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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 176–200 of 235 studies with an author at University of California, Davis (US) (page 8 of 10) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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Other institutions

From OpenAlex; 13,658 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.

Early life development in a multiethnic sample and the relation to late life cognition

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2014-01-03

These findings demonstrate that early life experiences influence the trajectory of cognitive aging. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Diversity of Studies on Neighborhood Greenspace and Brain Health by Racialized/Ethnic Group and Geographic Region: A Rapid Review

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2023-04-27

Studies examining associations between greenspace and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) outcomes are rapidly on the rise, yet no known literature reviews have summarized the racialized/ethnic group and geographic variation of those published studies. 1 key finding →

Participants: 12 Evidence: low

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Recruitment of a community-based cohort for research on diversity and risk of dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2010-07-01

We describe the history, development, and success of the recruitment and screening procedures used by researchers at the University of California, Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center (UCD ADC) to facilitate minority enrollment in research. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Conceptions of dementia in a multiethnic sample of family caregivers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-08-01

Understanding variability in conceptions of dementia in multiethnic populations is important to improve care and guide research. 2 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low

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Global incidence trends and projections of Alzheimer disease and other dementias: an age-period-cohort analysis 2021

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Global Health 2025-05-23

Between 1992-2021, global AD cases increased from 4.078 million to 9.837 million, while the global age-standardised incidence rate (ASIR) remained relatively stable, rising slightly from 117.7 to 119.8 per 100 000. 5 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

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Association of hearing loss to brain structure and cognition in the Framingham Heart Study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01

Midlife hearing loss was associated with smaller brain volumes, accelerated decline in executive function, accelerated accrual of white matter abnormalities, and a near doubling of dementia risk, suggesting a potential causal or biomarker role for midlife hearing loss in the prevention of late‐life dementia. 4 key findings →

Participants: 1,656 Evidence: low

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Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease and Atrial Fibrillation in Relation to Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain Sciences 2025-07-29

In 3413 participants (mean age: 59 ± 14 years, 53.4% women), 11% had prevalent CVD or AF, 8% had prevalent CVD, and 4% had prevalent AF. 5 key findings →

Participants: 3,413 Evidence: moderate

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Age and apolipoprotein E*4 allele effects on cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid 42 in adults with normal cognition

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-07-01

These CSF A beta 42 findings are consistent with acceleration by the APOE*4 allele of pathogenic A beta 42 brain deposition starting in later middle age in persons with normal cognition. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Abnormal regional cerebral blood flow in cognitively normal elderly subjects with hypertension

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Stroke 2008-01-03

Cognitively normal subjects with HTN (n=19) had decreased rCBF in the putamen, globus pallidus, bilaterally, and in the left hippocampus compared with normotensives (n=22). 1 key finding →

Participants: 19 Evidence: low

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Higher Burden of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Is Associated With Risk of Incident Stroke in Community‐Dwelling Individuals

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-11-06

Among 1154 participants (46% men, mean age 70.9±8.7 years), 92 (8%) developed stroke over a median follow-up of 8.6 years (Q1-Q3: 5.1-12.5). 5 key findings →

Participants: 1,154 Evidence: moderate

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Degree of discrepancy between self and other-reported everyday functioning by cognitive status: dementia, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy elders

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2005-09-01

Although there may be some mild functional changes associated particularly with the MCI-memory impaired subtype, individuals with MCI do not appear to under-report their functional status as can often been seen in persons with dementia. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Differences in amyloid PET positivity based on ethnoracial group and social determinants of health: The new IDEAS study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2026-05-01

Among 5757 participants (21.7% Black, 20.3% Latinx, 58.1% AORE), we found lower odds of amyloid positivity in Black (odds ratio [OR]: 0.72, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.62-0.83) and Latinx (OR: 0.78, 95% CI: 0.67-0.91) compared to AORE. 4 key findings →

Participants: 5,757 Evidence: moderate

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Dissociable spatial topography of cortical atrophy in early‐onset and late‐onset Alzheimer's disease: A head‐to‐head comparison of the LEADS and ADNI cohorts

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-02-01

After controlling for the level of cognitive impairment, we found a double dissociation between AD clinical phenotype and localization/magnitude of atrophy, characterized by predominant neocortical involvement in EOAD and more focal anterior medial temporal involvement in LOAD. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Cognitive and neuroimaging predictors of instrumental activities of daily living

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2007-05-18

Impaired ability to conduct daily activities is a diagnostic criterion for dementia and a determinant of healthcare services utilization and caregiver burden. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Association of Neighborhood‐Level Disadvantage with Cerebrovascular Disease Neuropathology in a National Sample of Brain Donors

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01

We found that ∼25% of donors lived in high deprivation contexts, 52% had at least one incidence of CVD, and the cohort identified as .05). 3 key findings →

Participants: 7,187 Evidence: moderate

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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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