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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 20,126–20,150 of 27,146 studies marked Peer-reviewed (page 806 of 1086) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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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.

Truncation and Activation of Dual Specificity Tyrosine Phosphorylation-regulated Kinase 1A by Calpain I: A MOLECULAR MECHANISM LINKED TO TAU PATHOLOGY IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2015-04-27

Hyperphosphorylation and dysregulation of exon 10 splicing of Tau are pivotally involved in pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) and/or other tauopathies. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Construction of human chromosome 21-specific yeast artificial chromosomes

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1989-12-01

Chromosome 21-specific yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) have been constructed by a method that performs all steps in agarose, allowing size selection by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and the use of nanogram to microgram quantities of DNA. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Apoptosis-associated proteins p53 and APO-1/Fas (CD95) in brains of adult patients with Down syndrome

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 1999-01-01

In Down syndrome (DS), enhanced apoptosis (programmed cell death) may play a role in the pathogenesis of characteristic mental retardation and precocious dementia of Alzheimer-type. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Positron emission tomography and neuropathologic estimates of fibrillar amyloid-β in a patient with Down syndrome and Alzheimer disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-11-01

Florbetapir PET can be used to detect increased cerebral-to-cerebellar fibrillar Aβ burden in a Down syndrome patient with Alzheimer disease, even in the presence of frequent amyloid angiopathy and diffuse plaques in the cerebellum. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The mouse homolog of the human amyloid beta protein (AD-AP) gene is located on the distal end of mouse chromosome 16: further extension of the homology between human chromosome 21 and mouse chromosome 16

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 1987-04-01

The human amyloid beta protein is the major constituent of the brain amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer disease. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Alzheimer-Like Pattern of Hypometabolism Emerges with Elevated Amyloid-β Burden in Down Syndrome

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01

In adults with DS, early amyloid-β accumulation in the striatum is divergent from sporadic AD; however, despite the early striatal amyloid-β, glucose hypometabolism was confined to the typical AD-associated regions, which occurs similarly in autosomal dominant AD. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Beyond amyloid: Immune, cerebrovascular, and metabolic contributions to Alzheimer disease in people with Down syndrome

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuron 2022-04-25

People with Down syndrome (DS) have increased risk of Alzheimer disease (AD), presumably conferred through genetic predispositions arising from trisomy 21. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Brain cognition and metabolism in Down syndrome adults in association with development of dementia

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuroreport 1996-11-01

To identify changes in brain functions associated with the development of dementia, brain metabolism and cognition were assessed repeatedly in 12 adults with Down syndrome (DS) using positron emission tomography and neuropsychological tests. 3 key findings →

Participants: 12 Evidence: low

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Poor Sleep as a Precursor to Cognitive Decline in Down Syndrome : A Hypothesis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease & Parkinsonism 2013-08-01

We propose that sleep disruption is a lever arm that influences how cognition emerges in development and then declines in response to Alzheimer disease in people with Down syndrome. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Discoveries in Down syndrome: moving basic science to clinical care

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Progress in brain research 2012-01-01

This review describes recent discoveries in neurobiology of Down syndrome (DS) achieved with use of mouse genetic models and provides an overview of experimental approaches aimed at development of pharmacological restoration of cognitive function in people with this developmental disorder. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Relation between apolipoprotein E genotype, hepatitis B virus status, and thyroid status in a sample of older persons with Down syndrome

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. American journal of medical genetics. Part A 2003-07-01

Dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) is common in older persons with Down syndrome (DS). 1 key finding →

Participants: 55 Evidence: low

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Increased cerebral microbleeds and cortical superficial siderosis in pediatric patients with Down syndrome

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. European journal of paediatric neurology : EJPN : official journal of the European Paediatric Neurology Society 2018-09-12

In vivo MRI biomarkers can support the diagnosis of early-onset cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which might already be present in pediatric Down syndrome patients. 2 key findings →

Participants: 12 Evidence: low

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Antioxidant strategies for Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2002-05-01

Oxidative damage is present within the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is observed within every class of biomolecule, including nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Regional selectivity of rab5 and rab7 protein upregulation in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01

Endocytic alterations are one of the earliest changes to occur in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and are hypothesized to be involved in the selective vulnerability of specific neuronal populations during the progression of AD. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Peripheral inflammatory cytokines as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2007-10-09

These results agree with a persistent inflammatory status in AD, reinforcing the hypothesis of a progressive impairment of the immune response in this disorder and suggesting that monocytes may be good targets to study the progression from MCI to AD. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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apl-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans gene encoding a protein related to the human beta-amyloid protein precursor

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1993-12-01

The major component of senile plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer disease patients is the beta-amyloid peptide, which is derived from a larger amyloid precursor protein (APP). 4 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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