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Research

27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Institutions

From OpenAlex; 12,859 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

A note on reading research. One study is rarely the final word.

We try to note the size of a study, whether it was in humans or animals, and how early-stage the finding is. If a summary here doesn't make that clear, treat it with extra caution and check the original source.

Mapping the impact of age and APOE risk factors for late onset Alzheimer's disease on long range brain connections through multiscale bundle analysis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2025-03-20

Alzheimer's disease currently has no cure and is usually detected too late for interventions to be effective. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Sleep Apnea as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Journal of Public Health and Primary Care 2026-05-01

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a prevalent sleep-disordered breathing condition, is increasingly recognized as a modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Relationship between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: Critical Review On Cellular and Molecular Common Pathogenic Mechanisms

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2025-02-01

Both diseases exhibit common genetic, epigenetic, biochemical and physiological characteristics. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Meeting the mental health needs of people with the complex neurodevelopment condition, Prader-Willi syndrome: a major challenge for mental health services

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. European Psychiatry 2026-06-01

The behavioural and mental health needs of people with PWS result from the interactions between biological vulnerabilities associated with having PWS and living in a changing and demanding environment. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Anemia, iron deficiency, and blood biomarkers for Alzheimer disease: clinical interpretation and dementia risk stratification

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Frontiers in Nutrition 2026-07-16

Anemia and iron deficiency are common in older adults, yet their relevance to blood biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD) remains underappreciated. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Life Stress and Dementia Risk in Adults with Down Syndrome

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01

We found that a higher baseline sum of stress events was associated with greater risk of conversion from baseline stable cognition to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia at follow up, even when controlling for age, sex, premorbid level of intellectual disability, site, clinical latency between assessments, and the presence of anxiety or depression (odds ratio = 1.53, p = 0.021). 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Attention Blocks Improve White Matter Hyperintensity Semantic Segmentation using U-Nets

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. IEEE Latin America Transactions 2025-07-08

White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are a common finding on magnetic resonance (MR) images in older individuals, appearing as high-signal intensity regions on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology to Retrain Attention and Enhance Functional Communication Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinical Case Report

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2024-11-11

Through systematic instruction and retraining visual and sustained attention, the patient was able to engage meaningfully with a high-tech device to increase functional personal choice when supported by a partner. 2 key findings →

Design: case report Evidence: low

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Risk factors and gender disparity of cognitive impairment among cancer and neurological diseases regarding rural West Texas

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2025-01-01

Individuals aged 70 and above experiencing memory loss in Cochran and Parmer Counties had a statistically significant association with cognitive impairment (p < 0.001). 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Social Isolation as a Risk Factor for Dementia: Insights from Animal Model Studies

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2025-03-01

Social isolation (SI) and loneliness (perceived social isolation) are considered as risk factors for developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), in the elderly population. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Impact of Sleep Disturbance on Dementia in Elderly Individuals: Sleep Disturbances and Dementia Risk

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Chronobiology in Medicine 2025-03-31

Researchers are focusing on modifiable risk factors for dementia, including sleep disturbances such as insomnia and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which are known to increase the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Mechanisms of vitamin d deficiency as a risk factor for post-stroke depression, dementia, delirium, and fatigue: A promising therapeutic modality

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 2025-07-01

Acute ischemic stroke often results in a multitude of neuropsychiatric complications, including depression, dementia, delirium, and fatigue. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Cochlear Implants Now More Accessible to Older Adults

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. The Hearing Journal 2022-12-17

Benefits Beyond Auditory Rehabilitation Research conducted by Frank Lin and colleagues found that individuals with untreated mild, moderate, and severe hearing loss had, respectively, a twofold, threefold, and fivefold increased risk of dementia compared with individuals with normal hearing. 4 Research suggests that early auditory rehabilitation is important for people of all ages, including older adults, as it can provide benefits and improvements beyond hearing ability such as cognitive function and mitigation of depression. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Correlation of magnetic resonance imaging parameters with montreal cognitive assessment-Indonesian (MOCA-INA) score in dementia patients at Prof. Dr. IGNG Ngoerah General Hospital, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine 2025-03-05

Parameters such as clinical status, GCA scale, MTA scale, Fazekas scale, strategic infarction, Koedam score, stroke, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular disease do not have significant correlations with MoCA-INA scores. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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From across this tag

10 of the 3,247 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.

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Where “Free full text” comes from

Free full text links and the Full text may need a subscription label come from Unpaywall, Europe PMC and OpenAlex records of free copies, checked 10 Oct 2026. A study with neither is unknown, not paywalled. Show only studies that are free to read

How the 0–100 score works — and why some entries are capped

This is alzhub's own score. It is not an official metric, not an impact factor, and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself, so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.

  • Journal tier up to 10 pts
  • Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
  • Study design up to 12 pts
  • Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
  • Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
  • How recent up to 5 pts
  • Sample size up to 4 pts
  • Effect reported up to 3 pts
  • Studied in people up to 3 pts
  • Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
  • Times cited up to 7 pts
  • Citations per year up to 5 pts
  • Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
  • Cited by studies here up to 6 pts
  • Still being cited up to 4 pts
  • Senior author's track record up to 4 pts
  • Institution's track record up to 3 pts
  • Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
  • Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
  • Free to read up to 2 pts

Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.

Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.

We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.

The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.

See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 27,380 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.

What this library is — and isn't

This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 27,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (60.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.6%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.

1,032 records (3.8% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 962 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.

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