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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 9,601–9,625 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 385 of 1096.

November 2021 25

  1. 2021-11-19

    A national cohort study (2000-2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Nature communications

    Key finding: Our study suggests that exposures to PM 2.5 and NO 2 are associated with incidence of dementia and AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2021-11-18

    Retina tissue validation of optical coherence tomography determined outer nuclear layer loss in FTLD-tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Acta neuropathologica communications

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with inner retina (nerve fiber and ganglion cell layers) thinning. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2021-11-18

    Transcriptomic taxonomy and neurogenic trajectories of adult human, macaque, and pig hippocampal and entorhinal cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neuron

    Key finding: Integrated cross-species analysis revealed robust transcriptomic and histologic signatures of neurogenesis in the adult mouse, pig, and macaque but not humans. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2021-11-17

    Using smartphone technology to improve prospective memory functioning: A randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Older adults with cognitive disorders can learn smartphone-based memory strategies and doing so benefits prospective memory functioning and independence. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2021-11-17

    Impact of herpes zoster vaccination on incident dementia: A retrospective study in two patient cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities PloS one

    Key finding: HZ vaccination is associated with reduced risk of dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2021-11-17

    Plasma neurofilament light chain protein is not increased in treatment-resistant schizophrenia and first-degree relatives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry

    Key finding: Treatment-resistant schizophrenia does not appear to be associated with neuronal, particularly axonal degeneration. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2021-11-16

    Air Pollution Particulate Matter Amplifies White Matter Vascular Pathology and Demyelination Caused by Hypoperfusion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Frontiers in immunology

    Key finding: Cerebrovascular pathologies are commonly associated with dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2021-11-16

    Consumption of coffee and tea and risk of developing stroke, dementia, and poststroke dementia: A cohort study in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk PLoS medicine

    Key finding: Intake of coffee alone or in combination with tea was associated with lower risk of poststroke dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2021-11-15

    Common pathways in dementia and diabetic retinopathy: understanding the mechanisms of diabetes-related cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM

    Key finding: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with multiple comorbidities, including diabetic retinopathy (DR) and cognitive decline, and T2D patients have a significantly higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2021-11-15

    Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Other Lifestyle Factors in the Prevention of Cognitive Decline and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Nutrients

    Key finding: Several dietary patterns, foods, and nutrients have been investigated in this regard, with some encouraging and other disappointing results.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2021-11-13

    Plasma phosphorylated-tau181 as a predictive biomarker for Alzheimer's amyloid, tau and FDG PET status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Translational psychiatry

    Key finding: We found plasma p-tau181 significantly correlated with brain amyloid (Spearman ρ = 0.45, P < 0.0001), tau (0.25, P = 0.0003), and FDG PET uptakes (-0.37, P < 0.0001), and increased along the Alzheimer's continuum. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2021-11-12

    Design and Development of a Community-Based, Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Dementia Care Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Served dyads from three primary care clinics with a total of 87 dyads enrolled between December 2018 and June 2020. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2021-11-11

    Identifying phenotype-associated subpopulations by integrating bulk and single-cell sequencing data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Nature biotechnology

    Key finding: Here we present Scissor, a method that identifies cell subpopulations from single-cell data that are associated with a given phenotype. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2021-11-11

    Cardiovascular risk prediction in healthy older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools GeroScience

    Key finding: Identification of individuals with increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is important.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2021-11-10

    Total cost of care increases significantly from early to mild Alzheimer's disease: 5-year ALSOVA follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Age and ageing

    Key finding: Total cost of care in early stage AD (CDR-SB ≤ 4) was 16,448€ (95% CI 13,722-19,716) annually. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2021-11-10

    The role of pathological tau in synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Translational neurodegeneration

    Key finding: Accumulating evidence suggests that synaptic dysfunction could be an early pathological event in AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2021-11-10

    Extra-virgin olive oil and the gut-brain axis: influence on gut microbiota, mucosal immunity, and cardiometabolic and cognitive health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nutrition reviews

    Key finding: Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), a popular functional food and major source of fat in the Mediterranean diet, possesses a variety of healthful components, including monounsaturated fatty acids and bioactive phenolic compounds that, individually and collectively, exert beneficial effects on cardiometabolic markers of health and act as neuroprotective agents through their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2021-11-10

    Mild behavioral impairment correlates of cognitive impairments in older adults without dementia: mediation by amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Translational psychiatry

    Key finding: The purpose of the study is to examine the roles of the AD imaging pathologies in modulating the associations of MBI with cognitive impairments. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2021-11-09

    Retinal imaging biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Clinical & experimental optometry

    Key finding: Whilst research findings are promising, efforts to harmonise study designs and imaging methods will be important in translating these findings into clinical care.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2021-11-09

    The role of multimodal MRI in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging

    Key finding: Classification of MCI and HC displayed highest accuracy based on diffusion MRI, which besides demonstrated high correlation with clinical scores. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2021-11-09

    Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Social science & medicine (1982)

    Key finding: Cognitive impairment associated with aging is a serious and growing public health problem. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2021-11-08

    Evaluation of Available Cognitive Tools Used to Measure Mild Cognitive Decline: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Nutrients

    Key finding: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA, n = 15), the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE, n = 14) and the Clock Drawing Test (CDT, n = 4) were most frequently cited in the literature. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2021-11-08

    Multi-domain interventions for the prevention of dementia and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials The Cochrane database of systematic reviews

    Key finding: Data collection and analysis We initially screened search results using a 'crowdsourcing' method in which members of Cochrane's citizen science platform identify RCTs. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2021-11-08

    Subjective Cognitive Decline: Level of Risk for Future Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment, a Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neuropsychology review

    Key finding: SCD was associated with increased risk of developing dementia (HR = 1.90, 95% CI 1.52-2.36; OR = 2.48, 95% CI 1.97-3.14) and MCI (HR = 1.73, 95% CI 1.18-2.52; OR = 1.83, 95% CI 1.56-2.16).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2021-11-07

    Potential new therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease: Glucagon-like peptide-1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The European journal of neuroscience

    Key finding: Increasing evidence shows a close relationship between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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