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Research

27,780 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 701–725 of 851 studies with an author at University College London (GB) (page 29 of 35) · 27,780 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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From OpenAlex; 13,259 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.

CSF neurogranin or tau distinguish typical and atypical Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2018-01-11

These results show significant differences in neurogranin and total-tau between typical and atypical patients, which may relate to factors other than disease topography. 4 key findings →

Participants: 27 Evidence: low

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Selective Genetic Overlap Between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Diseases of the Frontotemporal Dementia Spectrum

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-07-01

Among 124 876 cases and controls, genome-wide conjunction analyses of ALS, FTD, PD, AD, CBD, and PSP revealed significant genetic overlap between ALS and FTD at known ALS loci: rs13302855 and rs3849942 (nearest gene, C9orf72; P = .03 for rs13302855 and P = .005 for rs3849942) and rs4239633 (nearest gene, UNC13A; P = .03). 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Diffusion imaging changes in grey matter in Alzheimer's disease: a potential marker of early neurodegeneration

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2015-07-01

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is recognized to have a long presymptomatic period, during which there is progressive accumulation of molecular pathology, followed by inexorable neuronal damage. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Plaque contact and unimpaired Trem2 is required for the microglial response to amyloid pathology

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Cell reports 2022-11-01

Using spatial cell-type-enriched transcriptomics, we compare plaque-induced gene (PIG) expression in microglia-touching plaques, neighboring plaques, and far from plaques in an aged Alzheimer's mouse model with late plaque development. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Orexin-A is Associated with Increases in Cerebrospinal Fluid Phosphorylated-Tau in Cognitively Normal Elderly Subjects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Sleep 2016-06-01

Study objectives To evaluate the role of orexin-A with respect to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarkers, and explore its relationship to cognition and sleep characteristics in a group of cognitively normal elderly individuals. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Enhancing Alzheimer Disease Detection Using Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: The Role of Mild Behavioural Impairment in the Revised NIA-AA Research Framework

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2025-08-13

BackgroundAs the prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) rises, early identification of at-risk individuals is essential for effective intervention. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Plasma phosphorylated tau181 outperforms [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the identification of early Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2024-10-24

This study was undertaken to compare the performance of plasma p-tau181 with that of [ 18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in the identification of early biological Alzheimer disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Participants: 533 Evidence: low

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Microglia, amyloid, and glucose metabolism in Parkinson's disease with and without dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2012-12-06

[(11)C](R)PK11195-PET measures upregulation of translocator protein, which is associated with microglial activation, [(11)C]PIB-PET is a marker of amyloid, while [(18)F]FDG-PET measures cerebral glucose metabolism (rCMRGlc). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Joint Genetic Inhibition of PCSK9 and CETP and the Association With Coronary Artery Disease: A Factorial Mendelian Randomization Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA cardiology 2022-09-01

Cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibition (CETP) has been shown to increase levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and reduce levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). 4 key findings →

Design: clinical trial Evidence: low

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Cerebral amyloid angiopathies: a pathologic, biochemical, and genetic view

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2003-09-01

Amyloid deposition can take place in the walls of arteries, arterioles, and, less often, capillaries and veins of the central nervous system, a phenomenon known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Unravelling the plasma proteome: Pioneering biomarkers for differential dementia diagnosis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01

Plasma phosphorylated Tau217 (pTau217) demonstrated the highest diagnostic accuracy for AD, DLB, and FTD (area under the curve [AUCs]: 0.9, 0.84, and 0.79, respectively). 5 key findings →

Participants: 248 Evidence: low

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Closing the gap in dementia research by community-based cohort studies in the Chinese population

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2025-01-21

China accounts for 1/5 of the global population and China faces a particularly heavy dementia burden due to its rapidly ageing population. 4 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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Recent advances in neuroimaging of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-09-01

This review covers recent advances (2023-2024) in neuroimaging research into the pathophysiology, progression, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD). 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Neuroimaging and plasma biomarker differences and commonalities in Lewy body dementia subtypes

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01

We show reduced fiber cross-section in LBD versus PD, and increased concentrations of plasma neurofilament light chain and p-tau217; with p-tau217 and fiber cross-section associated with cognition. 5 key findings →

Participants: 47 Evidence: low

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Association Between Alcohol Use Disorders and Dementia in 262,703 Dementia-free Finnish Adults: Is Cardiovascular Disease a Mediator?

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-12-17

The possible mediating role of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the relationship between alcohol use disorders (AUD) and the risk of early-onset (<age 65) and late-onset (≥age 65) dementia lacks formal investigation. 5 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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Salivary Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2019-12-12

The search for accessible and cost-effective biomarkers to complement current cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and imaging biomarkers in the accurate detection of Alzheimer disease (AD) and other common neurodegenerative disorders remains a challenging task. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Economic impacts of introducing diagnostics for mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer's disease patients

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-08-16

The budgetary impacts are not insignificant but are small in comparison to the likely market price of any disease-modifying treatments or to the probable costs of missed or inaccurate diagnosis. 1 key finding →

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 27,780 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 27,780 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.1% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.3%), 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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