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Research

27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 1–22 of 22 studies with an author at University of California San Diego (US) published 2010 · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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

Other institutions

From OpenAlex; 12,859 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.

HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders persist in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy: CHARTER Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2010-12-01

The most severe HAND diagnosis (HAD) was rare, but milder forms of impairment remained common, even among those receiving CART who had minimal comorbidities. 1 key finding →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 843 Evidence: low

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Brain beta-amyloid measures and magnetic resonance imaging atrophy both predict time-to-progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-10-08

We used a new method of pooling cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 and Pittsburgh compound B positron emission tomography measures to produce equivalent measures of brain Aβ load from either source and analysed the results using multiple imputation methods. 3 key findings →

Participants: 165 Evidence: low

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YKL-40: a novel prognostic fluid biomarker for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2010-11-01

These data demonstrate that YKL-40, a putative indicator of neuroinflammation, is elevated in AD and, together with Aβ42, has potential prognostic utility as a biomarker for preclinical AD. 3 key findings →

Participants: 47 Evidence: moderate

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Effect of apolipoprotein E on biomarkers of amyloid load and neuronal pathology in Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-03-01

Low CSF Abeta(1-42) (surrogate for Abeta amyloid load) is more closely linked to the presence of APOE epsilon4 than to clinical status. 3 key findings →

Participants: 399 Evidence: low

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Serial MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal aging, MCI, and AD

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2010-07-01

Unlike the CSF biomarkers evaluated, changes in serial structural MRI are correlated with concurrent change on general cognitive and functional indices in impaired subjects, track with clinical disease stage, and are influenced by APOE genotype. 3 key findings →

Participants: 312 Evidence: low

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CSF biomarkers in prediction of cerebral and clinical change in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-02-01

Brain atrophy and altered CSF levels of amyloid beta (Abeta(42)) and the microtubule-associated protein tau are potent biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related pathology. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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The Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative: progress report and future plans

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-05-01

The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) beginning in October 2004, is a 6-year research project that studies changes of cognition, function, brain structure and function, and biomarkers in elderly controls, subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Update on the biomarker core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative subjects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-05-01

Here, we review progress by the Penn Biomarker Core in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) toward developing a pathological cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma biomarker signature for mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as a biomarker profile that predicts conversion of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and/or normal control subjects to AD. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Enrichment through biomarkers in clinical trials of Alzheimer's drugs in patients with mild cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-11

Clinical trials of disease modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) might benefit from enrichment with true AD cases. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Subtypes based on cerebrospinal fluid and magnetic resonance imaging markers in normal elderly predict cognitive decline

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-09

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) show patterns of change in Alzheimer's disease (AD) that precede dementia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Pilot study to show the feasibility of a multicenter trial of home-based assessment of people over 75 years old

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2010-07-01

In this sample of older individuals, a higher dropout rate occurred in those assigned to the high-technology assessment techniques; however, once participants had completed baseline in all 3 arms, they continued participation through 1 month. 2 key findings →

Evidence: high

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Selective molecular alterations in the autophagy pathway in patients with Lewy body disease and in models of alpha-synucleinopathy

⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PloS one 2010-02-19

This study supports the notion that defects in the autophagy pathway and more specifically in mTor and Atg7 are associated with neurodegeneration in DLB cases and alpha-synuclein transgenic models and supports the possibility that modulators of the autophagy pathway might have potential therapeutic effects. 5 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 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.

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 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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