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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 14,876–14,900 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 596 of 1096.

July 2017 25

  1. 2017-07-28

    Identification of clusters of rapid and slow decliners among subjects at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Scientific reports

    Key finding: We analyzed 5-year longitudinal outcomes and biomarker data from 562 subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from two national studies (ADNI) using a novel multilayer clustering algorithm. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2017-07-28

    In vivo retention of 18F-AV-1451 in corticobasal syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Patients with CBS without typical AD pathology exhibited AV-1451 retention in the motor cortex, corticospinal tract, and basal ganglia contralateral to the affected body side, clearly different from controls and patients with AD dementia or PSP. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2017-07-27

    Significance of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in human health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Clinical and translational medicine

    Key finding: Recent findings reviewed in the present study highlight that the omega-6 fatty acid ARA appears increased, and omega-3 EPA and DHA decreased in most cancer tissues compared to normal ones, and that increments in omega-3 LC-PUFAs consumption and an omega-6/omega-3 ratio of 2-4:1, are associated with a reduced risk of breast, prostate, colon and renal cancers. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2017-07-27

    Epidemiology and outcomes of people with dementia, delirium, and unspecified cognitive impairment in the general hospital: prospective cohort study of 10,014 admissions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety BMC medicine

    Key finding: CSD is common in older inpatients and associated with considerably worse outcomes, with little variation between different types of CSD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2017-07-26

    18F-Flortaucipir PET/MRI Correlations in Nonamnestic and Amnestic Variants of Alzheimer Disease

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

    Key finding: The subgroups showed the expected 18F-flortaucipir-binding patterns. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2017-07-26

    AV-1451 PET imaging of tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer disease: Defining a summary measure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers NeuroImage

    Key finding: We additionally validated this summary metric in a cohort of 13 Alzheimer disease patients, and showed that this measure correlates with cognitive dysfunction and β-amyloid PET imaging in a diseased population.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2017-07-24

    Can a tablet-based cancellation test identify cognitive impairment in older adults?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment PloS one

    Key finding: In the MCI group, age (B = -0.37, p<0.001) and current daily use of computer-based devices (B = 5.85, p<0.001) were associated with the number of correct cancellations of the e-CT. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2017-07-24

    Necroptosis activation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Nature neuroscience

    Key finding: We found that necroptosis was activated in postmortem human AD brains, positively correlated with Braak stage, and inversely correlated with brain weight and cognitive scores. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2017-07-24

    Microglia and C9orf72 in neuroinflammation and ALS and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system The Journal of clinical investigation

    Key finding: Activated microglia are a universal feature of ALS/FTD pathology; however, their role in disease pathogenesis remains incompletely understood. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2017-07-24

    Functional correlates of TSH, fT3 and fT4 in Alzheimer disease: a F-18 FDG PET/CT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Scientific reports

    Key finding: We evaluated 87 subjects (37 males and 50 females, mean age 70 (±6) years old) with AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2017-07-22

    Hearing Impairment and Incident Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Older adults with hearing loss are at greater risk of dementia than those with normal hearing. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2017-07-22

    Presymptomatic atrophy in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: A serial magnetic resonance imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Atrophy rates are pathologically increased up to seven years before "expected onset".

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2017-07-21

    A re-examination of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) cutoff scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: A MoCA cutoff score of 23, rather than the initially recommended score of 26, lowers the false positive rate and shows overall better diagnostic accuracy. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2017-07-21

    Dementia prevalence and incidence in a federation of European Electronic Health Record databases: The European Medical Informatics Framework resource

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: The European Medical Information Framework initiative supports EHR data on unprecedented number of people with dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2017-07-21

    A Review of Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Moving from CSF to Blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurology and therapy

    Key finding: Both plasma tau and NFL are increased in AD, and a recent study showed that plasma NFL has a diagnostic performance comparable to the core AD CSF biomarkers, and predicted future cognitive decline.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2017-07-21

    Quasi-experimental evaluation of a multifaceted intervention to improve quality of end-of-life care and quality of dying for patients with advanced dementia in long-term care institutions

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

    Key finding: Our multidimensional intervention in long-term care facilities for patients with terminal dementia resulted in improved quality of care and quality of dying when compared to usual care. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2017-07-21

    Sleep characteristics and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: This study tested the hypotheses that late-midlife obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and short and long sleep duration are associated with dementia over 15 years of follow-up. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2017-07-21

    Motor speech signature of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: Refining the phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurology

    Key finding: One in 8 patients presented with moderate speech timing deficits with a further two-thirds rated as mild or subclinical. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2017-07-20

    FGWAS: Functional genome wide association analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics NeuroImage

    Key finding: Compared with the standard multivariate regression model, the multivariate varying coefficient model explicitly models the functional features of functional phenotypes through the integration of smooth coefficient functions and functional principal component analysis. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2017-07-20

    Dementia prevention, intervention, and care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The Lancet

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2017-07-20

    A randomized controlled trial of disclosing genetic risk information for Alzheimer disease via telephone

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics

    Key finding: PurposeTelephone disclosure of genetic test results can improve access to services. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2017-07-19

    Drug candidates in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Journal of biomedical science

    Key finding: AD is the most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide, affecting one-fifth of those aged over 85 years. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2017-07-19

    Serum Interleukin-10 Levels Correlate with Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Beta Deposition in Alzheimer Disease Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neuro-degenerative diseases

    Key finding: In Alzheimer disease (AD) inflammation becomes evident throughout the course of the disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2017-07-19

    Automatic measurement of prosody in behavioral variant FTD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurology

    Key finding: Reduced f0 range reflects impaired prosody in bvFTD. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2017-07-18

    A systematic review of the prevalence of comorbid cancer and dementia and its implications for cancer-related care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Aging & mental health

    Key finding: There is a dearth of good-quality evidence investigating the cancer-dementia prevalence and its implications for successful cancer treatment. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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