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Research

27,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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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.

Shifts in gut microbiota composition in an APP/PSS1 transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease during lifespan

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Letters in applied microbiology 2018-04-16

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and one of the major causes of disability and dependency in older people. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Exercise alters the immune profile in Tg2576 Alzheimer mice toward a response coincident with improved cognitive performance and decreased amyloid

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2008-04-09

Inflammation is associated with Abeta pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and transgenic AD models. 4 key findings →

Participants: 29 Evidence: low

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Specific domains of beta-amyloid from Alzheimer plaque elicit neuron killing in human microglia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1996-10-01

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is found to have striking brain inflammation characterized by clusters of reactive microglia that surround senile plaques. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Activation of Toll-like receptor 2 on microglia promotes cell uptake of Alzheimer disease-associated amyloid beta peptide

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-12-09

The human G-protein-coupled formyl peptide receptor-like 1 (FPRL1) and its mouse homologue mFPR2 mediate the chemotactic activity of a variety of polypeptides associated with inflammation and bacterial infection, including the 42-amino acid form of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta42), a pathogenic factor in Alzheimer disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Lysosomal proteomics reveals mechanisms of neuronal APOE4-associated lysosomal dysfunction

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Autophagy 2025-10-17

: Aβ-β-amyloid; AD-Alzheimer disease; APMS-affinity purification mass spectrometry; APOE-apolipoprotein E; APP-amyloid beta precursor protein; BafA1-bafilomycin A1; CMA-chaperone-mediated autophagy; COP-coatomer; ER-endoplasmic reticulum; ERAD-endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation; ERGIC-endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment; FCCP-carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone; GABA-gamma-aminobutyric acid; GFP-green fluorescent protein; GPI-glycerophosphoinositol; GPN-glycyl-L-phenylalanine 2-naphthylamide; HA-hemagglutinin protein tag; iPSC-induced pluripotent stem cells; LAMP1-lysosomal associated membrane protein 1; LGALS3BP-galectin 3 binding protein; LysoIP-lysosomal immunoprecipitation; MAPT-microtubule associated protein tau; MR-CTSB-magic red cathepsin B; MS-mass spectrometry; NFT-neurofibrillary tangles; PCA-principal component analysis; PLA-proximity ligation assay; PSEN1-presenilin 1; PSEN2-presenilin 2; p-MAPT/Tau-phospho-MAPT/tau; ROS-reactive oxygen species; RT-qPCR-reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction; SEM-standard error of the mean; siRNA-short interfering RNA; SRCR-scavenger receptor cysteine-rich domain; TMED-transmembrane p24 trafficking protein; TMEM192-transmembrane protein 192. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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In vivo changes in microglial activation and amyloid deposits in brain regions with hypometabolism in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2010-09-16

BPs of [(11)C](R)PK11195 and [(11)C]PIB were significantly higher in the parietotemporal regions of AD patients than in ten healthy controls. 3 key findings →

Design: clinical trial Evidence: low

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Apolipoprotein E immunoreactivity in cerebral amyloid deposits and neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease and kuru plaque amyloid in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain Research 1991-02-01

Researchers conducted immunohistochemical studies on lipid changes in Alzheimer's disease brains using an antibody to apolipoprotein E. They unexpectedly discovered that apo E immunoreactivity was associated with amyloid in senile plaques, cerebral vessels, and neurofibrillary tangles, as well as in kuru plaques in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. 3 key findings →

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MicroRNA expression in extracellular vesicles as a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-18

Brain cell-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) in blood offer unique cellular and molecular information related to the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Adult-onset deactivation of autophagy leads to loss of synapse homeostasis and cognitive impairment, with implications for alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Autophagy 2024-07-01

Isolated forebrain synaptosomes, rather than total homogenates, from atg7 iKO mice demonstrated accumulation of synaptic proteins, suggesting that the synapse might be a vulnerable site for protein homeostasis disruption. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Effect of APOE genotype on amyloid plaque load and gray matter volume in Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2009-04-01

These results indicate that the epsilon4-positive APOE genotype not only represents a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), but also results in higher levels of Abeta plaque deposition in epsilon4-positive patients with AD compared to age-matched epsilon4-negative patients with similar levels of cognitive impairment and brain atrophy. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Apolipoprotein E4 inhibits autophagy gene products through direct, specific binding to CLEAR motifs

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-09-22

ApoE4-CLEAR interactions may account for suppressed autophagy in APOE ɛ4/ɛ4 carriers and, in this way, contribute to earlier AD onset. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Contributions of brain insulin resistance and deficiency in amyloid-related neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Drugs 2012-01-01

Growing evidence supports the concept that AD is fundamentally a metabolic disease that results in progressive impairment in the brain's capacity to utilize glucose and respond to insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IGF) stimulation. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Dietary exposure to an environmental toxin triggers neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid deposits in the brain

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Proceedings. Biological sciences 2016-01-01

Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) and β-amyloid plaques are the neurological hallmarks of both Alzheimer's disease and an unusual paralytic illness suffered by Chamorro villagers on the Pacific island of Guam. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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From across this tag

10 of the 1,344 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.

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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. 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 27,780 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 27,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.1% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.3%), 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.

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