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Research

28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 126–150 of 456 studies in Brain scans and imaging · free to read (page 6 of 19) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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

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

Institutions

From OpenAlex; 13,658 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

What “Brain scans and imaging” covers

Brain scans and imaging — MRI, PET and other scans: what they show, how early, and how reliably.

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.

Hypoperfusion in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease by arterial spin labeling MRI

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2006-10-01

Frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease display different spatial distributions of hypoperfusion on arterial spin labeling MRI. 2 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 21 Evidence: low

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Use of hippocampal and amygdalar volumes on magnetic resonance imaging to predict dementia in cognitively intact elderly people

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2006-01-01

Atrophy of the hippocampus and amygdala on MRI in cognitively intact elderly people predicts dementia during a 6-year follow-up. 5 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Anatomical heterogeneity of Alzheimer disease: based on cortical thickness on MRIs

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-24

This cluster analysis of cortical thickness of the entire brain showed that AD dementia in the earlier stages can be categorized into various anatomical subtypes, with distinct clinical features. 5 key findings →

Participants: 52 Evidence: low

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Comparison of analytical platforms for cerebrospinal fluid measures of β-amyloid 1-42, total tau, and p-tau181 for identifying Alzheimer disease amyloid plaque pathology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-05-09

The INNOTEST and INNO-BIA CSF platforms perform equally well in identifying individuals with underlying amyloid plaque pathology. 2 key findings →

Participants: 103 Evidence: moderate

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Small-animal PET imaging of amyloid-beta plaques with [11C]PiB and its multi-modal validation in an APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. PloS one 2012-03-09

In vivo imaging and quantification of amyloid-β plaque (Aβ) burden in small-animal models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a valuable tool for translational research such as developing specific imaging markers and monitoring new therapy approaches. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Mind the gap: from neurons to networks to outcomes in multiple sclerosis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2021-01-12

MRI studies have provided valuable insights into the structure and function of neural networks, particularly in health and in classical neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer disease. 1 key finding →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Association of Digital Clock Drawing With PET Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Normal Older Adults

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2021-02-15

DCTclock discriminates between diagnostic groups and improves upon traditional cognitive tests for detecting biomarkers of amyloid and tau pathology in CN older adults. 3 key findings →

Participants: 300 Evidence: low

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Comparing 18F-AV-1451 with CSF t-tau and p-tau for diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2018-01-10

CSF tau and 18 F-AV-1451 have equal performance in early clinical stages of AD, but 18 F-AV-1451 is superior in the dementia stage, and exhibits close to perfect diagnostic performance for mild to moderate AD. 3 key findings →

Participants: 14 Evidence: low

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Flortaucipir F 18 Quantitation Using Parametric Estimation of Reference Signal Intensity

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2017-11-30

PERSI showed superior test-retest reproducibility (1.84%) and group separation ability (cross-sectional Cohen d = 9.45; longitudinal Cohen d = 2.34) compared with other reference regions. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 215 Evidence: moderate

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A Machine Learning Approach for the Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer and Vascular Dementia Fed by MRI Selected Features

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2020-06-11

Among dementia-like diseases, Alzheimer disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) are two of the most frequent. 2 key findings →

Participants: 60 Evidence: low

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Alzheimer disease brain atrophy subtypes are associated with cognition and rate of decline

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2017-10-25

An increased HV:CTV ratio was predictive of faster clinical decline in participants with AD who were clinically indistinguishable at baseline except for a greater dysexecutive presentation. 1 key finding →

Participants: 229 Evidence: low

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Tau PET Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-06-01

The advent of PET ligands that bind tau pathology has enabled the quantification and visualization of tau pathology in aging and in Alzheimer disease (AD). 2 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: moderate

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Synergistic effects of ischemia and β-amyloid burden on cognitive decline in patients with subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2014-04-01

Most patients with svMCI do not exhibit substantial amyloid burden, and CVD does not increase β-amyloid burden as measured by amyloid imaging. 5 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 95 Evidence: low

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Prevalence, laterality, and comorbidity of hippocampal sclerosis in an autopsy sample

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2012-06-26

Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is a common and often asymmetric neuropathological finding among elderly persons who experience progressive memory loss, but its cause is unknown and it is rarely diagnosed during life. 1 key finding →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Tau forms in CSF as a reliable biomarker for progressive supranuclear palsy

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2008-10-29

Tau form ratio was significantly reduced in patients with PSP (0.504 +/- 0.284) when compared to age-matched controls (0.989 +/- 0.343), and to patients with other neurodegenerative conditions (range = 0.899-1.215). 2 key findings →

Participants: 166 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 28,180 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 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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