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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 14,276–14,300 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 572 of 1096.

February 2018 16

  1. 2018-02 month only

    Lack of association between triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 polymorphism rs75932628 and late-onset Alzheimer's disease in a Chinese Han population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Psychiatric genetics

    Key finding: Our aim was to investigate the link between the TREM2 polymorphism and LOAD in the Chinese Han population. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2018-02-01

    The relationship between stress and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Neurobiology of stress

    Key finding: This is becoming increasingly clear in the case of neurodegenerative diseases. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2018-02-01

    Tau-Targeted Multifunctional Nanocomposite for Combinational Therapy of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development ACS nano

    Key finding: Recent studies have shown that the tau pathway is closely associated with clinical development of AD symptoms, which might be a potential therapeutic target. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2018-02-01

    Networks of tau distribution in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Second, to investigate if regions of high tau burden are associated with functional connectivity networks, we extracted the region with the maximum z-value in each of the generated tau pathology networks and used them as seeds in a subsequent resting-state functional MRI analysis, conducted in a group of healthy adults (n = 26) who were part of the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2018-02-01

    Synaptic markers of cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases: a proteomic approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Levels of 25 synaptic proteins were significantly altered in the various dementia groups. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2018-02-01

    Minocycline reduces chronic microglial activation after brain trauma but increases neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Traumatic brain injury triggers chronic microglial activation, but it is unclear whether this is harmful or beneficial. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2018-02-01

    Tau and neuroinflammation: What impact for Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Biomedical journal

    Key finding: In 2016, nearly 44 million people were affected by AD or related dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2018-02-01

    Traumatic brain injury history is associated with an earlier age of dementia onset in autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neuropsychology

    Key finding: Data from 2,133 participants with autopsy-confirmed AD (i.e., at least Braak neurofibrillary tangle stages III to VI and CERAD neuritic plaque score moderate to frequent) were obtained from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2018-02-01

    Concussion, microvascular injury, and early tauopathy in young athletes after impact head injury and an impact concussion mouse model

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

    Key finding: We examined post-mortem brains from teenage athletes in the acute-subacute period after mild closed-head impact injury and found astrocytosis, myelinated axonopathy, microvascular injury, perivascular neuroinflammation, and phosphorylated tau protein pathology. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2018-02-01

    Neutrophil hyperactivation correlates with Alzheimer's disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Our results indicate that the inflammatory properties of circulating neutrophils shift as the percentage of aged neutrophils expands in patients with AD-changes that may play an instrumental role in establishing systemic chronic inflammation. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2018-02-01

    In Situ Structure of Neuronal C9orf72 Poly-GA Aggregates Reveals Proteasome Recruitment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Cell

    Key finding: Here, we address the elusive link between these phenomena by employing cryo-electron tomography to dissect the molecular architecture of protein aggregates within intact neurons at high resolution. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2018-02-01

    Comparative In Vitro and In Vivo Quantifications of Pathologic Tau Deposits and Their Association with Neurodegeneration in Tauopathy Mouse Models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Key finding: In vivo 11 C-PBB3 binding to the rTg4510 neocortex/hippocampus was increased relative to controls and correlated with local atrophy. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2018-02-01

    Associations Between Tau, β-Amyloid, and Cognition in Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging JAMA neurology

    Key finding: These findings suggest that patterns of cortical Aβ and tau do not differ in people with PD-CN, people with PD-MCI, and healthy older adults. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2018-02-01

    Spatial patterns of neuroimaging biomarker change in individuals from families with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: We found a sequence to pathological changes, with rates of Aβ deposition in mutation carriers being significantly different from those in non-carriers first (across regions that showed a significant difference, at a mean of 18·9 years [SD 3·3] before expected onset), followed by hypometabolism (14·1 years [5·1] before expected onset), and lastly structural decline (4·7 years [4·2] before expected onset). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2018-02-01

    Proton Pump Inhibitors: Review of Emerging Concerns

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Mayo Clinic proceedings

    Key finding: PPIs inhibit gastric acid secretion, and the most commonly associated adverse effects include abdominal pain, diarrhea, and headache. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2018-02-01

    Association of Age-Related Hearing Loss With Cognitive Function, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery

    Key finding: Forty studies from 12 countries met our inclusion criteria. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

January 2018 9

  1. 2018-01-31

    Heterogeneous patterns of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: There is increasing evidence showing that brain atrophy varies between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), suggesting that different anatomical patterns might exist within the same disorder. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2018-01-31

    Parkinson's disease from the gut

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Brain research

    Key finding: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition associated with tremor, rigidity, dementia, and gastrointestinal symptoms such as constipation, nausea and vomiting. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2018-01-31

    Novel dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists show neuroprotective effects in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuropharmacology

    Key finding: Based on these results, several clinical trials have shown first encouraging effects in patients with Alzheimer's or Parkinson' disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2018-01-31

    Tau passive immunization blocks seeding and spread of Alzheimer hyperphosphorylated Tau-induced pathology in 3 × Tg-AD mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: These findings indicate that AD p-Tau-injected 3 × Tg-AD mice represent a practical model to study the seeding and spread of Tau pathology, their effect on Aβ pathology, and the effect of Tau immunotherapy on both Tau and Aβ pathologies. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2018-01-31

    High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Nature

    Key finding: All test biomarkers showed high performance when predicting brain amyloid-β burden. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2018-01-31

    Core cerebrospinal fluid biomarker profile in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neurology

    Key finding: We systematically searched PubMed for eligible studies reporting data on CSF biomarkers reflecting amyloid precursor protein metabolism (Aβ42, Aβ40), neurodegeneration (t-tau), and tangle pathology (p-tau) in symptomatic sporadic CAA cohorts vs controls and patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2018-01-31

    Oxidant/Antioxidant Imbalance in Alzheimer's Disease: Therapeutic and Diagnostic Prospects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and a great socioeconomic burden in the aging society. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2018-01-30

    Mobility and cognition at admission to the nursing home - a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery BMC geriatrics

    Key finding: Forty-three percent of the residents were not able to perform the balance test in SPPB. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2018-01-30

    The effects of an 8-week computerized cognitive training program in older adults: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials BMC geriatrics

    Key finding: If results from this study show benefits for cognition at trial completion, CCT programs, alone or in combination with walking, might be a strategy to promote healthy cognitive aging in older adults. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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