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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 7,251–7,275 of 27,146 studies marked Peer-reviewed (page 291 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.

Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB): a factor analytic study of a large sample of normal elderly volunteers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Dementia (Basel, Switzerland) 1994-09-01

The CANTAB battery was administered to a large group (n = 787) of elderly volunteers in the age range from 55 to 80 years. 4 key findings →

Participants: 787 Evidence: low

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Amygdala atrophy is prominent in early Alzheimer's disease and relates to symptom severity

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2011-09-14

Despite numerous studies on the role of medial temporal lobe structures in Alzheimer's disease (AD), the magnitude and clinical significance of amygdala atrophy have been relatively sparsely investigated. 4 key findings →

Participants: 90 Evidence: low

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Severe impairment battery. A neuropsychological test for severely demented patients

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1994-01-01

Patients with progressive dementia invariably evolve to a stage where they can no longer be tested by standard neuropsychological tests. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 26 Evidence: moderate

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CSF biomarkers in prediction of cerebral and clinical change in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-02-01

Brain atrophy and altered CSF levels of amyloid beta (Abeta(42)) and the microtubule-associated protein tau are potent biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related pathology. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Neurofilament light chain and α-synuclein RT-QuIC as differential diagnostic biomarkers in parkinsonisms and related syndromes

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2021-10-11

Neurofilament light chain (NfL) and α-synuclein oligomeric seeds (α-syn-s) are promising biomarkers for patients with parkinsonism. 4 key findings →

Participants: 153 Evidence: low

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Ambroxol as a novel disease-modifying treatment for Parkinson's disease dementia: protocol for a single-centre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC neurology 2019-02-09

Currently there are no disease-modifying treatments for Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), a condition linked to aggregation of the protein α-synuclein in subcortical and cortical brain areas. 4 key findings →

Participants: 75 Evidence: high

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10-year trajectories of depressive symptoms and risk of dementia: a population-based study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The lancet. Psychiatry 2016-04-29

Late-life depressive symptoms have been extensively studied for their relationship with incident dementia, but have been typically assessed at a single timepoint. 4 key findings →

Participants: 3,325 Evidence: moderate

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Subclinical hyperthyroidism and the risk of dementia. The Rotterdam study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Clinical endocrinology 2000-12-01

Thyroid status was measured at baseline (1990-93), through assessment of serum antibodies to thyroid peroxidase (TPO-Abs, positive: >10 IU/ml), serum TSH levels, and when TSH was abnormal ( 4.0 mU/l), serum thyroxin levels (T4). 4 key findings →

Participants: 1,843 Evidence: low

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Longitudinal change in CSF Tau and Aβ biomarkers for up to 48 months in ADNI

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2013-06-29

The dynamics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and Aβ biomarkers over time in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients from prodromal pre-symptomatic to severe stages of dementia have not been clearly defined and recent studies, most of which are cross-sectional, present conflicting findings. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: moderate

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Dietary intake of fish and omega-3 fatty acids in relation to long-term dementia risk

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2009-05-27

Greater fish and omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) intake may reduce dementia risk; however, previous studies have reported conflicting results, which were largely based on short-term follow-up. 4 key findings →

Participants: 5,395 Evidence: moderate

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Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middle-income countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Lancet. Global health 2020-04-01

However, most people with dementia live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where dementia risk prediction research is almost non-existent and the ability of current models to predict dementia is unknown. 4 key findings →

Participants: 143 Evidence: low

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Left lateralized cerebral glucose metabolism declines in amyloid-β positive persons with mild cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-07-17

Previous publications indicate that Alzheimer's Disease (AD) related cortical atrophy may develop in asymmetric patterns, with accentuation of the left hemisphere. 4 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

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Central adiposity and the overweight risk paradox in aging: follow-up of 130,473 UK Biobank participants

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2017-05-31

For older groups, being overweight [body mass index (BMI; in kg/m 2 ): 25 to Objective: This study aimed to estimate associations between combined measurements of BMI and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) with mortality and incident coronary artery disease (CAD). 4 key findings →

Participants: 2,974 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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