27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Elderly people are more likely than younger patients to develop cognitive impairment as a result of taking medications. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Cognitive function appears to be a marker of capacity for survival in the UK. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Previous research on effects of alcohol on health indices have suggested a J-shaped relationship between amounts of alcohol consumption and measurements of heart disease, stroke, and mortality rates. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The study population of 99,774 individuals had a mean age of 71.0 years and was 49.1% female, 73.9% White, and 17.8% Black, with 62.0% living in an urban setting. 5 key findings →
Participants: 99,774 Evidence: low
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Neighborhood characteristics may play an influential role in SCD regardless of race/ethnicity and thus are likely important risk factors for AD/ADRD. 2 key findings →
Participants: 313 Evidence: moderate
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Our results suggest that the relationship between greater neighborhood disadvantage and poorer cognitive function are very subtle and may only be present for some, but not all, cognitive domains. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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The overall sample (N =329) was predominantly female (76.4%) with a mean age of 64.5 (range 45-92) and an average of 14.9 years of education (Table 1). 5 key findings →
Participants: 329 Evidence: low
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CAD did not differ across biomarker groups (Kruskal–Wallis H(2) = 0.17, p = 0.91). 5 key findings →
Participants: 140 Evidence: low
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is characterized by central obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and chronic inflammation, significantly increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial disorder influenced by genetic, lifestyle, nutritional, and systemic health factors that contribute to increased oxidative stress and chronic inflammation in the retina. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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CompBased-CAT demonstrated good test–retest reliability, with an ICC of 0.64 among all participants, which increased to 0.74 among participants with MCI over a 2-month period, indicating its potential for monitoring cognitive function through repeated assessments. 3 key findings →
Participants: 80 Evidence: low
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The drive for positive social interactions, or "social rewards", is an important motivator of human behaviour, conferring several adaptive benefits. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Mild cognitive impairment progresses slowly and may be reversible, providing a window of opportunity for intervention before it progresses to Alzheimer's disease, at which point treatments, at best, ameliorate symptoms with little efficacy towards delaying disease progression. 2 key findings →
Evidence: high
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This study aimed to examine the effects of aerobic and strength training methodologies, either combined with or without cognitive training, on mitigating cognitive decline. 5 key findings →
Participants: 56 Evidence: low
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The manuscript provides a thorough analysis of the neurovascular and metabolic processes that contribute to cognitive deterioration in patients with Type 2 diabetes (T2D). 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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We evaluated the brain metabolic correlates of main indexes of a widely used word list learning test, the Rey Auditory Verbal Memory Test (RAVLT), in a group of elderly subjects with memory complaints. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Essential components of the Mediterranean diet--MUFA, cereals and wine--seem to be protective against cognitive decline. 2 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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The prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe are particularly vulnerable to the effects of aging. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Cognitive reserve (CR) is a potential mechanism to cope with brain damage. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Cognitive training offers the potential for individualised learning, prevention of cognitive decline, and rehabilitation. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The prevalence of age-related cognitive decline will increase due to graying of the global population. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the fastest growing cognitive decline-related neurological diseases. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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For more than two decades, there have been extensive studies of experience-based neural plasticity exploring effective applications of brain plasticity for cognitive and motor development. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Prior research suggests that both exergaming and virtual reality (VR)-based training programs could improve executive functions in older adults. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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At present there is a rapid growth of aging population groups worldwide, which brings about serious economic and social problems. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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10 of the 1,130 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 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
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
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 →