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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 26,776–26,800 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1072 of 1096.

May 1993 6

  1. 1993-05-01

    The problems of pain and its detection among geriatric nursing home residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Chronic pain is a common problem among geriatric nursing home residents and is frequently undetected. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1993-05-01

    Continuous c-fos expression precedes programmed cell death in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Nature

    Key finding: Naturally occurring cell death aids tissue remodelling, eliminates supernumerary cell populations and provides structural elements such as hair and skin. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1993-05-01

    Hypercortisolemia and hippocampal changes in depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Psychiatry research

    Key finding: Furthermore, significant negative correlations were observed between hippocampal volume and both age of depressive onset and number of hospitalizations. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1993-05-01

    Predicting short-term survival for patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: This statistical prediction is recommended for use in combination with clinical judgment to certify DAT patients for Medicare hospice coverage. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1993-05-01

    Clinical picture of frontal lobe degeneration of non-Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Dementia (Basel, Switzerland)

    Key finding: Restlessness, changes of oral/dietary behavior and utilization behavior are prevalent as also psychotic features. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1993-05-01

    Neuronal and glial gene expression in neocortex of Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: Except in the DS case with extensive neurofibrillary degeneration, GFAP was expressed at levels significantly below the control, suggesting that trisomy 21 exerts a suppressive effect on GFAP gene expression. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

April 1993 5

  1. 1993-04-01

    Neurodegeneration induced by beta-amyloid peptides in vitro: the role of peptide assembly state

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: To evaluate this hypothesis and to define a structure-activity relationship for beta-amyloid, aggregation properties of an overlapping series of synthetic beta-amyloid peptides (beta APs) were investigated and compared with beta AP neurotoxic properties in vitro. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1993-04-01

    Falls in dementia patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Staff reported 1,343 falls over a 2-year period in 240 patients, a rate of about 4 falls per person year. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1993-04-01

    Accuracy of the Mini-Mental Status Examination as a screening test for dementia in a Swedish elderly population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Acta neurologica Scandinavica

    Key finding: All the inhabitants over 74 years of age in one area of Stockholm took the MMSE. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1993-04-01

    Widespread activation of calcium-activated neutral proteinase (calpain) in the brain in Alzheimer disease: a potential molecular basis for neuronal degeneration

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

    Key finding: To investigate their involvement in Alzheimer disease, we identified three isoforms of muCANP (calpain I) in human postmortem brain corresponding to an 80-kDa precursor and two autolytically activated isoforms (78 and 76 kDa). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1993-04-01

    L-deprenyl in the treatment of mild dementia of the Alzheimer type: preliminary results

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: L-deprenyl did not have a measurable impact on behavior or cognitive function over a 2-month period in this group of subjects with mild DAT.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

March 1993 9

  1. 1993-03-01

    Retinal ganglion cells in Alzheimer's disease and aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Annals of neurology

    Key finding: We investigated whether GC loss could be attributed to AD compared with control subjects by measuring the spatial density of GC (cells/mm2) with methods previously used to analyze the GC distribution of young normal retinas. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1993-03-01

    Incidence of dementia and probable Alzheimer's disease in a general population: the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Neurology

    In a general population sample, we determined incidence of dementia and of probable AD and will use these incident cases for study of precursors and natural history in this elderly cohort, which has been under close surveillance for over 40 years.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1993-03-01

    Generation of beta-amyloid in the secretory pathway in neuronal and nonneuronal cells

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

    Key finding: In this report, we show that 3- and 4-kDa peptides derived from amyloid precursor protein are normally secreted. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1993-03-01

    Age-associated chromosome 21 loss in Down syndrome: possible relevance to mosaicism and Alzheimer disease

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

    Key finding: An analysis of cytogenetic data on 154 trisomy 21 cases (age 1 day to 68 years) showed that the proportion of diploid cells in such cultures significantly increased (P < 0.005) with advancing age. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1993-03-01

    Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy maps to chromosome 19q12

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Nature genetics

    Key finding: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) has been recently reported as a cause of stroke. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1993-03-01

    Quantitative assessment of the synaptophysin immuno-reactivity of the cortical neuropil in various neurodegenerative disorders with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Dementia (Basel, Switzerland)

    Key finding: In AD we found a rather diffuse reduction of the cortical synaptophysin expression of up to 26.5% (mean 11%) of the controls. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 1993-03-01

    Reducing antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes. A controlled trial of provider education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: This suggests that for many antipsychotic drug users benefits may be marginal and that programs to reduce such drug use among the 250,000 US nursing home residents receiving these drugs should have high priority. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 1993-03-01

    Apolipoprotein E: high-avidity binding to beta-amyloid and increased frequency of type 4 allele in late-onset familial Alzheimer disease

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

    Key finding: The gene for apolipoprotein E is located on chromosome 19q13.2, within the region previously associated with linkage of late-onset familial Alzheimer disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 1993-03-01

    Alterations of glial fibrillary acidic protein mRNA level in the aging brain and in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neuroscience letters

    Key finding: The GFAP mRNA levels were compared to the density of the senile plaques (SP) in postmortem brain samples of 8 cases, either non-demented or affected by senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

February 1993 5

  1. 1993-02-01

    Recognition of the minimal epitope of monoclonal antibody Tau-1 depends upon the presence of a phosphate group but not its location

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Journal of neuroscience research

    Key finding: All 4 serine residues within this fragment were later phosphorylated individually by chemical methods, and it was shown that none of the peptides carrying a single phosphate group were recognized by the antibody.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1993-02-01

    Evidence for excitoprotective and intraneuronal calcium-regulating roles for secreted forms of the beta-amyloid precursor protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neuron

    Key finding: APPs695 and APPs751 protected neurons against hypoglycemic damage, and the neuroprotection was abolished by antibodies to a specific region common to both APPs695 and APPs751. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1993-02-01

    The visual variant of Alzheimer's disease: a clinicopathologic case study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Neurology

    Key finding: Over a 12-year course the visual defects steadily worsened, and eventually memory and language skills failed. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1993-02-01

    A clinicopathologic study of 100 cases of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Neuropathologic examination found coexistent Alzheimer-type change in 17 cases and striatal abnormality--mainly vascular--in 34 cases. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1993-02-01

    Profiles of language impairment in primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Archives of neurology

    Key finding: The profile of aphasia suggests that primary progressive aphasia tends to affect anterior parts of the language-dominant cortex first. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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