28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Epidemiological studies have reported that highly fluoridated drinking water may significantly decrease the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of exposed children. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Currently, several immunotherapies and BACE (Beta Site APP Cleaving Enzyme) inhibitor approaches are being tested in the clinic for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The current study provides opportunities for safer approaches that using compounds derived from plants and links it to nanotechnology, could be used in the pharmaceutical industry to treat Alzheimer’s disease. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains a significant global health challenge with limited FDA-approved treatments, necessitating the search for novel preventive strategies. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Intramembrane proteolysis by γ-secretase is critically implicated in Alzheimer disease pathogenesis by processing of its amyloid precursor protein substrate C99 into harmful amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) species. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) results from both gain of toxicity and loss of normal function of the RNA-binding protein TDP-43, but their mechanistic connection remains unclear. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a common age-related disorder, a prominent comorbidity of Alzheimer disease (AD), and causes vascular cognitive impairment and dementia. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are progressive neurodegenerative diseases characterised by nuclear TDP-43 loss. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion induced by permanent unilateral common carotid artery occlusion in mice was recently found to induce an age-dependent formation of insoluble cytoplasmic TDP-43 aggregates reminiscent of pathological changes found in human vascular dementia. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Vascular dementia is a common cognitive disorder that is often triggered by neuroinflammatory responses caused by cerebrovascular injury, which further exacerbates the progression of the disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: high
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The data suggest that TNFSF10 system-targeted treatment effectively restrain overshooting central and peripheral inflammation by rebalancing the overall immune response, mitigating the progression of AD pathology. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Dietary supplement silver nanoparticles have recently drawn attention following reports of hazards associated with long-term use. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) profoundly affects patient well-being and has been proposed as a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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GLP-1 RAs may offer neuroprotective benefits in patients with postoperative delirium and encephalopathies.. 3 key findings →
Participants: 38 Evidence: low
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We investigated a possible role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) for FKBP12, a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase known to be important in protein assembly, folding and transportation by using Western blotting and microscopic analyses in postmortem brain tissues from elderly controls and the patients with AD. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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To investigate the roles imposed on astrocytes for glutamate metabolism, a specific inhibitor of glutamine synthetase (GS), methionine sulfoximine (MSO), was repeatedly administered to rats and histopathological changes were correlated with glycogen accumulation and the immunocytochemistry of GS and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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A double blind, placebo-controlled phase II study revealed that the antihistamine, Dimebon® (dimebolin, latrepirdine) improved cognition in Alzheimer disease (AD) patients compared to placebo controls. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We observed that mice lacking IR in GFAP astrocytes (GFAP IR KO mice) develop mood disturbances and maintained intact cognition, while at the same time show greater pathology when cross-bred with APP/PS1 mice, a model of familial Alzheimer´s disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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YKL-39 is a Glyco_18 domain containing chitinase-like protein which is currently recognized as a biomarker for the activation of chondrocytes and the progress of the osteoarthritis in human. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Besides the typical cognitive decline, patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) develop disorders of the respiratory system, such as sleep apnea, shortness of breath, and arrhythmias. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The knockdown of α7 nAChR in the hippocampus of adult mice rapidly induced cognitive deficits, impairments in learning and memory, and led to the increase of amyloid-β levels, Tau protein aggregation, neuronal damage, and the activation of astrocytes and microglia. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Dementia, a complex and debilitating spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases, presents a profound challenge in the quest for effective treatments. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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mice, compared with that of 5xFAD mice, a well-established AD mouse model with β-amyloid plaque pathology. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In tauopathies, defects in autophagy-lysosomal protein degradation are thought to contribute to the abnormal accumulation of aggregated tau. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the term “dementia”, describes a specific neuropathology together with the development and progression of age-related cognitive and functional loss. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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10 of the 1,155 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 28,180 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 28,180 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.7% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.1%), 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.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →