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  1. Web-based LAS-FNAME and blood biomarkers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2026-02-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Carriers had lower LAS-FNAME performance (P < 0.001) and higher p-tau217 (P < 0.001), NfL (P = 0.013), and GFAP (P < 0.001) levels than non-carriers.

  2. Physical and biopsychosocial frailty, cognitive phenotypes, and plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in Chinese older adults: A population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-05 Biomarkers

    PF and BF were significantly associated with increased likelihoods of dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD), and MCI.

  3. Cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluation of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein to detect and predict clinical syndromes of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-10-25 Biomarkers

    Plasma GFAP discriminated AD dementia from normal cognition (adjusted mean difference = 0.90 standard deviation [SD]) and mild cognitive impairment (adjusted mean difference = 0.72 SD), and demonstrated superior discrimination compared to alternative plasma biomarkers.

  4. Tau accumulation in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal [18F]flortaucipir study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-05-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Cortical tau accumulation is a key pathological event that partly defines Alzheimer's disease (AD) onset and is associated with cognitive decline and future disease progression.

  5. CSF Aβ40 Levels Do Not Correlate with the Clinical Manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2023-05-15 Biomarkers

    Participants were classified as hyposecretors (n = 22, median Aβ40 5,870.500 pg/mL, interquartile range [IQR] 1,431), normosecretors (n = 47, median Aβ40 10,817 pg/mL, IQR 3,622), and hypersecretors (n = 7, 19,767 pg/mL, IQR 3,088).

  6. CSF alpha-synuclein aggregates by seed amplification and clinical presentation of AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-27 Brain tissue and pathology

    CSF was αSyn-SAA positive (αSyn+) in 36/80 AD patients (45%) and in 2/28 controls (7.1%).

  7. CSF neurochemical profile and cognitive changes in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2023-04-24 Biomarkers

    Pathophysiological substrate(s) and progression of Parkinson's disease (PD) with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) are still matter of debate.

  8. Symptomatology in 4-repeat tauopathies is associated with data-driven topology of [18F]-PI-2620 tau-PET signal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2023-04-11 Brain scans and imaging

    As cerebral regions correlating with symptomatology differ depending on the clinical phenotype, a precise knowledge of clinical signs and symptoms is necessary when interpreting [18F]PI-2620 PET results.

  9. Association of cognitive function with Neurofilament light chain in the aqueous humor of human eye

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-11-03 Biomarkers

    NfL, Aβ40, Aβ42, GFAP, and p-tau181 were detected in all AH samples by Simoa platform.

  10. Distinguishing Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Tau From TDP-43 Using Plasma Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-11-01 Biomarkers

    Of 349 participants with available plasma data, 234 met inclusion criteria (31 controls, 141 in the training sample, and 62 in the validation sample).

  11. Plasma biomarkers and their correlation in adult children of parents with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-08-30 Biomarkers

    Family history (FH) of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with changes in several cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in cognitively normal individuals.

  12. Plasma p-tau231 and p-tau217 as state markers of amyloid-β pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature medicine 2022-08-11 Biomarkers

    Blood biomarkers indicating elevated amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease are needed to facilitate the initial screening process of participants in disease-modifying trials.

  13. Differential diagnostic performance of a panel of plasma biomarkers for different types of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-05-15 Biomarkers

    A combination of plasma p-tau181, NfL, and GFAP, but not Aβ 1-42/1-40 , might be useful to discriminate AD, FTD, and DLB.

  14. Delusional Severity Is Associated with Abnormal Texture in FLAIR MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain sciences 2022-05-05 Tau biomarkers

    Biomarkers were extracted from a total of 42 participants with longitudinal time points representing 164 imaging volumes.

  15. Clinical Application of Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain in a Memory Clinic: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Dementia and neurocognitive disorders 2022-03-14 Biomarkers

    After adjusting for age, plasma NfL level was higher in subjects with DAT (65.98±84.96 pg/mL), compared to in subjects with SCD (16.90±2.54 pg/mL) or MCI (25.53±10.42 pg/mL, p=0.004).

  16. Longitudinal Tau Positron Emission Tomography in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2022-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The annual increase of flortaucipir SUVr was greater in the middle and superior occipital, fusiform, and inferior parietal cortices in DLB (mean: 0.017, 0.019, 0.019, and 0.015, respectively) compared with the CU (mean: -0.006, -0.009, -0.003, and - 0.005, respectively; P < 0.05).

  17. Cohort Analysis of the Association of Delirium Severity With Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration Pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-03-03 Biomarkers

    Delirium is associated with cognitive decline and subsequent dementia, and rises in plasma total tau (tTau) and neurofilament light (NfL), providing links to Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration (ATN) pathophysiology.

  18. Increased retention of tau PET ligand [18F]-AV1451 in Alzheimer's Disease Psychosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2022-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Psychosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents a distinct disease subtype with a more rapid progression of illness evidenced by an increased velocity of cognitive decline and a hastened mortality.

  19. TDP-43-associated atrophy in brains with and without frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2022-02-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Transactive response DNA-binding protein of ∼43 kDa (TDP-43), a primary pathologic substrate in tau-negative frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), is also often found in the brains of elderly individuals without FTLD and is a key player in the process of neurodegeneration in brains with and without FTLD.

  20. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities and Other MRI Findings in a Cognitively Unimpaired Population With and Without Cerebral Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Treatments

    ARIA-E is rare in cognitively unimpaired Aβ+ and Aβ- populations prior to anti-amyloid drug intervention.

  21. Tau and Amyloid Relationships with Resting-state Functional Connectivity in Atypical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2021-02-05 Brain scans and imaging

    The mechanisms through which tau and amyloid-beta (Aβ) accumulate in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients may differ but both are related to neuronal networks.

  22. Objective subtle cognitive decline and plasma phosphorylated tau181: Early markers of Alzheimer's disease‐related declines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2021-01 Biomarkers

    CU and Obj‐SCD has lower baseline p‐tau181 than MCI and did not differ from one another.

  23. Serum neurofilament light chain in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal, multicentre cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-12-01 Biomarkers

    Baseline NfL was elevated in symptomatic carriers (median 52 pg/mL [IQR 24-69]) compared with presymptomatic carriers (9 pg/mL [6-13]; p<0·0001) and non-carriers (8 pg/mL [6-11]; p<0·0001), and was higher in converters than in non-converting carriers (19 pg/mL [17-28] vs 8 pg/mL [6-11]; p=0·0007; adjusted for age).

  24. Increased plasma neurofilament light chain concentration correlates with severity of post-mortem neurofibrillary tangle pathology and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2019-01-09 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is pathologically characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and widespread neuronal loss in the brain.

  25. Novel tau fragments in cerebrospinal fluid: relation to tangle pathology and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-12-13 Drug development

    Tau is an axonal microtubule-binding protein.

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