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Research

30,980 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 926–950 of 1,139 studies in Cognitive tests and assessment marked Peer-reviewed (page 38 of 46) · 30,980 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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What “Cognitive tests and assessment” covers

Cognitive tests and assessment — Memory and thinking tests, screening tools and rating scales: how well they measure what they claim to.

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.

Online Learning for Classification of Alzheimer Disease based on Cortical Thickness and Hippocampal Shape Analysis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Healthcare informatics research 2014-01-31

In this paper, we presented a classification method based on online learning for AD diagnosis by employing both cortical thickness data and hippocampal shape analysis data. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

The efficacy and practicality of the Neurotrack Cognitive Battery assessment for utilization in clinical settings for the identification of cognitive decline in an older Japanese population

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-08-31

This suggests that the N-CAB assessment battery may be an appropriate alternative for the clinical screening of cognition for earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Virtual navigation tested on a mobile app is predictive of real-world wayfinding navigation performance

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2018-04-22

Virtual reality environments presented on tablets and smartphones have potential to aid the early diagnosis of conditions such as Alzheimer’s dementia by quantifying impairments in navigation performance. 2 key findings →

Participants: 60 Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Alzheimer's disease comorbidity in normal pressure hydrocephalus: prevalence and shunt response

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2000-06-01

The clinical impact of Alzheimer's disease pathology at biopsy was investigated in 56 cognitively impaired patients undergoing shunt surgery for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The Clock Drawing Test for dementia of the Alzheimer's type: A comparison of three scoring methods in a memory disorders clinic

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 1997-06-01

Retrospective analysis of clock drawing performance using three published scoring methods (Shulman, Sunderland and Wolf-Klein). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Evaluation of chewing ability and its relationship with activities of daily living, depression, cognitive status and food intake in the community-dwelling elderly

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Geriatrics & gerontology international 2012-12-21

The aim of this study was to assess chewing ability using color-changeable chewing gum and to show the association between chewing ability and geriatric functions, as well as dietary status in the community-dwelling elderly. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Psychiatric morbidity in terminally ill cancer patients. A prospective study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Cancer 1996-09-01

In the study by Derogatis et al., which included patients with all stages of cancer, 47% of the patients met the DSM-III criteria for a psychiatric disorder, with adjustment disorders being the most common. 4 key findings →

Participants: 26 Evidence: low

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Effect of tacrine on behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: an open-label study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 1996-01-01

We conducted an open-label study designed to assess the effects of tacrine on behavioral changes in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Design: open-label trial Evidence: low

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Instruments for screening for depression and dementia in a long-term care facility

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1989-01-01

The high prevalence of mental disorders such as depression and dementia in institutionalized elderly patients warrants screening for psychiatric diagnosis in patients newly admitted to long-term care facilities. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): validation study for vascular dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2012-06-08

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief instrument developed for the screening of milder forms of cognitive impairment, having surpassed the well-known limitations of the MMSE. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Accuracy of the Mini-Mental Status Examination as a screening test for dementia in a Swedish elderly population

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 1993-04-01

The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) as a screening test for dementia in an elderly Swedish population. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Long-term estrogen replacement therapy in female patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type: 7 case reports

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Dementia (Basel, Switzerland) 1995-03-01

Seven female patients with mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) were treated with long-term, low-dose estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) over a period of 5-45 months. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Deciding on genetic testing for familial dementia: Perspectives of patients and families

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-04-01

Of 138 (27%) eligible patients (46% female, age 61 ± 8 years, Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] 22 ± 6), 75 (54%) underwent genetic testing. 5 key findings →

Participants: 15 Evidence: low

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Data-driven characterization of distinct cognitive subtypes in Parkinson’s disease dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2025-05-09

Individual cognitive profiles of patients with Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) are highly heterogeneous, suggesting possible biological subtypes. 1 key finding →

Participants: 50 Evidence: low

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Psychometric properties of International HIV Dementia Scale as screening tool for neurocognitive disorder among people living with HIV/AIDS

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-10-29

Multivariable linear regression analysis indicated that being married (β = 0.6, p-value = 0.02) and being a young adult (β = 0.52, p-value = 0.04) were significantly associated with better neurocognitive performance. 1 key finding →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 59 Evidence: low

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CSF Acetylated Tau‐174 as a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01

AcTau174 levels were elevated in all dementia groups compared to controls, with a stepwise increase from controls to MCI-AD (2.2-fold) to AD dementia (3.5-fold, Figure 1). 5 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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Representing the Cognitive Impairment Continuum of Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia with a Novel Finer‐Scale Cortical Representation via Disease Embedding Tree

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01

The DET framework has achieved superior performance on the classification task across all the evaluation metrics compared to the traditional machine learning based methods, as demonstrated in Table 1. 4 key findings →

Participants: 106 Evidence: low

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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 30,980 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 30,980 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (65.2% of the library) and OpenAlex (16.4%), 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.

1,042 records (3.4% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 967 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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