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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 5,976–6,000 of 27,146 studies marked Peer-reviewed (page 240 of 1086) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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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.

Clinico-neuropathological correlation of Alzheimer's disease in a community-based case series

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1999-05-01

This study of a large series of community-based incident dementia cases provides a way of judging the adequacy of currently available clinical diagnostic criteria. 2 key findings →

Participants: 134 Evidence: low

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An autoradiographic evaluation of AV-1451 Tau PET in dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2016-06-13

Reduced AV-1451 binding in neuritic pathology compared to neurofibrillary tangles suggests that the maturity of tau pathology may affect AV-1451 binding and suggests complexity in AV-1451 binding. 4 key findings →

Participants: 38 Evidence: low

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The effects of intracranial volume adjustment approaches on multiple regional MRI volumes in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2014-10-07

In neurodegeneration research, normalization of regional volumes by intracranial volume (ICV) is important to estimate the extent of disease-driven atrophy. 1 key finding →

Participants: 406 Evidence: moderate

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18 F-flortaucipir tau positron emission tomography distinguishes established progressive supranuclear palsy from controls and Parkinson disease: A multicenter study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-10-01

18 F-flortaucipir uptake was elevated in PSP versus controls and PD patients in a pattern consistent with the expected distribution of tau pathology. 3 key findings →

Participants: 33 Evidence: low

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Pathogenesis of cerebral microbleeds: In vivo imaging of amyloid and subcortical ischemic small vessel disease in 226 individuals with cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2013-03-12

Parietal and occipital lobar CMBs counts were higher in PiB(+) ADCI with moderate WMH than PiB(+) ADCI with minimal WMH, whereas PiB(-) patients with SVCI (ie, "pure" SVCI) showed both lobar and deep CMBs. 3 key findings →

Participants: 226 Evidence: moderate

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Visinin-like protein-1: diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-08-01

These findings suggest that CSF VILIP-1 and VILIP-1/Aβ42 offer diagnostic utility for early AD, and can predict future cognitive impairment in cognitively normal individuals similarly to tau and tau/Aβ42, respectively. 3 key findings →

Participants: 211 Evidence: moderate

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Entorhinal cortex thickness predicts cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01

Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) based on non-invasive methods are highly desirable for diagnosis, disease progression, and monitoring therapeutics. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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AddNeuroMed and ADNI: similar patterns of Alzheimer's atrophy and automated MRI classification accuracy in Europe and North America

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NeuroImage 2011-07-01

The European Union AddNeuroMed program and the US-based Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) are two large multi-center initiatives designed to collect and validate biomarker data for Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 key findings →

Participants: 1,074 Evidence: moderate

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In vivo fibrillar beta-amyloid detected using [11C]PiB positron emission tomography and neuropathologic assessment in older adults

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-02-01

In older adults, variable agreement between in vivo imaging and CERAD NP score was observed. 3 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Rates of decline in Alzheimer disease decrease with age

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. PloS one 2012-08-02

Age is the strongest risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD), yet the effects of age on rates of clinical decline and brain atrophy in AD have been largely unexplored. 2 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 723 Evidence: moderate

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Subjective cognitive failures and hippocampal volume in elderly with white matter lesions

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2008-10-01

Subjective cognitive failures (SCF) are associated with lower hippocampal volume, even in subjects without objective cognitive impairment and independent of white matter lesions. 2 key findings →

Design: cohort study Participants: 503 Evidence: moderate

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2021 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-23

This article describes the public health impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including incidence and prevalence, mortality and morbidity, use and costs of care, and the overall impact on caregivers and society. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Reactive glia not only associates with plaques but also parallels tangles in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2011-07-21

Senile plaques are a prominent pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but little is understood about the association of glial cells with plaques or about the dynamics of glial responses through the disease course. 2 key findings →

Participants: 91 Evidence: low

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Caregiving burden, stress, and health effects among family caregivers of adult cancer patients

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA 2012-01-01

Unlike professional caregivers such as physicians and nurses, informal caregivers, typically family members or friends, provide care to individuals with a variety of conditions including advanced age, dementia, and cancer. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Neuronal dysfunction and disconnection of cortical hubs in non-demented subjects with elevated amyloid burden

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2011-04-13

Disruption of functional connectivity between brain regions may represent an early functional consequence of β-amyloid pathology prior to clinical Alzheimer's disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Sequential distribution of pTDP-43 pathology in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2014-01-10

We examined regional distribution patterns of phosphorylated 43-kDa TAR DNA-binding protein (pTDP-43) intraneuronal inclusions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). 1 key finding →

Participants: 39 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 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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