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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 551–575 of 1,094 studies in Digital health tools (page 23 of 44) · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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What “Digital health tools” covers

Digital health tools — Apps, wearables, online tests and other technology used to detect, monitor or support people with dementia.

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.

Hippocampal shape analysis of Alzheimer disease based on machine learning methods

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2007-08-01

Subtle and spatially complex deformation patterns of hippocampus between patients with AD and healthy control subjects can be detected by machine learning methods. 2 key findings →

Participants: 19 Evidence: low

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Deficits in narrative discourse elicited by visual stimuli are already present in patients with mild cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2015-05-28

Language batteries used to assess the skills of elderly individuals, such as naming and semantic verbal fluency, present some limitations in differentiating healthy controls from patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI). 1 key finding →

Participants: 77 Evidence: low

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A New Framework for Automatic Detection of Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Resting-State EEG Signals

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2020-07-31

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an indicator representing the early stage of Alzheimier's disease (AD). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Machine Learning, Sentiment Analysis, and Tweets: An Examination of Alzheimer's Disease Stigma on Twitter

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2017-09-01

This technique could be applied to questions in social gerontology related to how social media outlets reflect and shape attitudes bearing on other developmental outcomes. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Usability of a new electronic assistive device for community-dwelling persons with mild dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2012-02-24

With the suggested adaptations, the CDN is expected to be a useful tool for supporting community-dwelling persons with mild dementia and their carers. 1 key finding →

Participants: 12 Evidence: low

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Balance and gait performance in older adults with early-stage cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine 2020-12-01

It is a piece of evidence that cognitive dysfunction, even in early stage of memory decline, may have some bad impact on balance and gait regardless of the effect of musculoskeletal problems. 5 key findings →

Design: post-hoc analysis Evidence: low

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Changes in Motor, Cognitive, and Behavioral Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment During the COVID-19 Lockdown

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2020-12-14

All groups showed a worsening of cognitive (39.6%), pre-existing (37.5%), and new (26%) behavioral symptoms, and motor symptoms (35.4%) during the COVID-19 lockdown, resulting in an increased caregiver burden in 26% of cases. 5 key findings →

Participants: 34 Evidence: low

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Companion robots for older people: importance of user-centred design demonstrated through observations and focus groups comparing preferences of older people and roboticists in South West England

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-09-26

The observed misalignment of opinion between end users and developers on desirable design features of companion robots demonstrates the need for user-centred design during development. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Identifying incident dementia by applying machine learning to a very large administrative claims dataset

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. PloS one 2019-07-05

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are highly prevalent conditions, and prior efforts to develop predictive models have relied on demographic and clinical risk factors using traditional logistical regression methods. 5 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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Varieties of semantic 'access' deficit in Wernicke's aphasia and semantic aphasia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-10-09

Comprehension deficits are common in stroke aphasia, including in cases with (i) semantic aphasia, characterized by poor executive control of semantic processing across verbal and non-verbal modalities; and (ii) Wernicke's aphasia, associated with poor auditory-verbal comprehension and repetition, plus fluent speech with jargon. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Language Performance of Individuals at Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2019-03-01

Language performance deficits can appear early before impairment in episodic memory, visuospatial construction ability, or mental status in individuals at risk for MCI. 5 key findings →

Participants: 86 Evidence: low

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Cortical Thickness from MRI to Predict Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Dementia in Parkinson Disease: A Machine Learning-based Model

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Radiology 2021-05-25

Cortical thickness from MRI helped predict conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia in Parkinson disease at an individual level, with improved performance when integrated with clinical variables. © RSNA, 2021 Online supplemental material is available for this article. 2 key findings →

Participants: 75 Evidence: low

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Occupational Noise: Auditory and Non-Auditory Consequences

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-12-02

Occupational noise exposure accounts for approximately 16% of all disabling hearing losses, but the true value and societal costs may be grossly underestimated because current regulations only identify hearing impairments in the workplace if exposures result in audiometric threshold shifts within a limited frequency region. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Evaluating the Feasibility of Frequent Cognitive Assessment Using the Mezurio Smartphone App: Observational and Interview Study in Adults With Elevated Dementia Risk

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2020-04-02

Despite the extended study duration, participants demonstrated high compliance with the schedule of daily learning tasks and were extremely positive about their experiences. 2 key findings →

Participants: 20 Evidence: low

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The late stage of Parkinson's -results of a large multinational study on motor and non-motor complications

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2020-05-21

These data suggest that current treatment of late stage parkinsonism in the community remains insufficiently effective to alleviate disabling symptoms in many patients. 3 key findings →

Participants: 692 Evidence: low

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Machine Learning-Based Framework for Differential Diagnosis Between Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease Using Structural MRI Features

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2019-10-25

The experimental results demonstrate that the SVM with RBF achieved an encouraging performance with sensitivity (SEN), specificity (SPE), and accuracy (ACC) values of 82.65%, 87.17%, and 84.35%, respectively (AUC = 0.861, 95% CI = 0.820-0.902), for the differential diagnosis between VaD and AD. 2 key findings →

Participants: 93 Evidence: low

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Estimation of Machine Learning–Based Models to Predict Dementia Risk in Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases: UK Biobank Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. JMIR Aging 2025-01-20

The findings of this study suggest that predictive modeling could inform patients and clinicians about ASCVD at risk for dementia. 3 key findings →

Participants: 29,561 Evidence: low

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Predictive factors for dementia among older adults in South Korea: an interpretable machine learning analysis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-11-13

Predictive performance was comparable across algorithms, with R² ranging from 0.201 to 0.361, highest in the MCI_All dataset. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 4,958 Evidence: moderate

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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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