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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. Donanemab in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Screening and baseline data from TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 91 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-09 Biomarkers

    55-80 years of age were screened (N = 63,124).

  2. Efficacy and safety of passive immunotherapies targeting amyloid beta in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 90 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2025-03-31 Treatments

    Compared with placebo, treatment with mAbs significantly improved cognitive performance on CDR-SB (mean difference -0.25, 95% confidence interval [CI] [-0.38, -0.11]) and ADAS-Cog (standardized mean difference -0.09, 95% CI [-0.12, -0.06]), in which a negative change indicates improvement for both scores.

  3. Gantenerumab for Early Alzheimer's Disease: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 89 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2026-08 Treatments

    Six trials (3103 Gantenerumab significantly reduces amyloid and statistically improves select functional (FAQ) and cognitive (ADAS-Cog13) measures in early AD; however, these changes remain below accepted MCID thresholds, indicating a lack of true clinical meaningfulness.

  4. These findings support further investigation of ABvac40 as a potential disease-modifying therapy.

  5. Medications for adults with type 2 diabetes: a living systematic review and network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 89 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2025-08-14 Drug development

    The systematic review and NMA includes 493 168 participants from 869 trials (adding 53 trials since October 2022) reporting data for 13 drug classes (63 drugs) and 26 outcomes of interest.

  6. Japanese participant data from three gantenerumab trials in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 89 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-04 Treatments

    Slowing of cognitive and functional decline, and amyloid reduction in gantenerumab group compared to placebo group were greater in Japanese-GRADUATE than in the global-GRADUATE and JP40959.

  7. Lithium Exposure and Risk of Major Neurocognitive Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 89 out of 100. Journal of clinical psychopharmacology 2024-05-15 Drug development

    Eight studies with 377,060 subjects were included in the analysis.

  8. TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 4: A phase 3 trial comparing donanemab with aducanumab on amyloid plaque clearance in early, symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-05-01 Treatments

    Donanemab treatment resulted in earlier and greater AP clearance compared to aducanumab.

  9. Our analysis encompassed 22 RCTs involving 138,282 participants (mean age 64.8 years, 36.4% female).

  10. Randomized, double-blind study of zervimesine in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2026-04-03 Clinical trials

    BackgroundZervimesine (CT1812) is a first-in-class, brain-penetrant sigma-2 receptor ligand that prevents binding and displaces Aβ42 oligomers from receptors on neuronal synapses.

  11. 619 Colombian API registrants were prescreened, 315 were assessed for eligibility, and 252 were enrolled (crenezumab-carrier, n=85; placebo-carrier, n=84; placebo-non-carrier, n=83; 160 [63%] women and 92 [37%] men) between Dec 20, 2013, and Feb 27, 2017. 237 (94%) completed the trial, with final data collection on March 22, 2022.

  12. Efficacy of anti-amyloid-ß monoclonal antibody therapy in early Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2023-11-17 Treatments

    Anti-amyloid-ß mAbs attenuate cognitive and functional decline compared with placebo in early AD; whether the magnitude of this effect is clinically important remains uncertain, especially relative to the safety profile of these medications.

  13. Study of mirtazapine for agitated behaviours in dementia (SYMBAD): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2021-10-23 Clinical trials

    Between Jan 26, 2017, and March 6, 2020, 204 participants were recruited and randomised.

  14. A phase 2, randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of S-adenosyl methionine in participants with mild cognitive impairment or dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 85 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-04 Clinical trials

    Mean percentage change in plasma p-tau217 in the SAMe group was an increase of 53.22 (standard deviation [SD] 159.19) compared to 25.34 (SD 94.83) in the placebo group (standardized mean difference 37.58, 95% confidence interval -32.61, 107.76; p = 0.288).

  15. Between Aug 28, 2013, and Dec 21, 2015, we enrolled 3494 participants (3061 at high risk and 433 at low risk).

  16. A phase-II randomized controlled pilot study of nicotinamide riboside supplementation in older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-07 Clinical trials

    42 participants completed the study (NR = 22, placebo = 20).

  17. Oral PRI-002 treatment in patients with MCI or mild AD: a randomized, double-blind phase 1b trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-05-06 Treatments

    Overall, the study drug was well tolerated.

  18. Blarcamesine for the treatment of Early Alzheimer's Disease: Results from the ANAVEX2-73-AD-004 Phase IIB/III trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-01-01 Biomarkers

    Blarcamesine, demonstrating a safety profile with no associated neuroimaging adverse events, significantly slowed clinical progression by 36.3% at 48 weeks with blarcamesine group as well as the individual 30 mg (by 34.6%) and 50 mg (by 38.5%) blarcamesine groups vs. placebo on the prespecified primary cognitive endpoint ADAS-Cog13.

  19. Gantenerumab for early Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2024-06-16 Treatments

    In this meta-analysis, consistent results suggest that gantenerumab is not safe and efficient for early AD, showing no improvement in clinical scores for AD and being associated with the occurrence of ARIA-E and ARIA-H.

  20. Despite immunotherapies significantly increasing the risks of adverse events and ARIA, the data suggest that mAbs can effectively improve the cognitive function of patients with mild and moderate AD.

  21. Japanese Subgroup Analyses from EMERGE and ENGAGE, Phase 3 Clinical Trials of Aducanumab in Patients with Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024-01-01 Treatments

    Efficacy, safety, biomarker, and PK profiles of aducanumab were consistent between the Japanese subgroup and the overall population.

  22. Polysomnographic assessment of suvorexant in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease dementia and insomnia: a randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-15 Risk factors

    Of 285 participants randomized (suvorexant, N = 142; placebo, N = 143), 277 (97%) completed the trial (suvorexant, N = 136; placebo, N = 141).

  23. Systematic Review of Sex-Specific Reporting of Data: Cholinesterase Inhibitor Example

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017-08-18 Treatments

    Thirty-three randomized controlled trials were identified evaluating 15,971 participants (9,103 (57%) female).

  24. Lecanemab for treatment of individuals with early Alzheimer's Disease (AD) who are apolipoprotein E ε4 (ApoE ε4) non-carriers or heterozygotes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2026-02-13 Treatments

    1795 participants with early AD were enrolled in Clarity AD, of which 1521 were ApoE ε4 heterozygotes or non-carriers (85 %).

  25. The efficacy and safety of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody versus acetylcholinesterase inhibitor with an in-depth analysis across genotypes and disease stages: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-05-01 Treatments

    Subgroup analyses included (i) MCI versus mild AD; (ii) with versus without concomitant AD medications; and (iii) Apolipoprotein E (ApoE4) carriers versus non-carriers.

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