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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 11,801–11,825 of 27,146 studies marked Peer-reviewed (page 473 of 1086) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

Download bibliography of the first 500 of these studies, in this order: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

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Each number is how many studies that link shows, with your other filters kept.

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Authors

Names as each record prints them; the same person can appear under two spellings.

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.

GWAS Identifies 44 Independent Associated Genomic Loci for Self-Reported Adult Hearing Difficulty in UK Biobank

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of human genetics 2019-09-26

Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) is the most common sensory impairment in the aging population; a third of individuals are affected by disabling hearing loss by the age of 65. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Common risk factors for major noncommunicable disease, a systematic overview of reviews and commentary: the implied potential for targeted risk reduction

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Therapeutic advances in chronic disease 2019-10-15

Noncommunicable disease now contributes to the World Health Organization top 10 causes of death in low-, middle- and high-income countries. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation therapies for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in older adults: working toward a theoretical model and evidence-based interventions

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2013-03-08

To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation therapies (CRTs) for mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 4 key findings →

Evidence: high

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Montreal cognitive assessment in detecting cognitive impairment in Chinese elderly individuals: a population-based study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2011-12-01

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has been proved brief and sensitive to screen for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia in some developed countries or areas. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Development and validation of a model for estimating premorbid verbal intelligence in the elderly

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 1991-11-01

In a preliminary effort to improve the early diagnosis of dementia, we developed a regression-based method for estimating premorbid intelligence measured by the ability to read irregular words from the American version of the Nelson Adult Reading Test (AMNART). 1 key finding →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low

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The DSM-5 criteria, level of arousal and delirium diagnosis: inclusiveness is safer

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC medicine 2014-10-08

Altered consciousness has been regarded as a core feature of delirium; the fact that consciousness itself should be physiologically disrupted due to acute illness attests to its clinical urgency. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Instrumental activities of daily living as a screening tool for cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly community dwellers

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1992-11-01

The four IADL score could be incorporated into the screening procedure for dementia in elderly community dwellers. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Disturbed fluctuations of resting state EEG synchronization in Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2004-10-28

Alzheimer's disease is characterized both by a lower mean level of functional connectivity as well as by diminished fluctuations in the level of synchronization. 2 key findings →

Participants: 24 Evidence: low

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In vivo detection of cerebral cortical microinfarcts with high-resolution 7T MRI

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2012-12-19

Cerebrovascular disease has an important role in cognitive decline and dementia. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Accelerated cortical atrophy in cognitively normal elderly with high β-amyloid deposition

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2012-02-01

Our findings show that the presence of Aβ in the brain, known to occur in about one-third of asymptomatic elderly individuals, is actually a pathologic state associated with accelerated atrophy. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Differential regional atrophy of the cingulate gyrus in Alzheimer disease: a volumetric MRI study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2006-01-04

Magnetic resonance imaging-based volumetric measurements provide a useful technique for quantifying in vivo regional cerebral atrophy in Alzheimer disease (AD). 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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A new visual rating scale to assess strategic white matter hyperintensities within cholinergic pathways in dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Stroke 2005-09-22

The new MRI rating scale for WMH in cholinergic pathways is reliable and shows stronger correlations with cognitive performance than a general WMH rating scale in AD with WMH. 3 key findings →

Participants: 60 Evidence: low

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Subcortical vascular dementia: integrating neuropsychological and neuroradiologic data

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2005-08-01

A profile of equal impairment on tests of executive control and memory along with radiologic evidence involving about one-fourth of the cerebral white matter as measured by the Leukoaraiosis Scale may be sufficient for a diagnosis of subcortical vascular dementia. 2 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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