27/100
BSA-polymer conjugates displayed enhanced resistance to proteolytic degradation. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Research
28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia and represents a growing global health challenge. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer disease is characterized by gradual and progressive neurodegeneration caused by neuronal cell death. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer disease is one of the causes of dementia that could make the patient lose their memories until they unable to do normal activities. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Eighteen years after it was published, Nature formally retracted the landmark 2006 paper that had proposed a specific amyloid protein (Aβ*56) as a cause of memory loss in mice, citing evidence of image manipulation, including splicing, duplication, and use of an image-editing 'eraser' tool. 5 key findings →
Evidence: high
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Directed conversion of mature human cells, as from fibroblasts to neurons, is of potential clinical utility for neurological disease modeling as well as cell therapeutics. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Although large numbers of microRNAs (miRNAs) expressed in Alzheimer disease (AD) have been detected, their functions and mechanisms of regulation remain to be fully clarified. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disease with many genes are associated with AD risk. 4 key findings →
Participants: 360 Evidence: low
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16/100
Anti-amyloid immunotherapy is used to treat Alzheimer disease (AD) with moderate benefits and potentially serious side effects due to amyloid related imaging abnormality with effusions/edema (ARIA-E). 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Therapies targeting amyloid, such as monoclonal antibodies like Lecanemab, Aducanumab, and Donanemab, have garnered FDA approval but remain controversial due to limited clinical benefits and significant side effects against Alzheimer. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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16/100
Mounting evidence suggests that defects in energy metabolism contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD). 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) typically represent Alzheimers disease (AD) risk loci by a single lead SNP, although the lead SNP may capture only part of the genetic variation at a locus. 3 key findings →
Participants: 493 Evidence: low
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16/100
Body mass index (BMI), type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related cardiometabolic features associate with Alzheimers disease (AD) risk, yet shared mechanisms remain poorly understood. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Genetic variation at the TMEM106B locus has been associated with Alzheimers disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative phenotypes, yet its haplotypic architecture remains incompletely resolved. 2 key findings →
Participants: 493 Evidence: low
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16/100
Alzheimers disease (AD) is defined by progressive neurodegeneration, yet a substantial fraction of its genetic risk maps to non-neuronal processes. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II variation is implicated in Alzheimers disease (AD) and longevity, but its mechanisms within the major histocompatibility complex remain unclear. 2 key findings →
Participants: 6,053 Evidence: moderate
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Polygenic and proteomic risk scores are both proposed for pre-symptomatic stratification, yet the extent to which they provide overlapping or complementary information has not been measured across neurodegenerative disease. 3 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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The purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the common signature of dysregulated brain glucose metabolism in late-onset age-associated neurodegenerative diseases (A2NDs), including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 2 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Participants: 5,298 Evidence: high
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INTRODUCTIONAPOE*{varepsilon}4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimers disease (AD), yet its effect varies across ancestral populations. 1 key finding →
Participants: 2,733 Evidence: low
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Brain iron accumulation is well established in Alzheimers disease (AD), but whether the two share a genetic basis remains unclear. 4 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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BackgroundAlzheimers disease (AD) pathology often accumulates years before memory loss, creating a need to identify high-risk individuals presymptomatically. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Sex differences in Alzheimers disease (AD) genetic effects and regulatory contexts remain incompletely resolved. 3 key findings →
Participants: 449,335 Evidence: low
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ResultsThe CNR2 missense variant rs4649124 was associated with increased vascular dementia risk (BH-adjusted P = 0.049) after correction at the 5% false discovery rate (FDR) threshold, with additional associations at the 10% FDR threshold for all-cause dementia risk (BH-adjusted P = 0.051) and lower circulating APP (BH-adjusted P = 0.088) and BDNF (BH-adjusted P = 0.083) levels. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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BackgroundAnti-amyloid-{beta} (A{beta}) monoclonal antibodies are disease-modifying treatments for early Alzheimers disease but are associated with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) and intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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16/100
BackgroundClonal haematopoiesis (CH), the age-related expansion of mutated blood stem cells, is detectable in around 10% of people in their seventies, rises steeply with age, and is associated with several diseases. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 1,091 Evidence: moderate
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From across this tag
9 of the 1,383 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 9. The same 9 appear here every time.
- A diet enriched with the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid reduces amyloid burden in an aged Alzheimer mouse model
- The mechanism of γ-Secretase dysfunction in familial Alzheimer disease
- Mean age-of-onset of familial alzheimer disease caused by presenilin mutations correlates with both increased Abeta42 and decreased Abeta40
- Mutations in UBQLN2 cause dominant X-linked juvenile and adult-onset ALS and ALS/dementia
- Differential regulation of amyloid-β endocytic trafficking and lysosomal degradation by apolipoprotein E isoforms
- Selective induction of calcineurin activity and signaling by oligomeric amyloid beta
- Regional cerebral perfusion in patients with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: effect of APOE epsilon4 allele
- Association of peripheral blood DNA methylation level with Alzheimer's disease progression
- In vivo changes in microglial activation and amyloid deposits in brain regions with hypometabolism in Alzheimer's disease
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. Show only studies that are free to read
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 28,180 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 28,180 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.7% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.1%), 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.
1,034 records (3.7% 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 →