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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 16,551–16,575 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 663 of 1096.

November 2015 25

  1. 2015-11-16

    Observational, longitudinal study of delirium in consecutive unselected acute medical admissions: age-specific rates and associated factors, mortality and re-admission

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety BMJ open

    Key finding: Delirium affected a fifth of acute medical admissions and a third of those aged ≥75 years, and was associated with increased mortality, institutionalisation and dependency, but not with increased risk of re-admission on follow-up. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2015-11-16

    Frailty and Cognitive Function in Incident Hemodialysis Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

    Key finding: At cohort entry, the mean age was 54.8 years (SD 13.3), 56.5% were men, and 72.8% were black. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2015-11-14

    Two insular regions are differentially involved in behavioral variant FTD and nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

    Key finding: ROI analysis of bilateral insula showed that the left SPGI was significantly more atrophied in nfvPPA compared to bvFTD, while the bilateral ventral anterior and right dorsal anterior insula sub-regions were more atrophied in bvFTD than nfvPPA.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2015-11-12

    Advance care planning for nursing home residents with dementia: policy vs. practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of Advanced Nursing

    Key finding: Nursing homes generally met three quarters of the pre-defined criteria for advance care planning policy. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2015-11-11

    Is it always Alzheimer's? Let's talk to our patients about "cardiocerebrovascular" prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Aging clinical and experimental research

    Key finding: Unlike Alzheimer's, vascular dementia can, in part, be prevented. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2015-11-11

    A Systematic Review of Interventions to Change Staff Care Practices in Order to Improve Resident Outcomes in Nursing Homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety PloS one

    Key finding: Changing staff practice in nursing homes is possible but complex. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2015-11-11

    Glial fibrillar acidic protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Journal of neurochemistry

    Key finding: The levels of GFAP in AD, DLB, and FTLD patients were significantly higher than those in the healthy control subjects. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2015-11-11

    Quantitative validation of a visual rating scale for frontal atrophy: associations with clinical status, APOE e4, CSF biomarkers and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies European radiology

    Key finding: The AddNeuroMed and ADNI cohorts were combined giving a total of 329 healthy controls, 421 mild cognitive impairment patients, and 286 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2015-11-10

    Tau Immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuro-degenerative diseases

    Key finding: Some antibodies are readily taken up into neurons, whereas others are not. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2015-11-10

    Neurodegenerative diseases: From available treatments to prospective herbal therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Neurochemistry international

    Key finding: For these neurodegenerative diseases yet we have only palliative therapies and none of them significantly capable to slow down or halt the underlying pathology. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2015-11-10

    Association of Dynapenia, Sarcopenia, and Cognitive Impairment Among Community-Dwelling Older Taiwanese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Rejuvenation research

    Key finding: This study aimed to evaluate the association between dynapenia, sarcopenia, and cognitive impairment among community-dwelling older people in Taiwan. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2015-11-10

    Lifespan and Healthspan: Past, Present, and Promise

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Compressing morbidity or increasing the relative healthspan will require "delaying aging" or delaying the physiological change that results in disease and disability. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2015-11-09

    Dietary Patterns and Risk of Dementia: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Molecular neurobiology

    Key finding: Low levels of vitamin D were associated with cognitive decline.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2015-11-09

    A Genome-wide CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) Screen Identifies NEK7 as an Essential Component of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: This results in caspase-1-dependent pro-inflammatory cytokine maturation, as well as a special type of cell death, known as pyroptosis. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2015-11-06

    Comorbidities of epilepsy: current concepts and future perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: Preliminary evidence suggests that some conditions, such as depression and migraine, negatively affect seizure outcome and quality of life.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2015-11-05

    Compression or expansion of dementia in Germany? An observational study of short-term trends in incidence and death rates of dementia between 2006/07 and 2009/10 based on German health insurance data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: This study provides evidence that the increase in dementia-free life years went together with an absolute compression of life years with dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2015-11-05

    Delirium Screening: A Systematic Review of Delirium Screening Tools in Hospitalized Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Thirty-one studies describing 21 delirium screening tools were included in the systematic review.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2015-11-05

    The mTOR Inhibitor Rapamycin Mitigates Perforant Pathway Neurodegeneration and Synapse Loss in a Mouse Model of Early-Stage Alzheimer-Type Tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms PloS one

    Key finding: Compared with vehicle-treated controls, rapamycin protected against the tau-induced neuronal loss, synaptotoxicity, reactive microgliosis and astrogliosis, and activation of innate neuroimmunity. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2015-11-05

    18F-THK5351: A Novel PET Radiotracer for Imaging Neurofibrillary Pathology in Alzheimer Disease

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

    Key finding: (18)F-THK5351 is a useful PET tracer for the early detection of neurofibrillary pathology in AD patients. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2015-11-05

    Partial-Volume Effect Correction Improves Quantitative Analysis of 18F-Florbetaben β-Amyloid PET Scans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Key finding: In cohort 1, PVEC increased the effect on AD-versus-HC discrimination from a Cohen d value of 1.68 to 2.0 for composite SUVRs and from 0.04 to 1.04 for mesial temporal cortex SUVRs. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2015-11-04

    Medications That Older Adults in Hospice Care in the United States Take, 2007

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: People continue to receive disease-focused therapies at the end of life rather than therapies exclusively for palliation of symptoms, suggesting that treatments may vary according to the person's primary diagnosis. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2015-11-04

    Identification of the palliative phase in people with dementia: a variety of opinions between healthcare professionals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care BMC palliative care

    Key finding: The results of the study identified that professionals across Europe have different opinions regarding the time point when to consider a person with dementia in need of palliative care. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2015-11-04

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive outcomes in community-based older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Neurology

    Key finding: We tested the hypothesis that cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is related to Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia and decline in multiple cognitive systems in old age, independent of AD plaque and tangle pathology and other common age-related neuropathologies. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2015-11-04

    Viral gene transfer of APPsα rescues synaptic failure in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: It is commonly assumed that these deficits arise due to β-amyloid accumulation and plaque deposition. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2015-11-04

    Raloxifene for women with Alzheimer disease: A randomized controlled pilot trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Neurology

    Key finding: Classification of evidence This study provides Class I evidence that for women with AD, raloxifene does not have a significant cognitive effect. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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