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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 27,226–27,250 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1090 of 1096.

November 1986 5

  1. 1986-11-18

    9/Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Clinical Gerontologist

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-11-01

    Prevalence of mental illness in a community nursing home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery The American journal of psychiatry

    Key finding: In addition, the majority of demented patients also had noncognitive symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, and these residents were significantly more likely to have an associated behavioral disorder than were residents without delusions or hallucinations. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1986-11-01

    Oral tetrahydroaminoacridine in long-term treatment of senile dementia, Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical trials The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: In the nonblinded first phase of the study, significant improvement occurred in subjects who received the drug, as compared with their pretreatment status, on the global assessment (P = 0.001), the Orientation Test (P = 0.001), and the more sophisticated Names Learning Test (P = 0.001). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1986-11-01

    The mortality of adults with Down syndrome as a function of age

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

    Key finding: The differences were not statistically significant.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 1986-11-01

    Incidental subcortical lesions identified on magnetic resonance imaging in the elderly. I. Correlation with age and cerebrovascular risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Stroke

    Key finding: Diabetes, coronary artery diseases, and sex did not play a significant role. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

October 1986 1

  1. 1986-10-01

    Hospice approach to the treatment of patients with advanced dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care JAMA

    Key finding: Preliminary results indicate that the mortality did not increase significantly during the first year of this program, although the extent of medical care was limited in all patients, and 62% were not treated with antibiotics if they developed symptoms of pneumonia or urinary tract infection.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

September 1986 3

  1. 1986-09-01

    Training the elderly on the ability factors of spatial orientation and inductive reasoning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Psychology and aging

    Key finding: Significant training effects, at the level of the latent ability constructs, occurred for both spatial orientation and inductive reasoning. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-09-01

    Meta-analysis in clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Controlled Clinical Trials

    Key finding: Eight published reviews each reporting results from several related trials lack consistent assessment of homogeneity of treatment effect before pooling. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1986-09-01

    Seizures and myoclonus in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Neurology

    Key finding: Eight (10%) had seizures, and eight others (10%) had myoclonus. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

August 1986 1

  1. 1986-08-01

    Optic-nerve degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: In postmortem studies, we found widespread axonal degeneration in the optic nerves of 8 of 10 patients with Alzheimer's disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

July 1986 4

  1. 1986-07-01

    Predictors of institutionalization among caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: The treatment aim of medical care for home-based patients with Alzheimer's disease is to maximize the functioning level of the patient without jeopardizing quality of life for the caregiver.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-07-01

    Abnormal phosphorylation of the microtubule-associated protein tau (tau) in Alzheimer cytoskeletal pathology.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    A monoclonal antibody to the microtubule-associated protein tau (tau) labeled some neurofibrillary tangles and plaque neurites, the two major locations of paired-helical filaments (PHF), in Alzheimer disease brain.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1986-07-01

    Leukoencephalopathy in normal and pathologic aging: 2. MRI of brain lucencies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology

    Key finding: A pilot study was performed to test the ability of MR to evaluate the brain lucencies shown by CT in Alzheimer disease patients and in normal control subjects. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1986-07-01

    Positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Neurology

    Key finding: A significant increase in right/left metabolic asymmetry, particularly in parietal regions, also was seen in mild and moderate groups. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

June 1986 4

  1. 1986-06-01

    The neurobiologic consequences of Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Brain research bulletin

    Key finding: Trisomy of the whole or distal part of human chromosome 21 (HSA 21) (Ts21) results in Down Syndrome (DS), which is characterized in part by mental retardation and associated neurological abnormalities.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-06-01

    The AIDS dementia complex: II. Neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Most commonly noted was diffuse pallor in the white matter, which in the pathologically milder cases was accompanied by scanty perivascular infiltrates of lymphocytes and brown-pigmented macrophages, and in the most advanced cases by clusters of foamy macrophages and multinucleated cells associated with multifocal rarefaction of the white matter. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1986-06-01

    Chronic behavioral disorders of human REM sleep: a new category of parasomnia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Sleep

    Key finding: There was no associated psychiatric disorder, whereas serious neurologic disorder was closely associated in four cases: olivo-ponto-cerebellar degeneration, Guillain-Barré syndrome, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and an atypical dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1986-06-01

    The AIDS dementia complex: I. Clinical features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Early motor deficits commonly included ataxia, leg weakness, tremor, and loss of fine-motor coordination, while behavioral disturbances were manifested most commonly as apathy or withdrawal, but occasionally as a frank organic psychosis. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

May 1986 3

  1. 1986-05-01

    Immunoregulatory molecules and IL 2 receptors identified in multiple sclerosis brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

    Key finding: The results presented here demonstrated that in the MS lesion, there was a marked accumulation of HLA-Dr-positive (Ia-positive) cells. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-05-01

    Microtubule-associated protein tau. A component of Alzheimer paired helical filaments.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of Biological Chemistry

    Microtubule-associated protein tau was purified from bovine brain microtubules by either (1) phosphocellulose chromatography, (2) heat treatment at pH 6.4, (3) heat treatment at pH 2.7, (4) heat treatment at pH 2.7 followed by extraction with perchloric acid and precipitation with glycerol, or (5) by precipitation with ammonium sulfate followed by extraction with perchloric acid.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1986-05-01

    Pharmacologic treatment of agitation associated with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: However, studies done to date indicate that these drugs are effective only for a minority of patients and that side effects frequently make patients worse. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

April 1986 2

  1. 1986-04-01

    Dementia: a systematic approach to identifying reversible causes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Geriatrics

    Key finding: The development of FAST is of great importance to clinicians in identifying possibly remediable complications of Alzheimer's disease and distinguishing them from the characteristic progression of the illness. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-04-01

    Hypoxic-ischemic brain lesions found in asphyxiating neonates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Acta pathologica japonica

    Key finding: Neocortical and deep gray matter revealed pyknotic and karyorrhectic neuronal changes; however, in group A, these changes tended to be obscure.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

March 1986 2

  1. 1986-03-01

    Why do frontal lobe symptoms predominate in vascular dementia with lacunes?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurology

    Key finding: We studied 30 necropsy cases of vascular dementia with a lacunar state. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-03-01

    A white matter disorder in dementia of the Alzheimer type: a pathoanatomical study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Its occurrence is thus neither regularly related to the severity nor to the regional appearance and accentuation of the cortical Alzheimer process and is thus not likely to be just the result of a wallerian degeneration.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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