27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (ADAD) is caused by pathogenic variants in the APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 genes, but a substantial fraction of reported variants is of unknown clinical significance. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Currently, several immunotherapies and BACE (Beta Site APP Cleaving Enzyme) inhibitor approaches are being tested in the clinic for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Aducanumab was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2021 to treat Alzheimer disease (AD). 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Aducanumab (Aduhelm), developed by the biotechnology firm Biogen in Cambridge, MA, was approved using the less common accelerated approval pathway by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) reserved for treatments that fill a significant unmet need. 1 Its approval on June 7, 2021, has been met with an outpouring of opinions from prescribers, insurers, advocacy groups, and hospital systems regarding its risk-benefit profile. 2-4 Originally approved for all forms of Alzheimer disease (AD), the FDA updated aducanumab's labeling on July 8, 2021, for "treatment in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials." 5 With 6 million people nationally in the United States who suffer from AD and an anticipated one-third of those who may now fulfill the criteria under the revised labeling, the implicat
Evidence: low
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We believe that the amyloid-PET scans, perceived as showing decreasing amyloid deposits, are an expression of increased cerebral cell death due to aducanumab treatment, so that with time one should instead expect a worsening and not an improvement in the treated patients' condition. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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There is a limited choice of psychometric tests for Portuguese speaking people which have been evaluated in well defined groups. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Age was similar between groups (p = 0.07). 5 key findings →
Participants: 15 Evidence: low
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Higher per-capita food availability was positively associated with dementia outcomes in minimally adjusted models, particularly for the 2005 exposure window, although these associations were substantially attenuated after full covariate adjustment. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Hospital dementia care discourse on Reddit advanced 4 negative sentiment themes: (1) fear of poor medication management, hydration, and hygiene, (2) loss of patient advocacy, (3) precipitation of advance directive discussions, and (4) delayed discharge and loss of nursing home bed. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The everyday landscape of occupational therapy (OT) in oncology is underexplored, hindering targeted improvements. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Compared to TM, MA increased the odds of annual wellness visits and reduced Hispanic-White disparity in annual wellness visits. 2 key findings →
Participants: 129,177 Evidence: low
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We found that COVID patients initially experienced substantially longer hospital stays (8.3 vs 4.6 days) and higher 30-day mortality (34% vs 5%) compared to patients without COVID. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Through 2022, 5% of fee-for-service beneficiaries with dementia received CACP compared to 3% of MA beneficiaries (p < 0.001). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Being exposed to a peer who adopted CACP was a strong predictor of providers’ own uptake of CACP. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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These findings highlight potential access and quality-of-care issues in PR, with implications for Medicare Advantage benchmarks. 4 key findings →
Participants: 4,965 Evidence: low
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Participants were 1060 Veterans (response rate of 20.14%), mean age of 68.39 (SD=8.52) years, 59.0% Caucasian, 69.2% non‐Hispanic, 95.8% male, 12.0% screened positive for MCI and 15.6% for dementia. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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AD mortality rates significantly increased over time. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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's < 0.05). The findings suggest that neighborhood-level social deprivation might influence memory and motor status, primarily through its impact on motor brain health. 1 key finding →
Participants: 22 Evidence: low
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Research on Area Deprivation Index (ADI) suggests that the built environment and neighborhood stressors (e.g., violent crime incidents) play a role in later-life cognitive function. 4 key findings →
Participants: 147 Evidence: low
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Patient satisfaction outcomes range from 71 - 100% with service intervention outcomes favourably indicating the direct impact of the service, which are unmeasurable to the older adult living with dementia, and include increases in: (i) Confidence - 90%; (ii) Mood - 50% and (iii) open to talking through difficulties encountered - 87%. 3 key findings →
Participants: 67,744 Evidence: low
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Participants racialized as Black living in a county with a history of lynching, disproportionate police killings, and disproportionate jail and prison incarceration were 2.8 (95%CI [-0.003, 5.834]) times more likely to have at least one incident of cognitive impairment between 2008-2020 compared to participants racialized as Black living in a county with a history of lynching and disproportionate police killings but not disproportionate incarceration. 3 key findings →
Participants: 185 Evidence: low
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Compared to those in rural areas, participants who resided in urban areas during young adulthood had lower late midlife ADI (β = -0.85, p < .05), and better executive function (β = 0.19), processing speed (β = 0.24), and verbal fluency (β = 0.30) (ps < .05) in older adulthood. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The current study provides opportunities for safer approaches that using compounds derived from plants and links it to nanotechnology, could be used in the pharmaceutical industry to treat Alzheimer’s disease. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The NfL assay met analytical criteria, with precision demonstrating coefficients of variation <3% across runs, a lower limit of quantification of 3.10 pg/mL, linearity with <12% deviation, and <10% interference. 5 key findings →
Participants: 20 Evidence: low
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H]UCB-J was found to be reduced in frontal cortex from patients with AD. 1 key finding →
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.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →