Cerebrovascular disease is associated with an increased likelihood of developing dementia. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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28,580 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Cerebrovascular disease is associated with an increased likelihood of developing dementia. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Compared with stage 0 CKM syndrome, stages 3 and 4 were significantly associated with an increased risk of dementia (hazard ratio [HR], 1.35; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14-1.59; HR, 1.80; 95% CI 1.57-2.07). 5 key findings →
Participants: 389,287 Evidence: low
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Higher intakes of total sugar (HR = 1.292, 95 % CI = 1.148--1.453) and free sugar intake (HR = 1.254, 95 % CI = 1.117--1.408) were significantly associated with increased dementia risk. 4 key findings →
Participants: 172,516 Evidence: low
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In this study, we present a comprehensive pipeline to train and compare a broad spectrum of machine learning and deep learning brain clocks, integrating diverse preprocessing strategies and correction terms. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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Semantic dementia (SD) is a clinical subtype of frontotemporal dementia characterized by impaired word comprehension and semantic memory, and occurs nearly always sporadically. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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TDP-43 seeding activity was detected in 67% of TDP-43-linked symptomatic patients, with a specificity of 93%. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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While neuropathological and genetic studies have established the crucial involvement of TDP-43 proteinopathy in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and related neurodegenerative disorders, multiple studies have described the presence of TDP-43 inclusions in muscular disorders, including inclusion body myositis but also other related rimmed vacuole myopathies. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of early onset and progressive disorders, characterized by degeneration in the frontal and temporal lobes, and subsequent deterioration in cognition, personality, social behavior, and language, with aggregates of the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 being present in ~45% of the cases. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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TDP-43 and FUS are RNA-binding proteins involved in the regulation of diverse RNA-processing events and have been strongly implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Inter-organelle contact sites are key hubs for organelle bidirectional crosstalk. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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During a median follow-up of 14.1 years, 279 early-onset dementia cases and 3167 late-onset dementia cases were documented. 5 key findings →
Participants: 249 Evidence: low
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Control and LOAD hiPSCs exhibited comparable efficiency in forming brain capillary endothelial-like cells (BCECs). 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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86.8% of patients in this cohort presented more than one pathology. 4 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Natural products (NPs) are considered to be the oldest medicine in human history and numerous NPs have been investigated to search for therapeutic agents in various diseases. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disorder with a complex etiology. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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BackgroundAlzheimer's disease (AD) causes cognitive function disorder and has become the preeminent cause of dementia. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Our results suggest that microglial activation is a major phenomenon linking Aβ and astrocyte reactivity in the living AD brain. 5 key findings →
Participants: 62 Evidence: moderate
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LAPs contained five monosaccharides. LAPs improved cognitive function and increased the number of Nissl bodies, lactate secretion, the IL-10 content, the relative fluorescence intensity of the IBA1 and AXL proteins, and the protein expression levels of AXL, Mertk, Glut1, HK2, PI3K, p-Akt/Akt, p-mTOR/mTOR and HIF-1α of immune-tolerant AD mice. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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SGLT2i empagliflozin and dapagliflozin exhibited neuroprotective actions against human Aβ 1–42 -induced neurotoxicity. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Autophagic markers beclin 1, LC3II and p62, and lysosome-related marker cathepsin B, all upregulated in AD astrocytes, were significantly reduced, while autophagic flux was rescued, by stabilizing 20 nm-MERCS. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) is a critical deubiquitinating enzyme that is highly expressed in the central nervous system, where it participates in protein degradation and turnover as part of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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AMS-17 treatment improved cognitive function, enhanced blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity, and promoted remyelination in VaD mice. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders in which cerebrovascular pathology contributes to cognitive decline. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The purpose of this narrative review is to examine women's cognitive health and to highlight its association with four major pillars: (1) aging, (2) estrogen decline and loss, (3) diet, and (4) neuroinflammation, and their contribution to cognitive decline, with a focus on this combination to increase awareness and address the progression and potential amelioration of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Design: narrative review Evidence: low
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Hippocampal pan-histone H3 crotonylation (H3Kcr) and H3K18cr were significantly upregulated in both 5xFAD and Aβ42-injected mice compared to controls. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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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.
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.
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This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 28,580 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (62.2% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.8%), 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 (3.6% 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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