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Newest studies

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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 26,326–26,350 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1054 of 1096.

September 1996 3

  1. 1996-09-01

    Prevalence of dementia in older Japanese-American men in Hawaii: The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is JAMA

    Key finding: Prevalence of Alzheimer disease in older Japanese-American men in Hawaii appears to be higher than in Japan but similar to European-ancestry populations. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1996-09-01

    The 14-3-3 brain protein in cerebrospinal fluid as a marker for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: In patients with dementia, a positive immunoassay for the 14-3-3 brain protein in cerebrospinal fluid strongly supports a diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1996-09-01

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Dementia (Basel, Switzerland)

    Key finding: A significant correlation between GFAP and age was found both in the total dementia group and in the controls. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

August 1996 12

  1. 1996-08-01

    Amyloid beta protein (Abeta) deposition in chromosome 14-linked Alzheimer's disease: predominance of Abeta42(43)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Annals of neurology

    Key finding: The total amount of Abeta40 and Abeta42(43) deposited was more than twice the amount deposited in cases of sporadic AD of similar disease duration, although the ratio between the extent of Abeta40 and Abeta42(43) deposition was unaltered, compared with sporadic AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1996-08-01

    Can the controversy of the role of aluminum in Alzheimer's disease be resolved? What are the suggested approaches to this controversy and methodological issues to be considered?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of toxicology and environmental health

    Key finding: Hyper-aluminemia often develops in patients with renal failure being treated with intermittent hemodialysis on a chronic basis, and in severe cases results in an encephalopathy. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1996-08-01

    Predictors of mortality in patients diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurology

    Key finding: Short-term mortality is increased in patients newly diagnosed with probable AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1996-08-01

    Circadian rest-activity rhythm disturbances in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Biological psychiatry

    Key finding: First stability of the rest-activity rhythm is associated with high levels of daytime activity and high levels of environmental light resulting from seasonal effects as well as from indoor illumination. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1996-08-01

    Induction of neuroprotective kappa B-dependent transcription by secreted forms of the Alzheimer's beta-amyloid precursor

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Brain research. Molecular brain research

    Key finding: A significant fraction of the beta-amyloid precursor protein is proteolytically processed to yield large secreted forms (sAPP). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1996-08-01

    Effect of oestrogen during menopause on risk and age at onset of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Lancet (London, England)

    Key finding: Overall, 156 (12.5%) women reported taking oestrogen after onset of menopause. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1996-08-01

    Encephalopathy associated with Hashimoto thyroiditis: diagnosis and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Journal of neurology

    Key finding: Six patients with Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) and associated encephalopathy (HE) are described and compared with 14 well-documented cases retrieved from the literature.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1996-08-01

    Arthritis and anti-inflammatory agents as possible protective factors for Alzheimer's disease: a review of 17 epidemiologic studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions are characterized by the presence of numerous inflammatory proteins.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1996-08-01

    RAGE and amyloid-β peptide neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 1996-08-01

    Clinical correlates of white matter findings on cranial magnetic resonance imaging of 3301 elderly people. The Cardiovascular Health Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Stroke

    White matter findings were significantly associated with age, silent stroke, hypertension, FEV1, and income.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 1996-08-01

    Secreted amyloid β–protein similar to that in the senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease is increased in vivo by the presenilin 1 and 2 and APP mutations linked to familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Nature Medicine

    Key finding: A beta 1-42(43) was elevated in plasma from subjects with FAD-linked PS1 (P < 0.0001), PS2N1411 (P = 0.009), APPK670N,M671L (P < 0.0001), and APPV7171 (one subject) mutations. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 1996-08-01

    Primary progressive apraxia in Pick's disease: a clinicopathologic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurology

    Key finding: A 62-year-old right-handed man gradually experienced increasing difficulty with speech and manual dexterity. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

July 1996 10

  1. 1996-07-01

    Follow-up study of risk factors in progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurology

    Key finding: The one previous controlled epidemiologic survey, performed at our center in 1986, found small-town experience and greater educational attainment as PSP risks, but, in retrospect, these results may have been produced by ascertainment bias. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1996-07-01

    Comparison of the neurofibrillary pathology in Alzheimer's disease and familial presenile dementia with tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: These results indicate that in the two diseases tau undergoes the same modifications; they confirm that neurofibrillary tangles and neuropil threads like those in AD can exist independently of beta-amyloid deposits and that their presence is associated with dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1996-07-01

    Endoproteolysis of presenilin 1 and accumulation of processed derivatives in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neuron

    Key finding: We conclude that PS1 is subject to endoproteolytic processing in vivo.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1996-07-01

    Clinical research criteria for the diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome): report of the NINDS-SPSP international workshop

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Neurology

    To improve the specificity and sensitivity of the clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP, Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Society for PSP, Inc. (SPSP) sponsored an international workshop to develop an accurate and universally accepted set of criteria for this disorder.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1996-07-01

    Huntington's disease and eyeblink classical conditioning: normal learning but abnormal timing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS

    Key finding: Performance of seven patients with HD was compared to age-matched normals, with two control subjects matched to each HD patient. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1996-07-01

    Fronto-temporal dementia: nosology, neuropsychology, and neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Brain and cognition

    Key finding: It is associated with three types of underlying histology: microvacuolation or spongiosus (frontal lobe degeneration type), gliosis with or without inclusion bodies and swollen neurones (Pick-type), and motor neurone disease type.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1996-07-01

    Disability in geriatric depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The American journal of psychiatry

    Key finding: Impairment in instrumental activities of daily living appears to be a relatively independent dimension of health status that is related to depressive symptoms, particularly anxiety and depressive ideation as well as retardation and weight loss. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1996-07-01

    Atrophy of the corpus callosum in Alzheimer's disease versus healthy aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Atrophy of the CC differentiates HE and ID from AD subjects and tracks the cognitive decline of this disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1996-07-01

    Quantitative assessment of synaptic density in the outer molecular layer of the hippocampal dentate gyrus in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Dementia (Basel, Switzerland)

    Key finding: Autopsy material from 9 individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) were compared to 10 age-matched, postmortem-matched controls without dementia, using standard electron microscopy. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 1996-07-01

    Survival of Medicare patients after enrollment in hospice programs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: Most patients who enter hospice care do so late in the course of their terminal illnesses.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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