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Research

29,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 2,751–2,775 of 16,388 studies scoring 30–49 out of 100 (page 111 of 656) · 29,380 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.

Endothelial nitric oxide modulates expression and processing of amyloid precursor protein

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Circulation research 2010-12-02

Rationale the exact etiology of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) is unclear, but it is interesting that several cardiovascular risk factors are associated with higher incidence of AD. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Chloroquine inhibits intracellular degradation but not secretion of Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1992-03-01

The metabolic fate of the Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) includes intraamyloid proteolysis that leads to the production of secreted N-terminal and cell-associated C-terminal fragments. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Morphologic and biochemical analysis of the intracellular trafficking of the Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1994-05-01

Abnormal metabolic processing of the beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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DNA methylation of Alzheimer disease and tauopathy-related genes in postmortem brain

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2009-08-01

DNA methylation occurs predominantly at cytosines that precede guanines in dinucleotide CpG sites; it is one of the most important mechanisms for epigenetic DNA regulation during normal development and for aberrant DNA in cancer. 4 key findings →

Participants: 26 Evidence: low

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Adaptor protein sorting nexin 17 regulates amyloid precursor protein trafficking and processing in the early endosomes

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-02-13

Accumulation of extracellular amyloid beta peptide (Abeta), generated from amyloid precursor protein (APP) processing by beta- and gamma-secretases, is toxic to neurons and is central to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Alzheimer disease Abeta production in the absence of S-palmitoylation-dependent targeting of BACE1 to lipid rafts

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-12-12

Alzheimer disease beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides are generated via sequential proteolysis of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by BACE1 and gamma-secretase. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Prion protein-mediated toxicity of amyloid-β oligomers requires lipid rafts and the transmembrane LRP1

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2013-02-05

Soluble oligomers of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide cause neurotoxicity, synaptic dysfunction, and memory impairments that underlie Alzheimer disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Days to criterion as an indicator of toxicity associated with human Alzheimer amyloid-beta oligomers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-08-01

Recent evidence suggests that high molecular weight soluble oligomeric Abeta (oAbeta) assemblies (also known as Abeta-derived diffusible ligands, or ADDLs) may represent a primary neurotoxic basis for cognitive failure in Alzheimer disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Deficiency of Neuronal p38α MAPK Attenuates Amyloid Pathology in Alzheimer Disease Mouse and Cell Models through Facilitating Lysosomal Degradation of BACE1

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2015-12-09

Amyloid β (Aβ) damages neurons and triggers microglial inflammatory activation in the Alzheimer disease (AD) brain. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The Alzheimer disease protective mutation A2T modulates kinetic and thermodynamic properties of amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregation

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2014-09-24

Missense mutations in alanine 673 of the amyloid precursor protein (APP), which corresponds to the second alanine of the amyloid β (Aβ) sequence, have dramatic impact on the risk for Alzheimer disease; A2V is causative, and A2T is protective. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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NFkappaB-dependent control of BACE1 promoter transactivation by Abeta42

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2008-02-08

Beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides that accumulate in Alzheimer disease are generated from the beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) by cleavages by beta-secretase BACE1 and by presenilin-dependent gamma-secretase activities. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Prion-Protein-interacting Amyloid-β Oligomers of High Molecular Weight Are Tightly Correlated with Memory Impairment in Multiple Alzheimer Mouse Models

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2015-05-27

Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid-β accumulation, with soluble oligomers (Aβo) being the most synaptotoxic. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Life-long overexpression of S100beta in Down's syndrome: implications for Alzheimer pathogenesis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 1998-09-01

Chronic overexpression of the neurite growth-promoting factor S100beta has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The amyloid precursor protein is concentrated in neuronal lysosomes in normal and Alzheimer disease subjects

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Experimental neurology 1989-12-01

The 4.2-kilodalton (kDa) polypeptide associated with the cerebral amyloid deposits of Alzheimer's disease (AD) derives from a much larger protein that is encoded by a gene on chromosome 21. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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DNA synthesis and neuronal apoptosis caused by familial Alzheimer disease mutants of the amyloid precursor protein are mediated by the p21 activated kinase PAK3

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2003-07-01

Apoptotic pathways and DNA synthesis are activated in neurons in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The effects of amyloid precursor protein on postsynaptic composition and activity

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009-01-21

The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is cleaved to produce the Alzheimer disease-associated peptide Abeta, but the normal functions of uncleaved APP in the brain are unknown. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The French series of autosomal dominant early onset Alzheimer's disease cases: mutation spectrum and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2012-01-01

We describe 56 novel autosomal dominant early-onset Alzheimer disease (ADEOAD) families with PSEN1, PSEN2, and AβPP mutations or duplications, raising the total of families with mutations on known genes to 111 (74 PSEN1, 8 PSEN2, 16 AβPP, and 13 AβPP duplications) in the French series. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Novel presenilin 1 mutation (S170F) causing Alzheimer disease with Lewy bodies in the third decade of life

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-12-01

Cases of early-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) with an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern (familial AD [FAD]) are rare but have greatly advanced our understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of AD. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Clinical and neuropathological features of the arctic APP gene mutation causing early-onset Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-04-01

A majority of mutations within the beta-amyloid region of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene cause inherited forms of intracerebral hemorrhage. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Microglial genes regulating neuroinflammation in the progression of Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Current opinion in neurobiology 2015-10-24

Neuroinflammation is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and microglia, the brain's resident phagocyte, are pivotal for the immune response observed in AD. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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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 29,380 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 29,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (63.3% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.3%), 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.

1,037 records (3.5% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 964 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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