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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 21,401–21,425 of 27,146 studies marked Peer-reviewed (page 857 of 1086) · 28,180 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

Download bibliography of the first 500 of these studies, in this order: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

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

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

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.

Basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease--interrelationship with beta-amyloid, inflammation and neurotrophin signaling

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2005-06-01

Alzheimer's disease, the most common neurodegenerative disorder of senile dementia, is characterized by two major morpho-pathological hallmarks. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Molecular basis of neuroprotective activities of rasagiline and the anti-Alzheimer drug TV3326 [(N-propargyl-(3R)aminoindan-5-YL)-ethyl methyl carbamate]

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2001-12-01

Rasagiline (N-propargyl-1-(R)-aminoindan) is a selective, irreversible monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) inhibitor which has been developed as an anti-Parkinson drug. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Downregulated miR-29c correlates with increased BACE1 expression in sporadic Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of clinical and experimental pathology 2015-02-01

Beta-site Amyloid precursor protein Cleaving Enzyme 1 (BACE1) is conceived as a potential target for therapies against Alzheimer disease (AD) which is characterized by the accumulation of plaques formed of short β-amyloid (APPβ) peptides. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Treatment strategies targeting amyloid β-protein

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2012-09-01

With the advent of the key discovery in the mid-1980s that the amyloid β-protein (Aβ) is the core constituent of the amyloid plaque pathology found in Alzheimer disease (AD), an intensive effort has been underway to attempt to mitigate its role in the hope of treating the disease. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

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High levels of Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) in children with severely autistic behavior and aggression

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of child neurology 2006-06-01

Autism is characterized by restricted, repetitive behaviors and impairment in socialization and communication. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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The TREM2-DAP12 signaling pathway in Nasu-Hakola disease: a molecular genetics perspective

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Research and reports in biochemistry 2015-03-17

Nasu-Hakola disease or polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL) is a rare recessively inherited disease that is associated with early dementia and bone cysts with fractures. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Up-Regulation of Trem2 Inhibits Hippocampal Neuronal Apoptosis and Alleviates Oxidative Stress in Epilepsy via the PI3K/Akt Pathway in Mice

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2019-01-25

Epilepsy is a chronic and severe neurological disorder that has negative effects on the autonomous activities of patients. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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DNA methylation changes at TREM2 intron 1 and TREM2 mRNA expression in patients with Alzheimer's disease

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2017-04-11

Recent genome-wide association studies revealed that Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) was associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Cellular players that shape evolving pathology and neurodegeneration following traumatic brain injury

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2018-03-27

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and has emerged as a critical risk factor for multiple neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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TREM2 Ameliorates Neuronal Tau Pathology Through Suppression of Microglial Inflammatory Response

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Inflammation 2018-06-01

As a recently identified susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's disease (AD), triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) encodes an immune receptor that is uniquely expressed on microglia, functioning as a modulator of microglial functions including phagocytosis and inflammatory response. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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HHV-6A infection induces amyloid-beta expression and activation of microglial cells

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-12-12

The control of viral infections in the brain involves the activation of microglial cells, the macrophages of the brain that are constantly surveying the central nervous system, and the production of amyloid-beta (Aβ) as an anti-microbial molecule. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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High TREM2 expression correlates with poor prognosis in gastric cancer

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human pathology 2017-11-02

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily and associates with TYRO protein tyrosine kinase-binding protein at the cell membrane to form a receptor signaling complex. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Nasu-Hakola disease with a splicing mutation of TREM2 in a Japanese family

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2010-12-22

Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by a combination of progressive presenile dementia and formation of multifocal bone cysts, caused by genetic mutations of DAP12 and TREM2, which constitute a receptor/adapter signaling complex expressed on osteoclasts, dendritic cells, macrophages, and microglia. 4 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Transcriptome landscape of myeloid cells in human skin reveals diversity, rare populations and putative DC progenitors

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of dermatological science 2019-11-29

The heterogeneous functions of dermal myeloid cells in antigen presentation, and scavenging pathogens and cell debris places them centrally in cutaneous inflammation. 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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