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Research

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

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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.

Acceptable standards for clinic‐based digital cognitive assessments: Recommendations from the Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01

The rising prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, combined with persistent underdiagnosis, is driving an increased need for scalable cognitive assessment tools. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Co-calibration of cognitive performance in the National Health and Aging Trends Study with the Health and Retirement Study's Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol: Implications for dementia classification

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. SSM - Population Health 2025-04-06

Study-specific algorithms yielded comparable dementia prevalence estimates: 10.8 % in NHATS and 11.1 % in HRS-HCAP. 5 key findings →

Participants: 5,696 Evidence: low

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Prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in the Mexican population: evidence from Mex-Cog, a harmonized cognitive assessment protocol study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2025-12-17

We estimated the prevalence of dementia at 6.7% [95% confidence interval (CI): 5.4-8.0] and MCI at 10% (95% CI: 8.7-11.7). 5 key findings →

Participants: 1,629 Evidence: low

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Reliability and validity analysis of the Chinese version of the Quick Dementia Rating System (QDRS)

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-07-02

/df = 2.81, P < 0.001). There were strong correlations between the C-QDRS and standardized neuropsychological tests, indicating that the C-QDRS exhibited concurrent validity (all P < 0.001). 4 key findings →

Participants: 366 Evidence: low

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Retinal microvascular alterations reflect cerebral small vessel disease burden in frontotemporal dementia: a multimodal OCTA–MRI Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-12-23

FTD patients demonstrated significantly reduced retinal and choriocapillaris perfusion compared to CU (all p < 0.001). 5 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 33 Evidence: low

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NIA perspective on harmonizing International Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) and Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) studies

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2025-12-13

The NIA hopes to see continued collection and harmonization of the International HRS and HCAP data, as well as continued use of the data to advance our knowledge of how behavioral and social factors influence aging and life course outcomes, including those related to AD/ADRD. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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A vision transformer approach for fully automated and scalable dementia screening using clock drawing test images

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-07-01

The ViT approach predicted dementia with 76.5% balanced accuracy, outperforming human-scored features (74.3%) and existing deep learning models (MiniVGG = 73.3%, MobileNetV2 = 72.3%, relevance factor variational autoencoder = 69.1%) on the TDRA dataset. 3 key findings →

Participants: 862 Evidence: low

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Trajectories of CSF and plasma MTBR‐tau 243 and phosphorylated‐tau species across the Alzheimer's disease continuum

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01

The CSF and plasma cohorts were on average 71.4(±8.5) and 72.2 (±9.3) years of age, 49.1%/50.8% was female, and 263/453 (0.59%/51.8%) were cognitively impaired, respectively. 4 key findings →

Participants: 97 Evidence: low

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Cholinergic basal forebrain atrophy accelerates cognitive decline via cortical thinning: The moderating role of amyloid-β pathology in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-07-29

Progressive cortical thinning in multiple cognition-related regions was significantly associated with cBF atrophy. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Multidisciplinary Home-Based Palliative Care for People Living with Dementia: Preliminary Findings on Palliative Care Concerns and Caregiver Burden

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Applied Gerontology 2025-05-22

We describe the complex care needs faced by families in dementia care and specialized multidisciplinary palliative care delivered through home visits as a feasible way to support advancing stages of dementia. 1 key finding →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 27 Evidence: moderate

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Exploring the Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality on Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Caregiver Burden: Longitudinal Observational Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. JMIR Serious Games 2025-07-16

Significant improvements were observed after 1 month of VR intervention in both caregiver burden (Z=-3.095, P=.002, r=0.34) and neuropsychiatric symptoms (Z=-2.929, P=.003, r=0.32). 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 82 Evidence: moderate

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Equity of access in rural and metropolitan dementia diagnosis, management, and care experiences: an exploratory qualitative study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International Journal for Equity in Health 2025-03-16

Participants were distributed across various regions of Australia: seven interviews from inner regional Australia, five interviews from outer regional Australia, and twenty-one interviews from metropolitan areas. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Service delivery and the role of clinical pharmacists in UK primary care for older people, including people with dementia: a scoping review

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC Family Practice 2025-01-14

A total of 30 articles were included. These detail the multifaceted responsibilities of clinical pharmacists in primary care for older people. 5 key findings →

Participants: 30 Evidence: low

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Associations between Ultrafine Particles and Incident Dementia in Older Adults

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Environmental Science & Technology 2025-03-13

High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is linked to dementia risk, but ultrafine particles (UFPs, <100 nm) may be even more toxic due to their distinct physicochemical properties. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Neuroimaging markers of dementia across race/ethnicity and sex/gender using an intersectional approach within the HABS‐HD cohort

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-09-01

We analyzed data from 3433 dementia-free participants with either magnetic resonance imaging or positron emission tomography (PET) data at baseline (mean [standard deviation] age: 65 [9] years, 36% non-Hispanic White [NHW], 27% Black, 37% Hispanic, and 63% women). 5 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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Enhancing participation of historically minoritized groups in Alzheimer disease and related dementias research: National Conference Report

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01

This paper reports on a Conference organized by the Washington University School of Medicine's (WUSM) Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC), entitled "Enhancing Participation by Minoritized Groups in Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) Research." 5 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 27,380 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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