[HTML][HTML] Inflammatory biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease plasma

…, S Vos, LO Wahlund, A Wallin, S Westwood… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis/stratification are a “Holy
Grail” of AD research and intensively sought; however, there are no well-established …

Evaluation of a calibrated 18F-FDG PET score as a biomarker for progression in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment

K Herholz, S Westwood, C Haense… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
Increasingly, clinical trials are being planned in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
to prevent or delay the onset of dementia in Alzheimer disease (AD) by disease-modifying …

[HTML][HTML] Blood-based proteomic biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology

AL Baird, S Westwood, S Lovestone - Frontiers in neurology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The complexity of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its long prodromal phase poses challenges
for early diagnosis and yet allows for the possibility of the development of disease modifying …

Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neurodegeneration, synaptic integrity, and astroglial activation across the clinical Alzheimer's disease spectrum

…, L Frölich, R Vandenberghe, S Westwood… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction We investigated relations between amyloid-β (Aβ) status, apolipoprotein E (APOE)
ε4, and cognition, with cerebrospinal fluid markers of neurogranin (Ng), neurofilament …

[HTML][HTML] A decade of blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease research: an evolving field, improving study designs, and the challenge of replication

L Shi, AL Baird, S Westwood, A Hye… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Blood-based biomarkers represent a less invasive and potentially cheaper approach for
aiding Alzheimer’s disease (AD) detection compared with cerebrospinal fluid and some …

A metabolite‐based machine learning approach to diagnose Alzheimer‐type dementia in blood: results from the European Medical Information Framework for …

…, M Kim, P Proitsi, S Westwood… - … Research & Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Machine learning (ML) may harbor the potential to capture the metabolic
complexity in Alzheimer Disease (AD). Here we set out to test the performance of metabolites in …

[HTML][HTML] Primary fatty amides in plasma associated with brain amyloid burden, hippocampal volume, and memory in the European Medical Information Framework for …

…, A Ali, DJ Merkler, T Ahmad, S Westwood… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction A critical and as-yet unmet need in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the discovery of
peripheral small molecule biomarkers. Given that brain pathology precedes clinical …

Discovery and validation of plasma proteomic biomarkers relating to brain amyloid burden by SOMAscan assay

L Shi, S Westwood, AL Baird… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Plasma proteins have been widely studied as candidate biomarkers to predict
brain amyloid deposition to increase recruitment efficiency in secondary prevention clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in cohort study data affect external validation of artificial intelligence models for predictive diagnostics of dementia-lessons for translation into …

C Birkenbihl, MA Emon, H Vrooman, S Westwood… - EPMA Journal, 2020 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches pose a great opportunity for individualized, pre-symptomatic
disease diagnosis which plays a key role in the context of personalized, predictive, …

[HTML][HTML] Blood protein predictors of brain amyloid for enrichment in clinical trials?

…, J Graf, M Ward, AL Baird, A Hye, S Westwood… - Alzheimer's & Dementia …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Measures of neocortical amyloid burden (NAB) identify individuals who are at
substantially greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). Blood-based biomarkers …