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Research

27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 6,476–6,500 of 10,985 studies · free to read (page 260 of 440) · 27,380 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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Institutions

From OpenAlex; 12,859 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.

Chronic consumption of a western diet induces robust glial activation in aging mice and in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-02-18

Studies have assessed individual components of a western diet, but no study has assessed the long-term, cumulative effects of a western diet on aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Engagement of TREM2 by a novel monoclonal antibody induces activation of microglia and improves cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease models

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2021-01-09

By engaging membrane-bound TREM2, the selected antibody was shown to promote their cellular proliferation, uptake of oligomeric beta amyloid/apoptotic neurons, and activation in a Syk and Akt dependent manner. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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APOE genotype and sex affect microglial interactions with plaques in Alzheimer's disease mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2019-05-21

Microglia affect Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis in opposing manners, by protecting against amyloid accumulation in early phases of the disease and promoting neuropathology in advanced stages. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The Alzheimer's disease-associated protective Plcγ2-P522R variant promotes immune functions

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2020-09-11

Microglia-specific genetic variants are enriched in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), implicating a central role for alterations of the innate immune system in the disease etiology. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Microglial function, INPP5D/SHIP1 signaling, and NLRP3 inflammasome activation: implications for Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-11-29

Recent genetic studies on Alzheimer's disease (AD) have brought microglia under the spotlight, as loci associated with AD risk are enriched in genes expressed in microglia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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New Insights into Neuroinflammation Involved in Pathogenic Mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease and Its Potential for Therapeutic Intervention

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Cells 2022-06-14

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, affecting more than 50 million people worldwide with an estimated increase to 139 million people by 2050. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Trem2 Agonist Reprograms Foamy Macrophages to Promote Atherosclerotic Plaque Stability-Brief Report

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2024-05-02

Trem2 (triggering receptor on myeloid cells 2), a surface lipid receptor, is expressed on foamy macrophages within atherosclerotic lesions and regulates cell survival, proliferation, and anti-inflammatory responses. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Naturally-aged microglia exhibit phagocytic dysfunction accompanied by gene expression changes reflective of underlying neurologic disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-11-14

Age-associated microglial dysfunction contributes to the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques in Alzheimer's disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Acute Trem2 reduction triggers increased microglial phagocytosis, slowing amyloid deposition in mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2021-07-01

Heterozygous genetic variants within the TREM2 gene show a strong association with increased Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Hepatic danger signaling triggers TREM2+ macrophage induction and drives steatohepatitis via MS4A7-dependent inflammasome activation

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2024-03-13

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), formerly known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), is an advanced stage of metabolic fatty liver disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TREM2 deficiency aggravates renal injury by promoting macrophage apoptosis and polarization via the JAK-STAT pathway in mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Cell death & disease 2024-06-07

The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is an immune receptor that affects cellular phenotypes by modulating phagocytosis and metabolism, promoting cell survival, and counteracting inflammation. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Empagliflozin reduces kidney fibrosis and improves kidney function by alternative macrophage activation in rats with 5/6-nephrectomy

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2022-10-31

Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors originally developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes are clinically very effective drugs halting chronic kidney disease progression. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Multi-tissue neocortical transcriptome-wide association study implicates 8 genes across 6 genomic loci in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Genome medicine 2021-05-04

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease currently affecting 1.75% of the US population, with projected growth to 3.46% by 2050. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Microglia TREM2R47H Alzheimer-linked variant enhances excitatory transmission and reduces LTP via increased TNF-α levels

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. eLife 2020-06-24

To study the mechanisms by which the p.R47H variant of the microglia gene and Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk factor TREM2 increases dementia risk, we created Trem2 R47H KI rats. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Neuroinflammatory Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Implications

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-11-06

The identification of neuroinflammation as a critical factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has expanded the focus of research beyond amyloid-β and tau pathology. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Reactive or transgenic increase in microglial TYROBP reveals a TREM2-independent TYROBP-APOE link in wild-type and Alzheimer's-related mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-12-12

Herein, we demonstrate that endogenous Tyrobp transcription is specifically increased in recruited microglia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Effect of neuroinflammation on the progression of Alzheimer's disease and its significant ramifications for novel anti-inflammatory treatments

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. IBRO neuroscience reports 2025-05-22

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasingly recognized as a disorder not solely of amyloid and tau accumulation but also of chronic immune dysregulation. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Plaque contact and unimpaired Trem2 is required for the microglial response to amyloid pathology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Cell reports 2022-11-01

Using spatial cell-type-enriched transcriptomics, we compare plaque-induced gene (PIG) expression in microglia-touching plaques, neighboring plaques, and far from plaques in an aged Alzheimer's mouse model with late plaque development. 4 key findings →

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 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.

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 27,380 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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