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Research

27,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 51–75 of 123 studies in PLOS ONE · free to read (page 3 of 5) · 27,780 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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Authors

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Institutions

From OpenAlex; 13,259 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.

Mobile technologies in the early detection of cognitive decline

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2014-12-23

The identification of biological and pathophysiological processes implicated in different forms of dementia is itself dependent on reliable descriptions of cognitive performance and capacities. 2 key findings →

Participants: 60 Evidence: moderate

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Tar DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) associates with stress granules: analysis of cultured cells and pathological brain tissue

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2010-10-11

Tar DNA Binding Protein-43 (TDP-43) is a principle component of inclusions in many cases of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-U) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Profiles of extracellular miRNA in cerebrospinal fluid and serum from patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases correlate with disease status and features of pathology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2014-05-05

The discovery and reliable detection of markers for neurodegenerative diseases have been complicated by the inaccessibility of the diseased tissue--such as the inability to biopsy or test tissue from the central nervous system directly. 2 key findings →

Participants: 69 Evidence: low

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Predicting Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Dementia Using Clinical, MRI, and Plasma Biomarkers via Probabilistic Pattern Classification

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2016-02-22

We developed an accurate prognostic model for predicting MCI-to-dementia progression over a three-year period. 4 key findings →

Participants: 139 Evidence: low

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Antidiabetic medications and risk of cognitive disorders in type 2 diabetes: A retrospective cohort study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2026-08-24

Among 1,528,885 adults with type 2 diabetes (mean age, 58 years; 49.2% women), GLP-1 receptor agonists plus metformin were associated with lower incidence of vascular dementia (HR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.37-0.57), mild cognitive disorder (HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.66-0.95), and Alzheimer disease (HR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.31-0.70). 5 key findings →

Design: cohort study Participants: 1,528,885 Evidence: moderate

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Identification of altered metabolic pathways in plasma and CSF in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease using metabolomics

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. PloS one 2013-05-20

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) currently affects more than 5 million Americans, with numbers expected to grow dramatically as the population ages. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Consumption of green tea, but not black tea or coffee, is associated with reduced risk of cognitive decline

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. PloS one 2014-05-14

Our objective was to determine whether the consumption of green tea, coffee, or black tea influences the incidence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in older people. 3 key findings →

Participants: 723 Evidence: low

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Explainable AI-based Alzheimer's prediction and management using multimodal data

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. PloS one 2023-11-16

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dementia is the seventh leading reason of death among all illnesses and one of the leading causes of disability among the world's elderly people. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Profiling Speech and Pausing in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2016-01-20

This study demonstrated the use of speech measures in the identification of those with an oral-motor deficit, and showed the usefulness of performing a relatively simple reading test to assess speech versus pause behaviors across the ALS-FTD disease continuum. 3 key findings →

Participants: 136 Evidence: low

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Robust automated detection of microstructural white matter degeneration in Alzheimer's disease using machine learning classification of multicenter DTI data

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2013-05-31

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based assessment of white matter fiber tract integrity can support the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Participants: 137 Evidence: low

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Multiplexed immunoassay panel identifies novel CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and prognosis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. PloS one 2011-04-19

Using a targeted proteomic screen, we identified novel candidate biomarkers that complement the best current CSF biomarkers for distinguishing very mildly/mildly demented from cognitively normal individuals. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Pattern of regional cortical thinning associated with cognitive deterioration in Parkinson's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. PloS one 2013-01-24

The pattern of regional decreased cortical thickness that relates to cognitive deterioration is present in PD-MCI patients, involving areas that play a central role in the storage of prior experiences, integration of external perceptions, and semantic processing. 2 key findings →

Participants: 26 Evidence: low

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Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using combined features from voxel-based morphometry and cortical, subcortical, and hippocampus regions of MRI T1 brain images

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. PloS one 2019-10-04

In recent years, several high-dimensional, accurate, and effective classification methods have been proposed for the automatic discrimination of the subject between Alzheimer's disease (AD) or its prodromal phase {i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)} and healthy control (HC) persons based on T1-weighted structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI). 4 key findings →

Participants: 326 Evidence: low

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Diabetic retinopathy as the primary predictor of mild cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetes: Insights from machine learning models

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2025-09-26

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a significant and increasingly recognized problem in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). 2 key findings →

Design: prospective cohort Participants: 100 Evidence: moderate

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Effect of acupuncture in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: a functional MRI study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PloS one 2012-08-20

We aim to clarify the mechanisms of acupuncture in treating mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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microRNA-34a-Mediated Down-Regulation of the Microglial-Enriched Triggering Receptor and Phagocytosis-Sensor TREM2 in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PloS one 2016-03-07

The aggregation of Aβ42-peptides and the formation of drusen in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are due in part to the inability of homeostatic phagocytic mechanisms to clear self-aggregating Aβ42-peptides from the extracellular space. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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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 27,780 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 27,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.1% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.3%), 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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