27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
In 3T MRI visually inspected by experts, quantification of hippocampal volume and signal can increase the detection of hippocampal sclerosis in 28% of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. 1 key finding →
Participants: 125 Evidence: low
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Controversy persists regarding whether Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a distinct entity or instead exists on a continuum with nondemented aging. 5 key findings →
Participants: 150 Evidence: low
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Chronic exposure to increased glucocorticoid concentrations appears to lower the threshold for hippocampal neuronal degeneration in the old rat. 1 key finding →
Evidence: high
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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common psychiatric disorder for which available medications are often not effective. 4 key findings →
Participants: 23 Evidence: low
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This study demonstrates permanent cognitive impairment in several domains in both septic and non-septic ICU survivors and unspecific brain dysfunction. 3 key findings →
Participants: 25 Evidence: low
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These findings are consistent with smaller left hippocampal volume in depression. 4 key findings →
Participants: 16 Evidence: low
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We have previously reported smaller hippocampal volume and deficits in short-term memory in patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relative to comparison subjects. 2 key findings →
Participants: 17 Evidence: low
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Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interaction, deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and a restricted repertoire of activities or interests. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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In the mature brain, chronic alcohol use disorders are associated with graded global brain dysmorphology. 3 key findings →
Participants: 12 Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) researchers commonly use MRI as a quantitative measure of disease severity. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Medication-free nonelderly depressed outpatients without alcohol dependence or adverse experiences in childhood had normal hippocampal volume. 4 key findings →
Participants: 22 Evidence: low
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The amygdala is a key structure in the brain's integration of emotional meaning with perception and experience. 1 key finding →
Participants: 20 Evidence: low
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Changes in human HFV associated with sustained hypercortisolemia are reversible, at least in part, once cortisol levels decrease. 5 key findings →
Participants: 22 Evidence: low
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We used magnetic resonance imaging to examine the morphologic characteristics of the amygdala/hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and caudate nucleus in 29 healthy volunteers matched for age, gender, and head of household socioeconomic status and 44 patients with chronic schizophrenia. 3 key findings →
Participants: 44 Evidence: low
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Older depressed subjects have persisting cognitive impairments associated with hippocampal volume reduction, but the results do not support cortisol-mediated hippocampal neurotoxicity as the major etiological mechanism. 4 key findings →
Participants: 49 Evidence: low
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In a study of 52 individuals belonging to 35 species or subspecies of passerine birds it was shown that the volume of the hippocampal complex relative to brain and body size is significantly larger in species that store food than in species that do not. 2 key findings →
Participants: 52 Evidence: low
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Many survivors of breast cancer show significant cognitive impairments, including memory deficits. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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These data show that smaller hippocampal volumes are present from the onset of illness. 5 key findings →
Participants: 46 Evidence: low
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Maternal separation and poor maternal care in animals have been shown to have important effects on the developing hippocampus and amygdala. 5 key findings →
Participants: 17 Evidence: low
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Magnetic resonance imaging was used to quantify the volume of the hippocampus in 47 men with chronic alcoholism and 72 healthy male control subjects. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed on 21 healthy elderly controls, 14 subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 15 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to investigate changes in fMRI activation in relation to underlying structural atrophy. 2 key findings →
Participants: 14 Evidence: low
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The ability to detect patients at high risk for Alzheimer type dementia among those with minor cognitive impairment increases when data on age and memory function are combined with measures of medial temporal lobe atrophy. 3 key findings →
Participants: 31 Evidence: low
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All biomarkers were sensitive to the diagnostic group. 2 key findings →
Participants: 73 Evidence: low
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The epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but limited work has suggested that APOE genotype may modulate disease phenotype. 3 key findings →
Participants: 67 Evidence: low
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In major depression, decreased hippocampal volume has been attributed to hypercortisolemia, a frequent sign of the disorder, because in animals an excess of corticosteroids has led to dendritic atrophy, astrogliosis and loss of neurons in this brain region. 1 key finding →
Participants: 15 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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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.
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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.
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