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  1. Genetic Architecture of Plasma Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in the Amish 2026-10-19
  2. Elevation in Plasma p-tau217 Concentrations Among Blood Donors: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study 2026-09-24
  3. A Harmonized Visual Reading Framework for Tau PET Staging in Alzheimer Disease 2026-09-21

Studies

751 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 52
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 50
  • JAMA neurology 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 24
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 22

233 journals in all.

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  1. Distinct amyloid-β and tau-associated microglia profiles in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-02-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia and is characterized by abnormal extracellular aggregates of amyloid-β and intraneuronal hyperphosphorylated tau tangles and neuropil threads.

  2. Association of Digital Clock Drawing With PET Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2021-02-15 Brain scans and imaging

    DCTclock discriminates between diagnostic groups and improves upon traditional cognitive tests for detecting biomarkers of amyloid and tau pathology in CN older adults.

  3. Plasma p-tau231: a new biomarker for incipient Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-02-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Furthermore, plasma p-tau231 was significantly increased in amyloid-β PET quartiles 2-4, whereas CSF p-tau217 and plasma p-tau181 increased only at quartiles 3-4 and 4, respectively.

  4. Plasma p-tau181, p-tau217, and other blood-based Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in a multi-ethnic, community study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-02-13 Getting a diagnosis

    Blood-based AD biomarker concentrations are associated with pathological and clinical diagnoses and can predict future development of clinical AD, providing evidence that they can be incorporated into multi-ethnic, community-based studies.

  5. In vivo tau pathology is associated with synaptic loss and altered synaptic function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-02-05 Disease mechanisms

    These results indicate that in Alzheimer's disease, tau pathology is closely associated with reduced synaptic density and synaptic dysfunction.

  6. Associations of Plasma Phospho-Tau217 Levels With Tau Positron Emission Tomography in Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-02-01 Biomarkers

    Of 490 participants, 251 were women (51.2%) and the mean (SD) age was 65.9 (13.1) years.

  7. Time course of phosphorylated-tau181 in blood across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-02-01 Caregiving

    Smoothing splines demonstrated that earliest plasma p-tau181 changes occurred even before amyloid-β markers reached abnormal levels, with greater rates of change correlating with increased amyloid-β pathology.

  8. TauIQ: A Canonical Image Based Algorithm to Quantify Tau PET Scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2021-01-30 Biomarkers

    Tau IQ successfully calculated global tau load (Tau L ) in all 791 scans analyzed (range, -3.5% to 185.2%; mean ± SD, 23% ± 20.5%) with a nonzero additional local tau component being required in 31% of all scans (cognitively normal [CN], 22%; mild cognitive impairment [MCI], 35%; dementia, 72%).

  9. The Correlations Between Plasma Fibrinogen With Amyloid-Beta and Tau Levels in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-01-21 Biomarkers

    Recent studies show that fibrinogen plays a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which may be crucial to neurovascular damage and cognitive impairment.

  10. Association between polygenic risk score of Alzheimer's disease and plasma phosphorylated tau in individuals from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-01-08 Long-term cohort studies

    Recent studies suggest that plasma phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau181) is a highly specific biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related tau pathology.

  11. Early Selective Vulnerability of the CA2 Hippocampal Subfield in Primary Age-Related Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2021-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) is a neurodegenerative entity defined as Alzheimer-type neurofibrillary degeneration primarily affecting the medial temporal lobe with minimal to absent amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque deposition.

  12. The cortical origin and initial spread of medial temporal tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease assessed with positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2021-01-01 Caregiving

    Advances in molecular positron emission tomography (PET) have enabled anatomic tracking of brain pathology in longitudinal studies of normal aging and dementia, including assessment of the central model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, according to which TAU pathology begins focally but expands catastrophically under the influence of amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology to mediate neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.

  13. Longitudinal plasma p-tau217 is increased in early stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-12-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Plasma levels of tau phosphorylated at threonine-217 (p-tau217) is a candidate tool to monitor Alzheimer's disease.

  14. The accumulation rate of tau aggregates is higher in females and younger amyloid-positive subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-12-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We found that accelerated increase in tau-PET signal was observed in amyloid-β-positive mild cognitive impairment (3.0 ± 5.3%) and Alzheimer's disease dementia (2.9 ± 5.7%), respectively, when compared to either amyloid-β-negative cognitively unimpaired (0.4 ± 2.7%), amyloid-β-negative mild cognitive impairment (-0.4 ± 2.3%) or amyloid-β-positive cognitively unimpaired (1.2 ± 2.8%).

  15. Regional binding of tau and amyloid PET tracers in Down syndrome autopsy brain tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2020-11-23 Biomarkers

    This study provides new insights into the regional binding distribution of a first-generation and a second-generation Tau tracer in limbic and neocortical regions in adults with DS, as well as regional differences in Tau binding in adult with DS vs. those with AD.

  16. Plasma Tau and Neurofilament Light in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2020-11-16 Biomarkers

    Plasma NfL is superior to plasma t-tau for the diagnosis and prediction of clinical progression of FTLD-S and AD-S. Classification of evidence This study provides Class III evidence that plasma NfL has superior diagnostic and prognostic performance vs plasma t-tau in FTLD and AD.

  17. In Alzheimer's disease (AD), tau phosphorylation in the brain and its subsequent release into cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood is a dynamic process that changes during disease evolution.

  18. Comparison of Common and Disease-Specific Post-translational Modifications of Pathological Tau Associated With a Wide Range of Tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2020-11-04 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are the most common type of neurodegenerative proteinopathy, being characterized by cytoplasmic aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  19. Assessment of 18F-PI-2620 as a Biomarker in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Of 60 patients with PSP, 40 (66.7%) had RS (22 men [55.0%]; mean [SD] age, 71 [6] years; mean [SD] PSP rating scale score, 38 [15]; score range, 13-71) and 20 (33.3%) had PSP-non-RS (11 men [55.0%]; mean [SD] age, 71 [9] years; mean [SD] PSP rating scale score, 24 [11]; score range, 11-41).

  20. Diagnostic performance and prediction of clinical progression of plasma phospho-tau181 in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-10-26 Getting a diagnosis

    Whilst cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and positron emission tomography (PET) biomarkers for amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau pathologies are accurate for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), their broad implementation in clinical and trial settings are restricted by high cost and limited accessibility.

  21. Topographic Distribution of Amyloid-β, Tau, and Atrophy in Patients With Behavioral/Dysexecutive Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2020-10-22 Biomarkers

    Our results provide evidence of frontal cortical involvement of tau pathology in behavioral/dysexecutive AD and highlight the need for consensus clinical criteria in this syndrome.

  22. Degradation and Transmission of Tau by Autophagic-Endolysosomal Networks and Potential Therapeutic Targets for Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2020-10-16 Disease mechanisms

    Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD), and many others where microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT or tau) is hyperphosphorylated and aggregated to form insoluble paired helical filaments (PHFs) and ultimately neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs).

  23. Small molecule therapeutics for tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease: Walking on the path of most resistance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. European journal of medicinal chemistry 2020-10-15 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia characterized by presence of extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of tau protein.

  24. Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease in the Context of Tau Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Biomolecules 2020-10-14 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Microglia are the cells that comprise the innate immune system in the brain.

  25. Tau Protein and Its Role in Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2020-09-30 Inflammation and the immune system

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays a crucial role in maintaining the specialized microenvironment of the central nervous system (CNS).

  26. Evaluation of a novel immunoassay to detect p-tau Thr217 in the CSF to distinguish Alzheimer disease from other dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-24 Tau biomarkers

    We developed and validated a novel Simoa immunoassay to detect p-tau T217 in CSF.

  27. Prevalence and clinical associations of tau in Lewy body dementias: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2020-09-23 Disease mechanisms

    Tau is common in LBD and may reduce clinical diagnostic accuracy in people with DLB.

  28. Association of amyloid-β CSF/PET discordance and tau load 5 years later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-10 Long-term cohort studies

    We included 730 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants without dementia (282 cognitively normal, 448 mild cognitive impairment) with baseline [ 18 F]florbetapir PET and CSF Aβ 42 available.

  29. Mechanisms of Pathogenic Tau and Aβ Protein Spreading in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-08-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically defined by extracellular accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides generated by the cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP), strings of hyperphosphorylated Tau proteins accumulating inside neurons known as neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and neuronal loss.

  30. Characterizing tau deposition in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE): utility of the McKee CTE staging scheme

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2020-08-11 Disease mechanisms

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a tauopathy associated with repetitive head impacts (RHI) that has been neuropathologically diagnosed in American football players and other contact sport athletes.

  31. Role of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease: The prime pathological player

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International journal of biological macromolecules 2020-08-09 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalently found tauopathy characterized by memory loss and cognitive insufficiency.

  32. Diagnostic Performance of RO948 F 18 Tau Positron Emission Tomography in the Differentiation of Alzheimer Disease From Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In this study, elevated [18F]RO948 SUVRs were most often seen among Aβ-positive cases, which suggests that [18F]RO948 has high specificity for AD-type tau and highlights its potential as a diagnostic marker in the differential diagnosis of AD.

  33. Discriminative Accuracy of Plasma Phospho-tau217 for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA 2020-08-01 Biomarkers

    Mean age was 83.5 (SD, 8.5) years in cohort 1, 69.1 (SD, 10.3) years in cohort 2, and 35.8 (SD, 10.7) years in cohort 3; 38% were women in cohort 1, 51% in cohort 2, and 57% in cohort 3.

  34. Plasma p-tau181 accurately predicts Alzheimer's disease pathology at least 8 years prior to post-mortem and improves the clinical characterisation of cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2020-07-27 Getting a diagnosis

    The neuropathological confirmation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) remains the gold standard for a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. The Validation of Multifactor Model of Plasma Aβ 42 and Total-Tau in Combination With MoCA for Diagnosing Probable Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-07-21 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) has an insidious onset and heterogeneous clinical symptoms.

  36. Diagnostic performance and prediction of clinical progression of plasma phospho-tau181 in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-07-16 Tau biomarkers

    Whilst cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and positron emission tomography (PET) biomarkers for amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau pathologies are accurate for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), their broad implementation in clinical and trial settings are restricted by high cost and limited accessibility.

  37. Higher educational level (standardized β = 0.23, P Conclusions and relevance Results of this study suggest that women and young patients with AD have relative preservation of brain structure when exposed to neocortical pathological tau.

  38. Blood phosphorylated tau 181 as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease: a diagnostic performance and prediction modelling study using data from four prospective cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2020-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Concentrations of plasma p-tau181 were compared with established CSF and PET biomarkers and longitudinal measurements using Spearman correlation, area under the curve (AUC), and linear regression analyses.

  39. Microglial activation and tau burden predict cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-05-01 Caregiving

    Across the whole-sample, the single-modality models indicated significant correlations between the rate of cognitive decline and the first component of each imaging modality.

  40. The presubiculum links incipient amyloid and tau pathology to memory function in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2020-04-09 Biomarkers

    The presubiculum captures unique AD-related biological variation that is not reflected in total hippocampal volume.

  41. Association of Apolipoprotein E ε4 With Medial Temporal Tau Independent of Amyloid-β

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-04-01 Biomarkers

    While APOEε4 is associated with increased amyloid-β burden, its association with cerebral tau pathology has been controversial.

  42. LRP1 is a master regulator of tau uptake and spread

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature 2020-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    The spread of protein aggregates during disease progression is a common theme underlying many neurodegenerative diseases.

  43. Plasma tau, neurofilament light chain and amyloid-β levels and risk of dementia; a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Moreover, biomarker plasma levels and rates of change over time of participants who developed Alzheimer's disease dementia during follow-up were compared with age and sex-matched dementia-free control subjects.

  44. GSK3β and Tau Protein in Alzheimer's Disease and Epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2020-03-17 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia present in older adults; its etiology involves genetic and environmental factors.

  45. Diagnostic value of plasma phosphorylated tau181 in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Nature medicine 2020-03-02 Lewy body dementia

    With the potential development of new disease-modifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapies, simple, widely available screening tests are needed to identify which individuals, who are experiencing symptoms of cognitive or behavioral decline, should be further evaluated for initiation of treatment.

  46. Plasma P-tau181 in Alzheimer's disease: relationship to other biomarkers, differential diagnosis, neuropathology and longitudinal progression to Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Nature medicine 2020-03-02 Getting a diagnosis

    Plasma phosphorylated tau181 (P-tau181) might be increased in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but its usefulness for differential diagnosis and prognosis is unclear.

  47. A soluble phosphorylated tau signature links tau, amyloid and the evolution of stages of dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2020-03-01 Tau biomarkers

    Researchers quantified the phosphorylation state at multiple sites of the tau protein in cerebrospinal fluid markers across four decades of disease progression in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Sleep Deprivation Affects Tau Phosphorylation in Human Cerebrospinal Fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2020-02-27 Disease mechanisms

    Tau hyperphosphorylation is an early step in tau-mediated neurodegeneration and is associated with intracellular aggregation of tau as neurofibrillary tangles, neuronal and synaptic loss, and eventual cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer disease.

  49. Intermediate flortaucipir uptake is associated with Aβ-PET and CSF tau in asymptomatic adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2020-02-03 Tau biomarkers

    One-hundred nineteen individuals with a family history of AD (Presymptomatic Evaluation of Experimental or Novel Treatments of Alzheimer's Disease [PREVENT-AD] cohort, mean age 67 ± 5 years) underwent tau-PET ([ 18 F]FTP), β-amyloid (Aβ)-PET ([ 18 F]NAV4694 [NAV]), and cognitive assessment.

  50. Better stress coping associated with lower tau in amyloid-positive cognitively unimpaired older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2020-01-21 Biomarkers

    A faster termination of the stress response (higher coping ability) may limit the negative effects of stress on tau deposition.

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