Depressive symptoms have been reported in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Participants: 52 Evidence: low
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27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Depressive symptoms have been reported in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Participants: 52 Evidence: low
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Our earlier studies using the Consortium to Establish a Registry of Alzheimer's Disease neuropsychological battery showed that delayed recall was a highly sensitive indicator of early Alzheimer's disease. 1 key finding →
Participants: 49 Evidence: low
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The A4 or beta protein is a peptide that constitutes the major protein component of senile plaques in Alzheimer disease. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The deposition of amyloid in senile plaques and along the walls of the cerebral vasculature is a characteristic feature of Alzheimer disease. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The conventional distinction between schizophrenia and manic depression has received little objective support from recent studies of phenomenology, outcome, or familial homotypy. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We compared black (n = 33) and white (n = 119) caregivers of dementia patients on indices of adaptation, adjustment, and utilization of supportive services. 3 key findings →
Participants: 33 Evidence: low
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Hypertension-caused arteriosclerotic changes of the long penetrating medullary arteries may cause misery perfusion and later ischemic damage in the periventricular white matter. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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New molecular information about Alzheimer disease (AD) is appearing at an unprecedented rate. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Cerebral deposition of the beta-amyloid peptide (A beta) is an invariant feature of Alzheimer's disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The 4-kilodalton (39 to 43 amino acids) amyloid beta protein (beta AP), which is deposited as amyloid in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's diseases, is derived from a large protein, the amyloid beta protein precursor (beta APP). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Progressive cerebral deposition of the amyloid beta-peptide is an early and invariant feature of Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Linkage analysis was used to search the genome for chromosomal regions harboring familial Alzheimer's disease genes. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Studies of diseases caused by mitochondrial DNA mutations suggest that a variety of degenerative processes may be associated with defects in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Strictly following all advance directives may not truly reflect patients' preferences. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The term working memory refers to a brain system that provides temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for such complex cognitive tasks as language comprehension, learning, and reasoning. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We examined the abilities of 15 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), 22 patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD), and 141 healthy subjects (ranging in age from 30 to 79 years) to detect and correct their own speech errors. 1 key finding →
Participants: 15 Evidence: low
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Down syndrome (DS) is a major cause of congenital heart and gut disease and mental retardation. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Both the amygdala and the hippocampus are involved in the pathogenesis of a number of neurologic conditions, including temporal lobe epilepsy, postanoxic amnesia, and Alzheimer's disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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In contrast, no increases in CSF QUIN were found in chronic neurodegenerative disorders, depression or myoclonic seizure disorders, while CSF kynurenic acid concentrations were significantly lower in Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The etiology of nerve cell death in neuronal degenerative disease is unknown, but it has been hypothesized that excitotoxic mechanisms may play a role. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Computer visualization techniques were used to map and to quantitatively reconstruct the entire locus coeruleus, including the nucleus subcoeruleus, to compare the topographic patterns of cell loss in postmortem brains from patients with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Down syndrome. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by excessive deposition of the beta-amyloid peptide (beta-AP) in the central nervous system. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Kainic acid lesions of rat striatum caused an elevation of amyloid precursor protein (APP) immunoreactivity in neurons and neurites, some of which were then phagocytosed by reactive microglia/macrophages. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The clinical neuropsychologic profiles of patients with Parkinson's disease and patients with SDAT show both overlap and dissociation. 1 key finding →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Normative data were collected in a study population of 150 randomly selected elderly subjects. 4 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.
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 27,380 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.
This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 27,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (60.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.6%), 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.
1,032 records (3.8% 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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