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Newest studies

Every summary in our library, newest first, as a dated timeline.

What "newest" means here

The most recent study in this library is dated 2026-11-01 (Paths of Aging Minds: Health Journeys of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment). This is our summary library, not a news wire — it is added to in batches, so the newest entry may not be the newest paper published anywhere.

Entries are sorted strictly by publication date, newest first. 26489 of the 27380 entries carry a full day-level date. 65 have no date recorded at all and are placed by publication year, at the start of that year; those are marked "no date recorded" below so you can see where the ordering is a best effort rather than a fact.

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Showing 25,226–25,250 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1010 of 1096.

March 2001 9

  1. 2001-03-01

    MRI hyperintensities of the temporal lobe and external capsule in patients with CADASIL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurology

    Key finding: Temporal pole hyperintensity is a radiologic marker of CADASIL.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2001-03-01

    Cognitive impairment in motor neuron disease with bulbar onset

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other motor neuron disorders : official publication of the World Federation of Neurology, Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases

    Key finding: This study adds further arguments for a cognitive impairment in MND/ALS. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2001-03-01

    A randomized controlled trial of the effects of multi-sensory stimulation (MSS) for people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools The British journal of clinical psychology

    Key finding: Both MSS and Activity sessions appear to be effective and appropriate therapies for people with dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2001-03-01

    Hormone replacement therapy and cognition: systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is JAMA

    Key finding: In women with menopausal symptoms, HRT may have specific cognitive effects, and future studies should target these effects. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2001-03-01

    Risk of dementia in Parkinson's disease: a community-based, prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Neurology

    Key finding: Forty-three patients with PD were demented at follow-up evaluation, equivalent to an incidence rate of 95.3 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI, 68.2 to 122.0). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2001-03-01

    Physical activity and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Regular physical activity could represent an important and potent protective factor for cognitive decline and dementia in elderly persons. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2001-03-01

    Response of patients with Alzheimer disease to rivastigmine treatment is predicted by the rate of disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Rivastigmine administration during open-label extension therapy benefited patients who had progressed slowly and those who had progressed rapidly during initial double-blind placebo treatment. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2001-03-01

    Reproductive period and risk of dementia in postmenopausal women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics JAMA

    Key finding: During 21 046 person-years of follow-up (median follow-up, 6.3 years), 199 women developed dementia, including 159 who developed AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2001-03-01

    Evaluation of CSF-tau and CSF-Abeta42 as diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease in clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Cerebrospinal fluid tau and CSF-Abeta42 have so far been studied in research settings, under conditions providing data on the optimal performance.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

February 2001 16

  1. 2001-02-15

    β-Amyloid Stimulation of Microglia and Monocytes Results in TNFα-Dependent Expression of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase and Neuronal Apoptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Journal of Neuroscience

    Key finding: Reactive microglia associated with the beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains initiate a sequence of inflammatory events integral to the disease process. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2001-02-01

    Loss and atrophy of layer II entorhinal cortex neurons in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Individuals with mild cognitive impairment (63.5%; p < 0.0003) and mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease (46.06%; p < 0.0017) displayed significant losses of layer II entorhinal cortex neurons relative to those with no cognitive impairment but not relative to each other (p > 0.33). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2001-02-01

    Incidence of dementia and Alzheimer disease in 2 communities: Yoruba residing in Ibadan, Nigeria, and African Americans residing in Indianapolis, Indiana

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities JAMA

    Key finding: This is the first report of incidence rate differences for dementia and AD in studies of 2 populations from nonindustrialized and industrialized countries using identical methods and the same group of investigators in both sites. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2001-02-01

    High short-term mortality in hospitalized patients with advanced dementia: lack of benefit of tube feeding

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: In this cohort of hospitalized patients with advanced dementia, risk of receiving a new feeding tube is high, associated with African American ethnicity, and prior residence in a nursing home, and has no measurable influence on survival. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2001-02-01

    Allosteric sensitization of nicotinic receptors by galantamine, a new treatment strategy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Biological psychiatry

    Key finding: The allosterically potentiating ligand action, which is not necessarily associated with cholinesterase inhibition, has been demonstrated by whole-cell patch-clamp recordings to occur in natural murine and human neurons and in murine and human cell lines expressing various subtypes of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2001-02-01

    Proapoptotic effects of tau cleavage product generated by caspase-3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neurobiology of disease

    Key finding: Overexpression of DeltaTau in SK-N-BE2(C) cells significantly increased the incidence of cell death. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2001-02-01

    Perspectives on care at the close of life. Serving patients who may die soon and their families: the role of hospice and other services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care JAMA

    Key finding: Function and symptoms for those living with serious chronic illness at the end of life generally follow 1 of 3 trajectories: (a) a short period of obvious decline at the end, which is typical of cancer; (b) long-term disability, with periodic exacerbations, and unpredictable timing of death, which characterizes dying with chronic organ system failures; or (c) self-care deficits and a slowly dwindling course to death, which usually results from frailty or dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2001-02-01

    Progression of dysarthria and dysphagia in postmortem-confirmed parkinsonian disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Latency to onset of dysarthria and dysphagia clearly differentiated PD from the APDs, but did not help distinguish different APDs.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2001-02-01

    Infection Control in Africa South of the Sahara

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2001-02-01

    Apolipoprotein E genotype and cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Atherosclerosis

    Key finding: Apolipoprotein (apo) E is a constituent of lipoproteins with considerable variation due to cysteine-arginine exchanges. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2001-02-01

    Semantic memory is impaired in both dementia with Lewy bodies and dementia of Alzheimer's type: a comparative neuropsychological study and literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: Both DLB and DAT groups exhibited impaired performance across the range of tasks designed to assess semantic memory. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2001-02-01

    The Mini-Cog: receiver operating characteristics with expert and naïve raters

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: As elderly populations grow, dementia detection in the community is increasingly needed. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2001-02-01

    Perception, attention, and working memory are disproportionately impaired in dementia with Lewy bodies compared with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: Both patient groups performed equally poorly on tests of episodic and semantic memory with the exception of immediate and delayed story recall, which was worse in the AD group. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2001-02-01

    Alzheimer dementia in Down's syndrome: the relevance of cognitive ability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR

    Key finding: More years of education have been found to be associated with a lower rate of Alzheimer disease (AD) in individuals without intellectual disability. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2001-02-01

    Cerebral amyloidosis, amyloid angiopathy, and their relationship to stroke and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: It is a feature commonly associated with normal aging, Alzheimer disease (AD), Down syndrome (DS), and Sporadic Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2001-02-01

    Differences between GABA levels in Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome with Alzheimer-like neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology

    Key finding: In DS, no significant differences from control values could be observed in any of the brain regions. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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