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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 13,076–13,100 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 524 of 1096.

March 2019 20

  1. 2019-03-01

    A farnesyltransferase inhibitor activates lysosomes and reduces tau pathology in mice with tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Science translational medicine

    Key finding: Direct reduction of Rhes in the rTg4510 mouse by siRNA reproduced the results observed with lonafarnib treatment. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2019-03-01

    2019 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Alzheimer s & Dementia

    Between 2000 and 2017, deaths resulting from stroke, heart disease, and prostate cancer decreased, whereas reported deaths from AD increased 145%.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2019-03-01

    Street Network Models and Measures for Every U.S. City, County, Urbanized Area, Census Tract, and Zillow-Defined Neighborhood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Urban Science

    Key finding: This paper reports results from a research project that collected raw street network data from OpenStreetMap using the Python-based OSMnx software for every U.S. city and town, county, urbanized area, census tract, and Zillow-defined neighborhood.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2019-03-01

    Street Network Models and Measures for Every U.S. City, County, Urbanized Area, Census Tract, and Zillow-Defined Neighborhood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Not indexed

    Key finding: This paper reports results from a research project that collected raw street network data from OpenStreetMap using the Python-based OSMnx software for every U.S. city and town, county, urbanized area, census tract, and Zillow-defined neighborhood.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2019-03-01

    Assessment of Vascular Event Prevention and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults With Preexisting Vascular Disease or Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery JAMA Network Open

    Key finding: Among 45 029 participants undergoing cognitive assessment, mean (SD) age was 67.9 (8.0) years; 80.7% were men. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2019-03-01

    Individual goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation to improve everyday functioning for people with early-stage dementia: A multicentre randomised controlled trial (the GREAT trial)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Participants allocated to CR received 10 weekly sessions over 3 months and four maintenance sessions over 6 months. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2019-03-01

    Association of Rare Coding Mutations With Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias Among Adults of European Ancestry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics JAMA network open

    Key finding: Some of the unexplained heritability of Alzheimer disease (AD) may be due to rare variants whose effects are not captured in genome-wide association studies because very large samples are needed to observe statistically significant associations. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2019-03-01

    Oxidative stress, dysfunctional glucose metabolism and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Nature reviews. Neuroscience

    Key finding: Consequently, ATP-requiring processes for cognitive function are impaired, and synaptic dysfunction and neuronal death result, with ensuing thinning of key brain areas.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2019-03-01

    Dementia in Down syndrome: unique insights for Alzheimer disease research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Nature reviews. Neurology

    Key finding: This association is partially due to overexpression of amyloid precursor protein, encoded by APP, as a result of the location of this gene on chromosome 21. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2019-03-01

    High Cortisol and the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of the Literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Frontiers in aging neuroscience

    Key finding: Clinical studies found that elevated cortisol was associated with poorer overall cognitive functioning, as well as with poorer episodic memory, executive functioning, language, spatial memory, processing speed, and social cognition; while in animals, glucocorticoid administration resulted in cognitive impairment and abnormal behavior. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2019-03-01

    Neurovascular and Cognitive Dysfunction in Hypertension

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Circulation research

    Key finding: Long known to be associated with dementia caused by vascular factors, hypertension has more recently been linked also to Alzheimer disease-the major cause of dementia in older people.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2019-03-01

    Language Performance of Individuals at Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR

    Key finding: Language performance deficits can appear early before impairment in episodic memory, visuospatial construction ability, or mental status in individuals at risk for MCI. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2019-03-01

    Risk and predictors of dementia and parkinsonism in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multicentre study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: The overall conversion rate from iRBD to an overt neurodegenerative syndrome was 6.3% per year, with 73.5% converting after 12-year follow-up. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2019-03-01

    Dementia Mortality in the United States, 2000-2017

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System

    Key finding: In 2017, a total of 261,914 deaths attributable to dementia as an underlying cause of death were reported in the United States. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2019-03-01

    Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Differences in Cognitive Life Expectancies Among Older Adults in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Among women, the number of years spent living with dementia for Whites, Blacks, U.S.-born Hispanics, and foreign-born Hispanics was 1.6, 3.9, 4.7, and 6.0 years, respectively. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2019-03-01

    Comparison of Methods for Algorithmic Classification of Dementia Status in the Health and Retirement Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)

    Key finding: Algorithmic diagnoses provide a cost-effective way to conduct dementia research. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2019-03-01

    Correlation of In Vivo [18F]Flortaucipir With Postmortem Alzheimer Disease Tau Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging JAMA neurology

    Key finding: In this patient, the clinical disease symptoms progressed rapidly in life, paralleled with an annual increase of tau PET retention of 20% to 40% in many cortical regions. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2019-03-01

    The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum: Diagnosis and Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The Medical clinics of North America

    Key finding: Evaluation involves structured patient and caregiver history and symptom-function reviews, examination, and testing (laboratory and neuroimaging) to delineate impairment level, determine the cognitive-behavioral syndrome, and diagnose cause. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2019-03-01

    Assessment of Racial Disparities in Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics JAMA neurology

    Key finding: There were no racial differences in the frequency of cerebral ischemic lesions noted on results of brain magnetic resonance imaging, mean cortical standardized uptake value ratios for Pittsburgh compound B, or for amyloid-β42 concentrations in CSF. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2019-03-01

    Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Neurofilament Light Protein Levels With Cognition in Patients With Dementia, Motor Neuron Disease, and Movement Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Cognitive testing follow-up occurred for 1 to 18 years (mean [SD], 0.98 [2.25] years); autopsy-verified diagnoses were available for 120 of 845 participants with diseases (14.2%). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

February 2019 5

  1. 2019-02-28

    Social networks and loneliness in people with Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: The friendship subset of social networks was significantly related to cognition (independent of age, gender, depression, loneliness, and family subset of social network): B = 0.284, P = 0.01. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2019-02-28

    Liraglutide and its Neuroprotective Properties-Focus on Possible Biochemical Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Ischemic Events

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development International journal of molecular sciences

    Key finding: The literature starts to suggest that liraglutide may reduce the effects of ischemic stroke by activating anti-apoptotic pathways, as well as limiting the harmful effects of free radicals.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2019-02-28

    Fructooligosaccharides Ameliorating Cognitive Deficits and Neurodegeneration in APP/PS1 Transgenic Mice through Modulating Gut Microbiota

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Journal of agricultural and food chemistry

    Key finding: The results indicated that FOS treatment ameliorated cognitive deficits and pathological changes in the Tg mice. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2019-02-28

    Treatment patterns and burden of behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia in the United States: a claims database analysis

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

    Key finding: Patients with dementia with BD had a higher prevalence of comorbidities, greater use of comedications, and greater healthcare utilization and costs than patients with dementia without BD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2019-02-28

    MIND not Mediterranean diet related to 12-year incidence of cognitive impairment in an Australian longitudinal cohort study

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

    Key finding: Preliminary evidence suggests that protective effects of the MIND diet are geographically generalizable. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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