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Research

29,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 151–175 of 445 studies published 2022 · free to read (page 7 of 18) · 29,780 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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Authors

Names as each record prints them; the same person can appear under two spellings.

Institutions

From OpenAlex; 15,255 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.

Dual ontogeny of disease-associated microglia and disease inflammatory macrophages in aging and neurodegeneration

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Immunity 2022-08-04

Brain macrophage populations include parenchymal microglia, border-associated macrophages, and recruited monocyte-derived cells; together, they control brain development and homeostasis but are also implicated in aging pathogenesis and neurodegeneration. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Handgrip strength and all-cause dementia incidence and mortality: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 2022-04-21

This study aimed to investigate the associations of grip strength with incidence and mortality from dementia and whether these associations differ by sociodemographic and lifestyle factors. 4 key findings →

Participants: 788 Evidence: low

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Leisure-time sedentary behaviors are differentially associated with all-cause dementia regardless of engagement in physical activity

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2022-08-22

Sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with cardiometabolic disease and mortality, but its association with dementia is currently unclear. 4 key findings →

Participants: 146,651 Evidence: low

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Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit and diagnoses of dementias and cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2022-01-01

Beneficiaries included 2,713,573 White, 251,958 Black, 196,845 Hispanic, 95,719 Asian, 11,727 American Indian/Alaska Native, and 63,795 of other race/ethnicity. 5 key findings →

Design: retrospective cohort Participants: 3,333,617 Evidence: moderate

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Diagnostic value of plasma p-tau181, NfL, and GFAP in a clinical setting cohort of prevalent neurodegenerative dementias

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-10-12

Plasma GFAP alone differentiates AD from FTD and neurodegenerative dementias from HC but with lower accuracy than p-tau181 and NfL. 3 key findings →

Participants: 59 Evidence: moderate

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Antisense oligonucleotide silencing of FUS expression as a therapeutic approach in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nature medicine 2022-01-24

Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is an RNA-binding protein that is genetically and pathologically associated with rare and aggressive forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality in a Danish nationwide administrative cohort study: Beyond mortality from cardiopulmonary disease and lung cancer

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Environment international 2022-04-12

Long-term exposure to PM 2.5 , NO 2 , and/or BC in Denmark were associated with mortality beyond cardiorespiratory diseases, including diabetes, dementia, psychiatric disorders, asthma, and ALRI. 5 key findings →

Participants: 803,881 Evidence: moderate

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Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using machine learning: a multi-diagnostic, generalizable approach

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-08-03

In sum, we present a diagnostic tool for MCI and AD trained using baseline scans and a follow-up diagnosis regardless of progression, which is multi-diagnostic, generalizable across independent data sources and acquisition protocols, and with transparently reported performance. 5 key findings →

Participants: 570 Evidence: low

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Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability and CSF Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers in Cognitively Unimpaired and Mildly Impaired Older Adults

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2022-04-13

Blood pressure variability is an emerging risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, but mechanisms remain unclear. 4 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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Replacement of leisure-time sedentary behavior with various physical activities and the risk of dementia incidence and mortality: A prospective cohort study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of sport and health science 2022-11-13

Whether or not there is targeted pharmacotherapy for dementia, an active and healthy lifestyle that includes physical activity (PA) may be a better option than medication for preventing dementia. 4 key findings →

Participants: 484,169 Evidence: low

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Association of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-06-06

In cognitively unimpaired (CU) adults at baseline, the risk for progression to dementia increased for every decile increase in the ADI state ranking (hazard ratio = 1.06, 95% confidence interval (1.01-1.11), P = .01). 5 key findings →

Participants: 4,699 Evidence: low

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Autosomal dominant and sporadic late onset Alzheimer's disease share a common in vivo pathophysiology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-10-01

The extent to which the pathophysiology of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease corresponds to the pathophysiology of 'sporadic' late onset Alzheimer's disease is unknown, thus limiting the extrapolation of study findings and clinical trial results in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease to late onset Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →

Participants: 559 Evidence: low

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Simulated Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Novel Approach to a Control Group in Clinical Trials

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The journal of ECT 2022-03-01

Validation of the safety and efficacy of ECT in patients with advanced AD with refractory agitation and aggression is necessary. 5 key findings →

Design: randomized controlled trial Evidence: high

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P Wave Parameters and Indices: A Critical Appraisal of Clinical Utility, Challenges, and Future Research-A Consensus Document Endorsed by the International Society of Electrocardiology and the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology 2022-03-25

Atrial cardiomyopathy, characterized by abnormalities in atrial structure and function, is associated with increased risk of adverse cardiovascular and neurocognitive outcomes, independent of atrial fibrillation. 2 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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Choroid Plexus Volume and Permeability at Brain MRI within the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Radiology 2022-05-17

Among patients with cognitive symptoms, larger choroid plexus volume was associated with severity of cognitive impairment in the Alzheimer disease spectrum. 5 key findings →

Participants: 532 Evidence: low

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Allostatic-Interoceptive Overload in Frontotemporal Dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2022-02-24

These results suggest that bvFTD may be characterized by an allostatic-interoceptive overload manifested in ongoing electrophysiological markers, brain atrophy, functional networks, and cognition. 4 key findings →

Participants: 94 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 29,780 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 29,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (63.8% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.1%), 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.

1,037 records (3.5% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 964 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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