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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 16,276–16,300 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 652 of 1096.

March 2016 1

  1. 2016-03 month only

    Inequalities in dementia incidence between six racial and ethnic groups over 14 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Alzheimer's & Dementia

    Key finding: Dementia incidence highest in African Americans (26.6/1,000 person-years) and American Indian/Alaska Natives (22.2/1,000) +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

February 2016 24

  1. 2016-02-29

    Beta-Band Functional Connectivity is Reorganized in Mild Cognitive Impairment after Combined Computerized Physical and Cognitive Training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Frontiers in neuroscience

    Key finding: Physical and cognitive idleness constitute significant risk factors for the clinical manifestation of age-related neurodegenerative diseases. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2016-02-29

    Role of neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases (Review)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Molecular medicine reports

    Key finding: Neurodegeneration is observed after viral insult and mostly in various so-called 'neurodegenerative diseases', generally observed in the elderly, such as Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that negatively affect mental and physical functioning. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2016-02-28

    The relationship between hearing impairment and cognitive function: a meta-analysis in adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery

    Key finding: This meta-analysis suggests that hearing impairment is associated with cognitive problems. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2016-02-27

    Efficacy of Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Vascular Dementia: An Updated Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments European neurology

    Key finding: Twelve studies were included in the final analysis. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2016-02-27

    Comparison of predictive modeling approaches for 30-day all-cause non-elective readmission risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care BMC medical research methodology

    Key finding: True predictors can be identified by repeatedly dividing data into fitting/validating subsets and referring the final model based on summarizing results. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2016-02-26

    Eliminating microglia in Alzheimer's mice prevents neuronal loss without modulating amyloid-β pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Microglia in the healthy adult mouse depend on colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) signalling for survival, and pharmacological inhibition of this receptor results in rapid elimination of nearly all of the microglia in the central nervous system. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2016-02-26

    The coeruleus/subcoeruleus complex in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Here, we studied the integrity of the locus coeruleus/subcoeruleus complex with neuromelanin-sensitive imaging in 21 patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder and compared the results with those from 21 age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2016-02-26

    Neural substrates of vulnerability to postsurgical delirium as revealed by presurgical diffusion MRI

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

    Key finding: Despite the significant impact of postoperative delirium on surgical outcomes and the long-term prognosis of older patients, its neural basis has not yet been clarified. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2016-02-26

    Canadian Consensus Guidelines on Use of Amyloid Imaging in Canada: Update and Future Directions from the Specialized Task Force on Amyloid imaging in Canada

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques

    Key finding: The results of a survey of current practices in Canadian dementia centers were considered.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2016-02-25

    Emerging Link between Alzheimer's Disease and Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neural plasticity

    Key finding: Although intracellular neurofibrillary tangles and extracellular senile plaques, composed of insoluble amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, have been the hallmarks of postmortem AD brains, memory impairment in early AD correlates better with pathological accumulation of soluble Aβ oligomers and persistent weakening of excitatory synaptic strength, which is demonstrated by inhibition of long-term potentiation, enhancement of long-term depression, and loss of synapses. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2016-02-25

    TREM2 variants: new keys to decipher Alzheimer disease pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Nature reviews. Neuroscience

    Key finding: Furthermore, animal studies have indicated that microglia have an important role in the brain response to amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and that TREM2 variants may have an impact on such a function. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2016-02-25

    Age-dependent neuroinflammation and cognitive decline in a novel Ala152Thr-Tau transgenic mouse model of PSP and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Acta neuropathologica communications

    Key finding: The hTau40(AT) mice mimic pathological hallmarks of tauopathies including a cognitive phenotype combined with pronounced neuroinflammation visible by bioluminescence. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2016-02-24

    White matter hyperintensities and imaging patterns of brain ageing in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: White matter hyperintensities are associated with increased risk of dementia and cognitive decline. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2016-02-24

    Effect of intellectual enrichment on AD biomarker trajectories: Longitudinal imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: There were minimal effects of lifestyle enrichment on AD biomarker trajectories (specifically rates). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2016-02-24

    Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Lancet (London, England)

    Key finding: Although the prevalence of dementia continues to increase worldwide, incidence in the western world might have decreased as a result of better vascular care and improved brain health. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2016-02-23

    HYDRA: Revealing heterogeneity of imaging and genetic patterns through a multiple max-margin discriminative analysis framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools NeuroImage

    Key finding: The genetics dataset yielded two subtypes of AD characterized mainly by the presence/absence of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 genotype, but also involving differential presence of risk alleles of CD2AP, SPON1 and LOC39095 SNPs that were associated with differences in the respective patterns of brain atrophy, especially in the precuneus. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2016-02-23

    Combining brain stimulation and video game to promote long-term transfer of learning and cognitive enhancement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Scientific reports

    Key finding: We investigated whether combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with cognitive training could further enhance cognitive performance compared to training alone, and promote transfer within a short period of time. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2016-02-22

    Amyloid cascade in Alzheimer's disease: Recent advances in medicinal chemistry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments European journal of medicinal chemistry

    Key finding: Formation of beta-amyloid species, with different degrees of solubility and neurotoxicity is associated with the gradual decline in cognition leading to dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2016-02-22

    Mini Mental State Examination and Logical Memory scores for entry into Alzheimer's disease trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: Specific cutoff scores on the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Logical Memory (LM) test are used to determine inclusion in Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials and diagnostic studies. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2016-02-22

    Predicting Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Dementia Using Clinical, MRI, and Plasma Biomarkers via Probabilistic Pattern Classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment PloS one

    Key finding: We developed an accurate prognostic model for predicting MCI-to-dementia progression over a three-year period. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2016-02-22

    The Utility of Cerebral Blood Flow as a Biomarker of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Cellular and molecular neurobiology

    Key finding: There is accumulating evidence suggesting that changes in brain perfusion are present long before the clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), perhaps even before amyloid-β accumulation or brain atrophy. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2016-02-19

    Parkinsonism, movement disorders and genetics in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Nature reviews. Neurology

    Key finding: FTD often presents in combination with various hyperkinetic or hypokinetic movement disorders, and evidence suggests that various genetic mutations underlie these different presentations. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2016-02-19

    TREM2 Function in Alzheimer's Disease and Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics ACS chemical neuroscience

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease has a strong genetic component, and recent advances in genome technology have unearthed novel variants in several genes, which could provide insight into the pathogenic mechanisms that contribute to AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2016-02-19

    Olfactory impairment predicts cognitive decline in early Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Parkinsonism & related disorders

    Key finding: At baseline, worse olfaction (lowest tertile) was associated with more severe NMS, including anxiety and autonomic symptoms. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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