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Research

30,980 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 451–475 of 703 studies with an author at Washington University in St. Louis (US) (page 19 of 29) · 30,980 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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Names as each record prints them; the same person can appear under two spellings.

Other institutions

From OpenAlex; 16,452 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

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.

TREM2 inhibition triggers antitumor cell activity of myeloid cells in glioblastoma

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Science advances 2023-05-12

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) plays important roles in brain microglial function in neurodegenerative diseases, but the role of TREM2 in the GBM TME has not been examined. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Alzheimer's disease-linked risk alleles elevate microglial cGAS-associated senescence and neurodegeneration in a tauopathy model

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neuron 2024-09-30

The strongest risk factors for late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) include the ε4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE), the R47H variant of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), and female sex. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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

Microglia at sites of atrophy restrict the progression of retinal degeneration via galectin-3 and Trem2

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2024-01-30

Outer retinal degenerations, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), are characterized by photoreceptor and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) atrophy. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Infiltration by CXCL10 Secreting Macrophages Is Associated With Antitumor Immunity and Response to Therapy in Ovarian Cancer Subtypes

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2021-06-18

Ovarian carcinomas (OCs) are poorly immunogenic and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have offered a modest benefit. 4 key findings →

Participants: 312 Evidence: low

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Dynamic changes in plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in patients treated with lecanemab: a longitudinal cohort study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Lancet Neurology 2026-09-01

The study included 197 patients in whom lecanemab infusions had been started (lecanemab group), as well as 173 patients in whom lecanemab had been ordered but not yet started, who were combined with 1139 research participants with cognitive impairment from the Knight ADRC cohort to form the untreated control group with cognitive impairment (n=1312). 5 key findings →

Design: cohort study Participants: 1,312 Evidence: moderate

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Assessing the clinical meaningfulness of slowing CDR‐SB progression with disease‐modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2025-01-01

A total of 282 participants were followed for an average of 2.9 years (standard deviation [SD] 1.3 years). 5 key findings →

Participants: 282 Evidence: low

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The Uniform Data Set (UDS): Clinical and Cognitive Variables and Descriptive Data From Alzheimer Disease Centers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 2006-10-01

A Clinical Task Force, composed of clinical leaders from Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADC), was convened by the National Institute on Aging to develop a uniform set of assessment procedures to characterize individuals with mild Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment in comparison with nondemented aging.

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Clinical Dementia Rating: A Reliable and Valid Diagnostic and Staging Measure for Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 1997-12-01

Global staging measures for dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) assess the influence of cognitive loss on the ability to conduct everyday activities and represent the "ultimate test" of efficacy for antidementia drug trials.

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Comprehension of an Elevated Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Biomarker Result by Cognitively Normal Older Adults

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-01-01

The Study of Knowledge and Reactions to Amyloid Testing, a substudy of an AD prevention trial, involved 2 semistructured telephone interviews with 80 participants recruited from 9 study sites: 50 received elevated and 30 received not elevated amyloid PET scan results. 5 key findings →

Participants: 80 Evidence: low

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Comparison of cerebrospinal fluid, plasma and neuroimaging biomarker utility in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain communications 2024-03-15

The results demonstrate that, although the number of biomarkers has rapidly expanded, many are interrelated and few strongly predict clinical outcomes. 1 key finding →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: moderate

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Proteomic clusters underlie heterogeneity in preclinical Alzheimer's disease progression

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-07-01

Heterogeneity in progression to Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses challenges for both clinical prognosis and clinical trial implementation. 3 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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TREM2 variants: new keys to decipher Alzheimer disease pathogenesis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2016-02-25

Genome-wide association studies have identified rare variants of the gene that encodes triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) - an immune receptor that is found in brain microglia - as risk factors for non-familial Alzheimer disease (AD). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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APOE4-specific changes in Aβ accumulation in a new transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2012-10-11

APOE4 is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD) and synergistic effects with amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) suggest interactions among apoE isoforms and different forms of Aβ accumulation. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Very mild Alzheimer's disease: informant-based clinical, psychometric, and pathologic distinction from normal aging

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 1991-04-01

We compare clinicopathologic data from 10 subjects identified in the very mild stage of senile dementia of the Alzheimer type with findings from similar studies in four cognitively normal subjects. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Absence of Pittsburgh compound B detection of cerebral amyloid beta in a patient with clinical, cognitive, and cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer disease: a case report

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-12-01

Clinical, cognitive, and CSF markers consistent with AD may precede detection of cerebral amyloid beta using amyloid imaging agents such as PiB that primarily label fibrillar amyloid beta plaques. 2 key findings →

Design: case report 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 30,980 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 30,980 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (65.2% of the library) and OpenAlex (16.4%), 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.

1,042 records (3.4% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 967 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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