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ReviewArchives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists2024

Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias: A review and outlook for clinical neuropsychology.

Heather E Dark, Michael R Duggan, Keenan A Walker

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Review in Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Comparative analyses of Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers and cognitive domains.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  13. Lifestyle factors and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: A narrative review.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heather E DarkLaboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Michael R DugganLaboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Keenan A WalkerLaboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5989-9853
Institute on Aging · US

Funding

National Institute on Aging's Intramural Research Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent technological advances have improved the sensitivity and specificity of blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Accurate quantification of amyloid-ß peptide, phosphorylated tau (pTau) isoforms, as well as markers of neurodegeneration (neurofilament light chain [NfL]) and neuro-immune activation (glial fibrillary acidic protein [GFAP] and chitinase-3-like protein 1 [YKL-40]) in blood has allowed researchers to characterize neurobiological processes at scale in a cost-effective and minimally invasive manner. Although currently used primarily for research purposes, these blood-based biomarkers have the potential to be highly impactful in the clinical setting - aiding in diagnosis, predicting disease risk, and monitoring disease progression. Whereas plasma NfL has shown promise as a non-specific marker of neuronal injury, plasma pTau181, pTau217, pTau231, and GFAP have demonstrated desirable levels of sensitivity and specificity for identification of individuals with Alzheimer's disease pathology and Alzheimer's dementia. In this forward looking review, we (i) provide an overview of the most commonly used blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, (ii) discuss how comorbid medical conditions, demographic, and genetic factors can inform the interpretation of these biomarkers, (iii) describe ongoing efforts to move blood-based biomarkers into the clinic, and (iv) highlight the central role that clinical neuropsychologists may play in contextualizing and communicating blood-based biomarker results for patients.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersAmyloid beta-PeptidesDementiaHumansNeuropsychologytau ProteinsAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkerstau ProteinsAlzheimer’s diseaseBiomarkersblood-based biomarkersdementiaprediction

Identifiers

PMID38520383
PMCPMC11484593
OpenAlexW4393119351

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