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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 25,726–25,750 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1030 of 1096.

June 1999 18

  1. 1999-06-01

    Norms for letter and category fluency: demographic corrections for age, education, and ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Assessment

    Key finding: Together, age, education, and ethnicity were significant predictors of letter and category fluency performance, accounting for 15% and 25% of variance, respectively.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1999-06-01

    Lithium protects cultured neurons against beta-amyloid-induced neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development FEBS letters

    Key finding: In support of this view, several studies have demonstrated that the treatment of cultured neurons with A beta leads to the hyperphosphorylation of tau protein and neuronal cell death. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1999-06-01

    Memantine is a clinically well tolerated N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist--a review of preclinical data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neuropharmacology

    Key finding: This has unfortunately led to the conclusion that NMDA receptor antagonism is not a valid therapeutic approach. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1999-06-01

    Depression duration but not age predicts hippocampal volume loss in medically healthy women with recurrent major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: This study takes advantage of continuing advances in the precision of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to quantify hippocampal volumes in a series of human subjects with a history of depression compared with controls. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1999-06-01

    Translating cell biology into therapeutic advances in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature

    Key finding: Studies of the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease exemplify the increasingly blurred distinction between basic and applied biomedical research. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1999-06-01

    A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Journal of the American Statistical Association

    With explanatory covariates, the standard analysis for competing risks data involves modeling the cause-specific hazard functions via a proportional hazards assumption.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1999-06-01

    The role of microglia and macrophages in the pathophysiology of the CNS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Progress in neurobiology

    Key finding: Only a subtype, the perivascular microglia, are regularly replaced from the bone marrow in adult animals. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1999-06-01

    A stop-codon mutation in the BRI gene associated with familial British dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Nature

    Key finding: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, non-neuritic and perivascular plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are the predominant pathological lesions. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1999-06-01

    Medial temporal lobe atrophy and memory dysfunction as predictors for dementia in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of neurology

    Key finding: All medial temporal lobe measures increased the accuracy of prediction compared with only the memory score, by reducing the number of false-negative classifications of dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 1999-06-01

    Frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration in a family with a P301S mutation in tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: Two members of this family were affected. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 1999-06-01

    Health care concerns and guidelines for adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's American journal of medical genetics

    Key finding: We report on significant medical problems of adults with DS (DS adults) residing in a British Columbia provincial residential center, Woodlands, over the 12-year period from 1981 through 1992. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 1999-06-01

    Acetylcholine in mind: a neurotransmitter correlate of consciousness?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Trends in neurosciences

    Key finding: In degenerative diseases of the brain, alterations in consciousness are associated with regional deficits in the cholinergic system. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 1999-06-01

    Rates of dementia in three ethnoracial groups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Planning for the wide range of services necessary for care of those suffering from dementia should take into account ethnoracial differences in rates. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 1999-06-01

    Reducing caregiver burden: a randomized psychoeducational intervention for caregivers of persons with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Repeated measures ANOVA was used to test for significant differences between the intervention and waiting list control groups over a 5-month period.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 1999-06-01

    The relation between funding by the National Institutes of Health and the burden of disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: There was no relation between the amount of NIH funding and the incidence, prevalence, or number of hospital days attributed to each condition or disease (P=0.82, P=0.23, and P=0.21, respectively). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 1999-06-01

    [Revalidation and standardization of the cognition mini-exam (first Spanish version of the Mini-Mental Status Examination) in the general geriatric population]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Medicina clinica

    Key finding: The validity of MEC is confirmed in the elderly population, with the same cut-off points recommended in the original standardization. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 1999-06-01

    Cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid(1-42) in Alzheimer disease: differences between early- and late-onset Alzheimer disease and stability during the course of disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Archives of neurology

    Key finding: The sensitivity of CSF-beta-amyloid(1-42) level as a diagnostic marker for AD is high. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 1999-06-01

    Huperzine-A in capsules and tablets for treating patients with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Zhongguo yao li xue bao = Acta pharmacologica Sinica

    Key finding: There is equal efficacy and safety between Hup in capsule and tablet for treating patients with AD, and Hup can reduce the pathological changes of the oxygen free radicals in the plasma and erythrocytes of patients with AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

May 1999 7

  1. 1999-05-11

    Guide to Preventive Cardiology for Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Circulation

    C oronary heart disease (CHD) is the single leading cause of death and a significant cause of morbidity among American women. 1 Risk factors for CHD in women are well documented. 2 Compelling data from epidemiological studies and randomized clinical trials show that CHD is largely preventable.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1999-05-01

    Depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in nondemented elderly women: a prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk PubMed

    Key finding: At baseline, 211 (3.6%) of the women had 6 or more depressive symptoms. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1999-05-01

    Medicinal Plants and Alzheimer's Disease: from Ethnobotany to Phytotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

    Key finding: Old European reference books, such as those on medicinal herbs, document a variety of other plants such as Salvia officinalis (sage) and Melissa officinalis (balm) with memory-improving properties, and cholinergic activities have recently been identified in extracts of these plants. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1999-05-01

    Age-related metabolite changes and volume loss in the hippocampus by magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have produced controversial results concerning the correlation of hippocampal volume loss with increasing age. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1999-05-01

    A.E. Bennett Research Award. Developmental traumatology. Part II: Brain development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Biological psychiatry

    Key finding: These data suggest that the overwhelming stress of maltreatment experiences in childhood is associated with adverse brain development. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1999-05-01

    Hospitalization and Alzheimer's disease: results from a community-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

    Key finding: In this community-based cohort, subjects with severe AD were more likely to be hospitalized than unaffected subjects. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1999-05-01

    High monounsaturated fatty acids intake protects against age-related cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Neurology

    Key finding: In an elderly population of Southern Italy with a typical Mediterranean diet, high MUFA intakes appeared to be protective against age-related cognitive decline. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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