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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 15,651–15,675 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 627 of 1096.

November 2016 25

  1. 2016-11-03

    Vascular depression consensus report - a critical update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging BMC medicine

    Key finding: This diagnosis, based on clinical and MRI findings, suggests that vascular lesions lead to depression by disruption of frontal-subcortical-limbic networks involved in mood regulation. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2016-11-02

    Pervasive assistive technology for people with dementia: a UCD case

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Healthcare technology letters

    Key finding: Smart mobile and wearable technology offers exciting opportunities to support people with dementia (PwD).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2016-11-02

    Epidemiology of stroke in Europe and trends for the 21st century

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983)

    Key finding: Beyond vital prognosis, stroke patients are also at increased risk of poor outcome within the first year of the event including re-hospitalisation (33%), recurrent event (7 to 13%), dementia (7 to 23%) mild cognitive disorder (35 to 47%), depression (30 to 50%), and fatigue (35% to 92%), all of them contributing to affect health related quality of life.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2016-11-01

    Low Completion and Disparities in Advance Care Planning Activities Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care JAMA Internal Medicine

    Key finding: Further, we do not know if ACP uptake is greater among those in worse health and with poorer prognoses. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2016-11 month only

    Reference Intervals for Plasma Amyloid β in Korean Adults Without Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Annals of laboratory medicine

    Key finding: Recent studies suggest that a low plasma ratio of Aβ42 to Aβ40 may precede the development of the sporadic form of AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2016-11-01

    Casting a Wide Net: Role of Perineuronal Nets in Neural Plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: Also discussed is how altered extracellular matrix/PNN formation during development may produce synaptic pathology associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and autism spectrum disorders.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2016-11-01

    Mechanisms linking circadian clocks, sleep, and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Science (New York, N.Y.)

    Key finding: Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian and sleep disturbances, which have long been considered symptoms of many neurodegenerative conditions, may actually drive pathogenesis early in the course of these diseases. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2016-11-01

    Integrative network analysis of nineteen brain regions identifies molecular signatures and networks underlying selective regional vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Genome medicine

    Key finding: This transcriptomic network analysis of 19 brain regions provides a comprehensive assessment of the critical molecular pathways associated with AD pathology and offers new insights into molecular mechanisms underlying selective regional vulnerability to AD at different stages of the progression of cognitive compromise and development of the canonical neuropathological lesions of AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2016-11-01

    Psychoradiology: The Frontier of Neuroimaging in Psychiatry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Radiology

    Key finding: A large body of research obtained with structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography/single photon emission computed tomography, and optical imaging has demonstrated regional and illness-specific brain changes at the onset of psychiatric disorders and in individuals at risk for such disorders. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2016-11-01

    Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion of the Brain: Emerging Clinical Applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Radiology

    Key finding: This suggests that ASL might be considered as an alternative for FDG, reserving PET to be used for the molecular disease-specific amyloid and tau tracers.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2016-11-01

    Health benefits of tai chi: What is the evidence?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien

    Key finding: There is abundant evidence on the health and fitness effects of tai chi. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2016-11-01

    Mediterranean diet and life expectancy; beyond olive oil, fruits, and vegetables

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

    Key finding: The recent relevant evidence of the effects of the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) and lifestyle on health (2015 and first months of 2016).

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  13. 2016-11-01

    An Interprofessional Virtual Healthcare Neighborhood: Effect on Self-Efficacy and Sleep Among Caregivers of Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of gerontological nursing

    Key finding: Neither group reported significant changes in sleep quality or quantity over time. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2016-11-01

    Medication Reconciliation and Education for Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Home Healthcare Now

    Key finding: Multimorbidity results in use of multiple medications. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2016-11-01

    Integrated care organizations: Medicare financing for care at home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery The American journal of managed care

    Key finding: A targeted HCBS benefit could be added to Medicare and financed with income-related cost sharing ranging from 5% to 50%, a premium paid by Medicare beneficiaries of approximately $42 a month, and payroll taxes estimated at around 0.4% of earnings on employers and employees. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2016-11-01

    Normative Data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Middle-Aged and Elderly Quebec-French People

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists

    Key finding: Given that aging is associated with higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia, improving early detection of cognitive impairment has become a research and clinical priority. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2016-11-01

    Vps35-dependent recycling of Trem2 regulates microglial function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark)

    Key finding: Trem2 might be involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) through regulating the inflammatory responses and phagocytosis of microglia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2016-11-01

    Preclinical Assessment of Young Blood Plasma for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology starts long before clinical symptoms manifest, and there is no therapy to treat, delay, or prevent the disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2016-11-01

    Visual dysfunction in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: We review changes in visual function at each stage of visual processing from retinal deficits, including contrast sensitivity and colour vision deficits to higher cortical processing impairments such as object and motion processing and neglect. +4 more findings

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  20. 2016-11-01

    Communication Bridge: A pilot feasibility study of Internet-based speech-language therapy for individuals with progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)

    Key finding: Internet-based SLT using person-centered interventions provides a feasible model for delivering care to individuals with dementia and mild/moderate aphasia symptoms who have an engaged care-partner and prior familiarity with a computer.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2016-11-01

    Women's health: a new global agenda

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities BMJ global health

    Key finding: However, the global burden of disease has changed significantly over the past decades.

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  22. 2016-11-01

    Tau Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging in the Lewy Body Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Twenty-four patients with Lewy body disease (7 DLB, 8 PD-impaired, and 9 PD-normal) underwent multimodal brain imaging, cognitive testing, and neurologic evaluation, and imaging measures were compared with those of an independently acquired group of 29 controls with minimal brain amyloid burden as measured with carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B ([11C]PiB) positron emission tomography (PET). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2016-11-01

    TDP-43 stage, mixed pathologies, and clinical Alzheimer's-type dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: We tested the hypotheses that TDP-43 with Alzheimer's disease pathology is a common mixed pathology; is related to increased likelihood of expressing clinical Alzheimer's-type dementia; and that TDP-43 pathologic stage is an important determinant of clinical Alzheimer's-type dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2016-11-01

    Statin Therapy: Review of Safety and Potential Side Effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Acta Cardiologica Sinica

    Key finding: Overall, statin drugs appear to be safe for use in the vast majority of patients. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2016-11-01

    Reduced Slow-Wave Sleep Is Associated with High Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ42 Levels in Cognitively Normal Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Sleep

    Key finding: Resulting models were compared to each other using ordinary least squared linear regression analysis. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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