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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 tau PET patterns in atrophy-defined subtypes of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our data suggest that structural MRI can be used to identify biologically and clinically meaningful subtypes of AD.

  2. Depression is Associated with Tau and Not Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography in Cognitively Normal Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Our results demonstrate that tau, not amyloid, was associated with a depression diagnosis.

  3. The Amyloid, Tau, and Neurodegeneration (A/T/N) Classification Applied to a Clinical Research Cohort with Long-Term Follow-Up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    The unbiased amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration (A/T/N) classification is designed to characterize individuals in the Alzheimer continuum and is currently little explored in clinical cohorts.

  4. Is tau in the absence of amyloid on the Alzheimer's continuum?: A study of discordant PET positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Brain communications 2019-12-20 Disease mechanisms

    Given that cognitive performance in the A-/T+ group was poorer than in individuals without either pathology, our results suggest that medial temporal lobe tau without cortical amyloid beta may reflect an early stage on the Alzheimer's pathological continuum.

  5. Testing a MultiTEP-based combination vaccine to reduce Aβ and tau pathology in Tau22/5xFAD bigenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-12-17 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau, which together lead to neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.

  6. Plasma tau correlates with basal forebrain atrophy rates in people at risk for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2019-12-04 Biomarkers

    Increased concentrations of baseline plasma t-tau may predict in vivo structural BFCS atrophy progression in older adults at risk for AD, independently of β-amyloid status and APOE genotype.

  7. The amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration (A/T/N) framework uses cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of total tau (tTau) as a marker of neurodegeneration and CSF levels of phosphorylated tau 181 (pTau181) as a marker of tau tangles.

  8. NLRP3 inflammasome activation drives tau pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature 2019-11-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    This study investigated the effect of NLRP3 inflammasome function on tau pathology and Alzheimer's disease progression.

  9. Tau PET imaging with 18F-PI-2620 in Patients with Alzheimer Disease and Healthy Controls: A First-in-Humans Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2019-11-11 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-PI-2620 showed peak brain uptake around 5 min after injection and fast washout from nontarget regions.

  10. Tau deposition is associated with functional isolation of the hippocampus in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature communications 2019-10-25 Brain scans and imaging

    The tau protein aggregates in aging and Alzheimer disease and may lead to memory loss through disruption of medial temporal lobe (MTL)-dependent memory systems.

  11. The bivariate distribution of amyloid-β and tau: relationship with established neurocognitive clinical syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-10-01 Biomarkers

    These two conclusions support a dynamic biomarker model in which Alzheimer's disease is characterized first by the appearance of amyloidosis and later by tauopathy, with tauopathy being the proteinopathy associated with clinical symptoms.

  12. Association of Amyloid and Tau With Cognition in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease: A Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2019-08-01 Biomarkers

    An antecedent rise in Aβ was associated with subsequent changes in tau (1.07 flortaucipir standardized uptake value ratios [SUVr]/PiB-SUVr; 95% CI, 0.13-3.46; P = .02).

  13. White matter hyperintensities: relationship to amyloid and tau burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-08-01 Caregiving

    Although white matter hyperintensities have traditionally been viewed as a marker of vascular disease, recent pathology studies have found an association between white matter hyperintensities and Alzheimer's disease pathologies.

  14. Multi-modal latent factor exploration of atrophy, cognitive and tau heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. NeuroImage 2019-07-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia exhibit significant heterogeneity across clinical symptoms, atrophy patterns, and spatial distribution of Tau deposition.

  15. Intersection of pathological tau and microglia at the synapse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2019-07-05 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Tauopathies are a heterogenous class of diseases characterized by cellular accumulation of aggregated tau and include diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), progressive supranuclear palsy and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

  16. Is Cerebrospinal Fluid Superoxide Dismutase 1 a Biomarker of Tau But Not Amyloid-Induced Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Antioxidants & redox signaling 2019-06-26 Biomarkers

    Copper/zinc superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) scavenges free radicals that may otherwise damage brain parenchyma.

  17. Tau is required for progressive synaptic and memory deficits in a transgenic mouse model of α-synucleinopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2019-06-06 Disease mechanisms

    Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are clinically and neuropathologically highly related α-synucleinopathies that collectively constitute the second leading cause of neurodegenerative dementias.

  18. Decreased synthesis of ribosomal proteins in tauopathy revealed by non-canonical amino acid labelling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The EMBO journal 2019-05-22 Disease mechanisms

    Tau is a scaffolding protein that serves multiple cellular functions that are perturbed in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  19. Elevated cerebrospinal fluid total tau in former professional athletes with multiple concussions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2019-05-08 Tau biomarkers

    Concentrations of phosphorylated tau181, total tau (t-tau), and β-amyloid in the CSF were measured in 3 groups: 22 former professional athletes with multiple concussions (mean ± SD age 55.9 ± 12.2 years), 5 healthy controls (age 57.4 ± 5.2 years), and 12 participants (age 60.0 ± 6.6 years) diagnosed with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  20. Assessment of Plasma Total Tau Level as a Predictive Biomarker for Dementia and Related Endophenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2019-05-01 Biomarkers

    Among the 1453 participants in the Framingham dementia study sample, the mean (SD) age was 75 (7) years; 792 (54.5%) were female.

  21. Early tau deposition was elevated in women compared with men in individuals on the Alzheimer disease trajectory.

  22. Tau PET in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: relationship with cognition, dementia and other biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Symptomatic mutation carriers also demonstrated elevated tau PET binding in the basal ganglia, consistent with prior work with amyloid-β.

  23. Progressive Tau Accumulation in Alzheimer Disease: 2-Year Follow-up Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2019-03-29 Brain scans and imaging

    In contrast to no change in global cortical SUVR in the CU- and CU+ groups during the 2-y period, global cortical SUVR increased by 0.06 (2.9%) in the MCI+ group and 0.19 (8.0%) in the DEM+ group at follow-up.

  24. Divergent patterns of TDP-43 and tau pathologies in primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-03-28 Digital health tools

    Postmortem cortical pathology was left-lateralized in both FTLD-TDP (beta = -0.15, standard error [SE] = 0.05, p = 0.007) and FTLD-Tau (beta = -0.09, SE = 0.04, p = 0.015), but the degree of lateralization decreased with greater overall dementia severity before death (beta = -8.18, SE = 3.22, p = 0.015).

  25. Novel tau filament fold in chronic traumatic encephalopathy encloses hydrophobic molecules

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature 2019-03-20 Getting a diagnosis

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy that is associated with repetitive head impacts or exposure to blast waves.

  26. Autoradiography validation of novel tau PET tracer [F-18]-MK-6240 on human postmortem brain tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2019-03-11 Brain scans and imaging

    [F-18]-MK-6240, a novel tau positron emission tomography (PET) tracer recently discovered for the in vivo detection of neurofibrillary tangles, has the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in the detection of Alzheimer disease.

  27. Correlation of In Vivo [18F]Flortaucipir With Postmortem Alzheimer Disease Tau Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2019-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In this patient, the clinical disease symptoms progressed rapidly in life, paralleled with an annual increase of tau PET retention of 20% to 40% in many cortical regions.

  28. Plasma tau/amyloid-β1-42 ratio predicts brain tau deposition and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is abnormal deposition of tau proteins in the brain.

  29. Association of IL1RAP-related genetic variation with cerebrospinal fluid concentration of Alzheimer-associated tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-02-21 Tau biomarkers

    A possible involvement of the gene IL1RAP (interleukin-1 receptor-associated protein) in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been suggested in GWASs of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau levels and longitudinal change in brain amyloid burden.

  30. Artificial intelligence in neuropathology: deep learning-based assessment of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 2019-02-15 Disease mechanisms

    Accumulation of abnormal tau in neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) occurs in Alzheimer disease (AD) and a spectrum of tauopathies.

  31. Validation of a prototype tau Thr231 phosphorylation CSF ELISA as a potential biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2019-02-14 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques (senile plaques) and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles formed by hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  32. MAPT mutations, tauopathy, and mechanisms of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 2019-02-11 Lewy body dementia

    In multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), a prominent pathological feature is the aberrant aggregation and inclusion formation of the microtubule-associated protein tau.

  33. Inferior and medial temporal tau and cortical amyloid are associated with daily functional impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-01-31 Long-term cohort studies

    A decline in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) correlates with the progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and has been associated with frontal and parietal hypometabolism, lower cerebrospinal fluid amyloid β 1-42 , and inferior temporal cortical thinning.

  34. 18F-flortaucipir (AV-1451) tau PET in frontotemporal dementia syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-01-31 Disease mechanisms

    All patients underwent MRI and β-amyloid biomarker testing via 11 C-PiB or cerebrospinal fluid. 18 F-flortaucipir uptake in patients was compared to 53 β-amyloid negative normal controls using voxelwise and pre-specified region of interest approaches.

  35. Longitudinal tau accumulation and atrophy in aging and alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-01-17 Genetics

    Our findings indicate that tau accumulates even in amyloid-negative healthy OA and this process can be measured with in vivo tau-PET.

  36. Cognitive and Pathological Influences of Tau Pathology in Lewy Body Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-01-07 Digital health tools

    LBD patients with AD copathology harbor greater neocortical SYN pathology.

  37. Vascular Risk and β-Amyloid Are Synergistically Associated with Cortical Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-01-07 Genetics

    These results suggest a potential link between vascular risk and tau pathology in preclinical AD.

  38. Mechanisms of Cell-to-Cell Transmission of Pathological Tau: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2019-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    These findings provide compelling evidence that misfolded or pathological conformers of tau undergo cell-to-cell spread in a tauopathy strain-specific manner.

  39. Ordered Assembly of Tau Protein and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2019-01-01 Disparities

    Tau filaments with distinct morphologies and/or isoform compositions underlie a large number of human neurodegenerative diseases.

  40. Seeding selectivity and ultrasensitive detection of tau aggregate conformers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-12-20 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer disease (AD) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) involve the abnormal accumulation in the brain of filaments composed of both three-repeat (3R) and four-repeat (4R) (3R/4R) tau isoforms.

  41. Genome-wide RNAseq study of the molecular mechanisms underlying microglia activation in response to pathological tau perturbation in the rTg4510 tau transgenic animal model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2018-12-17 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Activation of microglia, the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, is a prominent pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. Structural Basis for Recognition of a Unique Epitope by a Human Anti-tau Antibody

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Structure (London, England : 1993) 2018-10-11 Drug development

    Aggregation of the hyperphosphorylated protein tau into neurofibrillary tangles and neuropil threads is a hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  43. Microglial activation correlates in vivo with both tau and amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the histopathological presence of amyloid-β plaques and tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles.

  44. Structures of filaments from Pick's disease reveal a novel tau protein fold

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature 2018-08-29 Lewy body dementia

    The ordered assembly of tau protein into abnormal filamentous inclusions underlies many human neurodegenerative diseases 1 .

  45. TFEB enhances astroglial uptake of extracellular tau species and reduces tau spreading

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2018-08-14 Disease mechanisms

    The progression of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease follows a stereotyped pattern, and recent evidence suggests a role of synaptic connections in this process.

  46. Evaluation of 18F-RO-948 PET for Quantitative Assessment of Tau Accumulation in the Human Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2018-08-10 Brain scans and imaging

    The plasma reference graphical analysis appeared to be the optimal method of quantification for 18 F-RO-948, yielding strictly time-consistent values of distribution volume and distribution volume ratio at 90 min against the analyses at 120 and 200 min. The reference tissue graphical analysis and SUV ratio were cross-validated against plasma reference graphical analysis.

  47. The Contribution of Tau, Amyloid-Beta and Alpha-Synuclein Pathology to Dementia in Lewy Body Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease & Parkinsonism 2018-08-10 Caregiving

    The majority of patients with Parkinson's Disease develop Dementia (PDD) in late stages of the disease and have widespread neocortical distribution of alpha-synuclein pathology at autopsy, compared with PD without dementia, in which neocortical synuclein pathology is less prevalent.

  48. Influence of tau PET, amyloid PET, and hippocampal volume on cognition in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2018-08-01 Biomarkers

    These results suggest that increasing levels of tau most consistently relate to declines in cognition preceding biomarker collection.

  49. Sex-Specific Association of Apolipoprotein E With Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels of Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-08-01 Genetics

    After correcting for multiple comparisons using the Bonferroni procedure, we observed a statistically significant interaction between APOE-ε4 and sex on CSF total tau (β = 0.41; 95% CI, 0.27-0.55; P Conclusions and relevance We provide robust evidence of a stronger association between APOE-ε4 and CSF tau levels among women compared with men across multiple independent data sets.

  50. No association of salivary total tau concentration with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-06-20 Tau biomarkers

    There is a need for an accessible biomarker that can complement current cerebrospinal fluid and imaging biomarkers in an accurate and early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

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