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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 11,351–11,375 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 455 of 1096.

August 2020 16

  1. 2020-08-01

    Does Medicaid Hcbs Generosity Influence Nursing Home Placement for Dually Eligible Adrd Patients?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Health Services Research

    Key finding: After accounting for individual and county level covariates, we found that a 10 percentage‐point increase in HCBS breadth among individuals with ADRD was associated with 1.1 percentage point reduction (P < 0.01) in the likelihood of NH placement. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2020-08-01

    Hcbs Service Intensity and Nursing Home Placement for Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Does Race Matter?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Health Services Research

    Key finding: The overall NH admission rate among HCBS users with ADRD was 67%, 55%, and 36% for whites, blacks, and others, respectively. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2020-08-01

    Current and evolving treatment strategies for the Alzheimer disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The American journal of managed care

    Key finding: AD progresses along a continuum from preclinical disease characterized by normal cognition and abnormal brain biomarkers to mild cognitive impairment and then clinically apparent dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2020-08-01

    Neurocytoskeleton Proteins in Cerebrospinal Fluid of People With HIV-1 Subtypes B and C

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

    Key finding: The objective was to compare the effect of HIV-1C and HIV-1B subtypes on neurofilament light (NfL) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels and ratios of NfL to tau proteins. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2020-08-01

    Loneliness and Risk of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences

    Key finding: Loneliness is associated with increased risk of dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2020-08-01

    Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society

    Key finding: The number of years of formal education completed by individuals is positively correlated with their cognitive function throughout adulthood and predicts lower risk of dementia late in life. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2020-08-01

    Relationship of Early-Life Residence and Educational Experience to Level and Change in Cognitive Functioning: Results of the Minority Aging Research Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences

    Key finding: Baseline cognition was poorer in individuals born and residing in the South, particularly those attending desegregated schools at age 12. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2020-08-01

    Association of Racial Residential Segregation Throughout Young Adulthood and Cognitive Performance in Middle-aged Participants in the CARDIA Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities JAMA neurology

    Key finding: In this cohort study, exposure to residential segregation throughout young adulthood was associated with worse processing speed among black participants as early as in midlife. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2020-08-01

    Racial and Educational Disparities in Dementia and Dementia-Free Life Expectancy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences

    Key finding: Dementia experience and dementia burden differ dramatically along race-education lines. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2020-08-01

    Withdrawal of Life-supporting Treatment in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities JAMA surgery

    Key finding: Black patients (4806 [13.2%]; odds ratio [OR], 0.66; 95% CI, 0.59-0.72; P Conclusions and relevance Withdrawal of LST is common in sTBI and socioeconomic factors are associated with the decision to withdraw LST. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2020-08-01

    Diagnostic Performance of RO948 F 18 Tau Positron Emission Tomography in the Differentiation of Alzheimer Disease From Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging JAMA neurology

    Key finding: In this study, elevated [18F]RO948 SUVRs were most often seen among Aβ-positive cases, which suggests that [18F]RO948 has high specificity for AD-type tau and highlights its potential as a diagnostic marker in the differential diagnosis of AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2020-08-01

    Economic burden of Alzheimer disease and managed care considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The American journal of managed care

    Key finding: Indirect costs of care, including quality of life and informal caregiving, are likely underestimated and are associated with significant negative societal and personal burden.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2020-08-01

    Higher risk of dementia in English older individuals who are overweight or obese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk International journal of epidemiology

    Key finding: Our results suggest that having an increased body weight or abdominal obesity are associated with increased dementia incidence. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2020-08-01

    Muscle-Organ Crosstalk: The Emerging Roles of Myokines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Endocrine reviews

    Key finding: This suggests that myokines may be useful biomarkers for monitoring exercise prescription for people with, for example, cancer, diabetes, or neurodegenerative diseases.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2020-08-01

    Herbal medicine treatment for Alzheimer disease: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Medicine

    Key finding: The results of this review will determine the efficacy and safety of herbal medicine for AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2020-08-01

    Discriminative Accuracy of Plasma Phospho-tau217 for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers JAMA

    Key finding: Mean age was 83.5 (SD, 8.5) years in cohort 1, 69.1 (SD, 10.3) years in cohort 2, and 35.8 (SD, 10.7) years in cohort 3; 38% were women in cohort 1, 51% in cohort 2, and 57% in cohort 3. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

July 2020 9

  1. 2020-07-31

    Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment The Lancet. Public health

    Key finding: We sought to assess risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the general community and the effect of personal protective equipment (PPE) on risk. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2020-07-31

    Mid to Late Life Hypertension Trends and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

    Key finding: In turn, cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is the most frequent form of cerebrovascular disease underlying dementia and stroke. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2020-07-31

    Association of years to parent's sporadic onset and risk factors with neural integrity and Alzheimer biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: This observational study included 290 cognitively unimpaired (CU) participants with a family history (FH) of clinically diagnosed sporadic AD (age 49-73 years) from the Alzheimer's and Families (ALFA) study. [ 18 F]flutemetamol-PET standardized uptake value ratios, CSF β-amyloid 42/40 ratio, and phosphorylated tau were used as AD biomarkers. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2020-07-31

    A New Framework for Automatic Detection of Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Resting-State EEG Signals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

    Key finding: The results show that the proposed ELM based method achieves the highest classification accuracy (98.78%) with lower execution time (0.281 seconds) and also outperforms the existing methods. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2020-07-31

    Determining Amyloid-β Positivity Using 18F-AZD4694 PET Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Key finding: We observed good convergence among the 4 Good convergence was obtained among several methods for determining an optimal cutoff for 18 F-AZD4694 PET positivity. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2020-07-30

    Does hearing loss lead to dementia? A review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Hearing research

    Key finding: Recent studies have revealed a correlation between aging-related hearing loss and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer Disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2020-07-30

    Prevalence and prognostic value of Delirium as the initial presentation of COVID-19 in the elderly with dementia: An Italian retrospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety EClinicalMedicine

    Key finding: Of the 59 residents, 57 (96⋅6%) tested positive (mean age: 82⋅8; women: 66⋅7%). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2020-07-30

    Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The Lancet

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2020-07-30

    Living with dementia: increased level of caregiver stress in times of COVID-19

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Overall, COVID-19 confinement increased stress caregiver independently of the dementia stage, but those caring for severe cases had more stress compared to milder forms of the disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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