27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Understanding the exact pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the involvement of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) related microglia activation is crucial for the development of clinical trials targeting microglia activation at different stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 1,001 Evidence: moderate
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Participants with CIND displayed lower perfusion in the PCC+PCu relative to participants who were CN, but there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in amyloid burden in this region. 5 key findings →
Design: case-control study Participants: 113 Evidence: moderate
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CL was associated with syndromic (F = 4.42, p = 0.014) and etiological diagnosis (F = -12.66, p < 0.001), with Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients showing the highest amyloid burden (62.9 ± 27.5), followed by dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (25.3 ± 35.5) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) (16.7 ± 24.5), and finally frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD) (5.0 ± 17.22, t = -12.66, p < 0.001). 4 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 157 Evidence: moderate
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Higher CSF NfL was associated with decreasing microstructural integrity and WMH. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 536 Evidence: moderate
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Aducanumab is a novel disease-modifying anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) human monoclonal antibody specifically targeted to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 1 key finding →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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The mean age was 66 years (65.53 ± 9.31), and 51 (67.1%) participants being female. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 14 Evidence: moderate
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The mean age was 74.2 ± 7.9 years, and 89 (74%) were female. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 120 Evidence: moderate
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The results showed that intestinal expression of GLP-1 1 could reduce the intestinal pathogenic genus such as Enterobacteriaceae and was obviously associated with a greater number of beneficial genera such as Lactobacillus and Akkermansia. 4 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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We identified 1,994 records in five different databases; after exclusion of duplicates, title and abstract screening, and full-text retrieval, 122 studies were finally included. 5 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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Quality pharmacological treatment can improve survival in many types of cancer. 1 key finding →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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Reversal genes and the candidate compounds were identified by the leave-one-out cross-validation procedure. 3 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of cognitive decline. 3 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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Based on a structured search on the ClinicalTrials.gov and the EudraCT databases, we identified 13 clinical trials testing 11 different approved anticancer agents (five tyrosine kinase inhibitors, two retinoid X receptor agonists, two immunomodulatory agents, one histone deacetylase inhibitor, and one monoclonal antibody) in the AD continuum. 5 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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Huntington's Disease (HD) is a severely debilitating neurodegenerative disorder in which sufferers exhibit different combinations of movement disorders, dementia, and behavioral or psychiatric abnormalities. 1 key finding →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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The grey matter of the brain contains high levels of the essential nutrient DHA. 1 key finding →
Participants: 285 Evidence: low
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After 12 weeks, maintenance of executive functioning in the TG was found, yet no significant changes on circulating neurotrophins levels were identified. 3 key findings →
Participants: 16 Evidence: low
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This review is anticipated to yield clinically meaningful insight on the specific value of exercise for older adults with AD. 3 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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This critical review explores the review material on physical activity combined with cognitive stimulation interventions in older adults with cognitive impairment and/or dementia. 1 key finding →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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Sleep duration had an inverted U-shape relationship with cognitive scores (P <.001); and sleep quality had a positive linear relationship with cognitive scores (P <.001). 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 10,768 Evidence: moderate
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Of 1,164 participants (mean age 73.5 years, 64% women), 580 (49.8%) had mild hearing impairment and 196 (16.8%) had moderate/severe hearing impairment. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 1,164 Evidence: moderate
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The combinations of hearing and proprioceptive impairment and hearing, vision, and proprioceptive impairment, were positively correlated with cDVR (β = 0.087 and p = 0.036, β = 0.110 and p = 0.018, respectively). 3 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 174 Evidence: moderate
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Twenty-five meta-analyses published between 2007 and 2021 were included. 5 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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The present study showed that higher educational levels were related to better general cognitive function, executive function, memory, and information processing speed in PD patients, whereas no significant association was showed between educational levels and visuospatial function, language in PD patients. 4 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is a major public health burden-compounding over upcoming years due to longevity. 1 key finding →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 30,097 Evidence: moderate
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We identified 1,041 incident all-cause dementia cases in 4,283 participants over 37,102 person-years of follow-up. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 4,283 Evidence: moderate
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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.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →