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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 27,251–27,275 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 1091 of 1096.

March 1986 2

  1. 1986-03-01

    Hearing impairment and cognitive decline in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Decline in cognitive function one year later, however, was nearly twice as great in the impaired hearing group, a statistically significant difference (P less than .05, by one-tailed t test) even when controlled for age and initial cognitive function. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-03-01

    Determination in human cerebrospinal fluid of glial fibrillary acidic protein, S-100 and myelin basic protein as indices of non-specific or specific central nervous tissue pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry

    Key finding: Isolated increases of GFAp could be demonstrated in patients with dementia (Alzheimer type or multi-infarct dementia) or syringomyelia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

February 1986 1

  1. 1986-02-01

    Bedside cognitive screening instruments. A critical assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The Journal of nervous and mental disease

    Key finding: However, there is currently no evidence that the tests increase the level of diagnostic accuracy achieved through clinical examination alone. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

January 1986 4

  1. 1986-01-01

    NON-CHOLINERGIC NEUROTRANSMITTER ABNORMALITIES IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms British Medical Bulletin

    Key finding: Apart from the damago to ascending cholinergic projections in Alzheimer's disease, biochemical studies on human brain post mortem have revealed a number of other neurochemical abnormalities.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1986-01-01

    Postmortem evidence of structural brain changes in schizophrenia. Differences in brain weight, temporal horn area, and parahippocampal gyrus compared with affective disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Archives of general psychiatry

    Key finding: From this sample were eliminated the brains of patients whose illnesses did not meet the Washington University criteria for a diagnosis of definite schizophrenia or primary affective disorder and those brains that showed significant histopathologic evidence of Alzheimer's-type change or cerebrovascular disease. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1986-01-01

    Memantine in the treatment of senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry

    Key finding: Statistical evaluation showed no significant differences between the two groups.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 1986-01-01

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein and S-100 protein in human hepatic encephalopathy: immunocytochemical demonstration of dissociation of two glia-associated proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: In morphometric comparison, the proportion of GFAP-positive glial cells decreased in the cortex (P less than 0.001) but not significantly in the white matter (0.05 less than P less than 0.1), confirming earlier data that the prominent reduction of GFAP in HE brains is restricted to the grey matter.(

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

December 1985 2

  1. 1985-12-01

    Neuritic plaques and cerebrovascular amyloid in Alzheimer disease are antigenically related

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Key finding: These findings suggest that the amyloid in neuritic plaques shares antigenic determinants with beta protein of cerebral vessels.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1985-12-01

    Isolation of HTLV-III from cerebrospinal fluid and neural tissues of patients with neurologic syndromes related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: In one patient, HTLV-III was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid during acute aseptic meningitis associated with HTLV-III seroconversion. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

November 1985 3

  1. 1985-11-01

    The psychosocial and neuropsychiatric sequelae of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: The psychological and social impact of AIDS may result in psychiatric symptoms similar to those seen in other life-threatening diseases, including anxiety, depression, and delirium. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1985-11-01

    Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Archives of Neurology

    Key finding: To address the problems involved in diagnosing AD in its earliest stages, the National Institute on Aging, the American Association of Retired Persons, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute of Mental Health jointly sponsored a workshop for planning research. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1985-11-01

    Dementia and depression among the elderly living in the Hobart community: the effect of the diagnostic criteria on the prevalence rates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Psychological medicine

    Key finding: The prevalence of dementia and of depression was measured by interviewing subjects using a modified version of the Geriatric Mental State Schedule (GMS) (Copeland et al. 1976) and the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) (Folstein et al. 1975). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

October 1985 1

  1. 1985-10-01

    Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy (Binswanger's Disease)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Archives of Neurology

    Key finding: The necropsy of one patient revealed arteriosclerotic vasculopathy characteristic of subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy (SAE) or Binswanger's disease.

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September 1985 3

  1. 1985-09-01

    The suprachiasmatic nucleus of the human brain in relation to sex, age and senile dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Brain research

    Key finding: Immunocytochemical staining with anti-vasopressin as a marker permitted a morphometric study of this nucleus in the human brain, which revealed that the shape of the SCN is sexually dimorphic.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1985-09-01

    Empty speech in Alzheimer's disease and fluent aphasia

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

    Key finding: Our findings may be useful clinically for distinguishing these different patient groups.

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  3. 1985-09-01

    Measurement of GFAP in hepatic encephalopathy by ELISA and transblots

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: Both methods revealed a 70% decrease in the average amount of GFAP in the cerebral cortex and a 60% decrease in the basal ganglia in HE cases. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

July 1985 1

  1. 1985-07-01

    Alzheimer's disease in Down's syndrome: clinicopathologic studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Neurology

    Key finding: The morphometric observations of the brains of these seven patients with AD showed that the numbers of plaques and tangles exceeded 20 per 1.5 X 10(6) microns2 area, in both the prefrontal and hippocampal cortices. +2 more findings

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June 1985 1

  1. 1985-06-01

    Amyloid plaque core protein in Alzheimer disease and Down syndrome

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

    Key finding: We have purified and characterized the cerebral amyloid protein that forms the plaque core in Alzheimer disease and in aged individuals with Down syndrome. +4 more findings

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May 1985 3

  1. 1985-05-01

    Cholinergic correlates of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: comparisons with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

    Key finding: We found that the relationship between activity in frontal eye field and eye kinematics varied: the eye speed sensitivity was larger for the different reward conditions than for the different target speed conditions.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 1985-05-01

    Hypersensitivity to ionizing radiation in cultured cells from Down syndrome patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Journal of the neurological sciences

    Key finding: Lines from the four Down syndrome patients were more sensitive to X-rays than lines from 28 normal donors (P = 10(-4)), while survival of the Down syndrome lines after ultraviolet irradiation was not significantly different from normal.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1985-05-01

    Language disintegration in dementia: effects of etiology and severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Brain and language

    Key finding: The speech characteristics on a standardized picture description task of 26 subjects with presumed senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) and 13 subjects with stroke-related dementia (SRD) were compared to 15 normal subjects over age 59 years. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

April 1985 3

  1. 1985-04-01

    Atypical presentation of progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Annals of Neurology

    Key finding: Four pathologically documented cases of progressive supranuclear palsy are reported. +3 more findings

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  2. 1985-04-01

    Delirium and other organic mental disorders in a general hospital

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety General hospital psychiatry

    Key finding: The authors analyze 133 cases of organic mental disorders (OMDs) from a total of 771 patients who were referred for psychiatric consultation from a general hospital. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 1985-04-01

    The meaning of cognitive impairment in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Ninety-six per cent of the population aged 18-64 scored 23 or higher, whereas 80 per cent of the population 65 and over scored 23 or higher. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

March 1985 1

  1. 1985-03-01

    Maternally inherited mitochondrial myopathy and myoclonic epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Annals of neurology

    Key finding: A family is described with familial myoclonic epilepsy associated with mitochondrial myopathy.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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