Aβ and vascular risk interact to enhance cortical thinning in posterior brain regions that are particularly vulnerable to AD. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Aβ and vascular risk interact to enhance cortical thinning in posterior brain regions that are particularly vulnerable to AD. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We report the clinical, neuroimaging, and neuropathologic characteristics of 2 patients who developed early onset dementia after a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The database search returned 262 results, and after assessment for eligibility, 21 studies were selected. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The results suggest that (11)C-PIB binding to Aβ deposits in transgenic mouse brain is highly dependent on the AD model and the structure of its Aβ plaques. 2 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Interest in understanding the roles of white matter (WM) inflammation and damage in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) has been growing significantly in recent years. 5 key findings →
Participants: 200 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) may cause damage to the memory cells permanently, which results in the form of dementia. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Epidemiological studies suggest that individuals with greater education or more cognitively demanding occupations have diminished risk of developing dementia. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Increased total and periventricular (PV) white matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden and progression of PV WMH burden are associated with decreased gait performance over time, while progression of subcortical WMH volume is associated with memory decline in cognitively intact elderly. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Older people with cognitive impairment have a higher risk of a variety of negative outcomes in hospital. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Intronic GGGGCC repeat expansions in C9orf72 are the most common known cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which are characterised by degeneration of cortical and motor neurons, respectively. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The sirtuin pathway, which is most notable for its association with the anti-ageing effects of calorie restriction, has received particular attention, and pharmacological or transgenic upregulation of the sirtuin pathway has shown promising results in laboratory models of ageing. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Multiple reasons contribute to the institutionalization for people with dementia, with several factors that may influence why there were country differences. 3 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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The current study sought to determine if discrepancies in quality of education could explain differences in cognitive test scores between African American and White elders matched on years of education. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Frontotemporal dementia, a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder, is a common cause of young onset dementia (i.e. dementia developing in midlife or earlier). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Use of the transactional model of stress responses yielded important insights about families coping with dementia. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The purpose of the study was to provide characterization of Mexican Americans who meet criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 3 key findings →
Participants: 633 Evidence: low
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Participation rates were good in both phases of the NEDICES baseline study, and this was influenced by age, sex and setting of the participants. 2 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Greater lifetime stress predicted poorer later-life cognition, and, in a small sample of African Americans, faster declines in a key domain of episodic memory. 4 key findings →
Participants: 50 Evidence: low
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Most older patients surviving AMI have measurable CIND. 2 key findings →
Participants: 772 Evidence: low
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In FY2008, 50% of patients with PD having a diagnosis of psychosis were prescribed an AP. 5 key findings →
Participants: 2,597 Evidence: moderate
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This study enrolled 184 middle-aged and older women (95 Non-Hispanic White and 89 Hispanic/Latino) who provided in-home hands-on care to an elderly relative with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia. 4 key findings →
Participants: 184 Evidence: low
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These findings demonstrate that early life experiences influence the trajectory of cognitive aging. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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The PRISM-PC questionnaire captures primary care patients' acceptance, perceived harms, and perceived benefits of dementia screening. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Participants: 315 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with cognitive decline and increased incidence of seizures. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The prevalence of dementia is increasing with expansion of the older adult population. 3 key findings →
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 27,380 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 27,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (60.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.6%), 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.
1,032 records (3.8% 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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