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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 12,101–12,125 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 485 of 1096.

January 2020 25

  1. 2020-01-01

    Amyloid-β as a Blood Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Recent Literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the main cause of dementia, is characterized by the aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2020-01-01

    CCL23: A Chemokine Associated with Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: It has been recently associated with acquired brain damage and stroke outcomes. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2020-01-01

    Blood Amyloid-β Oligomerization as a Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease: A Blinded Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: MDS-OAβ to measure plasma Aβ oligomerization is a valuable blood-based biomarker for clinical diagnosis of AD, with high sensitivity and specificity. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2020-01-01

    Levels of Retinal Amyloid-β Correlate with Levels of Retinal IAPP and Hippocampal Amyloid-β in Neuropathologically Evaluated Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: These results show that different isoforms of Aβ can be detected in the human retina and moreover support the growing number of studies indicating that AD-related pathological changes occurring in the brain could be reflected in the retina. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2020-01-01

    IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10, and TNFα Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Human Influence the Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: These results suggest that persons carrying certain genotypes in IL10 (-1082G/A), IL1β (1473C/G), IL6 (-174C/G), and TNFIα (-308A/G) could be more vulnerable to development of neuroinflammation, and consequently of AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2020-01-01

    A group intervention to improve quality of life for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: the Namaste feasibility cluster RCT

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed End-of-life care Health technology assessment (Winchester, England)

    Key finding: Phase 1 (realist review; 86 papers) identified that a key intervention component was the activities enabling the development of moments of connection.

    Scored 55 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

  7. 2020-01-01

    Cognitive Impairment Is a Common Comorbidity in Deceased COVID-19 Patients: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: CI is a frequent comorbidity in deceased COVID-19 subjects and is associated with differences in care.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2020-01-01

    Postoperative delirium is associated with increased plasma neurofilament light

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: While delirium is associated with cognitive decline and dementia, there is limited evidence to support causality for this relationship. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2020-01-01

    Clinical Presentation of COVID19 in Dementia Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The journal of nutrition, health & aging

    Key finding: The diagnosis of dementia, especially in the most advanced stages, represents an important risk factor for mortality in COVID-19 patients. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2020-01-01

    Advances in Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Subjective Cognitive Decline: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Overall, the psychological intervention and cognitive training may be beneficial to cognitive function and psychological well-being. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2020-01-01

    Circulating Plasma Metabolites and Cognitive Function in a Puerto Rican Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: This untargeted metabolomics study identified potential biomarkers for cognitive function in a cohort of Puerto Rican older adults. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2020-01-01

    White Matter Changes on Diffusion Tensor Imaging in the FINGER Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: The 2-year multidomain FINGER intervention may modulate white matter microstructural alterations. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2020-01-01

    Impact of 3-Day Combined Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation-Visuospatial Training on Object-Location Memory in Healthy Older Adults and Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Cognitive training in MCI may be enhanced by atDCS, but further delineation of the impact of current brain state, as well as temporal characteristics of multi-session atDCS-training application, may be needed to induce longer-lasting effects. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2020-01-01

    Use of Immersive Virtual Reality in the Assessment and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Nine studies were eligible for inclusion. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2020-01-01

    Depression is Associated with Tau and Not Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography in Cognitively Normal Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Our results demonstrate that tau, not amyloid, was associated with a depression diagnosis. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2020 no date recorded — placed by publication year

    Whitepaper: Defining and investigating cognitive reserve, brain reserve, and brain maintenance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

    Several concepts, which in the aggregate get might be used to account for "resilience" against age- and disease-related changes, have been the subject of much research.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2020-01-01

    PTI-125 Reduces Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease

    Key finding: Here we describe results of a Phase 2a study of a promising new drug candidate that significantly reversed all measured biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2020-01-01

    Neuroimaging in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Numerous criteria for the definition of VaD have been described: the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Association Internationale pour Recherche'-et-l'Enseignement en Neurosciences criteria, the State of California Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Centers criteria, DSM-V criteria, the Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Disorders (a VASCOG Statement), and Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2020-01-01

    The potential role of nutritional components in improving brain function among patients with Alzheimers disease: a meta-analysis of RCT studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

    Key finding: Chain-free SFA and TFA occur in greater amounts in the brains of individuals with AD than in those without AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2020-01-01

    The Association Between Circulating Inflammatory Markers and the Progression of Alzheimer Disease in Norwegian Memory Clinic Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: Increased levels of inflammatory markers were not associated with faster progression as measured by the annual change on the CDR-SB or MMSE score. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2020-01-01

    Differential role of triggering receptors expressed on myeloid cells 2 R47H in 3 neurodegenerative diseases based on a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Medicine

    Key finding: The AD set included 23,092 cases and 30,920 controls, the ALS set included 7391 cases and 12,442 controls, and the PD set included 8498 patients and 9161 controls. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2020-01-01

    Benfotiamine and Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease: Results of a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Phase IIa Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Oral benfotiamine is safe and potentially efficacious in improving cognitive outcomes among persons with MCI and mild AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2020 no date recorded — placed by publication year

    Relationship between serum TSH level and Alzheimer disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer's & Dementia

    Key finding: Serum TSH level is associated with cerebral Aβ burden. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2020 no date recorded — placed by publication year

    Association between low gait speed and cognition decline in older nursing home residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer's & Dementia

    Key finding: This study founded that low gait speed was significantly associated with dementia in older adults in nursing home. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2020-01-01

    Can exercise affect immune function to increase susceptibility to infection?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Exercise immunology review

    Key finding: Multiple studies in humans and animals have demonstrated the profound impact that exercise can have on the immune system.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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