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  1. From group-level neurophysiological biomarkers to individual-level phenotyping to identify mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease 2026-10-28
  2. Beyond reduced alpha power: a weaker temporal link between alpha and other brain rhythms in Alzheimer’s disease 2026-10-26
  3. Network Localization of Anxiety as an Early Manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease-related Neurodegeneration 2026-10-26

Studies

187 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1998 to 2026

Top journals

  • Frontiers in aging neuroscience 10
  • bioRxiv 10
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 9
  • Human brain mapping 7
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 7

88 journals in all.

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  1. Resting-state brain networks: literature review and clinical applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2011-06-11 Brain scans and imaging

    This review focuses on resting-state functional connectivity, a functional MRI technique which allows the study of spontaneous brain activity generated under resting conditions.

  2. Relationships between β-amyloid and functional connectivity in different components of the default mode network in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2011-03-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Although beta-amyloid (Aβ) deposition is a characteristic feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), this pathology is commonly found in elderly normal controls (NC).

  3. Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Part 1: Performance Across Phase of Illness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2011-02-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    Social cognitive impairments are consistently reported in schizophrenia and are associated with functional outcome.

  4. APOE4 allele disrupts resting state fMRI connectivity in the absence of amyloid plaques or decreased CSF Aβ42

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Identifying high-risk populations is an important component of disease prevention strategies.

  5. Diffusion tensor tractography reveals abnormal topological organization in structural cortical networks in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) has shown that the decline of cognitive and memory functions is accompanied by a disrupted neuronal connectivity characterized by white matter (WM) degeneration.

  6. Abnormal cortical networks in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PLoS computational biology 2010-11-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Recently, many researchers have used graph theory to study the aberrant brain structures in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and have made great progress.

  7. A phase I trial of deep brain stimulation of memory circuits in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    There is an urgent need for novel therapeutic approaches for AD.

  8. Graph theoretical modeling of brain connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2010-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In recent years, there has been an explosion of studies on network modeling of brain connectivity.

  9. Exploring the brain network: a review on resting-state fMRI functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2010-05-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Our brain is a network. It consists of spatially distributed, but functionally linked regions that continuously share information with each other.

  10. Functional alterations in memory networks in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuromolecular medicine 2010-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The hallmark clinical symptom of early Alzheimer's disease (AD) is episodic memory impairment.

  11. Amyloid plaques disrupt resting state default mode network connectivity in cognitively normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2009-10-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Before any manifestations of cognitive or behavioral changes, there were differences in resting state connectivity in cognitively normal subjects with brain amyloid deposition, suggesting that early manifestation of Abeta toxicity can be detected using resting state fMRI.

  12. Disruption of functional connectivity in clinically normal older adults harboring amyloid burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid deposition is present in 20-50% of nondemented older adults yet the functional consequences remain unclear.

  13. Functional neural network analysis in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease using EEG and graph theory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. BMC neuroscience 2009-08-21 Digital health tools

    With decreasing local and global connectivity parameters, the large-scale functional brain network organization in AD deviates from the optimal 'small-world' network structure towards a more 'random' type.

  14. Human brain networks in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2009-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent developments in the statistical physics of complex networks have been translated to neuroimaging data in an effort to enhance our understanding of human brain structural and functional networks.

  15. Greater than the sum of its parts: a review of studies combining structural connectivity and resting-state functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2009-06-30 Brain scans and imaging

    It is commonly assumed that functional brain connectivity reflects structural brain connectivity.

  16. Cortical hubs revealed by intrinsic functional connectivity: mapping, assessment of stability, and relation to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent evidence suggests that some brain areas act as hubs interconnecting distinct, functionally specialized systems.

  17. Graph theoretical analysis of magnetoencephalographic functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2008-10-24 Brain scans and imaging

    In this study we examined changes in the large-scale structure of resting-state brain networks in patients with Alzheimer's disease compared with non-demented controls, using concepts from graph theory.

  18. Default-mode brain dysfunction in mental disorders: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2008-09-09 Brain scans and imaging

    In this review we are concerned specifically with the putative role of the default-mode network (DMN) in the pathophysiology of mental disorders.

  19. Conceptual knowledge is underpinned by the temporal pole bilaterally: convergent evidence from rTMS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2008-08-04 Digital health tools

    Conceptual knowledge provides the basis on which we bring meaning to our world.

  20. Resting-state functional connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2008-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    This review considers recent advances in the application of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to the study of neuropsychiatric disorders.

  21. Modulation of temporally coherent brain networks estimated using ICA at rest and during cognitive tasks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2008-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain regions which exhibit temporally coherent fluctuations, have been increasingly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

  22. Network analysis of intrinsic functional brain connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PLoS computational biology 2008-06-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Functional brain networks detected in task-free ("resting-state") functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have a small-world architecture that reflects a robust functional organization of the brain.

  23. Structural insights into aberrant topological patterns of large-scale cortical networks in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2008-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) has shown that cognitive and memory decline in this disease is accompanied by disrupted changes in the coordination of large-scale brain functional networks.

  24. Disruption of large-scale brain systems in advanced aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2007-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive decline is commonly observed in advanced aging even in the absence of disease.

  25. Selective changes of resting-state networks in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007-11-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that prominently affects cerebral connectivity.

  26. Altered functional connectivity in early Alzheimer's disease: a resting-state fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2007-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Previous studies have led to the proposal that patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may have disturbed functional connectivity between different brain regions.

  27. Graph theoretical analysis of complex networks in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nonlinear biomedical physics 2007-07-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Since the discovery of small-world and scale-free networks the study of complex systems from a network perspective has taken an enormous flight.

  28. The precuneus and consciousness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. CNS spectrums 2007-07-01 Risk factors

    This article reviews the rapidly growing literature on the functional anatomy and behavioral correlates of the precuneus, with special reference to imaging neuroscience studies using hamodynamic techniques.

  29. Regional coherence changes in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease: a combined structural and resting-state functional MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2007-01-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent functional imaging studies have indicated that the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be associated with the changes in spontaneous low-frequency (<0.08 Hz) blood oxygenation level-dependent fluctuations (LFBF) measured during a resting state.

  30. Alterations in memory networks in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: an independent component analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Memory function is likely subserved by multiple distributed neural networks, which are disrupted by the pathophysiological process of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  31. Changes in hippocampal connectivity in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease: evidence from resting state fMRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2006-02-09 Brain scans and imaging

    A selective distribution of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathological lesions in specific cortical layers isolates the hippocampus from the rest of the brain.

  32. Altered resting state networks in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease: an fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2005-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Activity and reactivity of the default mode network in the brain was studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 28 nondemented individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 18 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 41 healthy elderly controls (HC).

  33. Nonlinear dynamical analysis of EEG and MEG: review of an emerging field

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2005-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Many complex and interesting phenomena in nature are due to nonlinear phenomena.

  34. EEG dynamics in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2004-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive and intellectual deficits and behavior disturbance.

  35. The physiological approach: functional architecture of working memory and disordered cognition in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-09-01 Genetics

    The method of single-cell recording in awake behaving monkeys as they perform behavioral tasks is perhaps the most powerful approach to understanding the neural basis of behavior.

  36. Reduced dendritic spine density on cerebral cortical pyramidal neurons in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1998-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    The results support the concept of there being a defect in the fine structure of dendrites of pyramidal neurons, involving loss of spines, in schizophrenia and may help to explain the loss of cortical volume without loss of neurons in this condition, although the effect of neuroleptic drugs cannot be ruled out.

  37. EEG coherence in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology 1998-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    EEG coherence can be used to evaluate the functionality of cortical connections and to get information about the synchronization of the regional cortical activity.

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