Mitochondria are essential for neuronal function. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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31,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Mitochondria are essential for neuronal function. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The subcellular localization of organelles, mRNAs and proteins is particularly challenging in neurons. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The incidence of dementia is expected to double in the next 20 years and will contribute to heavy social and economic burden. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Large artery stiffness is a frequent condition that arises with ageing, and is accelerated by the presence of co-morbidities like hypertension, obesity and diabetes. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The senile plaques found within the cerebral cortex and hippocampus of the Alzheimer disease brain contain beta-amyloid peptide (A beta) fibrils that are associated with a variety of macromolecular species, including dermatan sulfate proteoglycan and heparan sulfate proteoglycan. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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It is increasingly accepted that early cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease results in considerable part from synaptic dysfunction caused by the accumulation of a range of oligomeric assemblies of amyloid β-protein (Aβ). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, and its prevalence will increase significantly in the coming decades. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative pathology characterized by aggregates of amyloid-β (Aβ) and phosphorylated tau protein, synaptic dysfunction, and spatial memory impairment. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Increasing evidence has shown that type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →
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S100B is a Ca 2+ -binding protein mainly concentrated in astrocytes. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon4 allele is a major risk factor for neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The aberrant metabolism of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) in the human brain has been implicated in the etiology of Alzheimer disease (AD). γ-Secretase is the enzyme that generates various forms of Aβ, such as Aβ40 and Aβ42, the latter being an aggregation-prone toxic peptide that is involved in the pathogenesis of AD. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The increase in senescent cells, including glial cells in the brain, is a general feature of normal aging and has been associated with age-related pathologies. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are currently regarded as indispensable indicators for accurate differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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To explore the hypothesis that alterations in ethanolamine plasmalogen may be directly related to the severity of dementia in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we performed a systematic examination of plasmalogen content in cellular membranes of gray and white matter from different regions of human subjects with a spectrum of AD clinical dementia ratings (CDR) using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI/MS). 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Mitochondria play critical roles in neuronal function and almost all aspects of mitochondrial function are altered in Alzheimer neurons. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) has been proposed as the main kinase able to aberrantly phosphorylate tau in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies, raising the possibility of designing novel therapeutic interventions for AD based on GSK-3 inhibition. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Mounting evidence suggests that amyloid beta-induced impairments in synaptic plasticity that is accompanied by cognitive decline and dementia represent key pathogenic steps of Alzheimer's disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which are composed of hyperphosphorylated and ubiquitylated tau, are exhibited at regions where neuronal loss occurs in neurodegenerative diseases; however, the mechanisms of NFT formation remain unknown. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder and the most prevalent senile dementia. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Gene knockout studies in mice suggest that presenilin 1 (PS1) is the major gamma-secretase and that it contributes disproportionately to amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide generation from beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP), whereas PS2 plays a more minor role. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Strong support for a primary causative role of the Abeta peptides in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neurodegeneration derives from reports that presenilin familial AD (FAD) mutants alter amyloid precursor protein processing, thus increasing production of neurotoxic Abeta 1-42 (Abeta 42). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Converging lines of evidence suggest that progressive accumulation of the amyloid beta-protein (A beta) plays a central role in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease, but it was long assumed that A beta had to be assembled into extracellular amyloid fibrils to exert its cytotoxic effects. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Converging lines of evidence implicate the beta-amyloid peptide (Ass) as causative in Alzheimer's disease. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which oxidative stress has been implicated as an important event in the progression of the pathology. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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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.
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1,048 records (3.3% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 973 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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