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Research

28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 301–325 of 612 studies in Brain tissue and pathology (page 13 of 25) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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Each number is how many studies that link shows, with your other filters kept.

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Authors

Names as each record prints them; the same person can appear under two spellings.

Institutions

From OpenAlex; 13,658 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

What “Brain tissue and pathology” covers

Brain tissue and pathology — What is found in the brain itself, usually after death: plaques, tangles and other changes, and how they match symptoms in life.

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.

Long-Term Respiratory and Neurological Sequelae of COVID-19

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research 2020-11-01

Since the initial reports of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China in late 2019, infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have spread rapidly, resulting in a global pandemic that has caused millions of deaths. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TDP-43 mediates degeneration in a novel Drosophila model of disease caused by mutations in VCP/p97

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-06-01

Inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget's disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD) is a dominantly inherited degenerative disorder caused by mutations in the valosin-containing protein (VCP7) gene. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Microvasculature changes and cerebral amyloid angiopathy in Alzheimer's disease and their potential impact on therapy

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2009-02-22

The introduction of immunotherapy and its ultimate success will require re-evaluation of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease particularly with regard to the role of the ageing microvasculature and the effects of APOE genotype. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The characteristic features of auditory verbal hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups: state-of-the-art overview and future directions

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Schizophrenia bulletin 2012-04-12

Despite a growing interest in auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) in different clinical and nonclinical groups, the phenomenological characteristics of such experiences have not yet been reviewed and contrasted, limiting our understanding of these phenomena on multiple empirical, theoretical, and clinical levels. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Correlation of hypointensities in susceptibility-weighted images to tissue histology in dementia patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a postmortem MRI study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2010-03-01

Neuroimaging with iron-sensitive MR sequences [gradient echo T2* and susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI)] identifies small signal voids that are suspected brain microbleeds. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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A comparison of clinical features in early- and late-onset primary degenerative dementia. One entity or two?

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1983-03-01

The prevalence of a number of clinical features occurring in patients with early- (before age 65) and late-onset primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer type (PDDAT) are compared. 3 key findings →

Participants: 65 Evidence: low

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Mutations in DNMT1 cause autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, deafness and narcolepsy

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2012-02-09

Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, deafness and narcolepsy (ADCA-DN) is characterized by late onset (30-40 years old) cerebellar ataxia, sensory neuronal deafness, narcolepsy-cataplexy and dementia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Molecular mechanisms and consequences of TDP-43 phosphorylation in neurodegeneration

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2025-05-08

Increased phosphorylation of TDP-43 is a pathological hallmark of several neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Passive immunotherapy against Abeta in aged APP-transgenic mice reverses cognitive deficits and depletes parenchymal amyloid deposits in spite of increased vascular amyloid and microhemorrhage

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2004-12-08

Anti-Abeta immunotherapy in transgenic mice reduces both diffuse and compact amyloid deposits, improves memory function and clears early-stage phospho-tau aggregates. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TDP-43 and FUS RNA-binding proteins bind distinct sets of cytoplasmic messenger RNAs and differently regulate their post-transcriptional fate in motoneuron-like cells

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2012-03-16

The RNA-binding proteins TDP-43 and FUS form abnormal cytoplasmic aggregates in affected tissues of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar dementia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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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 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.

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 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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