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  1. Adaptive template generation for amyloid PET using a deep learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2018-05-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Accurate spatial normalization (SN) of amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) images for Alzheimer's disease assessment without coregistered anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the same individual is technically challenging.

  2. Hypertension-Induced Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Leading to Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Chinese medical journal 2018-03-05 Vascular contributions

    In recent years, studies have demonstrated that hypertension-related changes (e.g., small vascular lesions, inflammatory reactions, hypoperfusion, oxidative stress, damage to autoregulatory processes and the blood-brain barrier, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy) can occur over time in cerebral small vessels, potentially leading to lower cognitive function when blood pressure (BP) control is poor or lacking.

  3. A Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease: Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Biomarkers

    Ever since the discovery of APOEɛ4 around 25 years ago, researchers have been excited about the potential of a blood test for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. 18F-Flortaucipir Binding in Choroid Plexus: Related to Race and Hippocampus Signal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    B/AA individuals had elevated CP and HC SUVR (p < 0.007), whereas other ROI SUVR and HC SUVR covaried for CP SUVR did not show race differences (p > 0.05).

  5. Amyloid PET in neurodegenerative diseases with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition characterized by progressive cognitive decline and memory loss, and is the most common form of dementia.

  6. Amyloid PET Imaging: Standardization and Integration with Other Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid plaques are a neuropathologic hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which can be imaged through positron emission tomography (PET) technology using radiopharmaceuticals that selectively bind to the fibrillar aggregates of amyloid-β plaques (Amy-PET).

  7. Drusen in the Peripheral Retina of the Alzheimer's Eye

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    There was a significant increase in the total number of macular and peripheral hard drusen in older, compared to younger, normal eyes (p<0.05).

  8. Centiloid method evaluation for amyloid PET of subcortical vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-11-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Reference region selection is important for proper amyloid PET analysis, especially in subcortical vascular dementia (SVaD) patients.

  9. Low Serum Phosphorus Correlates with Cerebral Aβ Deposition in Cognitively Impaired Subjects: Results from the KBASE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-11-06 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by progressive cognitive decline, is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the elderly.

  10. Tau PET imaging predicts cognition in atypical variants of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2017-11-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of paired helical filament tau contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 18 F-flortaucipir is a positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand sensitive to tau in AD, but its clinical utility will depend in part on its ability to predict cognitive symptoms in diverse dementia phenotypes associated with selective, regional uptake.

  11. Using Retinal Imaging to Study Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2017-11-06 Brain scans and imaging

    The retina offers a unique "window" to study pathophysiological processes of dementia in the brain, as it is an extension of the central nervous system (CNS) and shares prominent similarities with the brain in terms of embryological origin, anatomical features and physiological properties.

  12. Flortaucipir tau PET imaging in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2017-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    All seven patients showed elevated FTP uptake in the anterior temporal lobe with a leftward asymmetry that was not observed in healthy controls.

  13. Proteomic studies of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Expert review of proteomics 2017-10-03 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting the brain.

  14. 18F-Flortaucipir PET/MRI Correlations in Nonamnestic and Amnestic Variants of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2017-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    The subgroups showed the expected 18F-flortaucipir-binding patterns.

  15. Retinal Oximetry Discovers Novel Biomarkers in Retinal and Brain Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2017-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In diabetic retinopathy, venous oxygen saturation increases and arteriovenous difference decreases.

  16. Feasibility of in vivo 18F-florbetaben PET/MR imaging of human carotid amyloid-β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2017-03-21 Brain scans and imaging

    18F-Florbetaben uptake was clearly visualized in the carotid arteries.

  17. In Vivo cortical tau in Parkinson's disease using 18F-AV-1451 positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2017-03-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Nine PD patients (35%) were identified with mild cognitive impairment.

  18. Relations between personality changes and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2017-02-04 Tau biomarkers

    Specific changes in personality profiles may represent early non-cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Alzheimer disease: CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer disease - approaching consensus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2017-02-03 Tau biomarkers

    A European working group has provided a new set of recommendations for the use of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in the diagnostic evaluation of Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment.

  20. Plasma Amyloid-β and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Changes in Late-Life Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Biomarkers

    To elucidate an involvement of amyloid dysmetabolism in the pathophysiology of depression, we investigated associations of plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) levels with Alzheimer's disease-related changes in neuroimaging and cognitive dysfunction in patients with late-life depression.

  21. Kidins220 Correlates with Tau in Alzheimer's Disease Brain and Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Tau biomarkers

    Identification of neurodegeneration-monitoring biomarkers would be of great clinical value for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis.

  22. An easy way to increase confidence in beta-amyloid PET evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nuclear medicine review. Central & Eastern Europe 2017 Brain scans and imaging

    Early- and late-phase image fusion displayed with appropriate color tables is presented in three different cases to illustrate the added value of the suggested approach.

  23. Alpha-synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Handbook of clinical neurology 2017 Brain tissue and pathology

    A neurodegenerative disorder displaying an altered α-synuclein (αS) in the brain tissue is called α-synucleinopathy (αS-pathy) and incorporates clinical entities such as Parkinson disease (PD), PD with dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple-system atrophy.

  24. Emerging ocular biomarkers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinical & experimental ophthalmology 2016-12-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Interest in reliable biomarkers of Alzheimer disease, the leading cause of dementia, has been fuelled by challenges in diagnosing the disease and monitoring disease progression as well as the response to therapy.

  25. Brain microbleeds: Epidemiology and clinical implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurologia 2016-06-22 Vascular contributions

    The prevalence of BMB is highly variable (3%-27% in the general population, 6%-80% in patients with vascular risk factors or vascular disease, and 16%-45% in patients with cognitive impairment).

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