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Research
27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Find studies
Showing 1,151–1,175 of 1,426 studies scoring ≤ 29 out of 100 (page 47 of 58)· 27,380 in the whole library·How the 0–100 score works
From OpenAlex; 12,859 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.
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-09-16
Neurotrophins regulate neuronal survival, differentiation, and synaptic plasticity through activation of tropomyosin receptor kinase (Trk) receptors, and their dysregulation is strongly implicated in neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease. 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-09-14
The apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4) allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for developing sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which accounts for the vast majority of AD cases. 3 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-09-12
Pathogenic tau oligomers are transmitted between neurons and non-neuronal cells and may contribute to cellular dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-20
Defective mitophagy is emerging as a key contributor to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the neuronal pathways governing mitochondrial clearance and their contribution to disease progression remain poorly understood. 1 key finding →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-18
Auditory dysfunction can precede clinical dementia, but the molecular progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology from the sensory periphery to auditory cortex remains poorly resolved. 1 key finding →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-19
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a shared biological thread between terrestrial Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and in the unique stress environment of spaceflight, making mitochondrial pathophysiology a compelling target for comparative investigation. 5 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-10-12
Alzheimer’s disease involves progressive necroptosis of neurons, and the associated cognitive deficits can be mitigated by inhibiting cAMP-degrading phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D). 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-10-13
Most included studies were purely in vitro (n = 18); six combined in vitro and in vivo methods, and two used in vitro and in silico or ex vivo components. 1 key finding →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-11
Whether the nodal vulnerability in dementia is solely represented by changes in cellular abundance or attrition of cellular transcriptomic landscape attribute to that transition in aging brain is yet to uncover with minutiae. 5 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-04
Neurodegenerative proteinopathies are defined by distinct proteins whose folding, trafficking and clearance depend on shared proteostasis machinery. 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-10-01
Across cellular and animal Aβ injury models, BML-288 attenuated oxidative and inflammatory disturbances, modulated apoptosis-related protein expression, and improved cognitive outcomes. 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-09-29
Apigenin is an abundant, bioactive phytochemical with reported therapeutic potential and neuroprotective effects in a variety of age-related disease models. 4 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-09-24
Environmental microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are emerging contaminants that accumulate in human tissues, including the brain, yet their mechanistic impact on the nervous system remains poorly understood. 3 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-09-14
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterised by aberrant amyloid beta and tau aggregation, neuroinflammation, demyelination and neurodegeneration, which have been linked to changes in cell-specific gene expression signatures. 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·bioRxiv·2026-10-02
Although dementias primarily affect memory, they also disrupt our closest social relationships, resulting in elevated caregiver burden and worse patient outcomes. 2 key findings →
⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewedalzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100.·Research Square·2026-09-03
Three interrelated themes emerged: relational foundations of caregiving, multidimensional struggles of caregiving, and benefits of caregiving. 5 key findings →
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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 tierup to 10 pts
Journal's citation recordup to 4 pts
Study designup to 12 pts
Strength of evidenceup to 5 pts
Peer-review validationup to 10 pts
How recentup to 5 pts
Sample sizeup to 4 pts
Effect reportedup to 3 pts
Studied in peopleup to 3 pts
Randomised / blindedup to 2 pts
Times citedup to 7 pts
Citations per yearup to 5 pts
Impact for its field and yearup to 6 pts
Cited by studies hereup to 6 pts
Still being citedup to 4 pts
Senior author's track recordup to 4 pts
Institution's track recordup to 3 pts
Multi-centre collaborationup to 3 pts
Indexed in PubMedup to 2 pts
Free to readup 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 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.
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 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.