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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 11,401–11,425 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 457 of 1096.

July 2020 25

  1. 2020-07-22

    Processes of consent in research for adults with impaired mental capacity nearing the end of life: systematic review and transparent expert consultation (MORECare_Capacity statement)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care BMC medicine

    Key finding: Studies implementing research methods (30 studies) demonstrated the role of family members as both proxy decision-makers and supporting decision-making for the person with impaired capacity. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2020-07-21

    Palliative Care in Advanced Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Frontiers in psychiatry

    Key finding: Dementia syndrome is common and expected to increase significantly among older people and characterized by the loss of cognitive, psychological and physical functions. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2020-07-21

    The Validation of Multifactor Model of Plasma Aβ 42 and Total-Tau in Combination With MoCA for Diagnosing Probable Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Frontiers in aging neuroscience

    Key finding: The well-accepted biomarkers for clinical diagnosis of AD include β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition and pathologic tau level within cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) and imaging AD pathology such as positive emission tomography (PET) imaging of the amyloid-binding agent Pittsburgh compound B (PET-PiB). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2020-07-20

    Dysbiosis, gut barrier dysfunction and inflammation in dementia: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms BMC Geriatrics

    Key finding: Dementia was associated with dysbiosis characterized by differences in beta diversity and changes in taxonomic composition. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2020-07-20

    Evidence-based prevention of Alzheimer's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of 243 observational prospective studies and 153 randomised controlled trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: Evidence-based suggestions are proposed, offering clinicians and stakeholders current guidance for the prevention of AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2020-07-20

    Remind Me To Remember: A pilot study of a novel smartphone reminder application for older adults with dementia and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Neuropsychological rehabilitation

    Key finding: Overall, caregivers and participants learned to effectively use the SmartPrompt. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2020-07-20

    Cardiovascular health, genetic risk, and risk of dementia in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurology

    Key finding: We categorized CVH on the basis of the American Heart Association Ideal CVH Index and genetic risk through a genetic risk score (GRS) of common genetic variants and the APOE ε4 genotype in 1,211 Framingham Heart Study (FHS) offspring cohort participants. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2020-07-20

    Serum albumin and beta-amyloid deposition in the human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Low serum albumin may increase the risk of AD dementia by elevating amyloid accumulation. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2020-07-19

    Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio across psychiatric diagnoses: a cross-sectional study using electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities BMJ open

    Key finding: NLR may be useful to identify and stratify patients who could benefit from adjunctive anti-inflammatory treatment.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2020-07-18

    Piloting a Dementia Caregiver Intervention in a Primary Care Setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Clinical gerontologist

    Key finding: No significant effects were found for caregiver strain, depressive symptoms, and distress related to neuropsychiatric symptoms. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2020-07-17

    The Gut Microbiome as a Component of the Gut-Brain Axis in Cognitive Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Biological research for nursing

    Key finding: Common themes in the current literature include GMB components; interactions on cognitive development; effects of GMB-gut-brain interactions on cognition, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease; effects of GMB interactions with physiologic stress on cognition in critical care; and GMB modification for improved cognition. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2020-07-17

    Peripheral TREM2 mRNA levels in early and late-onset Alzheimer disease's patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Molecular biology reports

    Key finding: Also, in elderly controls significantly higher TREM2 levels were found compared with young controls. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2020-07-17

    Protein-Protein interactions uncover candidate 'core genes' within omnigenic disease networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics PLoS genetics

    Key finding: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) of human diseases have generally identified many loci associated with risk with relatively small effect sizes. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2020-07-17

    Deep representation learning of electronic health records to unlock patient stratification at scale

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools NPJ digital medicine

    Key finding: ConvAE significantly outperformed several baselines in a clustering task to identify patients with different complex conditions, with 2.61 entropy and 0.31 purity average scores. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2020-07-17

    Brain delivery of supplemental docosahexaenoic acid (DHA): A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans EBioMedicine

    Key finding: A 28% increase in CSF DHA and 43% increase in CSF EPA were observed in the DHA treatment arm compared to placebo (mean difference for DHA (95% CI): 0.08 µg/mL (0.05, 0.10), p<0.0001; mean difference for EPA: 0.008 µg/mL (0.004, 0.011), p<0.0001). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2020-07-17

    Designing ICTs for Users with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Usability Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials International journal of environmental research and public health

    Key finding: The present work contributes to the literature on ICT usability needs of users with MCI. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2020-07-17

    Microglia: Agents of the CNS Pro-Inflammatory Response

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Cells

    Key finding: Though the research of microglia spans over a century, the last two decades have increased our understanding exponentially. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2020-07-17

    Preventive and Therapeutic Strategies in Alzheimer's Disease: Focus on Oxidative Stress, Redox Metals, and Ferroptosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Antioxidants & redox signaling

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2020-07-16

    The Functionality, Evidence, and Privacy Issues Around Smartphone Apps for the Top Neuropsychiatric Conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences

    Key finding: Eighty-three apps were reviewed (stroke, N=8; migraine, N=25; Alzheimer's disease and dementia, N=8; depression, N=7; anxiety, N=14; apps targeting depression and anxiety, N=21). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2020-07-16

    Alzheimer's disease drug development pipeline: 2020

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)

    Key finding: The 2020 pipeline has innovations in clinical trials and treatment targets that provide hope for greater success in AD drug development programs. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2020-07-16

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

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers 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

  22. 2020-07-16

    Meta-Analysis of Leukocyte Diversity in Atherosclerotic Mouse Aortas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Circulation research

    Key finding: In a comprehensive meta-analysis, we confirm 4 known macrophage subsets-resident, inflammatory, interferon-inducible cell, and Trem2 (triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2) foamy macrophages-and identify a new macrophage subset resembling cavity macrophages. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2020-07-16

    Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: There is currently no effective treatment for AD, which may be attributed in part to lack of a clear underlying mechanism. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2020-07-16

    Multitracer model for staging cortical amyloid deposition using PET imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: SUVr abnormality was most frequently observed in cingulate, followed by orbitofrontal, precuneal, and insular cortices and then the associative, temporal, and occipital regions.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2020-07-15

    Advance care planning and decision-making in dementia care: a literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Nursing older people

    Key finding: As a result, little significance may be placed on advance care planning (ACP) for people with dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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