasal, inferiorR (R means examination of retina in two sections as superior and inferior instead of four quadrants) RNFL thickness and foveal, parafoveal, macular thickness of AD group compared to control group.

  9. Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Currently, over five million Americans suffer with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease utilizing amyloid and tau as fluid biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Experimental & molecular medicine 2019-05-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Current technological advancements in clinical and research settings have permitted a more intensive and comprehensive understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Neurofilament light chain as a blood biomarker to differentiate psychiatric disorders from behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2019-03-24 Biomarkers

    The overlapping symptoms of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and primary psychiatric disorders (such as depressive disorder, schizophrenia spectrum, and bipolar disorder) present a challenge for the differential diagnosis of bvFTD in middle and older-aged people.

  12. Digital biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: the mobile/ wearable devices opportunity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2019-02-21 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) represents a major and rapidly growing burden to the healthcare ecosystem.

  13. The impact of amyloid-beta and tau on prospective cognitive decline in older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results are consistent with the supposition that both Aβ and tau are necessary for memory decline in the preclinical stages of AD.

  14. Vascular dysfunction-The disregarded partner of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Increasing evidence recognizes Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a multifactorial and heterogeneous disease with multiple contributors to its pathophysiology, including vascular dysfunction.

  15. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Review Focusing on Pathophysiology, Biomarkers, and Machine Learning Strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of stroke 2018-09-30 Digital health tools

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) has a crucial role in lacunar stroke and brain hemorrhages and is a leading cause of cognitive decline and functional loss in elderly patients.

  16. The development and validation of tau PET tracers: current status and future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical and translational imaging 2018-07-20 Brain scans and imaging

    Tau PET tracers have enabled in vivo quantification of PHF-tau burden in human brains.

  17. Raman Spectroscopy to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies in Blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2018-06-14 Biomarkers

    Accurate identification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is still of major clinical importance considering the current lack of noninvasive and low-cost diagnostic approaches.

  18. Cerebral Imaging Markers of GBA and LRRK2 Related Parkinson's Disease and Their First-Degree Unaffected Relatives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain topography 2018-05-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cerebral atrophy has been detected in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) both with and without dementia, however differentiation based on genetic status has thus far not yielded robust findings.

  19. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for Early and Differential Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    An accurate and early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important to select optimal patient care and is critical in current clinical trials targeting core AD neuropathological features.

  20. The Past and the Future of Alzheimer's Disease Fluid Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Following the development of the first methods to measure the core Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers total-tau (T-tau), phosphorylated tau (P-tau) and the 42 amino acid form of amyloid-β (Aβ42), there has been an enormous expansion of this scientific research area.

  21. Update on Vascular Cognitive Impairment Associated with Subcortical Small-Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Subcortical small-vessel disease (SSVD) is a disorder well characterized from the clinical, imaging, and neuropathological viewpoints.

  22. A Decade of Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Research: An Evolving Field, Improving Study Designs, and the Challenge of Replication

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Biomarkers

    Blood-based biomarkers represent a less invasive and potentially cheaper approach for aiding Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection compared with cerebrospinal fluid and some neuroimaging biomarkers.

  23. Effect of sleep on overnight cerebrospinal fluid amyloid β kinetics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-01-01 Risk factors

    Sleep disturbances are associated with future risk of Alzheimer disease.

  24. Revolution of Alzheimer Precision Neurology. Passageway of Systems Biology and Neurophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Digital health tools

    The Precision Neurology development process implements systems theory with system biology and neurophysiology in a parallel, bidirectional research path: a combined hypothesis-driven investigation of systems dysfunction within distinct molecular, cellular, and large-scale neural network systems in both animal models as well as through tests for the usefulness of these candidate dynamic systems biomarkers in different diseases and subgroups at different stages of pathophysiological progression.

  25. Cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarkers for neurodegenerative dementias: An update of the Consensus of the Task Force on Biological Markers in Psychiatry of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2017-10-27 Costs and economics

    In the 12 years since the publication of the first Consensus Paper of the WFSBP on biomarkers of neurodegenerative dementias, enormous advancement has taken place in the field, and the Task Force takes now the opportunity to extend and update the original paper.

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