28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
The present patients with positive GFAP-immunoglobulin G are highly similar to autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy, described in a recent report. 3 key findings →
Participants: 19 Evidence: low
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This mass spectrometry-based plasma biomarker test: has strong diagnostic performance; can accurately distinguish brain amyloid positive from amyloid negative individuals; may aid in the diagnostic evaluation process for Alzheimer's disease; and may enhance the efficiency of enrolling participants into Alzheimer's disease drug trials. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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In a population of cognitively unimpaired adults with increased risk of AD, long-term exposure to air pollution was associated with higher levels in biomarkers of AD pathology. 5 key findings →
Participants: 156 Evidence: low
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An ERICA score of 2 or greater indicates probable AD with high diagnostic accuracy. © RSNA, 2018 Online supplemental material is available for this article. 3 key findings →
Participants: 20 Evidence: moderate
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It is possible to create a blood-based screening algorithm that works across both serum and plasma that provides a comparable screening accuracy to that obtained from CSF analyses. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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There is an urgent need for biomarkers in plasma to identify Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Participants: 142 Evidence: low
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These findings indicate that although plasma and CSF neurogranin may reflect the volume of acute cerebral ischemia, this synaptic protein is less likely to be a potential AIS biomarker. 4 key findings →
Participants: 50 Evidence: low
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Diagnosis of the progressive neurodegenerative disorder Alzheimer's disease (AD) can only definitively be made postmortem. 4 key findings →
Participants: 270 Evidence: moderate
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High plasma HDL cholesterol was observationally associated with increased risk of any dementia and Alzheimer's disease, suggesting that HDL cholesterol can be used as an easily accessible plasma biomarker for individual risk assessment. 5 key findings →
Participants: 111 Evidence: low
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An ideal diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD) should be non-invasive and easily applicable. 1 key finding →
Participants: 155 Evidence: low
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Plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) both reflect early changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. 3 key findings →
Participants: 88 Evidence: low
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All markers tracked neuropathological severity, with BD p-tau217 having larger fold-changes than p-tau217 but BD p-tau217/Aβ42 enhancing this further. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Plasma p-tau217 was 57% higher in subjects with at least one APOE ε4 allele, increased with age, was higher in males, and negatively correlated with brain volume measures by magnetic resonance imaging. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The assay demonstrated strong analytical performance, with repeatability and intermediate precision (%CV < 7%) and an LLoQ of 0.12 pg/mL. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Movement disorders have been carefully clinically defined, based on clinico-pathological series; however there is often diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty, especially in early stage disease. 1 key finding →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a marker of brain atrophy and predictor of disease progression in rare diseases such as Huntington Disease, but also in more common neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. 5 key findings →
Participants: 62 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent dementia, but it shows similar initial symptoms to other neurocognitive diseases (Lewy body disease (LBD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)). 1 key finding →
Participants: 50 Evidence: low
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Pairwise comparisons among the three groups showed that compared with the health checkup (HC) group, serum NfL and GFAP were increased in both AD and MCI (PNfL < 0.05, PGFAP < 0.01). 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Among diagnostic groups, highest plasma Nfl and t-tau concentrations were detected in CJD (fold changes of 38 and 18, respectively, compared to HC). 5 key findings →
Participants: 70 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a complex polygenic neurodegenerative disorder. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a marker of neuronal damage in different neurological disorders and might predict disease progression in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). 2 key findings →
Participants: 45 Evidence: low
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NfL) concentration has reproducibly been shown to reflect neurodegeneration in brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Participants: 227 Evidence: low
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GRN mutations, causing frontotemporal dementia, can be associated with atypical white matter hyperintensities (WMH). 2 key findings →
Participants: 12 Evidence: low
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Pre-analytical immunoprecipitation resulted in a significant increase in the area under the ROC curve (AUC) from 0.73 to 0.88 (p = 0.01547) for identifying subjects with abnormal CSF Aβ42/40. 4 key findings →
Participants: 42 Evidence: low
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The plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio was significantly lower, and the APS higher, in PWoH_AD than in other groups. 4 key findings →
Participants: 43 Evidence: low
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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.
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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.
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