Concordance between scan results and baseline diagnosis was high (PiB 84%, FDG 82%). 4 key findings →
Participants: 24 Evidence: low
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28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Concordance between scan results and baseline diagnosis was high (PiB 84%, FDG 82%). 4 key findings →
Participants: 24 Evidence: low
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The Study of Knowledge and Reactions to Amyloid Testing, a substudy of an AD prevention trial, involved 2 semistructured telephone interviews with 80 participants recruited from 9 study sites: 50 received elevated and 30 received not elevated amyloid PET scan results. 5 key findings →
Participants: 80 Evidence: low
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Second-generation anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies are emerging as a viable therapeutic option for individuals with prodromal and mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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White matter hyperintensity volume predicts 1-year cognitive decline in a relatively healthy convenience sample that was similar to clinical trial samples, and therefore should be considered as a covariate of interest at baseline and longitudinally in future AD treatment trials. 3 key findings →
Participants: 804 Evidence: low
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(18)F-AZD4694 showed reversible binding kinetics similar to (11)C-PiB, reaching an apparent steady state at 50 min after injection. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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SUVr(60-90) and SUVr(40-60) overestimated binding with 13% and 10%, respectively, compared with RPM2. 1 key finding →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Histologic studies show that the amygdala is affected by Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology, and its medial aspect is the most involved. 1 key finding →
Participants: 19 Evidence: low
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18 F-SMBT-1 yielded high-contrast images at steady state (60-80 min after injection). 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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A higher prevalence of dementia in individuals with fewer years of education has suggested that education may protect against Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Dementia is the clinical syndrome characterized by progressive loss of cognitive and emotional abilities to a degree severe enough to interfere with daily functioning. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Amyloid pathology is associated with changes in structural MRI measures in CN and MCI. 3 key findings →
Participants: 337 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating and progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Determination of sensitive and specific markers of very early AD progression is intended to aid researchers and clinicians to develop new treatments and monitor their effectiveness, as well as to lessen the time and cost of clinical trials. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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It has been shown that atrophy of medial temporal lobe structures such as the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex shown on MRI may distinguish patients with Alzheimer's disease from healthy controls. 4 key findings →
Participants: 41 Evidence: low
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Tensor-based morphometry (TBM) creates three-dimensional maps of disease-related differences in brain structure, based on nonlinearly registering brain MRI scans to a common image template. 4 key findings →
Participants: 120 Evidence: low
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Disease-modifying treatment trials are increasingly advanced to the prodromal or preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and inclusion criteria are based on biomarkers rather than clinical symptoms. 4 key findings →
Participants: 13 Evidence: low
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Arch Neurol. 2008;65(7):963-967.) for the Mini-Mental State Examination in detecting cognitive dysfunction in a bilingual sample of highly educated ethnically diverse individuals. 4 key findings →
Participants: 7,093 Evidence: moderate
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Positron emission tomography (PET) with 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) reveals altered cerebral metabolism in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's dementia (AD). 4 key findings →
Participants: 332 Evidence: low
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Our study included 74,275 weeks of driving data (2015-2024, average follow-up 6.1 years). 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 36 Evidence: moderate
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PWAbS revealed elevated gross autoantibody levels in AD and DLB patients compared to CNIs. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 35 Evidence: moderate
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Our findings indicate that using location-based trajectory metrics with clinical measures significantly improves the predictability of motor agitation beyond individual baselines. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Model scores two standard deviations below the mean had 4 months increased survival (two standard deviations below had 3 months decreased survival). 5 key findings →
Participants: 802 Evidence: low
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Dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD), presents a growing global health challenge characterized by cognitive decline, behavioral changes, and loss of independence. 1 key finding →
Participants: 2,878 Evidence: moderate
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Dementia research often suffers from methodological pitfalls such as label-information and subject-information leakages. 2 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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This study developed machine learning models to predict Aβ positivity in Alzheimer’s disease by integrating early-phase 18 F-Florbetaben PET and clinical data to improve diagnostic accuracy. 2 key findings →
Participants: 176 Evidence: low
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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.
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 28,180 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.
This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 28,180 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.7% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.1%), 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.
1,034 records (3.7% 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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