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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 1–25 of 34 studies with an author at University of California, Los Angeles (US) (page 1 of 2) · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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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.

Short-term Psychological Outcomes of Disclosing Amyloid Imaging Results to Research Participants Who Do Not Have Cognitive Impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-12-01

Compared with participants who learned that they had a not elevated amyloid result, individuals who learned of an elevated amyloid result were no more likely to experience short-term increases in depression (mean [SD] change in the Geriatric Depression Scale score, 0.02 [1.3] vs 0.04 [1.3]; P = .90), anxiety (mean [SD] change in State-Trait Anxiety Inventory score, -0.02 [3.2] vs -0.15 [3.0]; P = .65), or suicidality (mean [SD] change in the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale score, 0.0 [0.4] vs -0.01 [0.5]; P = .67). 5 key findings →

Design: cohort study Participants: 1,167 Evidence: high

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The Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (ADNI): MRI methods

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2008-02-26

The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a longitudinal multisite observational study of healthy elders, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Positron emission tomography in evaluation of dementia: Regional brain metabolism and long-term outcome

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA 2001-11-01

Progressive dementia was detected by PET with a sensitivity of 93% (191/206) and a specificity of 76% (59/78). 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 146 Evidence: moderate

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Predicting Alzheimer's disease progression using multi-modal deep learning approach

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-02-13

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition marked by a decline in cognitive functions with no validated disease modifying treatment. 1 key finding →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: moderate

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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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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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The Alzheimer's Disease Centers' Uniform Data Set (UDS): the neuropsychologic test battery

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2009-04-01

The neuropsychologic test battery from the Uniform Data Set (UDS) of the Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADC) program of the National Institute on Aging consists of brief measures of attention, processing speed, executive function, episodic memory, and language. 2 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Cortical change in Alzheimer's disease detected with a disease-specific population-based brain atlas

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2001-01-01

We report the first detailed population-based maps of cortical gray matter loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD), revealing prominent features of early structural change. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 46 Evidence: moderate

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Conversion of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease predicted by hippocampal atrophy maps

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-05-01

Smaller hippocampi and specifically CA1 and subicular involvement are associated with increased risk for conversion from MCI to AD. 5 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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The pattern of atrophy in familial Alzheimer disease: volumetric MRI results from the DIAN study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2013-09-18

Atrophy in FAD is observed early, both in areas commonly associated with sporadic Alzheimer disease and also in the putamen and thalamus, 2 regions associated with early amyloid deposition in FAD mutation carriers. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 192 Evidence: low

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Diffusion tensor imaging in preclinical and presymptomatic carriers of familial Alzheimer's disease mutations

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2007-05-23

Measures are needed that identify persons that will develop Alzheimer's disease in order to target them for preventative interventions. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 20 Evidence: low

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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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Automated mapping of hippocampal atrophy in 1-year repeat MRI data from 490 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and elderly controls

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-11-08

As one of the earliest structures to degenerate in Alzheimer's disease (AD), the hippocampus is the target of many studies of factors that influence rates of brain degeneration in the elderly. 4 key findings →

Participants: 490 Evidence: low

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Optimizing power to track brain degeneration in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment with tensor-based morphometry: an ADNI study of 515 subjects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-07-14

Tensor-based morphometry (TBM) is a powerful method to map the 3D profile of brain degeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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White matter structural integrity in healthy aging adults and patients with Alzheimer disease: a magnetic resonance imaging study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-03-01

Imaging and postmortem studies suggest that frontal lobe white matter (FLWM) volume expands until about the age of 44.6 years and then declines. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 34 Evidence: low

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Neuropathological basis of magnetic resonance images in aging and dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-01-01

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is used widely for assessment of patients with cognitive impairment, but the pathological correlates are unclear, especially when multiple pathologies are present. 4 key findings →

Participants: 93 Evidence: moderate

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Brain differences in infants at differential genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer disease: a cross-sectional imaging study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-01-01

Infant ε4 carriers had lower MWF and GMV measurements than noncarriers in precuneus, posterior/middle cingulate, lateral temporal, and medial occipitotemporal regions, areas preferentially affected by AD, and greater MWF and GMV measurements in extensive frontal regions and measurements were also significant in the subset of 2- to 6-month-old infants (MWF differences, P Conclusions and relevance While our findings should be considered preliminary, this study demonstrates some of the earliest brain changes associated with the genetic predisposition to AD. 1 key finding →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low

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Automated 3D mapping of hippocampal atrophy and its clinical correlates in 400 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and elderly controls

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2009-09-01

We used a new method we developed for automated hippocampal segmentation, called the auto context model, to analyze brain MRI scans of 400 subjects from the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative. 4 key findings →

Participants: 400 Evidence: low

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A pilot study of fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Eye (London, England) 2019-03-28

This prospective, observational study enrolled patients with early AD undergoing Alzheimer's biomarker analysis and matched controls. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 15 Evidence: moderate

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3D characterization of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment using tensor-based morphometry

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-02-21

Tensor-based morphometry (TBM) creates three-dimensional maps of disease-related differences in brain structure, based on nonlinearly registering brain MRI scans to a common image template. 4 key findings →

Participants: 120 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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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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