29,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) manifests as a chronic neurodegenerative syndrome featuring cognitive impairment alongside characteristic neuropathological markers: amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and tau-associated neurofibrillary tangles. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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La enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA) fue descrita por primera vez en una mujer, Augusta D, cuyo caso reveló las características neuropatológicas clásicas de placas amiloides y ovillos neurofibrilares. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Directed conversion of mature human cells, as from fibroblasts to neurons, is of potential clinical utility for neurological disease modeling as well as cell therapeutics. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Although large numbers of microRNAs (miRNAs) expressed in Alzheimer disease (AD) have been detected, their functions and mechanisms of regulation remain to be fully clarified. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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KEY POINTSO_LIThis paper demonstrates the feasibility of implementing Geriatric ED programs with targeted support for people living with or at risk for dementia across three distinct health systems in San Francisco. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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ObjectivesNon-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) holds significant promise for treating neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions, yet translation into routine clinical practice remains limited. 1 key finding →
Participants: 33 Evidence: low
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BackgroundDementia is rising worldwide, and in Alzheimer Disease (AD) the loss of communication adds to the burden. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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BackgroundBone marrow megakaryocytes, the primary source of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the blood, secrete BDNF-packed platelets into the bloodstream. 3 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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IntroductionGenetic studies have shown the APOL1 variant p.N264K, also called M1, is associated with markedly lower kidney disease risk when co-inherited with the G2-risk allele. 4 key findings →
Participants: 40,909 Evidence: low
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This work suggests that although parity history and PSEN2 deficiency exert individual differing age-related effects on cognition and neurobiology, they do not act synergistically. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Familial Alzheimer’s disease (AD) mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP) alter amyloid-β (Aβ) secretion profiles, but their effects on neuronal protein and lipid homeostasis remain incompletely understood. 4 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Endolysosomal dysfunction is a central feature of many neurodegenerative disorders. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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These findings identify conserved regulatory networks that may contribute to female-biased microglial responses to AD pathology across mice and humans. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change (LATE-NC) frequently co-occurs with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology and has been studied mainly in older populations. 3 key findings →
Participants: 196 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is accompanied by profound cerebrovascular dysfunction, yet it remains unclear whether endothelial abnormalities reflect only vascular injury or altered regulatory states connecting vascular remodeling with metabolic and immune function. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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These integrated findings support H. erinaceus as a candidate adjunct to donepezil, with possible complementary effects on amyloidogenic processing and intracellular clearance. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Based on the exacerbated AD pathological features and transcriptomic alterations observed in Arf4 knockdown animals, ARF4 appears to play a critical role in AD resilience and may represent a potential prognostic factor worthy of further investigation. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and both conditions are associated with impaired glucose metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Realising PCC in YOD requires not only identifying individual needs and appropriate care components, but also ongoing alignment of changing needs, expectations, timing, and responsibilities across the care trajectory. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Intracellular neurofibrillary tangles formed from hyperphosphorylated tau and extracellular amyloid plaques containing aggregated Aβ-peptides, specific cleavage products of the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP), are the primary histopathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia in humans. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Drugs that target APP have already been developed for AD and our data suggests they offer an exciting opportunity for repurposing in the treatment of prostate cancer. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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2µM FAM labelled β-amyloid 1–40 was transported through CLEFF4 cells with an apparent permeability (Papp) of 4.47x10 − 6 cm/sec in the efflux direction (Basolateral (Bas) to apical (Ap)) while Ap to Bas direction was only 1.67x10 − 6 cm/sec. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Familial Alzheimer’s disease (fAD) is an early-onset form of AD caused by autosomal-dominant variants in APP, PSEN1, or PSEN2, with PSEN1 accounting for most genetically defined cases [1]. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is characterised by two histopathological hallmarks, intracellular tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles and extracellular amyloid plaques containing β-amyloid (Aβ), a specific cleavage product of Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Naturally occurring axonal pruning and neuronal cell death help to sculpt neuronal connections during development, but their mechanistic basis remains poorly understood. 1 key finding →
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.
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.
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See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 29,780 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 29,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (63.8% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.1%), 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.
1,037 records (3.5% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 964 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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