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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 76–100 of 118 studies (page 4 of 5) · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

Showing 118 studies tagged sensory — clear

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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.

Neuropathological Findings of Dementia Associated With Subjective Hearing Loss

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology 2019-10

Two-hundred and seventy-three subjects were included, 189 normal hearing and 84 subjective hearing loss subjects. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

[Senses and dementia : sensory loss and dementia risk]

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Revue medicale de Liege 2024-11

In the course of several neurodegenerative conditions, the presence of a sensory alteration, even before the appearance of cognitive disorders or complaints concerning autonomy, can potentially lead to earlier diagnosis and more efficient management of these complex patients. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in the Aging Population: Emerging Perspectives in Audiology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Audiology research 2024-05-23

In this perspective article, the author explores the connections between hearing loss, central auditory processing, and cognitive decline, offering insights into the complex dynamics at play. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Alterations to cognitive abilities and functional networks in rats post broad-band intense noise exposure

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2022-05-11

This study aimed to investigate the alterations of cognition and functional connectivity post noise, and find the progress and neural substrates of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL)-associated cognitive impairment. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment: Epidemiology, Common Pathophysiological Findings, and Treatment Considerations

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-10-17

In recent years, there has been increasing research interest in the correlation between hearing impairment and cognitive decline, two conditions that have demonstrated a strong association. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Mobile applications to detect hearing impairment: opportunities and challenges

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2019-09-03

Hearing loss affects close to 1.3 billion people and is a growing global health concern as the fourth leading contributor to years lived with disability. 1 The global economic cost associated with hearing loss is estimated at 750 billion United States dollars (US$) annually.2 However, hearing loss has limited public health support, especially in low-and middle-income countries, where incidence is high and resources often scarce and unequally distributed.

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

A review of new insights on the association between hearing loss and cognitive decline in ageing

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale 2016-06-01

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) has a multifactorial pathogenesis and it is an inevitable hearing impairment associated with reduction of communicative skills related to ageing. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Age-related hearing loss: prevention of threshold declines, cell loss and apoptosis in spiral ganglion neurons

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Aging 2016-09-01

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) -presbycusis - is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease and number one communication disorder of our aged population; and affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

From across this tag

6 of the 118 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 6. The same 6 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 27,380 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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