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Research

27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 1,276–1,300 of 1,335 studies published 2020 (page 52 of 54) · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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

Subjects

Authors

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

Institutions

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.

Effects of air pollution on the nervous system and its possible role in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Pharmacology & therapeutics 2020-03-09

Recent extensive evidence indicates that air pollution, in addition to causing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, may also negatively affect the brain and contribute to central nervous system diseases. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Emerging risk of environmental factors: insight mechanisms of Alzheimer's diseases

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Environmental science and pollution research international 2020-03-23

Neurodegenerative disorders are typically sporadic in nature in addition to usually influenced through an extensive range of environmental factors, lifestyle, and genetic elements. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Microbiota-gut-brain axis in health and disease: Is NLRP3 inflammasome at the crossroads of microbiota-gut-brain communications?

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2020-05-28

Growing evidence highlights the relevance of microbiota-gut-brain axis in the maintenance of brain homeostasis as well as in the pathophysiology of major neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), multiple sclerosis (MS), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2020-07-24

The brain requires a continuous supply of energy in the form of ATP, most of which is produced from glucose by oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria, complemented by aerobic glycolysis in the cytoplasm. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

4430 Coffee Shops and Fast-food Restaurants: Potential Neighborhood Resources for Cognitive Health and Wellbeing Among Aging Americans

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2020-06-01

OF IMPACT: The results contribute new evidence towards an emerging ecological model of cognitive health. 5 key findings →

Participants: 16,404 Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Comparing food desert residents with non-food desert residents on grocery shopping behaviours, diet and BMI: results from a propensity score analysis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Public Health Nutrition 2020-01-20

Residence in a food desert (11·1 %, n 411) was not significantly associated with perceived access to healthy foods, most grocery shopping behaviours or dietary behaviour, but was significantly associated with primarily shopping at a superstore or supercentre v . a large grocery store (OR = 1·32; 95 % CI 1·02, 1·71; P = 0·03) and higher BMI ( b = 1·14; 95 % CI 0·36, 1·93; P = 0·004). 2 key findings →

Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Detection of Alzheimer Disease Pathology in Patients Using Biochemical Biomarkers: Prospects and Challenges for Use in Clinical Practice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The journal of applied laboratory medicine 2020-01-01

Thirty-four years ago, amyloid-β 1-42 peptide was identified in amyloid plaques from brain tissue obtained from patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and Down syndrome. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Racial disparities in medication use: imperatives for managed care pharmacy

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy 2020-10-29

The COVID-19 pandemic and the social unrest pervading U.S. cities in response to the killings of George Floyd and other Black citizens at the hands of police are historically significant. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Cuing Prospective Memory With Smartphone-Based Calendars in Alzheimer's Disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2020-08-09

We investigated the effect of using smartphone-based calendars (Google and Outlook Calendar) on prospective memory in Alzheimer's disease (AD). we recruited two groups of participants with mild AD. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Lipopolysaccharide exposure during late embryogenesis triggers and drives Alzheimer-like behavioral and neuropathological changes in CD-1 mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2020-01-30

Prenatal exposure to low doses of LPS caused AD-related features including behavioral and neuropathological changes from midlife to senectitude. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Prenatal to early postnatal neurotrophic treatment prevents Alzheimer-like behavior and pathology in mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-08-27

These findings suggest that neurotrophic impairment during early development can be one of the etiopathogenic factors of AD and that the neurotrophic peptide mimetic is a potential early prevention strategy for this disease. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Measurement of CSF core Alzheimer disease biomarkers for routine clinical diagnosis: do fresh vs frozen samples differ?

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-09-29

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-beta (Aβ) 42/40 ratio, threonine-181-phosphorylated-tau (p-tau), and total-tau (t-tau) represent core biomarkers of Alzheimer disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

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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 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.

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