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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 8,276–8,300 of 10,985 studies · free to read (page 332 of 440) · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

Download bibliography of the first 500 of these 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; 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.

Prevalence of dementia in an elderly rural population: effects of age, sex, and education

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1996-06-01

In both Alzheimer and vascular dementia subtypes, the prevalence rates did not differ between men and women, but increased with age and were higher in subjects with a low level of education. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Genetics of Alzheimer's disease in Caribbean Hispanic and African American populations

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2013-07-25

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), which is characterized by progressive deterioration in cognition, function, and behavior, is the most common cause of dementia and the sixth leading cause of all deaths, placing a considerable burden on Western societies. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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AAC for adults with acquired neurological conditions: a review

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) 2007-09-01

The purpose of this review is to describe the state of the science of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for adults with acquired neurogenic communication disorders. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Clinical diagnostic criteria and classification controversies in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) 2013-04-01

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) can manifest as a spectrum of clinical syndromes, ranging from behavioural impairment to language or motor dysfunction. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Digital dementia in the internet generation: excessive screen time during brain development will increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in adulthood

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of integrative neuroscience 2022-01-01

Emerging evidence suggests that some of these effects are similar to those seen in adults with symptoms of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the early stages of dementia, including impaired concentration, orientation, acquisition of recent memories (anterograde amnesia), recall of past memories (retrograde amnesia), social functioning, and self-care. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for measuring the impact on health-related quality of Life (HRQL) among individuals with chronic diseases

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. TheScientificWorldJournal 2004-08-27

The Health Utilities Index (HUI) is a recently developed system for measuring the overall health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) of individuals, clinical groups, and general populations. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment From Speech in Swedish Using Deep Sequential Neural Networks

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-11-15

While people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) portray noticeably incipient memory difficulty in remembering events and situations along with problems in decision making, planning, and finding their way in familiar environments, detailed neuropsychological assessments also indicate deficits in language performance. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia with MRI beyond the short-term: Implications for the design of predictive models

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-04-30

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volumetric measures have become a standard tool for the detection of incipient Alzheimer's Disease (AD) dementia in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Communication skills training in a nursing home: effects of a brief intervention on residents and nursing aides

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2015-01-20

Effective communication by nursing home staff is related to a higher quality of life and a decrease in verbal and physical aggression and depression in nursing home residents. 2 key findings →

Participants: 24 Evidence: low

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Factors Affecting Caregivers' Acceptance of the Use of Wearable Devices by Patients With Dementia: An Extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Model

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2019-11-03

The results of the extended model show that social influence, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, and behavioral intention (BI) all had P P value for RC and TA was greater than .05, hence were insignificant. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Identification of nuclear tau isoforms in human neuroblastoma cells

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1990-11-01

The tau proteins have been reported only in association with microtubules and with ribosomes in situ, in the normal central nervous system. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Familial Danish dementia: co-existence of Danish and Alzheimer amyloid subunits (ADan AND A{beta}) in the absence of compact plaques

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-08-09

Familial Danish dementia is an early onset autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder linked to a genetic defect in the BRI2 gene and clinically characterized by dementia and ataxia. 3 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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