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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 14,776–14,800 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 592 of 1096.

September 2017 14

  1. 2017-09-01

    Clinical aspects and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Free radical biology & medicine

    Key finding: Previous literature suggested some unique features in clinical presentation of dementia in DS (DSd), which might be due to diagnostic difficulties, or represent a real difference compared to SAD or FAD. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2017-09-01

    Large Perivascular Spaces Visible on Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Progression, and Risk of Dementia: The Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions JAMA neurology

    Key finding: However, whether large perivascular spaces (L-PVSs) (>3 mm in diameter) visible on MRI are associated with SVD and cognitive deterioration in older individuals is unknown. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2017-09-01

    Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The Lancet

    Key finding: Globally, low back pain, migraine, age-related and other hearing loss, iron-deficiency anaemia, and major depressive disorder were the five leading causes of YLDs in 2016, contributing 57·6 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 40·8-75·9 million [7·2%, 6·0-8·3]), 45·1 million (29·0-62·8 million [5·6%, 4·0-7·2]), 36·3 million (25·3-50·9 million [4·5%, 3·8-5·3]), 34·7 million (23·0-49·6 million [4·3%, 3·5-5·2]), and 34·1 million (23·5-46·0 million [4·2%, 3·2-5·3]) of total YLDs, respectively. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2017-09-01

    The End of Life Option Act: Important Considerations for Pharmacists as California Implements Physician Aid in Dying

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of Contemporary Pharmacy Practice

    Key finding: The law has safeguards intended to ensure that patients are acting autonomously, including a 15-day waiting period between two requests, the requirement that patients meet privately with their physicians to confirm they are acting on their own, and the requirement that patients sign a form within 48 hours of taking the aid-in-dying drug to indicate that it is their choice. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2017-09-01

    Association of Plasma Total Tau Level With Cognitive Decline and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia in the Mayo Clinic Study on Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers JAMA neurology

    Key finding: The utility of plasma total tau level as a prognostic marker for cognitive decline and dementia is not well understood. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2017-09-01

    Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease and Candidate Risk Genes Involved in Endolysosomal Transport

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Mutations in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 lead to early-onset Alzheimer disease (EOAD) but account for only approximately 11% of EOAD overall, leaving most of the genetic risk for the most severe form of Alzheimer disease unexplained. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2017-09-01

    The TREM2-APOE Pathway Drives the Transcriptional Phenotype of Dysfunctional Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Immunity

    Key finding: We identified a specific apolipoprotein E (APOE)-dependent molecular signature in microglia from models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis (MS), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in microglia surrounding neuritic β-amyloid (Aβ)-plaques in the brains of people with AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2017-09-01

    Machine Learning, Sentiment Analysis, and Tweets: An Examination of Alzheimer's Disease Stigma on Twitter

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences

    Key finding: This technique could be applied to questions in social gerontology related to how social media outlets reflect and shape attitudes bearing on other developmental outcomes.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2017-09-01

    Association Between Birth in a High Stroke Mortality State, Race, and Risk of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Overall, birth in an HSMS was associated with a 28% higher risk of dementia (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 1.28; 95% CI, 1.13-1.46) adjusted for age, sex, and race. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2017-09-01

    Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Correlates and Impact on Caregiver Distress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra

    Key finding: BPSD are universally present, bear correlates with dementia type and severity, and cause significant caregiver distress. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2017-09-01

    Association of Vision Loss With Cognition in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities JAMA ophthalmology

    Key finding: Sample weights were used to ensure result generalizability. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2017-09-01

    A systemic view of Alzheimer disease - insights from amyloid-β metabolism beyond the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Nature reviews. Neurology

    Key finding: On the basis of these findings, we propose that these abnormal systemic changes might not only develop secondary to brain dysfunction but might also affect AD progression, suggesting that the interactions between the brain and the periphery have a crucial role in the development and progression of AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2017-09-01

    The Health Effects of Aluminum Exposure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Deutsches Arzteblatt international

    Key finding: Keeping these concentrations below the tolerance values prevents the development of manifest and subclinical signs of aluminum toxicity. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2017-09-01

    Semantic Memory in the Clinical Progression of Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology

    Key finding: Semantic-lexical retrieval and lexical search may represent distinct aspects of semantic memory.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

August 2017 11

  1. 2017-08-31

    Key Aging-Associated Alterations in Primary Microglia Response to Beta-Amyloid Stimulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Frontiers in aging neuroscience

    Key finding: It is widely accepted that microglia-mediated inflammation is a significant contributor to disease pathogenesis; however, different microglia phenotypes were identified along AD progression and excessive Aβ production was shown to dysregulate cell function. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2017-08-31

    Psychosocial behaviour management programme for home-dwelling people with dementia: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Little is known about the effectiveness of a psychosocial behaviour management programme on home-dwelling people with dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2017-08-30

    Diesel engine exhaust accelerates plaque formation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Particle and fibre toxicology

    Key finding: Inhalation exposure to DEE causes accelerated plaque formation and motor function impairment in 5XFAD transgenic mice. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2017-08-30

    Neurogranin and tau in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma of patients with acute ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers BMC neurology

    Key finding: These findings indicate that although plasma and CSF neurogranin may reflect the volume of acute cerebral ischemia, this synaptic protein is less likely to be a potential AIS biomarker. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2017-08-30

    Vitamin C Status and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Nutrients

    Key finding: This review evaluates the link between vitamin C status and cognitive performance, in both cognitively intact and impaired individuals. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2017-08-30

    Neuropathology of White Matter Lesions, Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction, and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Stroke

    Key finding: Our data suggest that some degree of blood-brain barrier dysfunction is common in older people and that this may be related to clinical dementia risk, additional to standard MRI biomarkers. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2017-08-30

    Barriers and facilitators in accessing dementia care by ethnic minority groups: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities BMC psychiatry

    Key finding: The two overarching themes lend themselves to interventions at a service level and a community level which need to happen in synergy.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2017-08-30

    Sex differences in Alzheimer risk: Brain imaging of endocrine vs chronologic aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: As expected, the MENO group was older than the PERI and CNT groups. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2017-08-30

    DHA-rich n-3 fatty acid supplementation decreases DNA methylation in blood leukocytes: the OmegAD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The American journal of clinical nutrition

    Key finding: At 6 mo, the n-3 FA group displayed marked increases in DHA and EPA plasma concentrations (2.6- and 3.5-fold), as well as decreased methylation in 2 out of 4 CpG sites ( P < 0.05 for all), respectively. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2017-08-30

    Categorizing Health Outcomes and Efficacy of mHealth Apps for Persons With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of medical Internet research

    Key finding: After removal of duplicates, our initial search returned 3955 records. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2017-08-29

    Predictors of advance directives among nursing home residents with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Less than half of the nursing home residents (39.2%) had advance directives and most (96.4%) had been completed by family surrogates. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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