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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 13,601–13,625 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 545 of 1096.

October 2018 24

  1. 2018-10-05

    CSF sAPPβ, YKL-40, and NfL along the ALS-FTD spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: We found increased levels of YKL-40 and decreased levels of sAPPβ in both FTD and ALS groups compared to controls. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2018-10-04

    Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: Further analysis of the AD brain proteome will continue to yield new insights into the biological basis of AD. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2018-10-04

    Plasma Amyloid as Prescreener for the Earliest Alzheimer Pathological Changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Plasma Abeta42/Abeta40 ratio has potential as a prescreener to identify Alzheimer pathological changes in cognitively normal individuals with SCD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2018-10-03

    Impact of air pollution on depression and suicide

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health

    Key finding: There are many risk factors for these conditions, most important of which are the social situation or chronic diseases. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2018-10-03

    Integrative approach to sporadic Alzheimer's disease: deficiency of TYROBP in a tauopathy mouse model reduces C1q and normalizes clinical phenotype while increasing spread and state of phosphorylation of tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Molecular psychiatry

    Key finding: Using transgenic or viral approaches, we characterized in mice the effects of TYROBP deficiency on the phenotypic and pathological evolution of tauopathy. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2018-10-03

    Integrative approach to sporadic Alzheimer's disease: deficiency of TYROBP in cerebral Aβ amyloidosis mouse normalizes clinical phenotype and complement subnetwork molecular pathology without reducing Aβ burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Molecular psychiatry

    Key finding: We previously constructed a probabilistic causal network model of sporadic LOAD and identified TYROBP/DAP12, encoding a microglial transmembrane signaling polypeptide and direct adapter of TREM2, as the most robust key driver gene in the network. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2018-10-02

    The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Nature

    The UK Biobank project is a prospective cohort study with deep genetic and phenotypic data collected on approximately 500,000 individuals from across the United Kingdom, aged between 40 and 69 at recruitment.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2018-10-02

    Lifetime risk of common neurological diseases in the elderly population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: Within the prospective population-based Rotterdam Study, we studied lifetime risk of dementia, stroke and parkinsonism between 1990 and 2016. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2018-10-01

    Multi-Modality Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neuroinformatics

    Key finding: Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 93.26% for classification of AD vs.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2018-10-01

    Association of Cognition and Age-Related Hearing Impairment in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery

    Key finding: Although hearing loss and cognition are linked, untreated hearing loss drives the association. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2018-10-01

    Using virtual reality in medical education to teach empathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA

    Key finding: VR immersion training is an effective teaching method to help medical and health professions students develop empathy and is a budding area for library partnerships. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2018-10-01

    The Meningeal Lymphatic System: A New Player in Neurophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neuron

    Key finding: Of particular relevance is its participation in diseases associated with protein accumulation and aggregation in the brain, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2018-10-01

    Higher Aortic Stiffness Is Related to Lower Cerebral Blood Flow and Preserved Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Circulation

    Key finding: Among participants with normal cognition, higher aortic PWV related to lower frontal lobe CBF (β=-0.43; P=0.04) and higher CVR in the whole brain (β=0.11; P=0.02), frontal lobes (β=0.12; P<0.05), temporal lobes (β=0.11; P=0.02), and occipital lobes (β=0.14; P=0.01). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2018-10-01

    Quality of dying and quality of end-of-life care of nursing home residents in six countries: An epidemiological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Palliative medicine

    Key finding: The quality of dying and quality of end-of-life care in nursing homes in the countries studied are not optimal. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2018-10-01

    Assessing Synaptic Density in Alzheimer Disease With Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Ten participants with AD (5 male and 5 female; mean [SD] age, 72.7 [6.3] years; 10 [100%] β-amyloid positive) were compared with 11 participants who were cognitively normal (5 male and 6 female; mean [SD] age, 72.9 [8.7] years; 11 [100%] β-amyloid negative). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2018-10-01

    Association of Retinal Neurodegeneration on Optical Coherence Tomography With Dementia: A Population-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Retinal structures may serve as a biomarker for dementia, but longitudinal studies examining this link are lacking. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2018-10-01

    White matter diffusion alterations precede symptom onset in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: However, the spatiotemporal pattern of white matter changes preceding dementia symptoms in Alzheimer's disease remains unclear, largely due to the inherent diagnostic uncertainty in the preclinical phase and increased risk of confounding age-related vascular disease and stroke in late-onset Alzheimer's disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2018-10-01

    Hearing Loss Treatment in Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

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

    Key finding: Based on the systematic review, evidence suggests that treating hearing loss in persons with cognitive impairment can have benefits to communication and quality of life. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2018-10-01

    Communication Difficulties as a Result of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Materia socio-medica

    Key finding: Communication for people with dementia and with people with dementia for all persons involved in care (including family members, medical staff and therapists, and members of the community) can be very challenging. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2018-10-01

    Basic characteristics and representativeness of the German Disease Analyzer database


    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics

    Key finding: There was a good agreement of the incidence or prevalence of major chronic diseases in the outpatient DA with German reference data.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2018-10-01

    Cognitive decline and dementia in diabetes mellitus: mechanisms and clinical implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Nature reviews. Endocrinology

    Key finding: In the majority of patients, the cognitive phenotype is probably defined by multiple aetiologies. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2018-10-01

    Version 3 of the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's Uniform Data Set

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: The results from utilization of the UDS highlight the possibility for numerous research institutions to successfully collaborate, produce, and use standardized data collection instruments for over a decade. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2018-10-01

    Association of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thinning With Current and Future Cognitive Decline: A Study Using Optical Coherence Tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk JAMA neurology

    Key finding: A thinner RNFL was associated with worse cognitive performance on baseline assessment. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2018-10-01

    A cluster randomized controlled trial to test the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a family dementia caregiver intervention in Vietnam: The REACH VN study protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Medicine

    Key finding: This is the first study to test community-based family dementia caregiver intervention in Vietnam.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

September 2018 1

  1. 2018-09-30

    Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Review Focusing on Pathophysiology, Biomarkers, and Machine Learning Strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of stroke

    Key finding: Application of neural networking, machine learning and deep learning in image processing have increased significantly for correct severity of cSVD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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