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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 27,176–27,200 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1088 of 1096.

February 1988 2

  1. 1988-02-01

    The brain in AIDS: central nervous system HIV-1 infection and AIDS dementia complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Science (New York, N.Y.)

    Key finding: This dementia is due partially or wholly to a direct effect of the virus on the brain rather than to opportunistic infection, but its pathogenesis is not well understood. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1988-02-01

    Patterns of discourse cohesion and coherence in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools The Journal of speech and hearing disorders

    Key finding: Compared to the well elderly, SDAT patients used significantly more words and conversational turns. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

January 1988 6

  1. 1988-01-01

    A Chinese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination; impact of illiteracy in a Shanghai dementia survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of clinical epidemiology

    Key finding: However, in the 26.7% who had not gone to school, there was a significant increase in low scores on the mental status test as well as a different error pattern, reflecting the lack of formal education.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1988-01-01

    Behavioral disturbance in dementia of the Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Behavioral problems are thought to be pervasive and devastating to patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type and their families. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1988 no date recorded — placed by publication year

    Consortium to establish a registry for Alzheimer's disease (CERAD) clinical and neuropsychological assessment of Alzheimer's disease.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Psychopharmacology bulletin

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1988-01-01

    Expression of the histocompatibility glycoprotein HLA-DR in neurological disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: Reactive astrocytes, also present in these conditions, were established as a population distinct from the HLA-DR positive microglia by double immunostaining for glial fibrillary acidic protein and HLA-DR. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1988-01-01

    Serum IgG brain reactive antibodies in Alzheimer disease and Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: Circulating BRAs were found in 57% of patients with AD, 81% of patients with DS, and 30% of normal controls. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1988-01-01

    Neurometrics: computer-assisted differential diagnosis of brain dysfunctions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Science (New York, N.Y.)

    Key finding: The magnitude of the deviations increases with clinical severity. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

December 1987 1

  1. 1987-12-01

    Purification and characterization of a peptide from amyloid-rich pancreases of type 2 diabetic patients

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

    Key finding: Diabetes-associated peptide contains 37 amino acids and is 46% identical to the sequences of rat and human calcitonin gene-related peptide, indicating that these peptides are related in evolution. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

November 1987 1

  1. 1987-11-01

    The prevalence of dementia: a quantitative integration of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

    Key finding: Data from studies of dementia prevalence between 1945 to 1985 were analyzed statistically. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

October 1987 1

  1. 1987-10-01

    Senile dementia of the Binswanger type. A vascular form of dementia in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools JAMA

    Key finding: Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in the elderly have demonstrated the common occurrence of deep white-matter lesions in the aging brain. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

September 1987 2

  1. 1987-09-01

    Chronic stress and immunity in family caregivers of Alzheimerʼs disease victims

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Psychosomatic Medicine

    Key finding: Although acute stress has been associated with transient immunosuppression, little is known about the immunologic consequences of chronic stress in humans. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1987-09-01

    The genetic defect in familial Alzheimer's disease is not tightly linked to the amyloid beta-protein gene

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Nature

    Key finding: Recent molecular genetic evidence has indicated that AP is encoded as part of a larger protein by a gene on chromosome 21 (refs 5-7). +1 more finding

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August 1987 6

  1. 1987-08-01

    Assessment of visual impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors American journal of ophthalmology

    Key finding: We examined five patients with Alzheimer's disease who complained of poor vision. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1987-08-01

    Adverse drug reactions associated with global cognitive impairment in elderly persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: Thirty-five patients with adverse drug reaction were identified among more than 300 patients evaluated for cognitive impairment and compared with patients without adverse drug reaction. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1987-08-01

    The Modified Mini-Mental State (3MS) examination.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment The Journal of clinical psychiatry

    Key finding: Greater sensitivities of the 3MS over the MMS are demonstrated with the pentagon item drawn by 249 patients.

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  4. 1987-08-01

    Hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis in patients of Dutch origin is related to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: Immunohistochemical studies of five patients revealed that the vascular amyloid deposits reacted intensely with an antiserum raised against a synthetic peptide homologous to the Alzheimer disease-related beta-protein. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1987-08-01

    MR signal abnormalities at 1.5 T in Alzheimer's dementia and normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors AJR. American journal of roentgenology

    Key finding: A significant number of Alzheimer patients exhibited a more extensive smooth "halo" of periventricular hyperintensity when compared with controls (p = .024).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 1987-08-01

    Reactive microglia in patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type are positive for the histocompatibility glycoprotein HLA-DR

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neuroscience letters

    Key finding: Double immunostaining with antibodies to glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) showed that the HLA-DR-positive cells were different from the reactive astrocytes although the occasional positively staining giant astrocyte was also seen.

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July 1987 2

  1. 1987-07-01

    Senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type: an important risk factor for serious falls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of gerontology

    Key finding: Falls occurred in 36% of SDAT individuals versus 11% of controls. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1987-07-01

    Guam amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia linked to a plant excitant neurotoxin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Science (New York, N.Y.)

    Key finding: The decline in the high incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, parkinsonism, and Alzheimer-type dementia among the Chamorro population of the western Pacific islands of Guam and Rota, coupled with the absence of demonstrable viral and hereditable factors in this disease, suggests the gradual disappearance of an environmental factor selectively associated with this culture. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

June 1987 1

  1. 1987-06-01

    Molecular cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding the cerebrovascular and the neuritic plaque amyloid peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: RNA gel blots revealed that a 3.3-kilobase mRNA species was present in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer disease, with Down syndrome, or with no apparent neurological disorders. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

May 1987 3

  1. 1987-05-01

    Behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: phenomenology and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety PubMed

    Key finding: Thirty-three (58%) patients had significant behavioral symptomatology (most commonly delusions, nonspecific agitation, and diurnal rhythm disturbances).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1987-05-01

    Presence of both odor identification and detection deficits in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Brain research bulletin

    Key finding: Recent studies of Alzheimer's disease patients have demonstrated (a) marked structural and biochemical alterations in brain regions associated with olfactory function (including the olfactory bulb and entorhinal cortex) and (b) decrements in the ability to identify odorants. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1987-05-01

    Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire as a screening test for dementia and delirium among the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Using the cut-off point (number of errors accepted) of three errors, the sensitivity of the test was 86.2% and the specificity 99.0% among medical inpatients. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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