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June 2019 25
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2019-06-17
Melatonin in Alzheimer's Disease: A Latent Endogenous Regulator of Neurogenesis to Mitigate Alzheimer's Neuropathology
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Molecular neurobiology
Key finding: Aging, circadian disruption, Aβ accumulation, and tau hyperphosphorylation are the utmost risk factor regarding AD pathology. +4 more findings
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2019-06-17
Effects of Nilvadipine on Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients With Alzheimer Disease
65/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
Key finding: There was no significant change in CBF in the posterior cingulate cortex (Δ=5.2 [95% CI, -16.5 to 27.0] mL/100 g per minute; P=0.63) or other regions of interest. +2 more findings
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2019-06-17
Effect of a multicomponent exercise programme (VIVIFRAIL) on functional capacity in frail community elders with cognitive decline: study protocol for a randomized multicentre control trial
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Trials
Key finding: Moreover, physical activity in the elderly is associated with a decreased risk of mortality, of common chronic illnesses (i.e. cardiovascular disease or osteoarthritis) and of institutionalization as well as with a delay in functional decline. +4 more findings
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2019-06-14
The Age-Related Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Silent Impairment of the Cognitive Ear
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Frontiers in neuroscience
Key finding: Since these two disorders can be concomitant, drawing causal inferences is difficult. +4 more findings
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2019-06-14
The neuroinflammatory biomarker YKL-40 for neurodegenerative diseases: advances in development
44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Expert review of proteomics
Key finding: It is not associated with the presence of the APOE -ε4 allele whereas possibly linked to aging, female sex, Hispanic ethnicity and some genetic variants of the chitinase-3-like 1 locus. +1 more finding
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2019-06-13
The neuroprotection of liraglutide on diabetic cognitive deficits is associated with improved hippocampal synapses and inhibited neuronal apoptosis
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Life sciences
Key finding: These data suggest that the neuroprotective effects of liraglutide on diabetes-induced cognitive impairments are associated with the improvements of hippocampal synapses and inhibition of neuronal apoptosis. +1 more finding
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2019-06-12
DPP-4 inhibitor improves learning and memory deficits and AD-like neurodegeneration by modulating the GLP-1 signaling
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuropharmacology
Key finding: Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) signaling in the brain plays an important role in the regulation of glucose metabolism, which is impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD). +4 more findings
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2019-06-12
Perspectives and Experiences of Persons With Dementia With Advance Care Planning: An Integrative Literature Review
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology
Key finding: Research is needed with methodologically rigorous designs and theoretical frameworks that examine cognitive, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing ACP attitudes, preferences, and behaviors among PWDs in order to improve engagement among this population. +1 more finding
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2019-06-11
ADAMTS13 maintains cerebrovascular integrity to ameliorate Alzheimer-like pathology
12/100 ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it Vascular contributions PLoS biology
Key finding: By regulating vascular functions and inflammation in the microvasculature, a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type I motif, member 13 (ADAMTS13) plays a significant protective effect in atherosclerosis and stroke. +2 more findings
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2019-06-11
α-synuclein in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Molecular neurodegeneration
Key finding: However, accumulating evidence suggests that the presynaptic protein α-synuclein (αSyn), mainly associated with synucleinopathies like Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA), is involved in the pathophysiology of AD. +1 more finding
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2019-06-11
A deep learning model for early prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia based on hippocampal magnetic resonance imaging data
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Key finding: The deep-learning time-to-event model predicted individual subjects' progression to AD dementia with a concordance index of 0.762 on 439 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative testing MCI subjects with follow-up duration from 6 to 78 months (quartiles: [24, 42, 54]) and a concordance index of 0.781 on 40 Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Study of Aging testing MCI subjects with follow-up duration from 18 to 54 months (quartiles: [18, 36, 54]). +1 more finding
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2019-06-10
Education modulates brain maintenance in presymptomatic frontotemporal dementia
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
Key finding: Highly educated at-risk subjects had better cognition and higher grey matter volume at baseline; moreover, higher educational attainment was associated with slower loss of grey matter over time in mutation carriers. +1 more finding
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2019-06-10
Genetic analyses of early-onset Alzheimer's disease using next generation sequencing
46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Scientific reports
Key finding: This study suggests that individuals diagnosed with AD should be screened for other neurodegenerative disease-associated genes. +1 more finding
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2019-06-10
Plasma and CSF neurofilament light: Relation to longitudinal neuroimaging and cognitive measures
55/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurology
Key finding: Elevated baseline plasma NfL is a prognostic marker of cognitive decline and neuroimaging measures of neurodegeneration, and has similar effect sizes to baseline CSF NfL. +3 more findings
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2019-06-10
Analytical and clinical performances of the automated Lumipulse cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 and T-Tau assays for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis
49/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Journal of neurology
Key finding: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers are increasingly used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD). +3 more findings
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2019-06-10
Inflammation and cerebral small vessel disease: A systematic review
65/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Ageing research reviews
Key finding: Evidence from 82 articles revealed relatively robust associations between SVD and markers of vascular inflammation, especially amongst stroke patients, suggesting that alterations to the endothelium and blood-brain barrier may be a driving force behind SVD. +3 more findings
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2019-06-10
Towards successful digital transformation through co-creation: a longitudinal study of a four-year implementation of digital monitoring technology in residential care for persons with dementia
54/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools BMC health services research
Key finding: The implementation represented radical innovation and required far more resources than the incremental changes anticipated by the participants. +2 more findings
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2019-06-07
Moderate- to high-intensity exercise does not modify cortical β-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)
Key finding: The intervention showed no effect on follow-up SUVRs in a covariance analysis with group allocation, baseline intervention SUVR, age, sex, and baseline Mini-Mental State Examination as predictors. +4 more findings
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2019-06-07
Chronic Inflammation as an Immunological Abnormality and Effectiveness of Exercise
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Biomolecules
Key finding: Pro-inflammatory mediators such as cytokines that are secreted in excess from inflammatory cells will not only lead to the development of arteriosclerosis when they chronically affect blood vessels but also bring tissue degeneration and/or dysfunction to various organs. +4 more findings
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2019-06-07
Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Molecular neurodegeneration
Key finding: Numerous advances have been made in developing biomarkers for AD using neuroimaging approaches. +4 more findings
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2019-06-07
Mediterranean and MIND Diets Containing Olive Biophenols Reduces the Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials International journal of molecular sciences
Key finding: Higher adherence to the MedDi diet was associated with decreases in cardiovascular and neurological disorders including AD and related cognitive decline. +2 more findings
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2019-06-06
Expansion of Human-Specific GGC Repeat in Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease-Related Disorders
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics American journal of human genetics
Key finding: Here we have performed genetic linkage analysis and mapped the disease locus to 1p13.3-q23.1; however, whole-exome sequencing revealed no potential disease-causing mutations.
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2019-06-06
Tau is required for progressive synaptic and memory deficits in a transgenic mouse model of α-synucleinopathy
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Acta neuropathologica
Key finding: Previously, we found that familial Parkinson's disease-linked human mutant A53T αS causes aberrant localization of the microtubule-associated protein tau to postsynaptic spines in neurons, leading to postsynaptic deficits. +4 more findings
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2019-06-06
Analysis of dementia in the US population using Medicare claims: Insights from linked survey and administrative claims data
57/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)
Key finding: Survey-based cognitive tests and claims-based dementia diagnosis yielded equal prevalence estimates, yet only half were identified by both measures. +3 more findings
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2019-06-06
Psychological Interventions for Dementia Caregivers: What We Have Achieved, What We Have Learned
53/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Current psychiatry reports
Key finding: This article provides a focused review of such methods used in evidence-based intervention programs, along with the mechanisms of change associated with these methods. +1 more finding
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