28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
The age of the population is shifting toward the elderly range, which may lead to an increased risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 5 key findings →
Participants: 70 Evidence: low
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As aging is associated with cognitive decline, particularly in the executive functions, it is essential to effectively improve cognition in older adults. 4 key findings →
Design: randomized controlled trial Evidence: high
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MBSR is well-accepted potentially promising intervention with positive effect on cognition, depressive symptoms and immunological profile. 5 key findings →
Participants: 12 Evidence: low
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In Hong Kong, the evidence for cognitive-training programs in fighting against memory complaints is lacking. 2 key findings →
Participants: 200 Evidence: low
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Following the rapid increase of the aging population, health promotion and prevention of physical disability and dementia in older persons are essential for healthy aging. 5 key findings →
Design: randomized controlled trial Evidence: high
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Cognitive training in MCI may be enhanced by atDCS, but further delineation of the impact of current brain state, as well as temporal characteristics of multi-session atDCS-training application, may be needed to induce longer-lasting effects. 2 key findings →
Design: post-hoc analysis Evidence: low
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Vortioxetine may be beneficial for age-related cognitive decline when combined with cognitive training. 4 key findings →
Participants: 100 Evidence: low
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In this cohort of French older adults, higher adherence to the French MIND diet was associated with a lower dementia risk and with preserved white matter microstructure. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 1,412 Evidence: moderate
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Modifiable lifestyle risk factors have been identified as playing a major role in the development of dementia; hence, interventions addressing these risk factors represent a significant opportunity to reduce the number of people developing dementia. 2 key findings →
Design: randomized controlled trial Evidence: high
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Our search identified a total of 2,824 citations, following screening for duplicates and application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, five studies were included for analysis. 1 key finding →
Participants: 2,824 Evidence: low
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It is hypothesised that exercise and Mediterranean diet interventions, both individually and in combination, will result in improvements in cognitive performance compared with controls. 2 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Older adults with less than a secondary education are at elevated risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →
Evidence: high
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The present systematic review critically examines the available scientific literature on risk factors for malnutrition in the older population (aged ≥65 y). 1 key finding →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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Elderly patients with a hip fracture are vulnerable for delirium, especially when the patient has dementia. 4 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 168 Evidence: moderate
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SEE MCKAY AND FURL DOI101093/AWW323 FOR A SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY ON THIS ARTICLE: Focal brain injury can sometimes lead to bizarre symptoms, such as the delusion that a family member has been replaced by an imposter (Capgras syndrome). 3 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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This pilot study aimed to compare the effect of companion robots (PARO) to participation in an interactive reading group on emotions in people living with moderate to severe dementia in a residential care setting. 2 key findings →
Evidence: high
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A decision aid about feeding options in advanced dementia reduced decisional conflict for surrogates and increased their knowledge and communication about feeding options with providers. 1 key finding →
Design: randomized controlled trial Evidence: high
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The use of APs by patients with dementia in the general population is associated with increased mortality, but whether this risk extends to patients with PD remains unknown. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 7,877 Evidence: moderate
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LIPUS treatment can be an alternative to surgery for established nonunions. 4 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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In our large population-based sample, frailty syndrome was a short-term predictor of overall dementia and VaD. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 2,581 Evidence: moderate
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The findings of this cohort study suggest that among older Medicare patients undergoing surgical treatment, a diagnosis of a PND was associated with an increase in health care costs for up to 1 year following the surgical procedure. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 473 Evidence: moderate
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Our findings suggest that older patients with reduced preoperative cognitive functions or who develop postoperative delirium are at risk of developing dementia within 5 years after cardiac surgery. 4 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 114 Evidence: moderate
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The prevalence of older patients with dementia and oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) is rising and management is poor. 1 key finding →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 255 Evidence: moderate
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Use of HAs is associated with delayed diagnosis of AD, dementia, depression, anxiety, and injurious falls among older adults with HL. 2 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 114 Evidence: high
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ChEIs may increase the risk of syncope, with no effects on falls, fracture, or accidental injury in cognitively impaired older adults. 2 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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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 →