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Research
30,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Find studies
Showing 3,451–3,475 of 3,559 studies · tagged Treatments(page 139 of 143)· 30,180 in the whole library·How the 0–100 score works
Download bibliography of the first 500 of these studies, in this order: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)
From OpenAlex; 15,654 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.
Microtubule-associated protein tau is an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) that forms characteristic fibrillar aggregates in several diseases, the most well-known of which is Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·medRxiv·2026-01-23
An age-related decline in vasodilation mediated by neurovascular nitric oxide (NO) and vasoconstriction driven by the Piezo1 receptor precede the aggregation of soluble brain proteins such as amyloid-β (Aβ), which then causes further disruption of brain solute homeostasis, ultimately leading to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. 1 key finding →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·medRxiv·2026-10-28
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease primarily affecting motor neurons but also frequently involving cognitive impairment. 4 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-08-31
Although most Korean older adults declined LST regardless of living arrangement, determinants of LST preferences differed according to household structure. 5 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-14
These integrated findings support H. erinaceus as a candidate adjunct to donepezil, with possible complementary effects on amyloidogenic processing and intracellular clearance. 3 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-09-22
Drugs that target APP have already been developed for AD and our data suggests they offer an exciting opportunity for repurposing in the treatment of prostate cancer. 1 key finding →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-10-31
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressively characterized neurodegenerative condition marked by molecular instability, neuronal dysfunction and abnormal tau buildup. 4 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-10-26
Computational drug repurposing commonly relies on transcriptomic signature matching to identify compounds that reverse disease-associated gene expression, but such approaches do not distinguish putative causal drivers from downstream consequences of disease. 1 key finding →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·medRxiv·2026-10-06
: Treated patients were 74±7 years old; 57% were female, 59% were apolipoprotein E ε4 carriers, and 78% had mild cognitive impairment (22% mild dementia). 5 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-30
Aggregation of the microtubule-stabilizing protein Tau into insoluble deposits is characteristic for several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-10-06
Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disease in the world, is caused by a variety of factors that lead to neuronal injury and an alteration in neurotransmitter production and release. 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-08-25
CSF Aβ42 rose from 526.0 to 1053.0 pg/mL (+ 100.2%), total tau (t-tau) fell from 578.2 to 278.0 pg/mL(-51.9%), and phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau181) fell from 90.8 to 23.1 pg/mL(-74.6%). 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-08-12
From 464 identified records, 30 peer-reviewed primary studies met all eligibility criteria following the exclusion of low-quality sources and unindexed preprints. 3 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·medRxiv·2026-08-11
Amyloid plaques, one of the defining features of Alzheimer’s disease, are associated with synapse loss and accumulation of pathological tau in dystrophic neurites and reactive glia in their immediate vicinity. 3 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Preprints.org·2026-07-30
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a credible translational research platform across the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathway, but its clinical value is often difficult to judge from performance metrics alone. 5 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-07-24
A major obstacle to effective Alzheimer’s disease therapy is the limited ability to deliver therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier. 2 key findings →
10 of the 3,541 studies in this tag that have a study page, 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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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 tierup to 10 pts
Journal's citation recordup to 4 pts
Study designup to 12 pts
Strength of evidenceup to 5 pts
Peer-review validationup to 10 pts
How recentup to 5 pts
Sample sizeup to 4 pts
Effect reportedup to 3 pts
Studied in peopleup to 3 pts
Randomised / blindedup to 2 pts
Times citedup to 7 pts
Citations per yearup to 5 pts
Impact for its field and yearup to 6 pts
Cited by studies hereup to 6 pts
Still being citedup to 4 pts
Senior author's track recordup to 4 pts
Institution's track recordup to 3 pts
Multi-centre collaborationup to 3 pts
Indexed in PubMedup to 2 pts
Free to readup 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 30,180 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 30,180 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC
(64.2% of the library) and OpenAlex (16.9%),
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.
1,037 records (3.4% of the
library) are not peer-reviewed — 964 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.