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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 15,401–15,425 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 617 of 1096.

January 2017 25

  1. 2017-01-18

    Cerebrospinal fluid levels of orexin-A and histamine, and sleep profile within the Alzheimer process

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: We determined the relationships between these biomarkers, the CSF AD biomarkers concentrations, and the clinical sleep profile. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2017-01-18

    Post-stroke dementia - a comprehensive review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk BMC medicine

    Key finding: Quantitative imaging of cerebral blood flow and metabolism by positron emission tomography can differentiate between vascular dementia and degenerative dementia and show the interaction between vascular and metabolic changes. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2017-01-17

    Diagnostic impact of [18F]flutemetamol PET in early-onset dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: [18F]flutemetamol PET scans were positive in 133 out of 211 (63%) patients, of whom 110 out of 144 (76%) patients had a pre-PET Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and 23 out of 67 (34%) patients had a non-AD diagnosis. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2017-01-17

    Factors predicting incidence of post-operative delirium in older people following hip fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Clinicians treating people with a hip fracture should be vigilant towards post-operative delirium if their patients are older, have pre-existing cognitive impairment and poorer overall general health. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2017-01-17

    Long-term hormone therapy for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The Cochrane database of systematic reviews

    Key finding: We included 22 studies involving 43,637 women. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2017-01-17

    Nutritional Considerations for Healthy Aging and Reduction in Age-Related Chronic Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)

    Key finding: Burdens of unhealthy aging associated with chronic noncommunicable and other age-related diseases may be largely preventable with lifestyle modification, including diet.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2017-01-16

    Technologies to Support Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia: A Position Paper on Issues Regarding Development, Usability, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness, Deployment, and Ethics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Costs and economics JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies

    Key finding: Based on these findings, various actions are recommended for development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics of assistive and health technologies across Europe. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2017-01-16

    The role of peripheral immune cells in the CNS in steady state and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Nature neuroscience

    Key finding: The CNS is protected by the immune system, including cells that reside directly within the CNS and help to ensure proper neural function, as well as cells that traffic into the CNS with disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2017-01-16

    Interactions between the microbiota, immune and nervous systems in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Nature neuroscience

    Key finding: Studies investigating the gut-brain axis demonstrate a critical role for the gut microbiota in orchestrating brain development and behavior, and the immune system is emerging as an important regulator of these interactions. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2017-01-16

    Case-control association mapping by proxy using family history of disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Nature genetics

    Key finding: In addition to informing disease biology, our results demonstrate the utility of association mapping without directly observing cases.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2017-01-14

    Enhancing Cognitive Functioning in Healthly Older Adults: a Systematic Review of the Clinical Significance of Commercially Available Computerized Cognitive Training in Preventing Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Neuropsychology review

    Key finding: Two programs were identified as possessing Level I evidence, three programs demonstrated Level II evidence and an additional two programs demonstrated Level III evidence. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2017-01-13

    Traffic-related air pollution impact on mouse brain accelerates myelin and neuritic aging changes with specificity for CA1 neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with lower cognition and reduced white matter volume in older adults, specifically for particulate matter <2.5-μm diameter (PM 2.5 ).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2017-01-13

    Urinary incontinence and its association with functional physical and cognitive health among female nursing home residents in Switzerland

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials BMC geriatrics

    Key finding: The study indicated that impairment in ADL performance is strongly associated with UI, more than CPS performance and comorbidities. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2017-01-12

    Finding the imposter: brain connectivity of lesions causing delusional misidentifications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: We found that all 17 lesion locations were functionally connected to the left retrosplenial cortex, the region most activated in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of familiarity. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2017-01-11

    Tunicamycin impairs olfactory learning and synaptic plasticity in the olfactory bulb

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuroscience

    Key finding: ER stress is associated with neuronal death in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, and most patients complain of the impairment of olfactory recognition. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2017-01-11

    Overlay of Late-Life Depression and Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)

    Key finding: Articles included are seminal articles from the field as well as representative, heuristic studies. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2017-01-11

    TREM2 Promotes Microglial Survival by Activating Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: TREM2 transmits intracellular signals through its transmembrane binding partner DNAX-activating protein 12 (DAP12). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2017-01-10

    Metabolic syndrome, hypertension, and nervous system injury: Epidemiological correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993)

    Key finding: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a common and complex disorder combining hypertension, obesity, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2017-01-10

    Tau passive immunization inhibits not only tau but also Aβ pathology

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

    Key finding: These findings suggest the potential of passive immunization targeting proximal N-terminal domain tau 6-18 as a disease-modifying approach to AD and related tauopathies. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2017-01-09

    PRagmatic trial Of Video Education in Nursing homes: The design and rationale for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial in the nursing home setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Clinical trials (London, England)

    Key finding: The large number of well-characterized candidate facilities enabled several unique design features including stratification on historical hospitalization rates, randomization prior to recruitment, and 2:1 control to intervention facilities ratio.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2017-01-09

    Behavioural and psychological symptoms in general hospital patients with dementia, distress for nursing staff and complications in care: results of the General Hospital Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences

    Key finding: BPSD are common in older hospital patients with dementia and associated with considerable distress in nursing staff, as well as a wide range of special treatments needs and additional behavioural and medical complications. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2017-01-09

    Opposing effects of progranulin deficiency on amyloid and tau pathologies via microglial TYROBP network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: Genetic studies demonstrate an association of the common GRN rs5848 variant that results in reduced PGRN levels with increased risk for AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2017-01-09

    The Built Environment and Cognitive Disorders: Results From the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities American journal of preventive medicine

    Key finding: Non-linear associations between features of land use and cognitive impairment were confirmed in this new cohort of older people in England. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2017-01-05

    Derivation and Internal Validation of a Clinical Prediction Tool for 30-Day Mortality in Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools The American journal of medicine

    Key finding: A clinical tool can be used to predict 30-day mortality in patients hospitalized with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2017-01-05

    Living near major roads and the incidence of dementia, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis: a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Lancet (London, England)

    Key finding: Between 2001, and 2012, we identified 243 611 incident cases of dementia, 31 577 cases of Parkinson's disease, and 9247 cases of multiple sclerosis. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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