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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 25,901–25,925 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1037 of 1096.

September 1998 15

  1. 1998-09-01

    Hippocampal morphometry in schizophrenia by high dimensional brain mapping

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: In vivo studies of hippocampal anatomy using high resolution magnetic resonance scanning and manual methods for volumetric measurement have yielded inconclusive results, perhaps because of the normal variability in hippocampal volume and the error involved in manual measurement techniques. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1998-09-01

    Use of topiramate, a new anti-epileptic as a mood stabilizer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of affective disorders

    Key finding: TPM may be useful in patients with mood disorders unresponsive to traditional therapy and warrants further clinical investigation.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1998-09-01

    Projections of Alzheimer's disease in the United States and the public health impact of delaying disease onset.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is American Journal of Public Health

    Key finding: in 1997, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in the United States was 2.32 million (range: 1.09 to 4.58 million); of these individuals, 68% were female. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1998-09-01

    Primary and secondary store‐loyal customer perceptions of grocery retailers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors British Food Journal

    Key finding: Although a number of store‐image studies have identified store attributes, evidence suggests that these attributes vary by store type and over time, but no work has considered the most crucial aspects to retailers, namely store loyalty.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1998-09-01

    Relation between severity of Alzheimer's disease and costs of caring

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne

    Key finding: Data from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) were used to examine the relation between severity of Alzheimer's disease, as measured by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and costs of caring. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1998-09-01

    [Mini mental state examination and the diagnosis of dementia in Brazil]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

    Key finding: Many scales have been designed to aid the clinician in the assessment of at risk subjects, such as the elderly. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1998-09-01

    Life-long overexpression of S100beta in Down's syndrome: implications for Alzheimer pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Such plaques are virtually universal in middle-aged Down's syndrome, making Down's a natural model of Alzheimer's disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1998-09-01

    Cell-type-specific enhancement of amyloid-beta deposition in a novel presenilin-1 mutation (P117L)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: The neuropathology of 2 subjects with this PS1 mutation (ages at death: 35 and 37 years) was compared to four Down syndrome (DS) patients (mean age at death: 62 years) and 4 sporadic AD patients (mean age at death: 79 years with a mean duration of disease of 18 years). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1998-09-01

    Benefits of influenza vaccination for low-, intermediate-, and high-risk senior citizens

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: This study confirms that healthy senior citizens as well as senior citizens with underlying medical conditions are at risk for the serious complications of influenza and benefit from vaccination. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 1998-09-01

    The incidence of dementia: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Neurology

    Key finding: The incidence of dementia rises exponentially to the age of 90 years.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 1998-09-01

    Prevalence and subtypes of dementia in a rural Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: The overall rate was 2.5% for age > or =65 years. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 1998-09-01

    Epidemiology versus genetics in Parkinson's disease: progress in resolving an age-old debate

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Annals of neurology

    Key finding: With regard to the environment, epidemiologic studies have provided only broad, thought-tantalizing clues to the cause of the disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 1998-09-01

    Psychiatric illness in patients with end-stage renal disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The American journal of medicine

    Key finding: Hospitalization with a psychiatric illness is common among the US end-stage renal disease population. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 1998-09-01

    Stress reduction for family caregivers: effects of adult day care use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences

    Key finding: These results demonstrate that use of adult day care by caregivers of dementia patients results in lower levels of caregiving-related stress and better psychological well-being when compared to that of controls. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 1998-09-01

    The relationships between age, sex, and the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer disease: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Archives of general psychiatry

    Key finding: The acceleration of incidence rates for AD and dementia slows down with the increase in age, although we find no evidence of a rate decline. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

August 1998 10

  1. 1998-08-01

    Studying bilinguals: Methodological and conceptual issues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Bilingualism Language and Cognition

    Key finding: Because the field of bilingualism is still relatively new, studies in the linguistics, psycholinguistics, language development and neurolinguistics of bilingualism have often produced conflicting results.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1998-08-01

    REM sleep behavior disorder and degenerative dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurology

    Key finding: Thirty-four of the 37 patients were male with mean age at onset of 61.5 years for RBD and 68.1 years for cognitive decline. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1998-08-01

    CSF spaces in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: morphology and volumetry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging PubMed Central

    Key finding: In patients with idiopathic NPH, the CSF volume was significantly increased in the ventricles and decreased in the superior convexity and medial subarachnoid spaces as compared with patients with other dementias. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1998-08 month only

    Aging and cerebrovascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neurologic clinics

    Key finding: Aging influences cerebrovascular disease expression by a variety of mechanisms. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1998-08-01

    Coexistence of Alzheimer-type neuropathology in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share clinical, neuropathological, and pathogenetic features. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1998-08-01

    Activation of tau protein kinase I/glycogen synthase kinase-3beta by amyloid beta peptide (25-35) enhances phosphorylation of tau in hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuroscience research

    Key finding: Using antibodies that recognize phosphorylated sites of tau, we showed that tau phosphorylation was enhanced in at least five sites (Ser199, Ser202, Ser396, Ser404, and Ser413 numbered according to the human tau isoform containing 441 amino acid residues), to an extent that depended on the level of TPK I/GSK-3beta.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1998-08-01

    Patterns of MRI lesions in CADASIL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neurology

    Key finding: Our results suggest that different subcortical areas have different vulnerabilities to ischemia in CADASIL. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1998-08-01

    Hippocampal volumes in cognitively normal persons at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Annals of neurology

    Key finding: The epsilon4 homozygotes had significantly reduced glucose metabolism in the same brain regions as patients with Alzheimer's dementia; the largest reduction was in the posterior cingulate cortex. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1998-08-01

    The importance of inflammatory mechanisms in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Experimental gerontology

    Key finding: This is particularly true of AD, where inflammatory reactions are thought to be important contributors to the neuronal loss. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 1998-08-01

    Cognitive decline is faster in Lewy body variant than in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Neurology

    Key finding: We hypothesized that LBV patients would have a faster cognitive decline and shorter survival compared with patients with pure AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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