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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 26–50 of 62 studies with an author at Veterans Health Administration (US) (page 2 of 3) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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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.

Mid-life smoking and late-life dementia: the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2003-07-01

We studied the association between mid-life smoking and late-life dementia in the Honolulu Heart Program (1965-1971) and follow-up assessment for dementia (1991-1996) of 3734 Japanese-American men (80% of survivors). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Comparisons of verbal fluency tasks in the detection of dementia of the Alzheimer type

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1992-12-01

The performances of 89 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) and 53 demographically matched elderly normal control subjects were compared on four verbal fluency measures (category, letter, first names, and supermarket fluency). 3 key findings →

Participants: 89 Evidence: low

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Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 in Participants at Risk for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA network open 2026-07-01

In vivo biomarkers for detecting neuropathologies from repetitive head impacts (RHI), including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), are needed. 4 key findings →

Design: case-control study Participants: 231 Evidence: moderate

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Benefits of influenza vaccination for low-, intermediate-, and high-risk senior citizens

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 1998-09-01

This study confirms that healthy senior citizens as well as senior citizens with underlying medical conditions are at risk for the serious complications of influenza and benefit from vaccination. 2 key findings →

Participants: 20,000 Evidence: low

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Longitudinal evaluation of dementia of the Alzheimer type: a comparison of 3 standardized mental status examinations

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 1990-08-01

We administered 3 commonly employed tests of mental status (the Information-Memory-Concentration test [IMC], the Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE], and the Dementia Rating Scale [DRS]) to 92 patients with probable dementia of the Alzheimer type. 4 key findings →

Participants: 92 Evidence: low

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Interleukin-1 mediates pathological effects of microglia on tau phosphorylation and on synaptophysin synthesis in cortical neurons through a p38-MAPK pathway

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2003-03-01

The presence of tangles of abnormally phosphorylated tau is a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the loss of synapses correlates with the degree of dementia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Alzheimer’s disease polygenic risk’s association with all-cause dementia through the plasma metabolome in the UK Biobank study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. GeroScience 2025-06-30

Higher AD PRS was associated with increased risks of all-cause dementia (HR: 1.75, 95% CI: 1.70-1.79, P < 0.001) and AD (HR: 2.02, 95% CI: 1.95-2.09, P < 0.001), with stronger effects in women for both outcomes when considering the main AD PRS which was related to APOE4 status. 4 key findings →

Participants: 249 Evidence: low

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Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-Based Caregiver Decision Aid (Safety in Dementia) for Firearm Access: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2021-09-22

SiD represents a new resource for promoting safety among people with dementia, and high acceptability was achieved in a pilot trial. 2 key findings →

Design: clinical trial Participants: 203 Evidence: high

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Dietary antioxidants and other dietary factors in the etiology of Parkinson's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 1997-03-01

It has been suggested that dietary antioxidants reduce Parkinson's disease (PD) risk by neutralizing free radicals, thus preventing injury to neurons in the substantia nigra. 4 key findings →

Design: case-control study Participants: 57 Evidence: moderate

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Association between severe cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cerebrovascular lesions in Alzheimer disease is not a spurious one attributable to apolipoprotein E4

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2000-06-01

Severe CAA confers a greater risk of VLs in AD, even within strata of APOE genotype. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TREM2- and DAP12-dependent activation of PI3K requires DAP10 and is inhibited by SHIP1

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Science signaling 2010-05-18

The activation and fusion of macrophages and of osteoclasts require the adaptor molecule DNAX-activating protein of 12 kD (DAP12), which contains immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs (ITAMs). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Palliative Care Needs of Older Adults With and Without Dementia During Post-Acute Care in Skilled Nursing Facilities

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Applied Gerontology 2025-08-17

Seriously ill older adults, including those living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), often receive disease-focused rehabilitative care in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) with little consideration for their palliative care (PC) needs. 1 key finding →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 52 Evidence: low

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Changes in the sleep and waking EEGs of nondemented and demented elderly subjects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1982-02-01

Sleep and waking EEGs from 11 healthy nondemented elderly men and from ten inpatients for whom the diagnosis was probable senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT), were monitored in the subjects' typical home or ward environments or in the sleep laboratory, according to their customary sleep schedules. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Integrative Brain Transcriptome Analysis Links Complement Component 4 andHSPA2to theAPOEε2 Protective Effect in Alzheimer Disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-11-24

Mechanisms underlying the protective effect of apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) ε2 against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are not well understood. 4 key findings →

Participants: 982 Evidence: low

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Dementia caregiver intervention research: in search of clinical significance

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2002-10-01

Although many studies have reported small to moderate statistically significant effects on a broad range of outcomes, only a small proportion of these studies achieved clinically meaningful outcomes. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Better Assessment of Illness Study (BASIL) II for Delirium Severity: Study Design, Variables, and Methods

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2025-05-16

PurposeDelirium is a common yet preventable complication of hospitalization, surgery and illness that is associated with poor outcomes. 1 key finding →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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The influence of Alzheimer disease family history and apolipoprotein E epsilon4 on mesial temporal lobe activation

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-05-01

First-degree family history of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) and the apolipoprotein E epsilon4 (APOE4) are risk factors for developing AD. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Neuropathology and apolipoprotein E profile of aged chimpanzees: implications for Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1994-09-01

Neuropathological findings in three aged chimpanzees were compared with those in rhesus monkeys and individuals with Alzheimer disease. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Enlarged and phagocytic, but not primed, interleukin-1 alpha-immunoreactive microglia increase with age in normal human brain

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1998-03-01

Microglia-mediated inflammatory responses have been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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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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