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Ask HN: How to stay up to date with advances in Alzheimer's research?
10 points by soupjacket on April 6, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I have a background in neuroscience and computational memory research, but have been working purely in computer science and programming for the past few years.

I am interested in making a career shift back to neuroscience in the next few years and would like to work on AD, but am not incredibly knowledgeable about the current state of the field.

In the past I have used MedicalXpress to follow new research in specific fields, but the sheer volume of articles and lack of community feedback can make it hard to evaluate the importance or legitimacy of discoveries, or to situate the research in the broader field.

Do you have any suggestions for aggregators, communities, journals, or even specific review aricles that can help bring and keep someone up to date on current expert opinions?

(I considered making this post about "a scientific topic" more broadly than "Alzheimer's disease", but decided to make it more focused - however, I am more than happy to hear about generalized approaches to this challenge as well)




It seems the Mediterranean diet may provide some protection... https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=%E2%80%9CMediterranean+diet... Also this site contains lots of searchable research papers... https://www.greenmedinfo.com/research-dashboard


Google Scholar really can't be beat. When you find a good review, start following authors of the references that look legit. You can also have alerts for new papers with keywords in the title or other sections.

inciteful.xyz is also really great at finding the important papers for a subject. As you add more papers the recommendations get better.


I just learned about undermind.ai which could be useful for this task!




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