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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 13,676–13,700 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 548 of 1096.

September 2018 25

  1. 2018-09-11

    HIV Neuroinfection and Alzheimer's Disease: Similarities and Potential Links?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

    Key finding: Environmental factors such as chemicals, stress and pathogens are now widely believed to play important roles in the onset of some brain diseases, as they are associated with neuronal impairment and acute or chronic inflammation.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2018-09-10

    Cerebrospinal fluid phosphorylated tau, visinin-like protein-1, and chitinase-3-like protein 1 in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Translational neurodegeneration

    Key finding: Visinin-like protein-1 (VILIP-1) and chitinase-3-like protein 1 (CHI3L1 or YKL-40) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are newly discovered markers indicating neuronal damage and microglial activation, respectively. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2018-09-09

    Engagement and social interaction in dementia care settings. A call for occupational and social justice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Health & social care in the community

    Key finding: It examines results from a study of five residential care settings in Ireland using the ATOSE which included 73 residents with dementia and/or enduring mental health diagnoses.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2018-09-06

    The Hippocampus in Depression: More Than the Sum of Its Parts? Advanced Hippocampal Substructure Segmentation in Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Biological psychiatry

    Key finding: Hippocampal involvement in MDD is confined to principal substructures only. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2018-09-06

    The Trem2 R47H Alzheimer's risk variant impairs splicing and reduces Trem2 mRNA and protein in mice but not in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: The R47H variant of the Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) significantly increases the risk for late onset Alzheimer's disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2018-09-05

    Sleep and circadian abnormalities precede cognitive deficits in R521C FUS knockin rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: RNA-seq study further demonstrated altered expression of some key sleep and circadian regulators, such as orexin/hypocretin receptor type 2 and casein kinase 1 epsilon, in the mutant rats. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2018-09-05

    Machine learning identified an Alzheimer's disease-related FDG-PET pattern which is also expressed in Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Scientific reports

    Key finding: General linear model, scaled subprofile modeling and support vector machines were examined. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2018-09-05

    Transcranial magnetic stimulation intervention in Alzheimer's disease: a research proposal for a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments BMC research notes

    Key finding: We expect to demonstrate that personalized TMS intervention has a measurable positive impact in cognition, emotion, daily living activities and brain connectivity, thus representing a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2018-09-04

    Cellular Proteostasis in Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Molecular neurobiology

    Key finding: Incorrect protein folding and/or modifications during protein synthesis results in inactive or toxic proteins, which may overload degradation mechanisms. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2018-09-04

    Risks of Major Long-Term Side Effects Associated with Androgen-Deprivation Therapy in Men with Prostate Cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Pharmacotherapy

    Key finding: Data source National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program-Medicare linked database. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2018-09-04

    Mild cognitive impairment and progression to dementia in people with diabetes, prediabetes and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

    Key finding: The overall unadjusted pooled odds ratio for the progression of MCI to dementia in people with diabetes/MetS was 1.67 (95% CI 1.27-2.19); the pooled odds ratio for progression in diabetes + MCI was 1.53 (95% CI 1.20-1.97) and in people with MetS + MCI was 2.95 (95% CI 1.23-7.05). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2018-09-03

    PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Annals of Internal Medicine

    Scoping reviews, a type of knowledge synthesis, follow a systematic approach to map evidence on a topic and identify main concepts, theories, sources, and knowledge gaps.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2018-09-01

    The Effects of Air Pollution on the Brain: a Review of Studies Interfacing Environmental Epidemiology and Neuroimaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Current environmental health reports

    Key finding: An emerging body of evidence has raised concern regarding the potentially harmful effects of inhaled pollutants on the central nervous system during the last decade. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2018-09-01

    Death, Depression, Disability, and Dementia Associated With Self-reported Hearing Problems: A 25-Year Study

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

    Key finding: Our study confirms the strong link between hearing status and the risk of disability, dementia, and depression. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2018-09-01

    Hazardous effects of chemical pesticides on human health-Cancer and other associated disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Environmental toxicology and pharmacology

    Key finding: We have reviewed the most common diseases including cancer which are associated with pesticides.

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  16. 2018-09-01

    Understanding the role of the perivascular space in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Cardiovascular research

    Key finding: Small vessel diseases (SVDs) are a group of disorders that result from pathological alteration of the small blood vessels in the brain, including the small arteries, capillaries and veins.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2018-09-01

    The Role of Nutrition in Cognitive Function and Brain Ageing in the Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Current nutrition reports

    Key finding: Recent findings Results suggest that higher adherence to a healthy dietary pattern is associated with preservation of brain structure and function as well as slower cognitive decline, with the MIND diet substantially slowing cognitive decline, over and above the MeDi and DASH diets. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2018-09-01

    Molecular properties underlying regional vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Here we studied molecular properties underlying these distinct regional vulnerabilities by analysing Alzheimer's disease-typical neuroimaging patterns of amyloid deposition and neurodegeneration in relation to regional gene expression profiles of the human brain. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2018-09-01

    Microglial activation correlates in vivo with both tau and amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: There were significant widespread clusters of positive correlation between levels of microglial activation and tau aggregation in both the mild cognitive impairment (amyloid-positive and amyloid-negative) and Alzheimer's disease subjects. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2018-09-01

    C9orf72-mediated ALS and FTD: multiple pathways to disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Nature reviews. Neurology

    Key finding: We suggest that a combination of upstream mechanisms involving both loss and gain of function and downstream cellular pathways involving both cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous effects contributes to disease progression.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2018-09-01

    Inflammageing: chronic inflammation in ageing, cardiovascular disease, and frailty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Nature reviews. Cardiology

    Key finding: Inflammageing is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), and clinical trials suggest that this association is causal. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2018-09-01

    Discriminative Accuracy of [18F]flortaucipir Positron Emission Tomography for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis JAMA

    Key finding: In secondary analyses, the area under the curve (AUC) of [18F]flortaucipir SUVR was compared with 3 established magnetic resonance imaging measures (hippocampal volumes and AD signature and whole-brain cortical thickness), and sensitivity and specificity of [18F]flortaucipir in MCI due to AD vs non-AD neurodegenerative disorders were determined. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2018-09-01

    Interactive Associations of Vascular Risk and β-Amyloid Burden With Cognitive Decline in Clinically Normal Elderly Individuals: Findings From the Harvard Aging Brain Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk JAMA neurology

    Key finding: The mean (SD) age was 73.7 (6.0) years, and the mean (SD) follow-up time was 3.7 (1.2) years. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2018-09-01

    Age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline - The potential mechanisms linking the two

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Auris, nasus, larynx

    Key finding: The amount of attention to age-related hearing loss (ARHL) has been growing, not only from the perspective of being one of the most common health conditions affecting older adults, but also from the perspective of its relation to cognition.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2018-09-01

    Association of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury With and Without Loss of Consciousness With Dementia in US Military Veterans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk JAMA neurology

    Key finding: In this cohort study of more than 350 000 veterans, even mild TBI without LOC was associated with more than a 2-fold increase in the risk of dementia diagnosis. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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