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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Interpreting artificial intelligence models: a systematic review on the application of LIME and SHAP in Alzheimer's disease detection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain informatics 2024-04-05 Digital health tools

    Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has gained much interest in recent years for its ability to explain the complex decision-making process of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models.

  2. Study design and baseline characteristics of a population-based prospective cohort study of dementia in Japan: the Japan Prospective Studies Collaboration for Aging and Dementia (JPSC-AD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Environmental health and preventive medicine 2020-10-31 Biomarkers

    The prospective cohort data from the JPSC-AD will provide valuable insights regarding the risk factors and etiology of dementia as well as for the development of predictive models and diagnostic markers for the future onset of dementia.

  3. Deep Learning in Alzheimer's Disease: Diagnostic Classification and Prognostic Prediction Using Neuroimaging Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2019-08-20 Digital health tools

    Deep learning, a state-of-the-art machine learning approach, has shown outstanding performance over traditional machine learning in identifying intricate structures in complex high-dimensional data, especially in the domain of computer vision.

  4. Hearing treatment for reducing cognitive decline: Design and methods of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2018-10-05 Risk factors

    When completed in 2022, Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders study should provide definitive evidence of the effect of hearing treatment versus education control on cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults with mild-to-moderate hearing impairment.

  5. Association of Cardiovascular Health Level in Older Age With Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA 2018-08-01 Prevention trials

    In this cohort of older adults, increased numbers of optimal cardiovascular health metrics and a higher cardiovascular health score were associated with a lower risk of dementia and lower rates of cognitive decline.

  6. Retinal thickness in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017-01-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Retinal thickness is decreased in AD and MCI patients compared to HC.

  7. Gait variability in people with neurological disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Human movement science 2016-03-26 Digital health tools

    There has been growing evidence showing gait variability provides unique information about gait characteristics in neurological disorders.

  8. Moderate-to-High Intensity Physical Exercise in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Prevention trials

    This is the first randomized controlled trial with supervised moderate-to-high intensity exercise in patients with mild AD.

  9. Protecting cognition from aging and Alzheimer's disease: a computerized cognitive training combined with reminiscence therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2015-07-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our results corroborate the positive effect of pb-CT and its maintenance primarily on memory in HE and MCI participants that did not seem to be potentiated by RT.

  10. Does physical activity prevent cognitive decline and dementia?: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. BMC public health 2014-05-27 Prevention trials

    Longitudinal observational studies show an association between higher levels of physical activity and a reduced risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

  11. Sleep regularity as an important component of sleep hygiene: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Sleep medicine reviews 2025-11-17 Risk factors

    Fifty-nine primary studies met all criteria.

  12. Meta meta-analysis of cardiovascular risk factors in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. eNeurologicalSci 2025-10-04 Risk factors

    The total effect of cholesterol on risk of AD was significant and heterogeneous.

  13. The association between the MIND diet and cognitive health in middle-aged and older adults: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2025-07-10 Prevention and risk

    The search over five databases identified 898 articles, with 26 meeting the inclusion criteria.

  14. Cognitive reserve against Alzheimer's pathology is linked to brain activity during memory formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature communications 2024-11-13 Risk factors

    The cognitive reserve (CR) hypothesis posits that individuals can differ in how their brain function is disrupted by pathology associated with aging and neurodegeneration.

  15. fMRI-based Alzheimer's disease detection via functional connectivity analysis: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. PeerJ. Computer science 2024-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is a common brain disorder affecting many people worldwide.

  16. Dose-response relationship between computerized cognitive training and cognitive improvement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2024-08-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although computerized cognitive training (CCT) is an effective digital intervention for cognitive impairment, its dose-response relationship is understudied.

  17. Physical exercise, cognition, and brain health in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2024-05-28 Prevention trials

    Exercise training is an important strategy to counteract cognitive and brain health decline during aging.

  18. Design and Feasibility Analysis of a Smartphone-Based Digital Cognitive Assessment Study in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-01-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A smartphone application collected 2 modalities of cognitive data, digital voice and screen-based behaviors, from the FHS (Framingham Heart Study) multigenerational Generation 2 (Gen 2) and Generation 3 (Gen 3) cohorts.

  19. Measures of cognitive reserve: An umbrella review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2023-04-18 Risk factors

    Thirty-one reviews were identified, sixteen of which were systematic reviews, and fifteen were meta-analyses.

  20. Novelty-Related fMRI Responses of Precuneus and Medial Temporal Regions in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2022-06-03 Biomarkers

    In the precuneus, we observed an inverted U-shaped pattern of novelty-related activity across groups, with higher activity in SCD and MCI compared with HC, but not in patients with AD who showed relatively lower activity than MCI.

  21. Sleep in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of polysomnographic findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2022-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Polysomnography (PSG) studies of sleep changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have reported but not fully established the relationship between sleep disturbances and AD.

  22. Amyloid-driven disruption of default mode network connectivity in cognitively healthy individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Brain communications 2021-09-06 Biomarkers

    We demonstrated that higher amyloid burden as measured by both CSF amyloid beta 42/40 ratio and non-displaceable binding potential in the posterior cingulate cortex was associated with lower functional connectivity in the default mode network.

  23. White matter plasticity in healthy older adults: The effects of aerobic exercise

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. NeuroImage 2021-06-24 Prevention trials

    White matter deterioration is associated with cognitive impairment in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease.

  24. Diagnostic power of resting-state fMRI for detection of network connectivity in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2021-05-04 Digital health tools

    Resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) detects functional connectivity (FC) abnormalities that occur in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  25. Do self-reported hearing and visual impairments predict longitudinal dementia in older adults?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-03-18 Risk factors

    HI and VI at baseline were reported by 30.3% and 16.6% of individuals, respectively.

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