Detecting earlier stages of amyloid deposition using PET in cognitively normal elderly adults

T Guo, SM Landau, WJ Jagust… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To examine the feasibility of using cross-sectional PET to identify cognitive
decliners among β-amyloid (Aβ)-negative cognitively normal (CN) elderly adults. Methods …

Imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early preclinical alzheimer disease

AG Vlassenko, L McCue, MS Jasielec, Y Su… - Annals of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Deposition of amyloid β (Aβ)‐containing plaques as evidenced by amyloid
imaging and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Aβ1–42 (Aβ42) is an early indicator of preclinical …

Molecular imaging in dementia: Past, present, and future

R Laforce Jr, JP Soucy, L Sellami… - Alzheimer's & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular imaging techniques using 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose, amyloid tracers, and, more
recently, tau ligands have taken dementia research by storm and undoubtedly improved our …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-sectional and longitudinal atrophy is preferentially associated with tau rather than amyloid β positron emission tomography pathology

BA Gordon, A McCullough, S Mishra, TM Blazey… - Alzheimer's & Dementia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Structural magnetic resonance imaging is a marker of gray matter health and
decline that is sensitive to impaired cognition and Alzheimer's disease pathology. Prior work …

The cerebrospinal fluid Aβ 1–42/Aβ 1–40 ratio improves concordance with amyloid-PET for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in a clinical setting

E Niemantsverdriet, J Ottoy, C Somers… - Journal of …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Background: Evidence suggests that the concordance between amyloid-PET and
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-ß (Aß) increases when the CSF Aß1–42/Aß1–40 ratio is …

Normalization of CSF pTau measurement by Aβ40 improves its performance as a biomarker of Alzheimer's disease

T Guo, D Korman, R La Joie, LM Shaw… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related tauopathy can be measured with CSF
phosphorylated tau (pTau) and tau PET. We aim to investigate the associations between …

MRI predictors of amyloid pathology: results from the EMIF-AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery study

M Ten Kate, A Redolfi, E Peira, I Bos, SJ Vos… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2018 - Springer
Background With the shift of research focus towards the pre-dementia stage of Alzheimer's
disease (AD), there is an urgent need for reliable, non-invasive biomarkers to predict …

White matter hypointensities and hyperintensities have equivalent correlations with age and CSF β‐amyloid in the nondemented elderly

K Wei, T Tran, K Chu, MT Borzage… - Brain and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction T1‐and T2‐weighted sequences from MRI often provide useful
complementary information about tissue properties. Leukoaraiosis results in signal …

A plasma protein classifier for predicting amyloid burden for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

NJ Ashton, AJ Nevado-Holgado, IS Barber… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
A blood-based assessment of preclinical disease would have huge potential in the
enrichment of participants for Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapeutic trials. In this study …

Update on biomarkers for amyloid pathology in Alzheimer's disease

NJ Ashton, M Schöll, K Heurling… - Biomarkers in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
At the center of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis is the aberrant aggregation of amyloid-β
(Aβ) into oligomers, fibrils and plaques. Effective monitoring of Aβ deposition directly in …