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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 27,151–27,175 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1087 of 1096.

July 1988 5

  1. 1988-07-01

    Nervous system complications in uremia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: Dialysis itself is associated with at least three distinct disorders of the central nervous system, including the dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, dialysis dementia, and progressive intellectual dysfunction. +1 more finding

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  2. 1988-07-01

    Posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Predominant parieto-occipital atrophy was demonstrated on both computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in two of the patients; posterior circulation was normal by angiography in the three studied.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1988-07-01

    Alzheimer's disease. A double-labeling immunohistochemical study of senile plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system The American journal of pathology

    Key finding: The histopathology of senile plaques was studied using double-labeling immunohistochemistry and lectin histochemistry with thioflavin S fluorescent microscopy in 9 cases of Alzheimer's disease, 2 nondemented elderly individuals, and 3 individuals with non-Alzheimer primary degenerative dementias. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1988-07-01

    Digital and palmar dermatoglyphics in dementia of the Alzheimer type

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

    Key finding: Female patients had significantly (p less than 0.05) more accessory triradii and complete Sydney creases than controls; no dermatoglyphic differences were detected in the males.

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  5. 1988-07-01

    A characterization of the prosodic loss in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Brain and language

    Key finding: Prosodic contours in the verbal output of 30 patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's disease were contrasted to those of fifteen age-, sex-, and educationally matched normal subjects. +3 more findings

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June 1988 7

  1. 1988-06-01

    Immunochemical and biochemical characterization of tau proteins in normal and Alzheimer's disease brains with Alz 50 and Tau-1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: Quantitative analysis of immunoblots with the antibodies showed that both homogenate and supernatant fractions (12,000 x g) from Alzheimer brains contained 38-65% less tau immunoreactivity compared to normal brains. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1988-06-01

    Acute confusional states in elderly patients treated for femoral neck fracture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Drugs with anticholinergic effect, depression, and previous stroke were factors that seemed to be associated with the development of ACS. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1988-06-01

    Screening for dementia by memory testing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Neurology

    Enhanced cued recall provides a simple and clinically useful memory test for identifying dementia in the elderly.

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  4. 1988-06-01

    Usefulness of mortality data in determining the geography and time trends of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

    Key finding: Analysis of all certified deaths from dementia during 1968-78 by place of residence shows that areas with a significantly high SMR usually contain a large psychiatric hospital.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1988-06-01

    The relevance of the Lewy body to the pathogenesis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: Associated pathological findings suggest that these cases of incidental Lewy body disease are presymptomatic cases of Parkinson's disease, and confirm the importance of age (time) in the evolution of the disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1988-06-01

    Thalamic infarcts: clinical syndromes, etiology, and prognosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurology

    Key finding: We found no risk factor other than age or oral contraceptive use in six patients.

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  7. 1988-06-01

    Neuropsychiatric disorders caused by cobalamin deficiency in the absence of anemia or macrocytosis

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

    Key finding: Among 141 consecutive patients with neuro-psychiatric abnormalities due to cobalamin deficiency, we found that 40 (28 percent) had no anemia or macrocytosis. +1 more finding

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May 1988 3

  1. 1988-05-01

    The pathological association between Down syndrome and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Mechanisms of ageing and development

    Key finding: The neuropathology of Down syndrome (DS) at middle age is compared with that of Alzheimer disease (AD) at that age, through a review of the published literature and from the author's personal observations on brains from a series of patients of different ages with DS. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1988-05-01

    Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease: comparison of speech and language alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurology

    Key finding: DAT produced significantly greater language disturbances, including anomia, decreased information content of spontaneous speech, and diminished word list generation. +2 more findings

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  3. 1988-05-01

    Black-white differences in psychopathology in an urban psychiatric population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Comprehensive psychiatry

    Key finding: Some differences appeared to be due to selection factors and others raised the question of alternate expressions of psychopathology among blacks as versus whites. +1 more finding

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April 1988 2

  1. 1988-04-29

    Apolipoprotein E: Cholesterol Transport Protein with Expanding Role in Cell Biology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Science

    Apolipoprotein E is a plasma protein that serves as a ligand for low density lipoprotein receptors and, through its interaction with these receptors, participates in the transport of cholesterol and other lipids among various cells of the body.

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  2. 1988-04 month only

    No response to high-dose muscarinic agonist therapy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical trials Neurology

    Key finding: No consistent, clinically significant cognitive improvement could be discerned in these mild to moderately demented patients, despite attainment of central RS-86 levels approximating those that affect behavior in the experimental animal.

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March 1988 4

  1. 1988-03-01

    Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Annals of Internal Medicine

    Key finding: Platelet Function and Antiplatelet Agents. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1988-03-01

    Dementia of frontal lobe type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: A significant proportion of patients with presenile dementia due to primary cerebral atrophy do not have Alzheimer's disease. +2 more findings

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  3. 1988-03-01

    Preparation of a recombinant cDNA library from poly(A+) RNA of the Alzheimer brain. Identification and characterization of a cDNA copy encoding a glial-specific protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: These results agree with earlier studies on GFAP mRNA from fresh mouse brain. +1 more finding

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  4. 1988-03-01

    The postmortem Alzheimer brain is a source of structurally and functionally intact astrocytic messenger RNA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of neuroscience methods

    Key finding: Relative to controls, AD mRNA synthesized a two-fold higher level of a 50,000 mol.wt. protein that was immunologically identified as GFAP. +4 more findings

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February 1988 4

  1. 1988-02-01

    Immunochemical identification of the serine protease inhibitor alpha 1-antichymotrypsin in the brain amyloid deposits of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Cell

    Key finding: DNA sequence analysis showed that these clones code for alpha 1-antichymotrypsin.

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  2. 1988-02-01

    Protease inhibitor domain encoded by an amyloid protein precursor mRNA associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Nature

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1988-02-01

    Clinical, pathological, and neurochemical changes in dementia: A subgroup with preserved mental status and numerous neocortical plaques

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Annals of Neurology

    Postmortem examination was performed on 137 residents (average age 85.5 years) of a skilled nursing facility whose mental status, memory, and functional status had been evaluated during life.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1988-02-01

    Cornell scale for depression in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Biological Psychiatry

    The Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia is introduced.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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