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Newest studies

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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 15,801–15,825 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 633 of 1096.

September 2016 25

  1. 2016-09-09

    Strategy-Based Cognitive Training for Improving Executive Functions in Older Adults: a Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Neuropsychology review

    Key finding: Despite heterogeneous study designs and SCT programs, 11/13 trials reported significant EF improvements, generally of moderate effect size (Hedges' g > 0.3). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2016-09-09

    Age-Related Sensory Impairments and Risk of Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: The relationship between sensory impairment and cognitive impairment was not unique to one sensory system, suggesting that sensorineural health may be a marker of brain aging. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2016-09-08

    Cognitive change is more positively associated with an active lifestyle than with training interventions in older adults at risk of dementia: a controlled interventional clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials BMC psychiatry

    Key finding: The associations of an active lifestyle with cognitive change over time in a dementia risk group were stronger than the effects of short-term, specific training interventions. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2016-09-08

    Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with cognitive training is a safe and effective modality for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: clinical experience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)

    Key finding: The previous clinical trials showed that combinations of rTMS and cognitive training (rTMS-COG), as provided by the NeuroAD medical device system, offer a novel, safe, and effective method improving mild-to-moderate AD patients. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2016-09-08

    Synaptopathies: synaptic dysfunction in neurological disorders - A review from students to students

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Journal of neurochemistry

    Key finding: In fact, increasing evidence has demonstrated the relevance of synapse dysfunction as a major determinant of many neurological diseases.

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  6. 2016-09-07

    Florbetapir-PET to diagnose cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: The CAA and HTN-ICH groups had similar age (66.9 vs 67.1), sex, and leukoaraiosis volumes (31 vs 30 mL, all p > 0.8). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2016-09-07

    Rates of Recovery to Pre-Fracture Function in Older Persons with Hip Fracture: an Observational Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Costs and economics Journal of general internal medicine

    Key finding: Recovery rates are low, even among those with higher levels of pre-fracture functional status, and are worse for patients who are older, cognitively impaired, and who have multiple comorbidities. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2016-09-06

    Neurological Disease as a Failure of Brain-Immune Crosstalk: The Multiple Faces of Neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Trends in immunology

    Key finding: It is now recognized that neuroinflammation in chronic neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and age-related dementia, is distinct from the inflammation that accompanies relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), and its experimental animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2016-09-06

    Decreased synaptic proteins in neuronal exosomes of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

    Key finding: Synaptic dysfunction occurs early in senile dementias, presumably as a result of decreased levels of functional synaptic proteins as found in autopsied brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or frontotemporal dementia (FTD). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2016-09-04

    Systematic evaluation of the associations between environmental risk factors and dementia: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

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

    Key finding: Dementia is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease, whose etiology results from a complex interplay between environmental and genetic factors. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2016-09-04

    Systematic review of dementia prevalence and incidence in United States race/ethnic populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Dementia prevalence rates reported for age 65+ years from a low of 6.3% in Japanese Americans, 12.9% in Caribbean Hispanic Americans, 12.2% in Guamanian Chamorro and ranged widely in African Americans from 7.2% to 20.9%. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2016-09-02

    Effect of a Home‐Based Palliative Care Program on Healthcare Use and Costs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Intervention participants in all four disease groups had less hospital use and lower hospital costs nonintervention participants, which drove lower overall healthcare costs. +2 more findings

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  13. 2016-09-02

    Rare TREM2 variants associated with Alzheimer's disease display reduced cell surface expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Acta neuropathologica communications

    Key finding: TREM2 encodes a cell surface receptor expressed on microglia and related cells, and the R47H variant associated with AD appears to affect the ability of TREM2 to bind extracellular ligands. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2016-09 month only

    Sleep Disturbances in Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Current neurology and neuroscience reports

    Key finding: Insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness commonly occur in patients with FTD and significantly contribute to caregiver burden and burnout.

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  15. 2016-09-01

    Regular Benzodiazepine and Z-Substance Use and Risk of Dementia: An Analysis of German Claims Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: The restricted use of BDZRs may contribute to dementia prevention in the elderly. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2016-09-01

    Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Highly Exposed PM2.5 Urbanites: The Risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases in Young Mexico City Residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) above US EPA standards is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, while Mn toxicity induces parkinsonism. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2016-09-01

    Pesticide exposure and risk of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Scientific reports

    Key finding: Evidence suggests that lifelong cumulative exposure to pesticides may generate lasting toxic effects on the central nervous system and contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). +2 more findings

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  18. 2016-09-01

    Effects of air pollution on human health and practical measures for prevention in Iran

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

    Key finding: Several reports have revealed the direct association between exposure to the poor air quality and increasing rate of morbidity and mortality mostly due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

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  19. 2016-09-01

    Age-related hearing loss: prevention of threshold declines, cell loss and apoptosis in spiral ganglion neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Aging

    Key finding: We found that hearing thresholds and suprathreshold responses significantly improved in the aldosterone-treated mice compared to the non-treatment group. +2 more findings

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  20. 2016-09-01

    Reference Tissue-Based Kinetic Evaluation of 18F-AV-1451 for Tau Imaging

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

    Key finding: These measurements were compared with each other and used as reference standards for defining an appropriate 20-min window for the SUV ratio (SUVR). +1 more finding

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  21. 2016-09-01

    Conceptualization of an evidence-based smartphone innovation for caregivers and persons living with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine

    Key finding: A review of the existing literature shows that much of these innovations are focused on the care of patients affiliated with dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2016-09-01

    Youthful Brains in Older Adults: Preserved Neuroanatomy in the Default Mode and Salience Networks Contributes to Youthful Memory in Superaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: We defined superagers (60-80 years old) based on their performance compared to young adults (18-32 years old) on the California Verbal Learning Test Long Delay Free Recall test. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2016-09-01

    Revisiting DLB Diagnosis: A Consideration of Prodromal DLB and of the Diagnostic Overlap With Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology

    Key finding: Efforts to clinically diagnose cases having dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) identify those with a characteristic clinical syndrome (probable DLB) at the expense of missing an equal, if not greater, number of cases who have atypical presentations thought to be associated with coexisting Alzheimer pathologies. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2016-09-01

    Human iPSC-Derived Neuronal Model of Tau-A152T Frontotemporal Dementia Reveals Tau-Mediated Mechanisms of Neuronal Vulnerability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Stem cell reports

    Key finding: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and other tauopathies characterized by focal brain neurodegeneration and pathological accumulation of proteins are commonly associated with tau mutations. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2016-09-01

    Apolipoprotein E as a Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Basic Research and Clinical Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms CNS drugs

    Key finding: Mounting evidence suggests that APOE ε4 contributes to AD pathogenesis through multiple pathways including facilitated amyloid-β deposition, increased tangle formation, synaptic dysfunction, exacerbated neuroinflammation, and cerebrovascular defects.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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