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Research

30,580 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 251–275 of 483 studies published 2019 · free to read (page 11 of 20) · 30,580 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

Download bibliography of these 483 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; 16,054 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.

Machine learning models to predict onset of dementia: A label learning approach

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-12-10

The ability of the model to discriminate incident cases of dementia implies that it can be a worthwhile tool to screen patients for trial recruitment and patient management. 1 key finding →

Participants: 121,907 Evidence: moderate

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High Cortisol and the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of the Literature

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2019-03-01

Clinical studies found that elevated cortisol was associated with poorer overall cognitive functioning, as well as with poorer episodic memory, executive functioning, language, spatial memory, processing speed, and social cognition; while in animals, glucocorticoid administration resulted in cognitive impairment and abnormal behavior. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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RNA Binding Antagonizes Neurotoxic Phase Transitions of TDP-43

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neuron 2019-02-27

TDP-43 proteinopathy is a pathological hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia where cytoplasmic TDP-43 inclusions are observed within degenerating regions of patient postmortem tissue. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Increased soluble TREM2 in cerebrospinal fluid is associated with reduced cognitive and clinical decline in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2019-08-01

Loss of function of TREM2, a key receptor selectively expressed by microglia in the brain, contributes to the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Synaptic biomarkers in CSF aid in diagnosis, correlate with cognition and predict progression in MCI and Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-12-09

CSF synaptic biomarkers, particularly NPTX2, which regulates synaptic homeostasis, relate to cognition and predict progression in AD beyond Aβ1-42 and Tau. 2 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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TREM2 brain transcript-specific studies in AD and TREM2 mutation carriers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2019-05-08

Low frequency coding variants in TREM2 are associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) risk and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) TREM2 protein levels are different between AD cases and controls. 4 key findings →

Participants: 33 Evidence: low

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A pilot study of fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Eye (London, England) 2019-03-28

This prospective, observational study enrolled patients with early AD undergoing Alzheimer's biomarker analysis and matched controls. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 15 Evidence: moderate

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Spatial-Temporal Dependency Modeling and Network Hub Detection for Functional MRI Analysis via Convolutional-Recurrent Network

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2019-12-06

Early identification of dementia at the stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial for timely diagnosis and intervention of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Participants: 174 Evidence: low

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Cholinesterase Inhibitors May Not Benefit Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer Disease Dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2019-04-01

We investigated whether cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) benefit cognitive outcomes in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease (MCI-AD) and in mild AD dementia (ADdem). 4 key findings →

Participants: 2,242 Evidence: low

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Assessment of Vascular Event Prevention and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults With Preexisting Vascular Disease or Diabetes

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2019-03-01

Among 45 029 participants undergoing cognitive assessment, mean (SD) age was 67.9 (8.0) years; 80.7% were men. 5 key findings →

Participants: 1,197 Evidence: high

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Alzheimer's disease: risk factors and potentially protective measures

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of biomedical science 2019-05-09

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and typically manifests through a progressive loss of episodic memory and cognitive function, subsequently causing language and visuospatial skills deficiencies, which are often accompanied by behavioral disorders such as apathy, aggressiveness and depression. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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The Age-Related Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Silent Impairment of the Cognitive Ear

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2019-06-14

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), also called presbycusis, is a progressive disorder affecting hearing functions and among the elderly has been recognized as the third most frequent condition. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Risk factors, costs and complications of delayed hospital discharge from internal medicine wards at a Canadian academic medical centre: retrospective cohort study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. BMC health services research 2019-12-04

Delayed discharge is associated with higher hospital costs and complication rates especially nosocomial infections. 3 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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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 30,580 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 30,580 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (64.7% of the library) and OpenAlex (16.6%), 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.

1,037 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.

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