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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 12,876–12,900 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 516 of 1096.

May 2019 14

  1. 2019-05-01

    Understanding the factors associated with patients with dementia achieving their preferred place of death: a retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Age and ageing

    Key finding: Little is known about preferred place of death, or the factors associated with achieving this, for people with dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2019-05-01

    Consensus on Shared Measures of Mobility and Cognition: From the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

    Key finding: A standardized assessment battery that captures shared characteristics of mobility and cognition seen in aging and neurodegeneration may increase comparability across research studies, detection of subtle or common reversible factors, and accelerate research progress in dementia, falls, and aging-related disabilities.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2019-05-01

    Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature

    Key finding: Across six major brain cell types, we identified transcriptionally distinct subpopulations, including those associated with pathology and characterized by regulators of myelination, inflammation, and neuron survival. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2019-05-01

    Age-related hearing loss accelerates cerebrospinal fluid tau levels and brain atrophy: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Aging

    Key finding: Nonetheless, it is still unclear whether age-related hearing loss associates with neurodegenerative biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2019-05-01

    Developmental Apoptosis Promotes a Disease-Related Gene Signature and Independence from CSF1R Signaling in Retinal Microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Cell reports

    Key finding: However, the signaling pathways and environmental cues that drive diverse states of microglia are incompletely understood. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2019-05-01

    Caregiving Across Diverse Populations: New Evidence From the National Study of Caregiving and Hispanic EPESE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Innovation in aging

    Key finding: Caregiving intensity is related to health for non-Latino White CGs and African American dementia CGs.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2019-05-01

    Multiple Sensory Impairment Is Associated With Increased Risk of Dementia Among Black and White Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

    Key finding: Sensory impairments were common: 28% had visual impairment, 35% had hearing loss, 22% had poor smell, 12% had touch insensitivity; 26% had more than two impairments, and 5.6% had more than three sensory impairments. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2019-05-01

    The Association Between Gait Speed and Cognitive Status in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

    Key finding: The strength of evidence for an association between gait speed and cognition was demonstrated by the number and consistency of results, as well as quality of the studies. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2019-05-01

    Population attributable fractions for risk factors for dementia in low-income and middle-income countries: an analysis using cross-sectional survey data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The Lancet. Global health

    Key finding: The overall weighted PAF for potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia was 39·5% (95% CI 37·5-41·6) in China (n=2162 participants), 41·2% (39·1-43·4) in India (n=2004), and 55·8% (54·9-56·7) in our Latin American sample (n=12 865). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2019-05-01

    Obesity: global epidemiology and pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Nature reviews. Endocrinology

    Key finding: Obesity is also associated with unemployment, social disadvantages and reduced socio-economic productivity, thus increasingly creating an economic burden.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2019-05-01

    Blood Pressure Lowering With Nilvadipine in Patients With Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer Disease Does Not Increase the Prevalence of Orthostatic Hypotension

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of the American Heart Association

    Key finding: This study suggests that initiation of a low dose of antihypertensive treatment does not significantly increase the risk of OH in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2019-05-01

    Effect of Milk and Other Dairy Products on the Risk of Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Cognitive Performance Decline in the Elderly: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)

    Key finding: Consumption of milk at midlife may be negatively associated with verbal memory performance. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2019-05-01

    Sex Differences in the Association of Global Amyloid and Regional Tau Deposition Measured by Positron Emission Tomography in Clinically Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Early tau deposition was elevated in women compared with men in individuals on the Alzheimer disease trajectory. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2019-05-01

    Assessment of Plasma Total Tau Level as a Predictive Biomarker for Dementia and Related Endophenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Among the 1453 participants in the Framingham dementia study sample, the mean (SD) age was 75 (7) years; 792 (54.5%) were female. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

April 2019 11

  1. 2019-04-30

    Adherence to multidomain interventions for dementia prevention: Data from the FINGER and MAPT trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Reducing participant burden, while ensuring that technological tools are suitable for older individuals, maintaining face-to-face contacts, and taking into account participant characteristics may increase adherence in future trials.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2019-04-30

    Inflammatory biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease plasma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Plasma markers of inflammation and complement dysregulation support diagnosis and outcome prediction in AD and MCI.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2019-04-30

    Prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia with MRI beyond the short-term: Implications for the design of predictive models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools NeuroImage. Clinical

    Key finding: Our results indicate that 23% of the stable MCI at 2 years progressed in the next three years and that MRI volumetric measures are good predictors of conversion to AD dementia even at the mid-term, showing a better specificity and AUC as follow-up time increases. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2019-04-29

    Pleiotropic neuroprotective effects of taxifolin in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: It is frequently accompanied by Alzheimer's disease and causes dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2019-04-29

    Dissecting intratumoral myeloid cell plasticity by single cell RNA-seq

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Cancer medicine

    Key finding: Molecular cues from the tumor microenvironment promote the differentiation of immature myeloid cells toward an immunosuppressive phenotype. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2019-04-28

    Loss of proteins associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis affects lysosomal acidification via different routes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Autophagy

    Key finding: Abnormal accumulation of proteins is a hallmark of a variety of neurological diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2019-04-28

    Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet is Associated with Better Sleep Quality in Italian Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Nutrients

    Key finding: In an additional analysis stratifying the sample by weight status, the association between sleep quality and high adherence to the Mediterranean diet was observed only among normal/overweight individuals but not in obese participants. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2019-04-26

    Effects of Neurotrophic Factors in Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System: Expression and Properties in Neurodegeneration and Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Frontiers in physiology

    Key finding: The importance of these cells for neuronal survival has previously been studied in co-culture experiments and the search for neurotrophic factors (NTFs) initiated after finding that the addition of conditioned media from astrocyte cultures could support the survival of primary neurons in vitro . +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2019-04-25

    Pancreatic islet (of Langerhans) revisited

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Histology and histopathology

    Key finding: The increasing prevalence of obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease in the population (three conditions that are linked to pancreatic islet function), the islet has been playing a significant role in endocrinological and metabolic studies searching how we can protect the pancreatic islet and its cell content, or how we can regenerate it.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2019-04-25

    Quantifying blood-brain barrier leakage in small vessel disease: Review and consensus recommendations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: It is generally accepted that endothelial dysfunction, including blood-brain barrier (BBB) failure, is pivotal in the pathophysiology. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2019-04-25

    Prolong treatment with Trans-ferulic acid mitigates bioenergetics loss and restores mitochondrial dynamics in streptozotocin-induced sporadic dementia of Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurotoxicology

    Key finding: Alzheimer disease has been well associated with mitochondrial dysfunctions. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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