28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles containing phosphorylated tau protein are major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 1 key finding →
Design: clinical trial Evidence: low
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Advances in amyloid targeting therapies (ATT) for Alzheimer's disease have introduced new options, necessitating an understanding of physicians' perspectives as these therapies move from trials to practice. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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On 22 May 2025, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced that the anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody donanemab (Eli Lilly, Kisunla) was approved in Australia for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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This Editorial reviews data on the efficacy and adverse effects of lecanemab amongst individuals with mild Alzheimer disease. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (MABs) have introduced a new era of Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapeutics with disease-targeted drugs. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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We retrospectively reviewed 20 consecutive patients with Alzheimer's disease who switched from lecanemab to donanemab. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Based on "reducing amyloid plaques in the brain", the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated and full approval for two monoclonal anti-Alzheimer's antibodies, aducanumab and lecanemab, respectively. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, which is characterized by a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is extremely difficult to treat and severely reduces quality of life. 2 key findings →
Design: clinical trial Evidence: low
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Solanezumab produced statistically significant increases in CSF total Aβ isoforms versus placebo, which correlated with CSF solanezumab concentration. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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DO11.10 cells expressing E2814-CAR-but not Lec-CAR-responded to tau PFFs. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, and for providers the term AD is often avoided, favoring generic terms like memory loss or dementia. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia worldwide and a critical public health problem. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Pharmacological interventions for dementia include medications aimed at alleviating its core symptom: cognitive dysfunction. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The recent rejection of lecanemab by the European Medicines Agency despite its approval in other countries highlights the debate among researchers and regulatory bodies about the efficacy, safety, and underlying scientific basis of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease. [Image: see text] 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Aducanumab, an anti-amyloid immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease, efficiently reduces Aβ, though its plaque clearance mechanisms, long-term effects, and effects of discontinuation are not fully understood. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Donanemab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that significantly reduces cerebral amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease is a major cause of dementia, that affects approximately 7-8% of people aged 65 years and older (according to WHO & Alzheimer's Disease International) and thus is a major concern in public health world-wide. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The approval of lecanemab by the US Food and Drug Administration has been touted as a defining moment in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The introduction of anti-amyloid antibodies has ushered in a new era in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD), coinciding with the revision of its diagnostic criteria, which now focus on the biological definition of AD, with amyloid beta at its core. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The amyloid cascade hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease is still alive, although heavily challenged. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically characterized by deposition of amyloid plaques (comprising amyloid β [Aβ] protein) and neurofibrillary tangles (comprising tau protein), and neuronal death. 5 key findings →
Design: clinical trial Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a type of neurodegenerative illness in which β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau protein accumulate in neurons in the form of tangles. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Ischemic stroke and vascular cognitive impairment, caused by a sudden arterial occlusion or more subtle but protracted vascular insufficiency, respectively, are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with limited therapeutic options. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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CAA-ri gains increasing interest as a spontaneous human model of iatrogenic edematous amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA-E) in the context of amyloid-modifying therapies. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alzheimer's disease (AD), referred to as a type of dementia, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with cognitive decline and key features comprising extracellular amyloid-β(Aβ) and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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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 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.
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.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →