27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Denmark is experiencing unprecedented population ageing, highlighting the importance of understanding age-related diseases, including dementia. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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By identifying aggregation-prone segments in proteins, AGGRESCAN http://bioinf.uab.es/aggrescan/ shall facilitate (i) the identification of possible therapeutic targets for anti-depositional strategies in conformational diseases and (ii) the anticipation of aggregation phenomena during storage or recombinant production of bioactive polypeptides or polypeptide sets. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Several epidemiological studies indicate that moderate consumption of wine is associated with a lower incidence of Alzheimer's disease. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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This is a review, not a new study: a panel of scientists and clinicians examined the existing evidence on how sex and gender shape Alzheimer's risk, symptoms, and care. 4 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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The study involved 649 individuals in the CI group, 35,076 in the HA, 16,494 in the NR, and 1,280,788 in the NHL group. 5 key findings →
Participants: 649 Evidence: low
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We found significant associations between ADRD risk and particulate matter <2.5 µm in diameter and nitrogen dioxide in women. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) with mild dementia is becoming increasingly important to enable patients to receive appropriate treatment with available amyloid-targeting therapies. 5 key findings →
Design: narrative review Evidence: low
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The new CPS provides a functional view of cognitive performance, using readily available MDS data. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The incidence of dementia declined by 26% percent (95% confidence interval: -26.2; -25.3), from 2020 per 100 000 insured individuals in 2015 to 1500 per 100 000 in 2022. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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From 1990 to 2021, the incidence, prevalence, and DALYs of ADOD have significantly risen both globally and in China, with the growth rates in China notably surpassing the global average. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Compared to persons without IDD, cumulative incidence of dementia was on average 4.27 and 5.33 times higher in persons with Non-DS IDD and DS respectively and period prevalence of dementia was on average 4.87 and 5.93 times higher in persons with Non-DS IDD and DS respectively. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is closely related to the aggregation of a normal protein, beta-amyloid (Abeta), within the neocortex. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The problem with pure recombinant or synthetic antigens used in modern day vaccines is that they are generally far less immunogenic than older style live or killed whole organism vaccines. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Lower birth rate is an independent risk factor for dementia, particularly in developed countries. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Symptoms of mania have been given inadequate attention as a source of agitated behavior in the dementia patient. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The term Precision Aging describes an approach that focuses on multi-domain profiles of risks impacting individual trajectories of age-related cognitive functioning. 3 key findings →
Participants: 555 Evidence: moderate
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BackgroundPathogenic variants in GCH1 have been associated with Parkinsons disease (PD), but the clinical phenotype and longitudinal disease course of GCH1-associated PD remain incompletely characterized. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 22,825 Evidence: moderate
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IntroductionNeuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS)--including aggression, psychosis, anxiety, apathy, and depression--affect up to 85% of individuals with Alzheimers disease (AD) and are among its most disabling and costly manifestations, accelerating cognitive and functional decline, institutionalization, mortality, and healthcare costs. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Rapamycin, an FDA-approved inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, has demonstrated promising anti-aging and neuroprotective effects. 4 key findings →
Participants: 23 Evidence: moderate
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Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II variation is implicated in Alzheimers disease (AD) and longevity, but its mechanisms within the major histocompatibility complex remain unclear. 2 key findings →
Participants: 6,053 Evidence: moderate
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Early identification of Alzheimers disease and related dementias (ADRD) remains challenging despite its importance for timely intervention, management of modifiable risk factors, and care planning. 2 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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BackgroundThe prevalence and pattern of secondary causes of first-onset psychosis (FEP) in Asian populations are understudied. 2 key findings →
Participants: 37 Evidence: moderate
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ObjectiveRegression-based normative approaches are widely used in neuropsychology but often rely on score transformations to satisfy model assumptions. 1 key finding →
Participants: 131 Evidence: moderate
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In female participants, higher education was associated with lower Thal amyloid phase, diffuse plaques, neuritic plaques, and Braak stage ({beta} range, -0.097 to -0.071; qFDR<.026); none was significant among male participants. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 2,592 Evidence: moderate
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Spatial omics enables the integration of high-dimensional molecular organization with clinical outcomes, yet incorporating spatial single-cell information into predictive models at the population scale remains challenging. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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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 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.
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.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →