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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 15,901–15,925 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 637 of 1096.

July 2016 25

  1. 2016-07-28

    Therapies for Prevention and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk BioMed research international

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia associated with a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, with a prevalence of 44 million people throughout the world in 2015, and this figure is estimated to double by 2050. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2016-07-27

    Resident Aggression and Abuse in Assisted Living

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society

    Key finding: Dementia and severe mental illness were significant risk factors for all three types of resident aggression and abuse.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2016-07-27

    General practitioners' perceptions of the barriers and solutions to good-quality palliative care in dementia

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

    Key finding: These findings have significant implications for educators and clinicians as enhanced dementia education and training were highlighted as a strong agenda for GPs with the suggestions of dementia awareness programmes for the public.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2016-07-27

    Care assistant experiences of dementia care in long-term nursing and residential care environments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Dementia

    Key finding: The study revealed important deficiencies in understanding and varying levels of dementia training.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2016-07-27

    Seizures in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neurology

    Key finding: A national multicentric study was performed in patients with ADEOAD harboring a pathogenic mutation within PSEN1, PSEN2, APP, or a duplication of APP, and a minimal follow-up of 5 years. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2016-07-26

    Experience of media presentations for the alleviation of agitation and emotional distress among dementia patients in a long-term nursing facility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Dementia

    Key finding: The experience of natural scenes in dementia patients’ everyday atmosphere became a new and positive aspect of life at the long-term nursing facility, although the quantitative data did not significantly change during the project.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2016-07-26

    Estimation of Tau and Phosphorylated Tau181 in Serum of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers PLoS ONE

    Key finding: The concentrations of serum Tau and p-Tau181 were significantly higher (p<0.00001) in AD (Tau; 47.49±9.00ng/μL, p-Tau181; 0.161±0.04 ng/μL) compared to MCI (Tau; 39.26±7.78 ng/μL, p-Tau181; 0.135±0.02 ng/μL) and were further higher compared to elderly controls (Tau; 34.92±6.58 ng/μL, p-Tau181; 0.122±0.01 ng/ μL). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2016-07-26

    Neuroplasticity and Clinical Practice: Building Brain Power for Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Frontiers in psychology

    Key finding: One goal is to provide an overview of the many ways new neuroscience can inform treatment protocols to empower and motivate clients to make the lifestyle choices that could help build brain power and could increase adherence to healthy lifestyle changes that have also been associated with simultaneously enhancing vigorous longevity, health, happiness, and wellness.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2016-07-26

    Predicting dementia in primary care patients with a cardiovascular health metric: a prospective population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools BMC neurology

    Key finding: Due to complex relationships of body-mass index and blood pressure with dementia individual components cancelled each other out and rendered the sum-scores meaningless for the prediction of dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2016-07-26

    Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy versus open radical retropubic prostatectomy: early outcomes from a randomised controlled phase 3 study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical trials Lancet (London, England)

    Key finding: Between Aug 23, 2010, and Nov 25, 2014, 326 men were enrolled, of whom 163 were randomly assigned to radical retropubic prostatectomy and 163 to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. 18 withdrew (12 assigned to radical retropubic prostatectomy and six assigned to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy); thus, 151 in the radical retropubic prostatectomy group proceeded to surgery and 157 in the robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy group. 121 assigned to radical retropubic prostatectomy completed the 12 week questionnaire versus 131 assigned to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2016-07-26

    Does mild cognitive impairment always lead to dementia? A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of the neurological sciences

    Key finding: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has often been studied in its association with dementia, yet higher rates of reversion to normal cognition than progression to dementia suggest that MCI does not necessarily lead to dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2016-07-26

    Effectiveness of a 6-year multidomain vascular care intervention to prevent dementia (preDIVA): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

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

    Key finding: A nurse-led, multidomain intervention did not result in a reduced incidence of all-cause dementia in an unselected population of older people. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2016-07-25

    APOE genotype and stress response - a mini review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Lipids in health and disease

    Key finding: The APOE gene is one of currently only two genes that have consistently been associated with longevity. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2016-07-25

    Imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early preclinical alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Annals of neurology

    Key finding: CSF Aβ42 levels are tightly coupled with cortical amyloid load in the earliest stages of preclinical AD, and begin to decrease dramatically prior to the point when an abnormal threshold of cortical accumulation is detected with amyloid imaging.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2016-07-23

    Proteins that mediate protein aggregation and cytotoxicity distinguish Alzheimer's hippocampus from normal controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Aging cell

    Key finding: Compact hippocampal aggregates were purified from Alzheimer's and control-subject pools using magnetic-bead immunoaffinity pulldowns. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2016-07-22

    Adherence to a Mediterranean-Style Diet and Effects on Cognition in Adults: A Qualitative Evaluation and Systematic Review of Longitudinal and Prospective Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Frontiers in nutrition

    Key finding: Over the past 15 years, much empirical evidence supports the suggestion that a MedDiet may be beneficial with respect to reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer, metabolic syndrome, and dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2016-07-21

    Antibiotic-induced perturbations in gut microbial diversity influences neuro-inflammation and amyloidosis in a murine model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Scientific reports

    Key finding: Finally, we observe attenuated plaque-localised glial reactivity in these mice and significantly altered microglial morphology. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2016-07-21

    Evaluation of the Digital Alzheimer Center: Testing Usability and Usefulness of an Online Portal for Patients with Dementia and Their Carers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools JMIR research protocols

    Key finding: In the usability assessment, eight categories of errors were distinguished, of which three were of critical, two of medium, and three of low severity.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2016-07-20

    The bowel and beyond: the enteric nervous system in neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology

    Key finding: Animal models suggest that common pathophysiological mechanisms account for the frequency of gastrointestinal comorbidity in these conditions.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2016-07-20

    A comprehensive compilation of SUMO proteomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology

    Key finding: Small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) are essential for the regulation of several cellular processes and are potential therapeutic targets owing to their involvement in diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2016-07-20

    Clinical and cognitive trajectories in cognitively healthy elderly individuals with suspected non-Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology (SNAP) or Alzheimer's disease pathology: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: The A(+)N(-) and A(+)N(+) groups had significantly faster cognitive decline than the A(-)N(-) group (0·08 SD per year for AIBL-Preclinical AD Cognitive Composite [PACC]; p<0·0001; and 0·25; p<0·0001; respectively). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2016-07-19

    Functional connectivity and microstructural white matter changes in phenocopy frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging European radiology

    Key finding: PhFTD showed subtly increased DMN connectivity and subtle microstructural changes in frontal WM tracts. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2016-07-19

    Low Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-Beta Concentration Is Associated with Poorer Delayed Memory Recall in Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra

    Key finding: In women we found a significant correlation between CSF amyloid-beta (Aβ1-42) and several subtests measuring delayed recall. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2016-07-19

    Neurodegenerative and neurological disorders by small inhaled particles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Neurotoxicology

    Key finding: In 2001, it was estimated that there were almost 5 million Europeans suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD) and this figure has been projected to almost double by 2040. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2016-07-18

    "Delirium Day": a nationwide point prevalence study of delirium in older hospitalized patients using an easy standardized diagnostic tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety BMC medicine

    Key finding: Delirium occurred in more than one out of five patients in acute and rehabilitation hospital wards. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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