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

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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.

Serial PIB and MRI in normal, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: implications for sequence of pathological events in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-03-31

The purpose of this study was to use serial imaging to gain insight into the sequence of pathologic events in Alzheimer's disease, and the clinical features associated with this sequence. 3 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 21 Evidence: moderate

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Volumetric MRI vs clinical predictors of Alzheimer disease in mild cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Neurology 2008-01-01

In moderate stages of amnestic mild cognitive impairment, common cognitive tests provide better predictive accuracy than measures of whole brain, ventricular, entorhinal cortex, or hippocampal volumes for assessing progression to Alzheimer disease. 1 key finding →

Participants: 129 Evidence: high

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Sex and age differences in atrophic rates: an ADNI study with n=1368 MRI scans

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-08-01

We set out to determine factors that influence the rate of brain atrophy in 1-year longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. 1 key finding →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 363 Evidence: moderate

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A/T/N: An unbiased descriptive classification scheme for Alzheimer disease biomarkers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2016-07-01

Biomarkers have become an essential component of Alzheimer disease (AD) research and because of the pervasiveness of AD pathology in the elderly, the same biomarkers are used in cognitive aging research. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Brain beta-amyloid measures and magnetic resonance imaging atrophy both predict time-to-progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-10-08

We used a new method of pooling cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 and Pittsburgh compound B positron emission tomography measures to produce equivalent measures of brain Aβ load from either source and analysed the results using multiple imputation methods. 3 key findings →

Participants: 165 Evidence: low

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Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative: a one-year follow up study using tensor-based morphometry correlating degenerative rates, biomarkers and cognition

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-04-01

Tensor-based morphometry can recover three-dimensional longitudinal brain changes over time by nonlinearly registering baseline to follow-up MRI scans of the same subject. 2 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 20 Evidence: moderate

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Understanding disease progression and improving Alzheimer's disease clinical trials: Recent highlights from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-13

(1) Data-driven AD progression models supported multifactorial interactions rather than a linear cascade of events. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: high

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Comparison of different MRI brain atrophy rate measures with clinical disease progression in AD

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2004-02-01

These data support the use of rates of change from serial MRI studies in addition to standard clinical/psychometric measures as surrogate markers of disease progression in AD. 1 key finding →

Participants: 55 Evidence: low

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Antemortem MRI findings correlate with hippocampal neuropathology in typical aging and dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2002-03-01

Individuals with an isolated pathologic diagnosis of AD, hippocampal sclerosis, frontotemporal degeneration, and neurofibrillary tangle--only degeneration usually had substantial hippocampal atrophy, while those with changes of typical aging did not. 2 key findings →

Participants: 67 Evidence: low

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Medial temporal atrophy on MRI in normal aging and very mild Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 1997-09-01

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based volumetric measurements of medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures can discriminate between normal elderly control subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) of moderate to advanced severity. 1 key finding →

Participants: 94 Evidence: low

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3D maps from multiple MRI illustrate changing atrophy patterns as subjects progress from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-05-28

Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to assess patterns of grey matter atrophy in the aMCI subjects at each time-point compared to the control group. 4 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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Tensor-based morphometry as a neuroimaging biomarker for Alzheimer's disease: an MRI study of 676 AD, MCI, and normal subjects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-07-22

In one of the largest brain MRI studies to date, we used tensor-based morphometry (TBM) to create 3D maps of structural atrophy in 676 subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and healthy elderly controls, scanned as part of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). 4 key findings →

Participants: 676 Evidence: low

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Rate of medial temporal lobe atrophy in typical aging and Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 1998-10-01

A statistically significant yearly decline in hippocampal volume and an increase in temporal horn volume was identified in elderly control subjects who represent typical aging individuals. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 24 Evidence: low

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Neuroimaging in Alzheimer disease: an evidence-based review

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neuroimaging clinics of North America 2003-05-01

Neuroimaging is valuable in predicting future development of AD in patients with MCI and in carriers of the ApoE epsilon 4 allele who are at a higher risk of developing AD than are cognitively normal elderly individuals. 3 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Machine Learning Models of Polygenic Risk for Enhanced Prediction of Alzheimer Disease Endophenotypes

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology. Genetics 2024-01-10

We found that ML-PRS approaches improved upon standard PRS for prediction of AD endophenotypes, partly related to improved accounting for nonlinear effects of genetic susceptibility alleles. 3 key findings →

Participants: 1,791 Evidence: low

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Diffusion MRI Indices and Their Relation to Cognitive Impairment in Brain Aging: The Updated Multi-protocol Approach in ADNI3

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2019-02-19

Brain imaging with diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is sensitive to microstructural white matter (WM) changes associated with brain aging and neurodegeneration. 4 key findings →

Participants: 317 Evidence: low

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Longitudinal changes in white matter disease and cognition in the first year of the Alzheimer disease neuroimaging initiative

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-11-01

White matter hyperintensity volume predicts 1-year cognitive decline in a relatively healthy convenience sample that was similar to clinical trial samples, and therefore should be considered as a covariate of interest at baseline and longitudinally in future AD treatment trials. 3 key findings →

Participants: 804 Evidence: low

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Different definitions of neurodegeneration produce similar amyloid/neurodegeneration biomarker group findings

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-09-30

We recently demonstrated that the frequencies of biomarker groups defined by the presence or absence of both amyloidosis (A+) and neurodegeneration (N+) changed dramatically by age in cognitively non-impaired subjects. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low

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3D maps localize caudate nucleus atrophy in 400 Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy elderly subjects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-11

MRI research examining structural brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (AD) generally focuses on medial temporal and cortical structures, but amyloid and tau deposits also accumulate in the caudate. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Age-specific population frequencies of cerebral β-amyloidosis and neurodegeneration among people with normal cognitive function aged 50-89 years: a cross-sectional study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2014-09-04

As preclinical Alzheimer's disease becomes a target for therapeutic intervention, the overlap between imaging abnormalities associated with typical ageing and those associated with Alzheimer's disease needs to be recognised. 4 key findings →

Participants: 985 Evidence: low

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Comparing 3T and 1.5T MRI for mapping hippocampal atrophy in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2015-01-22

Prior MR imaging studies, primarily at 1.5T, established hippocampal atrophy as a biomarker for Alzheimer disease. 3T MR imaging offers a higher contrast and signal-to-noise ratio, yet distortions and intensity uniformity are harder to control. 4 key findings →

Participants: 166 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. 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 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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