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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 12,651–12,675 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 507 of 1096.

July 2019 25

  1. 2019-07-17

    Effects of Anserine/Carnosine Supplementation on Mild Cognitive Impairment with APOE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical trials Nutrients

    Key finding: The score improvement in the global Clinical Dementia Rating (gloCDR) was superior in the active group than placebo (p = 0.023). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2019-07-17

    Insights into Computational Drug Repurposing for Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Trends in pharmacological sciences

    Key finding: Computational drug repurposing has the ability to remarkably reduce drug development time and cost in an era where these factors are prohibitively high. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2019-07-17

    Liver Dysfunction as a Novel Player in Alzheimer's Progression: Looking Outside the Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Frontiers in aging neuroscience

    Key finding: The effect of BBB impairment on Aβ, and whether BBB function is affected by non-neurological pathologies that impair peripheral clearance requires further investigation. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2019-07-17

    Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers of Synaptic Injury and Functional Connectivity in Alzheimer Disease: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers JMIR research protocols

    Key finding: Synaptic loss is the best surrogate for cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease (AD) and is more closely associated with cognitive function than amyloid or tau pathologies. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2019-07-17

    The Emerging Role of Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 as a Target for Immunomodulation in Ischemic Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Frontiers in immunology

    Key finding: It is characterized by loss of neural tissue in which inflammation plays a crucial role in both the acute contribution to ischemic damage as in the late-stage impact on post-ischemic tissue regeneration. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2019-07-16

    Care Home Life and Identity: A Qualitative Case Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Four themes were identified: (a) changing with age, (b) independence and autonomy, (c) bounded identity, and (d) social comparison. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2019-07-16

    Targeting Synaptic Plasticity in Experimental Models of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Frontiers in pharmacology

    Key finding: Alterations of synaptic plasticity are observed in several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2019-07-16

    Attitudes toward advance care planning among persons with dementia and their caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Educational programs may be useful in reducing racial differences in attitudes towards ACP. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2019-07-16

    Validation of neuropsychological tests for the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: We recruited 825 individuals from the CHARLS sample and 766 subjects from hospitals in six provinces and cities in China. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2019-07-16

    In vivo Prevalence of Alzheimer Biomarkers in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

    Key finding: Neuropathological studies indicate concomitant Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2019-07-16

    A Novel Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Algorithm to Predict the Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease Using Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Clinical Information, and Neuropsychological Measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Frontiers in neurology

    Key finding: The final algorithm demonstrated an AUROC of 0.88, sensitivity of 77.7%, and a specificity of 79.9% on excluded test data. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2019-07-13

    In search of pathogenic amyloid β-peptide in familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Progress in molecular biology and translational science

    Key finding: Early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) is pathologically and clinically similar to the more common late-onset sporadic form of the disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2019-07-13

    Transcriptional regulation of homeostatic and disease-associated-microglial genes by IRF1, LXRβ, and CEBPα

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Glia

    Key finding: Within DAM, we recently identified distinct pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory sub-profiles although transcriptional regulators of homeostatic and distinct DAM profiles remain unclear. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2019-07-12

    Geographical Variation in Opioid Use in Elderly Patients with Dementia: A Nationwide Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

    Key finding: 32.5% of elderly with dementia and 16.9% without were treated with an opioid in 2015. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2019-07-11

    Epidemiology of Vascular Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology

    Key finding: The consequent limitations of nosology may be alleviated by addition of a vascular component to the recently introduced amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration etiological classification system for dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2019-07-10

    [Breathing: Ambient Air Pollution and Health - Part III]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Pneumologie (Stuttgart, Germany)

    Key finding: The third part of the DGP statement introduces the current body of knowledge on less studied health outcomes associated with exposure to ambient air pollution: the negative impact on metabolism leading to impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes as well as contribution to the development of neurodegenerative disorders and delayed cognitive function in children. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2019-07-10

    Alzheimer's disease medication and risk of all-cause mortality and all-cause hospitalization: A retrospective cohort study

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

    Key finding: In our final study sample (N = 21,558), significant difference in survival among index AD medication groups were observed with donepezil being associated with better survival than memantine, and oral and transdermal forms of rivastigmine for both ITT and as-treated analysis. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2019-07-10

    Functional and/or structural brain changes in response to resistance exercises and resistance training lead to cognitive improvements - a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity

    Key finding: During the aging process, physical capabilities (e.g., muscular strength) and cognitive functions (e.g., memory) gradually decrease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2019-07-10

    The Nutritional Components of Beer and Its Relationship with Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Nutrients

    Key finding: Growing evidence suggests that demenia and other cognition affectations are associated with ambient factors including specific nutrients, food ingredients or specific dietary patterns. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2019-07-10

    Computer-based cognitive training for older adults: Determinants of adherence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials PloS one

    Key finding: Our aim is to investigate older adults´ adherence to a long-term CCT program, and which participant characteristics are associated with adherence to the CCT. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2019-07-10

    A Review of the Molecular Mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system World neurosurgery

    Key finding: Secondary damage is often linked to the molecular mechanisms that occur post TBI and result in excitotoxicity, neuroinflammation and cytokine damage, oxidative damage, and eventual cell death as prominent mechanisms of cell damage. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2019-07-10

    TREM2 Acts Downstream of CD33 in Modulating Microglial Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neuron

    Key finding: Here, we investigated crosstalk between CD33 and TREM2. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2019-07-09

    Alzheimer's disease drug development pipeline: 2019

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

    Key finding: Drug development continues robustly at all phases despite setbacks in several programs in the recent past. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2019-07-09

    Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Frontiers in neuroscience

    Key finding: Both increased sympathetic activity and decreased parasympathetic activity seem to be associated with a worse performance in the cognitive domains considered, in the absence of dementia and severe cardiovascular diseases or other medical and psychiatric diseases. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2019-07-09

    Interventions to optimize prescribing for older people in care homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery International Journal of Nursing Practice

    Key finding: Within this projection, the number of persons aged 80 years or over will increase more than threefold, increasing from 137 million to 425 million (United Nations, 2017). \n \nGrowing old is often accompanied by a higher prevalence of medical conditions which can result in the development of moderate to severe functional and/or cognitive impairments to the extent that long‐term accommodation and care is needed.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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