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Research

28,980 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 326–350 of 571 studies in Digital health tools · free to read (page 14 of 23) · 28,980 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)

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Each number is how many studies that link shows, with your other filters kept.

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Authors

Names as each record prints them; the same person can appear under two spellings.

Institutions

From OpenAlex; 14,457 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

What “Digital health tools” covers

Digital health tools — Apps, wearables, online tests and other technology used to detect, monitor or support people with dementia.

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.

Implementing a peer-support programme by group videoconferencing for isolated carers of people with dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of telemedicine and telecare 2019-10-01

Providing peer-support groups using telehealth may have the potential to develop self-sustaining peer networks for isolated caregivers of people with dementia. 1 key finding →

Participants: 28 Evidence: high

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Improving generalizability and study design of Alzheimer's disease cohort studies in the United States by including under-represented populations

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-11-13

The poor generalizability of clinical research data due to the enrollment of highly educated, non-Latinx White participants hampers the development of therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD). 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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An explainable and efficient deep learning framework for EEG-based diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in Medicine 2025-07-15

The early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia remains a critical challenge, particularly with traditional machine learning models which often fail to provide transparency in their predictions, reducing user confidence and treatment effectiveness. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Detecting sarcasm from paralinguistic cues: anatomic and cognitive correlates in neurodegenerative disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-06-06

While sarcasm can be conveyed solely through contextual cues such as counterfactual or echoic statements, face-to-face sarcastic speech may be characterized by specific paralinguistic features that alert the listener to interpret the utterance as ironic or critical, even in the absence of contextual information. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Hereditary frontotemporal dementia is linked to chromosome 17q21-q22: a genetic and clinicopathological study of three Dutch families

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1997-02-01

Hereditary frontotemporal dementia (HFTD) is a rare autosomal dominant form of presenile dementia characterized by behavioral changes and reduced speech. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Hippocampal shape analysis of Alzheimer disease based on machine learning methods

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2007-08-01

Subtle and spatially complex deformation patterns of hippocampus between patients with AD and healthy control subjects can be detected by machine learning methods. 2 key findings →

Participants: 19 Evidence: low

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Deficits in narrative discourse elicited by visual stimuli are already present in patients with mild cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2015-05-28

Language batteries used to assess the skills of elderly individuals, such as naming and semantic verbal fluency, present some limitations in differentiating healthy controls from patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI). 1 key finding →

Participants: 77 Evidence: low

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A New Framework for Automatic Detection of Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Resting-State EEG Signals

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2020-07-31

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an indicator representing the early stage of Alzheimier's disease (AD). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Machine Learning, Sentiment Analysis, and Tweets: An Examination of Alzheimer's Disease Stigma on Twitter

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2017-09-01

This technique could be applied to questions in social gerontology related to how social media outlets reflect and shape attitudes bearing on other developmental outcomes. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Sex and gender considerations in Alzheimer's disease: The Women's Brain Project contribution

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-03-30

The global population is expected to have about 131.5 million people living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias by 2050, posing a severe health crisis. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Changes in Motor, Cognitive, and Behavioral Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment During the COVID-19 Lockdown

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2020-12-14

All groups showed a worsening of cognitive (39.6%), pre-existing (37.5%), and new (26%) behavioral symptoms, and motor symptoms (35.4%) during the COVID-19 lockdown, resulting in an increased caregiver burden in 26% of cases. 5 key findings →

Participants: 34 Evidence: low

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Companion robots for older people: importance of user-centred design demonstrated through observations and focus groups comparing preferences of older people and roboticists in South West England

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-09-26

The observed misalignment of opinion between end users and developers on desirable design features of companion robots demonstrates the need for user-centred design during development. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Identifying incident dementia by applying machine learning to a very large administrative claims dataset

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. PloS one 2019-07-05

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are highly prevalent conditions, and prior efforts to develop predictive models have relied on demographic and clinical risk factors using traditional logistical regression methods. 5 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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Varieties of semantic 'access' deficit in Wernicke's aphasia and semantic aphasia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-10-09

Comprehension deficits are common in stroke aphasia, including in cases with (i) semantic aphasia, characterized by poor executive control of semantic processing across verbal and non-verbal modalities; and (ii) Wernicke's aphasia, associated with poor auditory-verbal comprehension and repetition, plus fluent speech with jargon. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Language Performance of Individuals at Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2019-03-01

Language performance deficits can appear early before impairment in episodic memory, visuospatial construction ability, or mental status in individuals at risk for MCI. 5 key findings →

Participants: 86 Evidence: low

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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.

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 28,980 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 28,980 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (62.8% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.6%), 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.

1,038 records (3.6% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 966 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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