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Current advances and unmet needs in Alzheimer's disease trials for individuals with Down syndrome: Navigating new therapeutic frontiers

55/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: HIGHLIGHTS: Despite recent progress in Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatments for the general population-particularly monoclonal anti-amyloid therapies such as lecanemab and donanemab-individuals with Down syndrome (DS) were excluded from pivotal trials, leaving significant gaps in knowledge regarding safety and efficacy.

• Treatments
• Brain Biology
• Side Effects

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Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases

42/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Pharmaceuticals

Key finding: The complexity of the above pathologies has clearly demonstrated that such single-target drugs are inadequate to achieve a successful therapeutic result.

• Other Dementias

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Severity and Prognosis of Vascular Dementia in Patients with Acute Cerebral Infarction Combined with H-Type Hypertension and Its Correlation with Uric Acid Levels

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Key finding: The observation group had significantly higher blood uric acid levels than the control group (P<0.05). +4 more findings

• Risk Factors

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Extension and external validation of mapping between the Mini‐Mental State Examination and the Clinical Dementia Rating scale in patients with Alzheimer's disease

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: demonstrated high goodness of fit and satisfied all validation metrics. +4 more findings

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Blood Uric Acid in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Cross-Sectional Study of Older Chinese Adults

42/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Key finding: A total of 90 (38.96%) participants were healthy and 141 (61.04%) had MCI. +4 more findings

• Early Stage

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Inequalities in Mild Cognitive Impairment Risk Among Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Insights from an Integrated Learning Model

44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Risk Management and Healthcare Policy

Key finding: The CNN-BiLSTM-Attention model demonstrated relatively promising predictive performance (AUC: 0.7317), with moderately high sensitivity (0.6902) and a high negative predictive value (NPV) of 0.9414. +4 more findings

• Early Stage
• Health Equity

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Comparing clinical features of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease using network analysis

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Both networks were densely connected, reflecting comorbidity between neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognitive scores. +4 more findings

• Other Dementias

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A hypothesis explaining Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and dementia with Lewy bodies overlap

43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Lewy body-involving diseases (LBD) are commonly associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) featuring voluntary movement inhibition, due to dopaminergic neuron dysfunction in the substantia nigra.

• Other Dementias

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TDP-43 dysregulation of polyadenylation site selection is a defining feature of RNA misprocessing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Journal of Clinical Investigation

Key finding: Our findings define changes in polyadenylation site selection as a previously understudied feature of TDP-43-driven disease pathology in ALS/FTD and highlight a potentially important mechanistic link between TDP-43 dysfunction and tau regulation.

• Other Dementias
• Brain Biology

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A lifespan perspective on cognitive reserve and risk for dementia

47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Higher GCA was associated with lower dementia risk (hazard ratio = 0.865, 95% confidence interval = 0.756 to 0.990). +4 more findings

• Risk Factors

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Disorders (Alzheimer's and Dementia) and in Managing Medication Schedules"

35/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Damanhour Journal of Intelligent Systems and Informatics

Key finding: The experimental results underscore that the proposed ordinal EfficientNetB0 architecture outperforms other models in fundamental structural tasks, characterized by minimal computational overhead, reduced susceptibility to overfitting, efficient memory utilization, and effective temporal regulation. +1 more finding

• Digital Tools
• Treatments
• Diagnosis

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Detection of emergency department patients at risk of dementia through artificial intelligence

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: EDDA achieved an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.85 in the test set and 0.93 in the validation set. +4 more findings

• Digital Tools
• Care Services

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Impact of APOE4‐related dementia risk in underrepresented groups from the All of Us research program

55/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: There was a significantly higher risk of developing a dementia diagnosis in Hispanic/Latino and NHB participants than NHW participants and comparably increased dementia hazard ratios in the Hispanic/Latino, NHB, and NHW APOE4 carriers than non-carriers (hazard ratio [HR] [95% confidence interval {CI}] 1.54 [1.25-1.91], 1.25 [1.00-1.57], and 1.55 [1.40-1.72]). +4 more findings

• Health Equity
• Risk Factors

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Lifespan exposures to rural–urban conditions and later‐life cognitive function

52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Linear and logistic regression showed that childhood rural residence was associated with lower memory (standardized beta (β) = -1.68, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) [-2.39, -0.97]), executive function (β = -1.20, 95% CI [-1.84, -0.55]), and language fluency (β = -0.86, 95% CI [-1.64, -0.08]). +4 more findings

• Health Equity

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Ethnic Disparities and Inequalities in Dementia Care: An Extended Literature Review

31/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities BJPsych Open

Key finding: Across the literature, it is evident that health inequalities currently exist and exacerbate the disparities in the care of BAME dementia patients. +4 more findings

• Health Equity
• Risk Factors

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The Post-Traumatic Growth Experience in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia: A Descriptive Qualitative Study

36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Psychology Research and Behavior Management

Key finding: Four themes were identified, along with eleven sub-themes associated with them: cognitive-behavioral shift (transitioning family roles, recognizing disease characteristics, focusing on health management, and responding positively and effectively); personal strength enhancement (enhancing coping capacity, increased psychological resilience and increased responsibility); improved relationships with others (harmonizing in family relations and benefiting from social interactions); and changes in life perceptions (reshaping of values, and reconstructing the meaning of life). +3 more findings

• Caregiving

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Competency‐based training boosts dementia knowledge and skills in home care workers

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: The training significantly improved caregivers' dementia knowledge and self-efficacy but did not reduce caregivers' distress and depression, nor decrease care recipients' emergency room visits and hospitalizations. +4 more findings

• Care Services

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Social support interventions for caregivers of older adults with dementia: a scoping review

61/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving BMJ Open

Key finding: A total of 31 studies were selected for this review, revealing six distinct categories of social support interventions for caregivers of older adults with dementia. +4 more findings

• Caregiving

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Sense of Coherence and Caregiver Burden Among Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia in China: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Psychology Research and Behavior Management

Key finding: The caregiver burden was found at a moderate to severe level with the average score of 58.14(12.84). +4 more findings

• Caregiving

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Blood-brain barrier permeability changes and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease progression

35/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging International Journal of Biology Sciences

Key finding: This research investigated how Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) permeability shifts relate to neuroinflammatory marker profiles across early, moderate, and advanced stages of Alzheimer disease. +4 more findings

• Brain Biology
• Brain Scans

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LUMEN: Prototype Conversational AI to Streamline Dementia Assessments

31/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis BJPsych Open

Key finding: LUMEN demonstrated strong performance in distinguishing dementia from normal cognition (AUROC=0.89) but moderate subtype differentiation (AUROC=0.66). +4 more findings

• Digital Tools

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Discrepancies in assessing intellectual disability levels in adults with Down syndrome: Implications for dementia diagnosis

57/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Inter-rater agreement for ID level classification was 95% within sites but 60% between sites. +4 more findings

• Diagnosis
• Down Syndrome

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Autism, Diagnostics, and Dementia: A Consensus Report From the 2nd International Summit on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia

46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Key finding: Diagnostic challenges stem from overlapping symptoms of co-occurring neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions, rendering standard dementia tools insufficient. +4 more findings

• Diagnosis

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Lecanemab Binds to Transgenic Mouse Model‐Derived Amyloid‐β Fibril Structures Resembling Alzheimer's Disease Type I, Type II and Arctic Folds

36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Key finding: Our results show that lecanemab exhibits high binding affinity to amyloid-β fibril structures that have a flexible N-terminus in common, as is the case for type I, type II and murine type III amyloid-β fibril polymorphs, which resemble or are identical to human structures observed in sporadic and familial cases of Alzheimer's disease, including a case with the Arctic (E22G) mutation. +4 more findings

• Treatments
• Brain Biology

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“Real‐world” eligibility for anti‐amyloid treatment in a tertiary memory clinic setting

47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Of 1309 new patients, 514 (39% of new patients) had clinical mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or AD. +4 more findings

• Treatments
• Care Services

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