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Newest studies

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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 12,401–12,425 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 497 of 1096.

October 2019 25

  1. 2019-10-16

    Exercise, diet and stress as modulators of gut microbiota: Implications for neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neurobiology of disease

    Key finding: Accumulating evidence from preclinical and clinical research indicate that gut microbiota, and their associated microbiomes, may influence pathogenic processes and thus the onset and progression of various diseases, including neurological and psychiatric disorders. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2019-10-16

    Prediction and Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Combined Features From Apolipoprotein-E Genotype, Cerebrospinal Fluid, MR, and FDG-PET Imaging Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Frontiers in computational neuroscience

    Key finding: As a result, our combined method achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic (AU-ROC) curve of 98.33, 93.59, 96.83, 94.64, 96.43, and 95.24% for AD vs. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2019-10-15

    Accelerometer-determined physical activity and cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults from two generations of the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)

    Key finding: In each cohort, achieving just 10-21.4 min/day moderate-to-vigorous PA related to better executive function ( P P = .02). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2019-10-15

    Common risk factors for major noncommunicable disease, a systematic overview of reviews and commentary: the implied potential for targeted risk reduction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Therapeutic advances in chronic disease

    Key finding: Research linking clinical and lifestyle risk factors to increased risk of noncommunicable disease is now well established with examples of confirmed risk factors, including smoking, physical inactivity, obesity and hypertension. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2019-10-14

    Head-to-head comparison of tau positron emission tomography tracers [18F]flortaucipir and [18F]RO948

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

    Key finding: Neocortical tracer retention was highly comparable using both SUVR and distribution volume ratio-1 values obtained from dynamic scans. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2019-10-14

    Development and Validation of eRADAR: A Tool Using EHR Data to Detect Unrecognized Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: The eRADAR tool uses existing EHR data to detect patients with good accuracy who may have unrecognized dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2019-10-14

    Interdisciplinary palliative care for people with advanced Parkinson's disease: a view from the home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Annals of palliative medicine

    Key finding: As our population ages, therapies increase, and the number of individuals living with advanced PD and related disorders grows, so too does the imperative to recognize and address the palliative care needs of such patients and families.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2019-10-14

    Dietary Polyphenols: A Multifactorial Strategy to Target Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care International journal of molecular sciences

    Key finding: The reason behind such imperfect drugs may result from the inefficiencies of the current drugs to target the cause of the disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2019-10-14

    Trends and Factors Associated with Place of Death for Individuals with Dementia in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: As ADRD deaths at home increase, the need for caregiver support and home-based palliative care may become more critical. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2019-10-14

    Amyloid PET Quantification Via End-to-End Training of a Deep Learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

    Key finding: We suggest a one-step quantification method for amyloid PET via a deep learning model.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2019-10-13

    Functional ability is associated with higher adherence to behavioral interventions in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment The Clinical neuropsychologist

    Key finding: Two-hundred and thirty-seven participants completed the 6-month post-intervention follow-up measures, 228 participants completed the 12-month measures, and 218 participants completed the 18-month measures. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2019-10-13

    Predicting incident dementia 3-8 years after brief cognitive tests in the UK Biobank prospective study of 500,000 people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Prospective studies reporting associations between cognitive performance and subsequent incident dementia have been subject to attrition bias. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2019-10-12

    Familial Alzheimer's disease presenilin-2 mutants affect Ca2+ homeostasis and brain network excitability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Aging clinical and experimental research

    Key finding: By generating novel tools for measuring Ca2+ in living cells, and combining different approaches, we showed that FAD-linked PS2 mutants significantly alter cell Ca2+ signaling and brain network activity, as summarized below.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2019-10-12

    Pain Assessment in the Patient Unable to Self-Report: Clinical Practice Recommendations in Support of the ASPMN 2019 Position Statement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses

    Key finding: Pain is a subjective experience, unfortunately, some patients cannot provide a self-report of pain verbally, in writing, or by other means. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2019-10-10

    Microglia drive APOE-dependent neurodegeneration in a tauopathy mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The Journal of Experimental Medicine

    Key finding: However, to what degree innate immunity contributes to neurodegeneration as compared with pathological protein-induced neurotoxicity, and the requirement of a particular glial cell type in neurodegeneration, are still unclear. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2019-10-10

    "A priori" Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Function in the SUN Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neuroepidemiology

    Key finding: Adjusted differences showed advantages in the 6-year change in STICS-m score of 0.25 (95% CI 0.04-0.45) for an increase of 1-SD (9 points) in the AHEI-2010 and of 0.27 (95% CI 0.05-0.48) for an increase of 1-SD (1.5 points) in the MIND diet. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2019-10-10

    Pathogenetic pathways of cognitive dysfunction and dementia in metabolic syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Life sciences

    Key finding: A number of studies and meta-analyses have provided evidence for increased risk of dementia in patients with metabolic syndrome (MS) as compared to persons without MS.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2019-10-10

    Genetic variability in response to amyloid beta deposition influences Alzheimer's disease risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Brain communications

    Key finding: Using transgenic mouse models of amyloid deposition, we previously showed that many of the mouse orthologues of these risk genes are co-expressed and associated with amyloid pathology. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2019-10-10

    Distinct Signaling Pathways Regulate TREM2 Phagocytic and NFκB Antagonistic Activities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

    Key finding: We have employed an ectopic model of TREM2 and DAP12 expression in HEK293 cells to study selectively TREM2 dependent signaling and phagocytic functions and evaluated the effects of some of the TREM2 mutations associated with AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2019-10-10

    Causal Effect of Lp(a) [Lipoprotein(a)] Level on Ischemic Stroke and Alzheimer Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Stroke

    Key finding: This study provides evidence to support that high Lp(a) concentrations was causally associated with an increased risk of large artery stroke but a decreased risk of small vessel stroke and Alzheimer disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2019-10-09

    Resolving the fibrotic niche of human liver cirrhosis at single-cell level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Nature

    Key finding: There are currently no effective antifibrotic therapies available. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2019-10-08

    Statistical methods for dementia risk prediction and recommendations for future work: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)

    Key finding: We identified three major methodological weaknesses: (1) over-reliance on one data source, (2) poor verification of statistical assumptions of Cox and logistic regression, and (3) lack of validation.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2019-10-08

    Cognitive Outcomes of Long-term Benzodiazepine and Related Drug (BDZR) Use in People Living With Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease: Results From NILVAD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

    Key finding: This study found no effect of ongoing BDZR use on ADAS-Cog scores in those with mild to moderate AD over 18 months. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2019-10-07

    A combined miRNA-piRNA signature to detect Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Translational psychiatry

    Key finding: In this study, we use next-generation sequencing to study the small noncoding RNAome (sncRNAome) in exosomes derived from human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2019-10-07

    An atlas of cortical circular RNA expression in Alzheimer disease brains demonstrates clinical and pathological associations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Nature neuroscience

    Key finding: Significant associations were identified between circRNA expression and AD diagnosis, clinical dementia severity and neuropathological severity. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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