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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 25,976–26,000 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1040 of 1096.

April 1998 13

  1. 1998-04-01

    Frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17: a new group of tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)

    Key finding: The clinical and neuropathological features of the disease in these families suggest that Frontotemporal Dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 is a distinct disorder.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1998-04-01

    Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and Alzheimer-type pathology in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Neurology

    Key finding: The association of immune proteins and immune-competent microglial cells with senile plaques (SP) in both AD and normal aging suggests that these drugs may be able to modify the course of AD, either by interfering with SP formation or by suppressing the inflammation associated with SP. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1998-04-01

    Prognostic factors in very old demented adults: a seven-year follow-up from a population-based survey in Stockholm

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Follow-up clinical examinations of dementia patients from a population-based study after 3- and 7-year intervals. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1998-04-01

    Total serum homocysteine in senile dementia of Alzheimer type

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

    Key finding: The main hypothesis was that subtle vitamin B12 deficiencies occur more commonly in senile dementia of Alzheimer type (SDAT) that in healthy elderly individuals, and may be revealed by elevated total serum homocysteine (tHcy). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1998-04-01

    Degeneration in vivo of rat hippocampal neurons by wild-type Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein overexpressed by adenovirus-mediated gene transfer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: We first improved the efficiency of adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into neurons in vivo by using hypertonic mannitol. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1998-04-01

    Phosphatidylinositol and inositol involvement in Alzheimer amyloid-beta fibril growth and arrest

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Journal of molecular biology

    Key finding: The major component is the 39 to 42 residue amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) which is an internal proteolytic fragment of the integral membrane amyloid precursor protein. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1998-04-01

    Platelet activation in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Archives of neurology

    Key finding: In light of recent reports of diminished platelet serotonin concentration and increased plasma serotonin levels in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), we hypothesized that a state of heightened platelet activation might be present in AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1998-04-01

    Protein nitration in Parkinson's disease

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

    Key finding: We demonstrate here the presence of nitrotyrosine immunoreactivity in Lewy bodies within melanized neurons and in amorphous deposits associated with intact and degenerating neurons. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1998-04-01

    Glucose, memory, and aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's The American journal of clinical nutrition

    Key finding: One application of this work has been to investigate whether age-related memory impairments result from dysfunctions in the neuroendocrine regulation of the brain processes responsible for memory. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 1998-04-01

    Does delirium contribute to poor hospital outcomes? A three-site epidemiologic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Journal of general internal medicine

    Key finding: Delirium is an important independent prognostic determinant of hospital outcomes including new nursing home placement, death or new nursing home placement, and functional decline-even after controlling for age, gender, dementia, illness severity, and functional status. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 1998-04-01

    Estrogen-replacement therapy and Alzheimer's disease in the Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neurology

    Key finding: Our data from a population-based study support the hypothesis that estrogen-replacement therapy is associated with a reduced prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in postmenopausal women. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 1998-04-01

    Senile dementia with tangles (tangle predominant form of senile dementia)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)

    Key finding: Neuropathology shows diffuse cerebral atrophy with neurofibrillary tangles, often ghost tangles, and neuropil threads almost limited to limbic areas (transentorhinal, entorhinal area, hippocampuS--not exclusively sector CA 1--and amygdala) with only rare and mild involvement of the neocortex, basal ganglia and brainstem (except nucleus basalis and locus ceruleus), absence of neuritic plaques and absence or scarcety of amyloid deposits. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 1998-04-01

    Enhanced GFAP expression in astrocytes of transgenic mice expressing the human brain-specific trypsinogen IV

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Glia

    Key finding: Immunocytochemical analysis of the brains of transgenic mice revealed a striking enhancement of glial fibrillar acidic protein (GFAP) expression in astrocytes. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

March 1998 12

  1. 1998-03-01

    Dutch Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus Study: randomized comparison of low- and medium-pressure shunts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of neurosurgery

    Key finding: Outcome was better for patients who had an LPV shunt than for those with an MPV shunt, although most differences were not statistically significant. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1998-03 month only

    Placement of dementia sufferers in residential and nursing home care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Age and ageing

    Key finding: 25 (21.6%) of the 116 patients living at home were admitted to residential or nursing home care during the follow-up year. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1998-03-01

    EEG coherence in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology

    Key finding: Alpha coherence was significantly decreased in 6 patients, the decrease being more accentuated in the area near the electrode taken into account; a significant delta coherence increase was found in a few patients between frontal and posterior regions. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1998-03-01

    Induction of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in HIV-1 Tat-stimulated astrocytes and elevation in AIDS dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: Because monocytic infiltration of the central nervous system closely correlates with HIV-1-associated dementia, it has been suggested that monocyte-derived toxins mediate nervous system damage. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1998-03-01

    Hippocampal atrophy and apolipoprotein E genotype are independently associated with Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: A variety of anatomic and functional neuroimaging findings are associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1998-03-01

    Barriers to obtaining consent in dementia research: implications for surrogate decision-making

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Absence of functional surrogate decision-makers is a major barrier to research and clinical decision-making for hospitalized patients with advanced dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1998-03-01

    Attention and driving performance in Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: The results indicated that error rate and reaction time during visual search were the best predictors of driving performance. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1998-03-01

    Consensus Report of the Working Group on: “Molecular and Biochemical Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease”

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurobiology of Aging

    The ideal biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) should detect a fundamental feature of neuropathology and be validated in neuropathologically-confirmed cases; it should have a sensitivity >80% for detecting AD and a specificity of >80% for distinguishing other dementias; it should be reliable, reproducible, non-invasive, simple to perform, and inexpensive.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1998-03-01

    Enlarged and phagocytic, but not primed, interleukin-1 alpha-immunoreactive microglia increase with age in normal human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: The strong age association of Alzheimer's disease incidence suggests that events in normal aging may promote such responses. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 1998-03-01

    Incidence and risk of dementia. The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies American journal of epidemiology

    Key finding: Participants were recruited among residents of a suburb of Rotterdam, aged 55 years and older. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 1998-03-01

    Multiple neurological abnormalities in mice deficient in the G protein Go

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: In vitro, Go is also activated by growth cone-associated protein of Mr 43,000 (GAP43) and the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein, but it is not known whether this occurs in intact cells. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 1998-03-01

    Molecular mapping of Alzheimer-type dementia in Down's syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Annals of neurology

    Key finding: We report the case of a 78-year-old woman with Down's syndrome with partial trisomy 21 [46,XX,rec(21)dup q, inv(21) (p12q22.1)]. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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