Get help now — free helplines

You can call any of these for free. You do not need a diagnosis, an appointment, or a crisis to call — questions and plain exhaustion are reasons enough.

  • Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Free, confidential support and information for people with dementia, caregivers, families and the public. Master's-level clinicians. Also Spanish.
  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 988 24/7 Call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. For anyone in emotional distress or a mental-health crisis, including caregivers.
  • Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) Helpline 866-232-8484 9:00 am - 9:00 pm ET, seven days a week Licensed social workers providing support, info and referrals. Also text message and web chat. Text: 646-586-5283

In a medical emergency, call 911. More numbers, and what each line does, on the help page.

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

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Effects of cerebral amyloid angiopathy on the brain vasculome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2022-07-18 Vascular contributions

    β-amyloid (Aβ) deposits in brain blood vessel walls underlie the vascular pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  2. Spermidine reduces neuroinflammation and soluble amyloid beta in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2022-07-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    Oral treatment of the amyloid prone AD-like APPPS1 mice with spermidine reduced neurotoxic soluble Aβ and decreased AD-associated neuroinflammation.

  3. The role of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2022-06-23 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder marked by cardinal clinical symptoms such as rigor, tremor, and akinesia.

  4. Transcriptomic Profile of Blood-Brain Barrier Remodeling in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2022-06-22 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a small vessel disease characterized by amyloid β (Aβ) peptide deposition within the walls of medium to small-caliber blood vessels, cerebral microhemorrhage, and blood-brain barrier (BBB) leakage.

  5. Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) R47H Variant Causes Distinct Age- and Sex-Dependent Musculoskeletal Alterations in Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2022-06-07 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Previous studies proposed the Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2), a receptor expressed in myeloid cells including microglia in brain and osteoclasts in bone, as a link between brain and bone disease.

  6. Targeting endothelial ion signalling to rescue cerebral blood flow in cerebral disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Vascular pharmacology 2022-05-05 Vascular contributions

    The mechanism whereby an increase in neuronal activity (NA) leads to a local elevation in cerebral blood flow to supply the active neurons with oxygen and nutrients and remove the catabolic waste has been termed neurovascular coupling (NVC).

  7. Amyloid-β activates NLRP3 inflammasomes by affecting microglial immunometabolism through the Syk-AMPK pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging cell 2022-04-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    Neuroinflammation is considered one of major factors in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Advanced MRI in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 2022-04-20 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a major cause of stroke and dementia.

  9. Endothelial BACE1 Impairs Cerebral Small Vessels via Tight Junctions and eNOS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Circulation research 2022-04-06 Vascular contributions

    We observe a 3.71-fold increase in BACE1 expression in the cerebral microvessels from patients with hypertension.

  10. Small Vessel Disease: Ancient Description, Novel Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-03-23 Vascular contributions

    Small vessel disease (SVD) is one of the most frequent pathological conditions which lead to dementia.

  11. rTg-D: A novel transgenic rat model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy Type-2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior 2022-03-11 Vascular contributions

    rTg-D rats begin to accumulate Aβ in brain and develop varying levels of larger vessel CAA type-2, in the absence of capillary CAA type-1, starting around 18 months of age.

  12. Electroacupuncture ameliorates neuroinflammation in animal models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society 2022-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    A growing body of basic research has shown that EA can ameliorate neuroinflammation centrally (in animal models of ischemic stroke, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, Parkinson's disease and vascular dementia) and peripherally (e.g. after a surgical insult or injection of lipopolysaccharide) and that its effects involve different molecular mechanisms, including activation of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor signaling pathway and P2 type purinergic receptors, inhibition of nuclear factor κB, and mitigation of damage secondary to oxidative stress and NOD-like receptor protein 3 inflammasome activation.

  13. Early Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Accelerates Presbycusis Altering Aging Processes in the Cochlea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-02-07 Risk factors

    Several studies identified hearing loss as a risk factor for aging-related processes, including neurodegenerative diseases, as dementia and age-related hearing loss (ARHL).

  14. Variant TREM2 Signaling in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of molecular biology 2022-02-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for as much as three-quarters of cases globally with individuals in low- and middle-income countries being worst affected.

  15. Functional insight into LOAD-associated microglial response genes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Open biology 2022-01-26 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), neuronal and synaptic loss and inflammation of the central nervous system (CNS).

  16. Inflammasome Signaling in the Aging Brain and Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2022-01-23 Inflammation and the immune system

    Inflammasomes are intracellular protein complexes, members of the innate immune system, and their activation and regulation play an essential role in maintaining homeostatic conditions against exogenous and endogenous stimuli.

  17. The role of inflammasomes in vascular cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-01-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    There is an increasing prevalence of Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) worldwide, and several studies have suggested that Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion (CCH) plays a critical role in disease onset and progression.

  18. Discovery of Small-Molecule CD33 Pre-mRNA Splicing Modulators

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. ACS medicinal chemistry letters 2022-01-04 Genetics

    CD33/Siglec 3 is a myeloid lineage cell surface receptor that is known to regulate microglia activity.

  19. Single Nucleus Transcriptome Data from Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Models Yield New Insight into Pathophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Genetics

    We identified several DEGs in both neuronal and glial cell subtypes in comparisons of wild type (WT) versus 5XFAD and WT versus T2KO mice, including Ttr, Fth1, Pcsk1n, Malat1, Rpl37, Rtn1, Sepw1, Uba52, Mbp, Arl6ip5, Gm26917, Vwa1, and Pgrmc1.

  20. Inflammasome activation in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Essays in biochemistry 2021-12-22 Inflammation and the immune system

    Approximately ten million people are diagnosed with dementia annually since they experience difficulties with memory and thinking skills.

  21. Complement System in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-12-20 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia characterized by problems with short-term memory, cognition, and difficulties with activities of daily living.

  22. Hearing loss and brain disorders: A review of multiple pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) 2021-12-15 Risk factors

    Several causative factors are associated with hearing loss (HL) and brain disorders.

  23. Targeting MicroRNA-485-3p Blocks Alzheimer's Disease Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-12-04 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a form of dementia characterized by progressive memory decline and cognitive dysfunction.

  24. Dysfunction of the Blood-brain Barrier in Cerebral Microbleeds: from Bedside to Bench

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging and disease 2021-12-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are a disorder of cerebral microvessels that are characterized as small (<10 mm), hypointense, round or ovoid lesions seen on T2*-weighted gradient echo MRI.

  25. Nr4a2 Transcription Factor in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity, Memory and Cognitive Dysfunction: A Perspective Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2021-11-22 Disease mechanisms

    Long-lasting changes of synaptic efficacy are largely mediated by activity-induced gene transcription and are essential for neuronal plasticity and memory.

Other topics