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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 11,026–11,050 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 442 of 1096.

October 2020 25

  1. 2020-10-30

    Age- and Sex-Specific Prevalence and Modifiable Risk Factors of Mild Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults in China: A Population-Based Observational Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

    Key finding: The mean (SD) age of the 4,631 participants was 67.6 (4.89) years, and 2579 (55.7%) were women. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2020-10-30

    Alzheimer's Disease Detection Through Whole-Brain 3D-CNN MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology

    Key finding: Contributions of our study include devising a deep learning system that is entirely automatic and comparatively fast, presenting competitive results without using any patient's domain-specific knowledge about the disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2020-10-30

    Effect of 1 Year of Qigong Exercise on Cognitive Function Among Older Chinese Adults at Risk of Cognitive Decline: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Frontiers in psychology

    Key finding: Twenty-five of 33 (75.8%) participants in the qigong group and 26 of 33 (78.8%) participants in the control group completed the 1-year exercise programs. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2020-10-29

    Alogliptin Attenuates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Neuroinflammation in Mice Through Modulation of TLR4/MYD88/NF-κB and miRNA-155/SOCS-1 Signaling Pathways

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

    Key finding: Alogliptin treatment alleviated LPS-induced cognitive impairment as assessed by Morris water maze and novel object recognition tests. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2020-10-29

    Importance of loneliness in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: The revised UCLA loneliness scale score was not significantly associated with age, years of education, mini-mental state examination (MMSE) score, gender, living status, visual impairment, hearing impairment, and marital status. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2020-10-29

    The risk factors for postoperative delirium in adult patients after hip fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Patients possessed above risk factors might be high-risk patients. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2020-10-29

    Racial disparities in medication use: imperatives for managed care pharmacy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy

    Key finding: The COVID-19 pandemic and the social unrest pervading U.S. cities in response to the killings of George Floyd and other Black citizens at the hands of police are historically significant. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2020-10-28

    Dysregulation of Endothelin-1: Implications for Health Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of personalized medicine

    Key finding: Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent vasoconstrictive peptide that regulates smooth muscle, endothelial cell, and pericyte contractions that may result in cerebral vascular constriction, leading to cerebral hypoperfusion; over time, ET-1 may result in neuronal injury contributing to the pathology of AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2020-10-28

    Understanding dementia care in care home setting in China: An exploratory qualitative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Health & social care in the community

    Key finding: Field notes of observations, nursing care records and interviews transcripts were triangulated for qualitative content analysis. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2020-10-28

    Spatial hierarchical Bayes Small Area Model for disaggregated level crop acreage estimation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences

    Key finding: A pilot study conducted by ICAR- Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute attempts to estimate disaggregated level crop yield based on reduced number of Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs) while crop acreage estimation has been done through sample survey approach. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2020-10-28

    Trem2 Y38C mutation and loss of Trem2 impairs neuronal synapses in adult mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: The Trem2 variant R47H, confers substantially elevated risk of developing late onset Alzheimer's disease, while NHD-linked Trem2 variants like Y38C, are associated with development of early onset dementia with white matter pathology. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2020-10-27

    Plasma neurofilament light protein correlates with diffusion tensor imaging metrics in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers PloS one

    Key finding: The results of both voxel-wise and tract specific analysis showed that increased plasma NfL concentration is associated with a reduction in fractional anisotropy (FA) in a widespread set of white matter tracts including the superior longitudinal fasciculus, the fronto-occipital fasciculus the anterior thalamic radiation and the dorsal cingulum bundle. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2020-10-27

    Microglial Phagocytosis: A Disease-Associated Process Emerging from Alzheimer's Disease Genetics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Trends in neurosciences

    Key finding: Genetic studies involving genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and meta-analysis have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with AD; however, the causal genes and variants remain unidentified in most loci. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2020-10-26

    Dementia and the Critically Ill Older Adult

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Critical care clinics

    Key finding: As the elderly population grows, the incidence of dementia in hospitalized older adults increases and is associated with poor short-term and long-term outcomes. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2020-10-26

    GLP-1 mimetics and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Life sciences

    Key finding: Recent evidence suggest that they also have additional effects modulating pathophysiologic pathways included in cognitive disorders.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2020-10-26

    Single-cell epigenomic analyses implicate candidate causal variants at inherited risk loci for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Nature genetics

    Key finding: Genome-wide association studies of neurological diseases have identified thousands of variants associated with disease phenotypes.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2020-10-26

    A ketogenic drink improves cognition in mild cognitive impairment: Results of a 6-month RCT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: This kMCT drink improved cognitive outcomes in MCI, at least in part by increasing blood ketone level.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2020-10-26

    Diagnostic performance and prediction of clinical progression of plasma phospho-tau181 in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Molecular psychiatry

    Key finding: Despite being a multicenter study, plasma p-tau181 demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy to identify AD dementia (AUC = 85.3%; 95% CI, 81.4-89.2%), as well as to distinguish between Aβ- and Aβ+ individuals along the Alzheimer's continuum (AUC = 76.9%; 95% CI, 74.0-79.8%). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2020-10-24

    Neuronal Protein Farnesylation Regulates Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Molecular neurobiology

    Key finding: A follow-up study showed that systemic or forebrain neuron-specific deficiency of GGT leads to synaptic and cognitive deficits under physiological conditions. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2020-10-24

    Cognitive disorders associated with hospitalization of COVID-19: Results from an observational cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Brain, behavior, and immunity

    Key finding: Our understanding of risk factors for COVID‑19, including pre-existing medical conditions and genetic variations, is limited. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2020-10-23

    Physical exercise protocols in animal models of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Metabolic brain disease

    Key finding: Finally, the main results presented in all studies were capable to reduce significantly AD consequences, such as reducing Aβ or pro-inflammatory proteins levels (100%). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2020-10-23

    Bi-directional association between epilepsy and dementia: The Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurology

    Key finding: We analyzed prospectively collected data in the Original and Offspring FHS cohorts. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2020-10-23

    Gene expression and functional deficits underlie TREM2-knockout microglia responses in human models of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Nature communications

    Key finding: While TREM2 mouse models have provided critical insight, the normal and disease-associated functions of TREM2 in human microglia remain unclear. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2020-10-23

    Regional binding of tau and amyloid PET tracers in Down Syndrome autopsy brain tissue

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: Tau pathology is a major age-related event in Down syndrome with Alzheimer’s disease (DS-AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2020-10-23

    Dementia in late-onset epilepsy: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Neurology

    Key finding: Of 9,033 ARIC participants with sufficient Medicare coverage data (4,980 [55.1%] female, 1993 [22.1%] Black), 671 met the definition of LOE. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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