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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 12,801–12,825 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 513 of 1096.

May 2019 25

  1. 2019-05-30

    Caregiver preparedness for death in dementia: an evaluation of existing tools

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Aging & mental health

    Key finding: Authors extracted 569 tools from articles, retaining seven tools for evaluation. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2019-05-30

    Palliative Care in the Hip Fracture Patient

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation

    Key finding: Evaluation of each patient using a variety of decision making tools should help the orthopedic surgeon determine which patients would be better suited to non-operative management.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2019-05-30

    End-of-life experiences in dementia with Lewy bodies: Qualitative interviews with former caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care PloS one

    Key finding: Study results emphasize the need for improved EOL counseling in DLB, recognition of EOL symptoms, earlier hospice involvement, tailoring EOL care to DLB-specific needs, and clinician-family communication. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2019-05-30

    Cognitive and neural plasticity in old age: A systematic review of evidence from executive functions cognitive training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Ageing research reviews

    Key finding: This systematic review examined the effects of executive functions training on brain and cognition amongst healthy older adults across 20 studies. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2019-05-30

    Vitamin D and the nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurological research

    Key finding: the studies reviewed show that VD contributes to cerebral activity in both embryonic and adult brain, helping the connectivity of neural circuits responsible for locomotor, emotional and reward-dependent behavior. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2019-05-29

    Prevalence of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: A prospective, population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools PloS one

    Key finding: In this prospective, population-based study the prevalence of iNPH was 3.7% among individuals 65 years and older, and more common in the higher age group, 80 years and above. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2019-05-29

    Orthostatic hypotension and REM sleep behaviour disorder: impact on clinical outcomes in α-synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: OH and RBD yielded individual and combined negative effects on disability in α-synucleinopathies, reflecting a 'malignant' phenotype of PD with early cognitive impairment and postural instability. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2019-05-29

    Safety of Proton Pump Inhibitors Based on a Large, Multi-Year, Randomized Trial of Patients Receiving Rivaroxaban or Aspirin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Gastroenterology

    Key finding: In a large placebo-controlled randomized trial, we found that pantoprazole is not associated with any adverse event when used for 3 years, with the possible exception of an increased risk of enteric infections. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2019-05-29

    CNS small vessel disease: A clinical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Neurology

    Key finding: Pathogenesis is thought to begin with an etiologically specific insult, with or without genetic predisposition, which results in dysfunction of the neurovascular unit.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2019-05-29

    The association between subjective caregiver burden and depressive symptoms in carers of older relatives: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving PloS one

    Key finding: Subjective caregiver burden is a significant risk factor for depressive symptoms in carers of older people and may precipitate clinical depression. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2019-05-28

    Glia-specific autophagy dysfunction in ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Seminars in cell & developmental biology

    Key finding: Therefore, autophagy is considered a critical ND-protective pathway, which opens up potential new therapeutic interventions. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2019-05-28

    Risk Factor Variability and Cardiovascular Outcome: JACC Review Topic of the Week

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of the American College of Cardiology

    Key finding: Variability of these risk factors has been demonstrated to be a powerful predictor for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, stroke, coronary artery disease, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, and dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2019-05-28

    Effects of functional communication interventions for people with primary progressive aphasia and their caregivers: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Aging & mental health

    Key finding: There are variations in the interventions, such as location and dosage. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2019-05-27

    Apolipoprotein E associated with reconstituted high-density lipoprotein-like particles is protected from aggregation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics FEBS letters

    Key finding: Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype determines Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility, with the APOE ε4 allele being an established risk factor for late-onset AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2019-05-27

    A nonsynonymous mutation in PLCG2 reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia, and increases the likelihood of longevity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: The role of PLCG2 in immune system signaling suggests it may also protect against other neurodegenerative diseases and possibly associates with longevity. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2019-05-27

    TREM2 Attenuates Aβ1-42-Mediated Neuroinflammation in BV-2 Cells by Downregulating TLR Signaling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neurochemical research

    Key finding: The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) gene is associated with the pathogenesis of LOAD and plays important roles in mediating the phagocytosis of Aβ by microglia and regulating inflammation in central nervous system. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2019-05-26

    Relationship of traumatic brain injury to chronic mental health problems and dementia in military veterans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neuroscience letters

    Key finding: The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have increased public awareness of TBI in the military. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2019-05-24

    Using Technology to Facilitate Fidelity Assessments: The Tele-STAR Caregiver Intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Journal of medical Internet research

    Key finding: Tele-STAR reduced caregiver burden and retained good program and treatment fidelity to STAR-C. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2019-05-24

    Alzheimer's disease polygenic risk score as a predictor of conversion from mild-cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Translational psychiatry

    Key finding: Increases in average PRS scores across diagnosis group were observed with one-way ANOVA suggesting significant differences in PRS between the groups (p < 0.0001). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2019-05-24

    Chenodeoxycholic Acid Ameliorates AlCl 3 -Induced Alzheimer's Disease Neurotoxicity and Cognitive Deterioration via Enhanced Insulin Signaling in Rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)

    Key finding: Chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA) and synthetic Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) ligands have shown promising outcomes in ameliorating insulin resistance associated with various medical conditions. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2019-05-24

    Moving beyond 'safety' versus 'autonomy': a qualitative exploration of the ethics of using monitoring technologies in long-term dementia care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools BMC geriatrics

    Key finding: There is an urgent need for greater consideration of the ethical and legal implications that remote technological monitoring might have upon workforce morale, recruitment and retention.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2019-05-22

    Antibiotics, gut microbiota, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of neuroinflammation

    Key finding: Recently, it has been hypothesized that AD may be associated with a dysbiosis of microbes in the intestine. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2019-05-22

    End of life care for long-term care residents with dementia, chronic illness and cancer: prospective staff survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care BMC geriatrics

    Key finding: Overall, symptoms in the last week and month of life did not vary by diagnosis. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2019-05-22

    Decreased synthesis of ribosomal proteins in tauopathy revealed by non-canonical amino acid labelling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms The EMBO journal

    Key finding: We have recently shown that amyloid-β, the second hallmark of AD, induces de novo protein synthesis of tau. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2019-05-22

    The escalating global burden of serious health-related suffering: projections to 2060 by world regions, age groups, and health conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The Lancet. Global health

    Key finding: By 2060, an estimated 48 million people (47% of all deaths globally) will die with serious health-related suffering, which represents an 87% increase from 26 million people in 2016. 83% of these deaths will occur in low-income and middle-income countries. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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