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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 11,501–11,525 of 27,146 studies marked Peer-reviewed (page 461 of 1086) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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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.

Atherosclerotic calcification relates to cognitive function and to brain changes on magnetic resonance imaging

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-04-25

Increasing evidence suggests a role of atherosclerosis in the pathogenesis of cognitive impairment and dementia. 4 key findings →

Participants: 844 Evidence: low

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Practical Small Vessel Disease Score Relates to Stroke, Dementia, and Death

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Stroke 2018-12-01

In the general population, we investigated the association of a recently developed cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) sum score with stroke, dementia, and mortality. 4 key findings →

Participants: 66 Evidence: low

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The Framingham Brain Donation Program: neuropathology along the cognitive continuum

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2012-07-01

The Framingham Heart Study has enrolled 3 generations of participants, the original cohort (gen 1) enrolled in 1948, the offspring cohort (gen 2) enrolled in 1971 and the third generation enrolled in 2002. 4 key findings →

Participants: 59 Evidence: moderate

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Maternal family history is associated with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2012-01-01

A family history of Alzheimer's disease (AD) increases one's risk of developing late-onset AD (LOAD), and a maternal family history of LOAD influences risk more than a paternal family history. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Participants: 99 Evidence: low

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Associations between Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Cerebral Amyloid Deposition in Cognitively Impaired Elderly People

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01

Neuropsychiatric symptoms, also known as behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), affect the majority of patients with dementia, and result in a greater cognitive and functional impairment. 4 key findings →

Participants: 657 Evidence: moderate

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Autoidentification of perivascular spaces in white matter using clinical field strength T1 and FLAIR MR imaging

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. NeuroImage 2019-08-25

Recent interest in enlarged perivascular spaces (ePVS) in the brain, which can be visualized on MRI and appear isointense to cerebrospinal fluid on all sequence weightings, has resulted in the necessity of reliable algorithms for automated segmentation to allow for whole brain assessment of ePVS burden. 4 key findings →

Participants: 14 Evidence: moderate

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Multi-View Separable Pyramid Network for AD Prediction at MCI Stage by 18F-FDG Brain PET Imaging

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2020-12-29

Alzheimer's Disease (AD), one of the main causes of death in elderly people, is characterized by Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) at prodromal stage. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Inferior and medial temporal tau and cortical amyloid are associated with daily functional impairment in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-01-31

A decline in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) correlates with the progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and has been associated with frontal and parietal hypometabolism, lower cerebrospinal fluid amyloid β 1-42 , and inferior temporal cortical thinning. 4 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low

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An MRI-based strategy for differentiation of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-01-12

The differential diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is difficult due to the overlaps of clinical symptoms. 4 key findings →

Participants: 47 Evidence: low

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Automated analysis of FDG PET as a tool for single-subject probabilistic prediction and detection of Alzheimer's disease dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2013-05-29

The subject groups for model derivation comprised 80 healthy subjects (HS), 36 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who converted to AD dementia within 18 months, 85 non-converter MCI patients who did not convert within 24 months, and 67 AD dementia patients with baseline FDG PET scan were recruited from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database. 4 key findings →

Participants: 36 Evidence: moderate

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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: neurodegeneration following repetitive concussive and subconcussive brain trauma

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2012-06-01

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease thought to be caused, at least in part, by repetitive brain trauma, including concussive and subconcussive injuries. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TDP-43 in the ubiquitin pathology of frontotemporal dementia with VCP gene mutations

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2007-02-01

Frontotemporal dementia with inclusion body myopathy and Paget disease of bone is a rare, autosomal-dominant disorder caused by mutations in the gene valosin-containing protein (VCP). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Repetitive mild brain trauma accelerates Abeta deposition, lipid peroxidation, and cognitive impairment in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer amyloidosis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002-01-01

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease (AD), but it is not known how TBI contributes to the onset or progression of this common late life dementia. 4 key findings →

Participants: 15 Evidence: low

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PARylation regulates stress granule dynamics, phase separation, and neurotoxicity of disease-related RNA-binding proteins

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Cell research 2019-02-06

Mutations in RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) localized in ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules, such as hnRNP A1 and TDP-43, promote aberrant protein aggregation, which is a pathological hallmark of various neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TDP-43 accumulation in inclusion body myopathy muscle suggests a common pathogenic mechanism with frontotemporal dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2008-10-01

TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) is found in ubiquitinated inclusions (UBIs) in some frontotemporal dementias (FTD-U). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 and amyloid-β clearance in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2014-05-20

Accumulation and aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides in the brain trigger the development of progressive neurodegeneration and dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →

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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