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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 11,426–11,450 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 458 of 1096.

July 2020 25

  1. 2020-07-15

    The Mediterranean diet and menopausal health: An EMAS position statement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Maturitas

    Key finding: Globally, 985 million women are aged 50 and over, leading to increasing concerns about chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, dementia, and cognitive decline, which can adversely affect quality of life and independent living. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2020-07-15

    Cardiovascular risk factors and accelerated cognitive decline in midlife: The CARDIA Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Neurology

    Key finding: Midlife CVRFs, especially hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and smoking, are common and associated with accelerated cognitive decline at midlife. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2020-07-14

    Pain Management in Home Health Care: Relationship With Dementia and Facility Admissions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Costs and economics Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses

    Key finding: Patients with ADRD (n = 1,525, 24.8%) were less likely to have recorded severe pain than others (16.4% vs. 23.6%, p < .001). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2020-07-14

    Health Impacts from Ambient Particle Exposure in Southern Sweden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors International journal of environmental research and public health

    Key finding: Locally produced PM2.5 alone contributed to 2-9% of the cases of diseases and disorders investigated. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2020-07-14

    Plasma phospho-tau181 in presymptomatic and symptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Molecular psychiatry

    Key finding: Compared with non-carriers, plasma p-tau181 concentration was higher in both symptomatic (p < 0.001) and presymptomatic mutation carriers (p < 0.001).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2020-07-14

    Education Research: Online Alzheimer education for high school and college students: A randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Neurology

    Key finding: Online education involving a celebrity may be an effective strategy for educating college students about AD risk reduction strategies.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2020-07-13

    Sleep characteristics and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology in cognitively intact older adults: The CABLE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Greater daytime sleepiness was associated with higher CSF indicators of amyloid deposition in female patients. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2020-07-13

    Endothelium-Macrophage Crosstalk Mediates Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Hypertension

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

    Key finding: Perivascular macrophages (PVM), innate immune cells closely associated with cerebral microvessels, have emerged as major contributors to neurovascular dysfunction. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2020-07-13

    Local externalization of phosphatidylserine mediates developmental synaptic pruning by microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics The EMBO journal

    Key finding: Microglia, through the elimination of supernumerary synapses, have an established role in this process. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2020-07-13

    Association of cerebrovascular reactivity and Alzheimer pathologic markers with cognitive performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: CVR was significantly associated with cognitive performance independently of AD pathology. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2020-07-11

    MicroRNAs Related to Cognitive Impairment After Hearing Loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology

    Key finding: The deaf group showed considerably lower scores on the OPT, OLT, and Y-maze test than the control group. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2020-07-11

    The presence of a caregiver is associated with patient outcomes in patients with Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Parkinsonism & related disorders

    Key finding: These findings have implications for clinical practice and suggest that presence of a caregiver may be an important modifying variable on patient outcomes to examine in future research. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2020-07-10

    Endosomal-lysosomal dysfunction in metabolic diseases and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms International review of neurobiology

    Key finding: Many genetic mutations and risk factor genes associated with proteinopathies, as well as with metabolic diseases like diabetes, negatively influence endocytic trafficking and autophagic clearance.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2020-07-10

    Longitudinal validity of PET-based staging of regional amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Human brain mapping

    Key finding: Positron emission tomography (PET)-based staging of regional amyloid deposition has recently emerged as a promising tool for sensitive detection and stratification of pathology progression in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2020-07-10

    Patient-specific Alzheimer-like pathology in trisomy 21 cerebral organoids reveals BACE2 as a gene dose-sensitive AD suppressor in human brain

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

    Key finding: We found that T21 organoids secrete increased proportions of Aβ-preventing (Aβ1-19) and Aβ-degradation products (Aβ1-20 and Aβ1-34).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2020-07-09

    Competing crises: COVID‐19 countermeasures and social isolation among older adults in long‐term care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of Advanced Nursing

    Key finding: This suggests that if physical distancing measures are extended for months or years until either herd immunity or a vaccination, a shocking proportion of LTC residents are likely to die under a 'new normal' of isolation that few would choose. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2020-07-09

    The Association Between Early Age-Related Hearing Loss and Brain β-Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The Laryngoscope

    Key finding: The mean age ± standard deviation was 64.6 ± 3.5 years. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2020-07-09

    18F-SMBT-1: A Selective and Reversible PET Tracer for Monoamine Oxidase-B Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Key finding: In vitro binding assays demonstrated a high binding affinity of 18 F-SMBT-1 to MAO-B (dissociation constant, 3.7 nM). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2020-07-08

    Corticomotor Plasticity Predicts Clinical Efficacy of Combined Neuromodulation and Cognitive Training in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Frontiers in aging neuroscience

    Key finding: Combined rTMS and cognitive training may improve the cognitive status of AD patients, with TMS-induced cortical plasticity at baseline serving as predictor of therapeutic outcome for this intervention, and potential mechanism of action. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2020-07-08

    Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Study of Speech and Language Impairment Across the Life Span: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools American journal of speech-language pathology

    Key finding: Though it is not without inherent challenges, fNIRS may have advantages over other neuroimaging techniques in the areas of speech and language impairment. fNIRS has clinical applications that may lead to improved early and differential diagnosis, increase our understanding of response to treatment, improve neuroprosthetic functioning, and advance neurofeedback.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2020-07-07

    A Seat at the Table: Supporting Persons with Severe Dementia in Communicating Their Preferences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Clinical gerontologist

    Key finding: Neither assessment condition promoted significantly greater levels of consistency (i.e., the same preference rating at Time 1 and Time 2). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2020-07-07

    Environmental exposure to phthalates and dementia with Lewy bodies: contribution of metabolomics

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

    Key finding: Among the compounds detected in greater abundance in the CSF of patients with DLB compared with patients with AD, only one had a xenobiotic profile potentially related to the pathophysiology of DLB. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2020-07-07

    Dual sensory impairment in older adults and risk of dementia from the GEM Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

    Key finding: DSI was significantly associated with higher risk of all-cause dementia (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.86; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.25-2.76) and Alzheimer's disease (HR = 2.12; 95% CI = 1.34-3.36). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2020-07-07

    The socio-economic determinants of COVID-19: A spatial analysis of German county level data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Not indexed

    Key finding: The case and death rates are, for example, significantly positively associated with early cases from the beginning of the epidemic, the average age, the population density and the number of people employed in elderly care. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2020-07-07

    TREM2 ectodomain and its soluble form in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Journal of neuroinflammation

    Key finding: It mediates multiple pathophysiological processes in various diseases. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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