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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 11,201–11,225 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 449 of 1096.

September 2020 25

  1. 2020-09-13

    The Brain Chart of Aging: Machine-learning analytics reveals links between brain aging, white matter disease, amyloid burden, and cognition in the iSTAGING consortium of 10,216 harmonized MR scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: A Brain Chart quantifying brain-aging trajectories was established, enabling the systematic evaluation of individuals' brain-aging patterns relative to this large consortium. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2020-09-13

    Vitamin D intake is associated with dementia risk in the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Higher vitamin D intake is associated with decreased risk of dementia in a multiethnic cohort. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2020-09-12

    Contribution of homozygous and compound heterozygous missense mutations in VWA2 to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Overall, we identified 5 patient carriers of homozygous or compound heterozygous missense mutations (5/1165; 0.43 %), 2 in early (2/169; 1.18 %) and 3 in late-onset (3/996; 0.30 %) patients. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2020-09-11

    Marine Natural Products, Multitarget Therapy and Repurposed Agents in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)

    Key finding: In this review, four of the most promising strategies, alongside with its most promising agents under investigation or development are highlighted. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2020-09-11

    Alzheimer's disease biomarkers as predictors of trajectories of depression and apathy in cognitively normal individuals, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: The trajectories of depression and apathy (measured with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory or its questionnaire) were separately modeled using growth mixture models for two cohorts (National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, NACC, n = 22 760 and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, ADNI, n = 1 733). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2020-09-11

    The Alzheimer's disease-associated protective Plcγ2-P522R variant promotes immune functions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: Microglia-specific genetic variants are enriched in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), implicating a central role for alterations of the innate immune system in the disease etiology. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2020-09-10

    Assessment of genetic risk for improved clinical-neuropathological correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Acta neuropathologica communications

    Key finding: A dementia with Lewy bodies polygenic score that excluded apolipoprotein E due to its overlap with Alzheimer's disease risk was specifically associated with at least limbic (transitional) Lewy-related pathology and a pathological diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2020-09-10

    Sulforaphene Ameliorates Neuroinflammation and Hyperphosphorylated Tau Protein via Regulating the PI3K/Akt/GSK-3β Pathway in Experimental Models of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity

    Key finding: The MWMT results showed that SF treatment significantly improved the STZ-induced cognitive deficits in rats. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2020-09-10

    Association of amyloid-β CSF/PET discordance and tau load 5 years later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurology

    Key finding: We included 730 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants without dementia (282 cognitively normal, 448 mild cognitive impairment) with baseline [ 18 F]florbetapir PET and CSF Aβ 42 available. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2020-09-10

    Data-driven discovery of probable Alzheimer's disease and related dementia subphenotypes using electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Learning health systems

    Key finding: Four subphenotypes were computationally derived that correlated with cardiovascular diseases and mental health illnesses. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2020-09-10

    Comorbidities associated with mortality in 31,461 adults with COVID-19 in the United States: A federated electronic medical record analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities PLoS medicine

    Key finding: At the beginning of June 2020, there were nearly 7 million reported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide and over 400,000 deaths in people with COVID-19.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2020-09-09

    Lifestyle Risk Factors and Cognitive Outcomes from the Multidomain Dementia Risk Reduction Randomized Controlled Trial, Body Brain Life for Cognitive Decline (BBL-CD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Outcomes from this trial support the conduct of a larger and longer trial with this participant group. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2020-09-09

    The Potential of Immersive Virtual Reality for Cognitive Training in Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Gerontology

    Key finding: Aged subjects are found to have sparing of emotional learning and show increased reliance on multisensory integration for learning. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2020-09-09

    Retracted: Internet-Based Supportive Interventions for Family Caregivers of People With Dementia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it Caregiving Journal of medical Internet research

    Key finding: Future studies are encouraged to adopt personalized internet-based supportive interventions to improve the health of family caregivers and their care recipients. +2 more findings

    Scored 46 on our rubric, shown as 16: non-peer-reviewed sources are capped at 16. See the breakdown.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2020-09-09

    Behavioral and Psychological Effects of Coronavirus Disease-19 Quarantine in Patients With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Frontiers in psychiatry

    Key finding: Increased BPSD was reported in 59.6% of patients as worsening of preexisting symptoms (51.9%) or as new onset (26%), and requested drug modifications in 27.6% of these cases. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2020-09-08

    Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer's disease beyond amyloid and tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

    Key finding: Increasing evidence indicates that AD develops from an intricate web of biochemical and cellular processes that extend far beyond amyloid and tau accumulation.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2020-09-08

    A double-blind randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of cognitive training delivered using two different methods in mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: preliminary report of benefits associated with the use of a computerized tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Aging clinical and experimental research

    Key finding: CCT proved effective in PD-MCI patients when compared with traditional PCT. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2020-09-08

    Alzheimer's Retinopathy: Seeing Disease in the Eyes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Frontiers in neuroscience

    Key finding: Studies have shown that along with cognitive decline, patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD often suffer from visual impairments, abnormal electroretinogram patterns, and circadian rhythm disturbances that can, at least in part, be attributed to retinal damage. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2020-09-08

    Infection as a Stroke Risk Factor and Determinant of Outcome After Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Stroke

    Key finding: Apart from their short-term effects, emerging evidence suggests that poststroke immune changes may also adversely affect long-term cognitive outcomes in patients with stroke, increasing the risk of poststroke neurodegeneration and dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2020-09-07

    Cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer's disease: Hopes and gaps

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging

    Key finding: In particular, we attempt to shed light on the vascular markers and risk factors that are currently ready-to-be-added to the framework: i) lacunes, ii) white matter hyperintensities and iii) microbleeds seen in Flair, T2* weighted imaging and susceptibility images (SWI). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2020-09-07

    Deconstructing the Complexities of Advance Care Planning Outcomes: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: ACP is complex, and trial characteristics were heterogeneous. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2020-09-07

    A pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial on combining mind-body physical exercise, cognitive training, and nurse-led risk factor modification to reduce cognitive decline among older adults with mild cognitive impairment in primary care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials PeerJ

    Key finding: In this pilot study, RFM and the multi-domain approach CPR were feasible and had preliminary beneficial effects in older adults with MCI in primary care setting in Hong Kong. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2020-09-07

    Cerebrovascular risk factors impact frontoparietal network integrity and executive function in healthy ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Nature communications

    Key finding: Cerebrovascular risk factors increase the likelihood of dementia in older people but their impact on cognitive ageing in younger, healthy brains is less clear. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2020-09-05

    Microglial and peripheral immune priming is partially sexually dimorphic in adolescent mouse offspring exposed to maternal high-fat diet

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Journal of neuroinflammation

    Key finding: Animal work investigating the consequences of maternal high-fat diet (mHFD) revealed in the offspring a maternal immune activation (MIA) phenotype associated with increased inflammatory signals. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2020-09-04

    Global prevalence and burden of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Neurology

    Key finding: Of 5,588 records identified, we included 123 studies involving 35,513 participants from 32 countries. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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