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  1. [18F]-AV-1451 binding profile in chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a postmortem case series

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2019-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Despite the presence of abundant tau aggregates in multiple regions in all CTE brains, only faint or no [18F]-AV-1451 binding signal could be detected by autoradiography.

  2. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and cognitive status in differential diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of international medical research 2019-09-16 Tau biomarkers

    CSF Aß42 levels were lower, whereas t-tau/Aß42 and p-tau/Aß42 ratios were higher in patients with AD compared with those with FTD.

  3. Kallikrein-related peptidases 6 and 10 are elevated in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer's disease and associated with CSF-TAU and FDG-PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2019-08-27 Tau biomarkers

    Levels of KLK6 and KLK10 were significantly increased in AD.

  4. [Optical coherence tomography angiography in neuronal diseases : Preliminary findings]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft 2019-08 Brain scans and imaging

    It could be shown that Alzheimer type dementia, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis. cerebral infarction and CADASIL are neuronal diseases with rarification of retinal vessels and atrophy of the retinal layers in the ocular fundus.

  5. Reciprocal Predictive Relationships between Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease Progression: An Empirical Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2019-07-26 Tau biomarkers

    In Alzheimer's disease patients, although amyloid deposition and CSF amyloid changes continued to "cascade", there was no evidence to suggest that amyloid and tau biomarkers predicted each other, although both amyloid deposition and CSF tau progression predicted cognitive decline independently.

  6. Acquired cerebral amyloid angiopathy: An emerging concept

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Progress in molecular biology and translational science 2019-06-18 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is commonly found in older people and in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) accompanying cerebrovascular disorders and dementia.

  7. Tau Positron Emission Tomography Binding Is Not Elevated in HIV-Infected Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of infectious diseases 2019-06-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Regional standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) for tau positron emission tomography (PET) were compared among 19 cognitively normal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative control individuals, 20 HIV-negative patients with symptomatic Alzheimer disease, 15 cognitively normal HIV-positive individuals, and 17 cognitively impaired HIV-positive individuals.

  8. HDL from an Alzheimer's disease perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in lipidology 2019-06 Vascular contributions

    RECENT FINDINGS: Many epidemiological studies have observed that circulating HDL levels associate with decreased Alzheimer's disease risk.

  9. Advances in cerebral amyloid angiopathy imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders 2019-05-03 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebral small vessel disease caused by β -amyloid (Aβ) deposition at the leptomeningeal vessel walls.

  10. 18F-Flortaucipir in TDP-43 associated frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-04-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Retention of 18F-Flortaucipir is reportedly increased in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), which is dominated by TDP-43 pathology.

  11. Comparison between amyloid-PET and CSF amyloid-β biomarkers in a clinical cohort with memory deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2019-02-05 Tau biomarkers

    With increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and advances in research of therapeutic approaches, an early and accurate in-vivo diagnosis is crucial.

  12. Potential retinal biomarkers for dementia: what is new?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2019-02 Brain scans and imaging

    In terms of the retinal neuronal structure, multiple retinal neuronal layers are significantly thinner in Alzheimer's disease dementia, such as the parapapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and macular ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GC-IPL).

  13. A Fragment of S38AA is a Novel Plasma Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease without a cure.

  14. Tau PET Distributional Pattern in AD Patients with Visuospatial Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggested that occipitoparietal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus, which were particularly affected by increased tau accumulation in VS-AD patients, may associate with visuospatial dysfunction of AD.

  15. Cerebral Microbleeds Are Associated with Cerebral Hypoperfusion in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Vascular contributions

    The number of microbleeds was significantly correlated with the severity of decrease in the occipital lobe (Spearman's r = 0.531, p < 0.001) and temporal lobe (r = 0.437, p < 0.001) but not in the frontal lobe (r = 0.201, p = 0.101) and parietal lobe (r = 0.178, p = 0.146).

  16. Regional tau pathology and loneliness in cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2018-12-18 Risk factors

    Loneliness is a perception of social and emotional isolation that increases in prevalence among older adults during the eighth decade of life.

  17. Optical coherence tomography in the investigation of systemic neurologic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinical & experimental optometry 2018-12-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a well-established technique for the clinical examination, diagnosis, severity staging and monitoring of ophthalmic disorders.

  18. Detection of tau in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (PRNP F198S) by [18F]Flortaucipir PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-10-29 Brain scans and imaging

    This study aimed to determine the pattern of [18F]flortaucipir uptake in individuals affected by Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) associated with the PRNP F198S mutation.

  19. Neuroimaging in dementia. Clinical-radiological correlation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Radiologia 2018-10-25 Prevention trials

    Dementia is a syndrome characterised by chronic, multi-domain, acquired cognitive impairment that causes significant functional limitations.

  20. The Role of Tau Imaging in Parkinsonian Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2018-10-06 Drug development

    Differential diagnosis of atypical Parkinson syndromes (APS) is difficult as clinical presentations may vary and as there is a strong overlap between disease entities.

  21. Beta-amyloid imaging in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Yeungnam University journal of medicine 2018-06-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with extracellular plaques, composed of amyloid-beta (Aβ), in the brain.

  22. Potential Utility of Retinal Imaging for Alzheimer's Disease: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-06-22 Brain scans and imaging

    The ensuing upward shift in demographic distribution due to the increase in life expectancy has resulted in a rising prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Quantification of [18F]florbetapir: A test-retest tracer kinetic modelling study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2018-06-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of amyloid beta can be visualized using [18F]florbetapir positron emission tomography.

  24. Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-06-05 Tau biomarkers

    Compared to controls, all three clinical groups showed a pattern of mainly increased referenced standard uptake values (SUVR) for the amyloid tracer [18F]-AV45 PET, with rank order PTSD > TBI_PTSD > TBI > Control, and same rank order was seen in the deficits of cognitive functions.

  25. Emerging Applications of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) in neurological research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Eye and vision (London, England) 2018-05-12 Brain scans and imaging

    OCTA has been applied in research to advance our understanding of the pathobiology of neurological disorders.

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