28,580 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
Inflammatory processes may be involved in the pathogenesis of cerebral small-vessel disease, in particular, the development of white matter lesions. 3 key findings →
Participants: 1,033 Evidence: low
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A 1-minute semantic fluency test can assist in early detection of dementia in the memory clinic setting. 3 key findings →
Participants: 98 Evidence: low
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Growing evidence suggests a consistent association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and cognitive impairment and dementia that is independent of clinical stroke. 1 key finding →
Evidence: high
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Our results suggest that different subcortical areas have different vulnerabilities to ischemia in CADASIL. 4 key findings →
Participants: 75 Evidence: low
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The risk of incident dementia is high among patients with ischemic stroke, particularly in association with intercurrent medical illnesses that might cause cerebral hypoxia or ischemia, suggesting that cerebral hypoperfusion may serve as a basis for some cases of dementia after stroke. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: moderate
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Stroke is considered the second most common cause of dementia, but the magnitude of the risk posed by stroke has not been fully clarified. 3 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Among participants with normal cognition, higher aortic PWV related to lower frontal lobe CBF (β=-0.43; P=0.04) and higher CVR in the whole brain (β=0.11; P=0.02), frontal lobes (β=0.12; P<0.05), temporal lobes (β=0.11; P=0.02), and occipital lobes (β=0.14; P=0.01). 3 key findings →
Participants: 155 Evidence: low
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Leuko-araiosis was found in 49 of 140 demented patients compared with 12 out of 110 control subjects. 3 key findings →
Participants: 95 Evidence: low
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Aging is associated with chronic systemic inflammation, which contributes to the development of many age-related diseases, including vascular disease. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Brain cell-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) in blood offer unique cellular and molecular information related to the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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Reduction in CSF Abeta(42), likely reflecting Abeta aggregation in the brain, is associated with brain atrophy in the preclinical phase of AD. 3 key findings →
Participants: 29 Evidence: low
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The same tube type should be used in research studies on blood biomarkers. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Clinical prediction models combining plasma biomarkers-particularly p-tau217-exhibit high performance and are less effected by random error. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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These results suggest that persons carrying certain genotypes in IL10 (-1082G/A), IL1β (1473C/G), IL6 (-174C/G), and TNFIα (-308A/G) could be more vulnerable to development of neuroinflammation, and consequently of AD. 2 key findings →
Participants: 115 Evidence: low
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Plasma P-tau181 effectively detects Aβ+ status and conversion to dementia, confirming the value of this blood biomarker for the management of AD. 4 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Plasma and CSF NFL concentrations were very highly correlated (r = 0.89, P < 0.0001). 1 key finding →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Cognitive deficits and depression appear to be more common in aging former NFL players compared with healthy controls. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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We constructed a standardized operating procedure for plasma handling, to facilitate introduction of blood-based biomarkers into the research and clinical settings. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Experimental studies indicate that overactivation of the DNA repair protein poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in response to oxidative damage to DNA can cause cell death due to depletion of NAD+. 3 key findings →
Participants: 20 Evidence: low
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It is currently unclear how amyloid-β and tau deposition are linked to changes in synaptic function and axonal structure over the course of Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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In this study, we determined the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers to predict development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) within five years in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 1 key finding →
Participants: 94 Evidence: moderate
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The combination of decreased amyloid β42 (Aβ42) and increased total tau proteins (T-Tau) and phosphorylated tau (P-Tau) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has recently been considered as a biological diagnostic criterion of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 2 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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A blood-based biomarker of Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression could be instrumental in targeting asymptomatic individuals for treatment early in the disease process. 3 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: moderate
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This study strengthens the potential of neurogranin as an AD CSF biomarker, which now needs validation in larger studies. 3 key findings →
Participants: 29 Evidence: low
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Our findings support an association between neuroaxonal injury and delirium. 3 key findings →
Participants: 130 Evidence: low
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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 28,580 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 28,580 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (62.2% of the library) and OpenAlex (17.8%), 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 (3.6% 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 →