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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 17,576–17,600 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 704 of 1096.

October 2014 25

  1. 2014-10-05

    Rationale and design of a multicenter, phase 2 clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine SaiLuoTong in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association

    Key finding: The rigorous methodology of the study will hopefully move forward the scientific evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of VaD. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2014-10-03

    Multiple anticholinergic medication use and risk of hospital admission for confusion or dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Taking more anticholinergic medications is associated with greater risk of hospitalization for confusion or dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2014-10-02

    Investigation of the effects of solid lipid curcumin on cognition and mood in a healthy older population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical trials Journal of Psychopharmacology

    Key finding: One hour after administration curcumin significantly improved performance on sustained attention and working memory tasks, compared with placebo. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2014-10-02

    The Thoughts Questionnaire (TQ) for family caregivers of people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Dementia (London, England)

    Key finding: The level of agreement with dysfunctional thought statements from the Dementia Thoughts Caregivers Questionnaire and Thoughts Questionnaire was low. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2014-10-02

    Neuroprotective action of resveratrol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Biochimica et biophysica acta

    Key finding: Besides its well documented free radical scavenging and anti-inflammatory properties, resveratrol has been shown to increase the clearance of beta-amyloid, a key feature of Alzheimer's disease, and to modulate intracellular effectors associated with oxidative stress (e.g. heme oxygenase), neuronal energy homeostasis (e.g.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2014-10-02

    What happens to microglial TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease: Immunoregulatory turned into immunopathogenic?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neuroscience

    Key finding: In the adult brain, these include maintenance of homeostasis, neuron and tissue repair, and eliminating infectious agents, apoptotic cells, and misfolded proteins. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2014-10-01

    START (STrAtegies for RelaTives) study: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to determine the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a manual-based coping strategy programme in promoting the mental health of carers of people with dementia

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed Costs and economics Health Technology Assessment

    Key finding: Two hundred and sixty participants were randomised (173 intervention, 87 TAU). +4 more findings

    Scored 31 on our rubric, shown as 16: non-peer-reviewed sources are capped at 16. See the breakdown.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2014-10-01

    Infection management and multidrug-resistant organisms in nursing home residents with advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care JAMA internal medicine

    Key finding: The cohort experienced 496 suspected infections; 72.4% were treated with antimicrobials, most commonly quinolones (39.8%) and third- or fourth-generation cephalosporins (20.6%). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2014-10-01

    The role of iron in brain ageing and neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: During ageing, different iron complexes accumulate in brain regions associated with motor and cognitive impairment. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2014-10-01

    CDC National Health Report: leading causes of morbidity and mortality and associated behavioral risk and protective factors--United States, 2005-2013

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials MMWR supplements

    Key finding: The findings in this report indicate that progress has been steady but slow for many of the priority health issues in the United States. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2014-10-01

    Accurate automatic estimation of total intracranial volume: a nuisance variable with less nuisance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging NeuroImage

    Key finding: For T1-weighted MRI acquired from 288 participants in a multi-centre clinical trial in Alzheimer's disease we find a high correlation between SPM12 TIV and manual TIV (R(2)=0.940, 95% Confidence Interval (0.924, 0.953)), with a small mean difference (SPM12 40.4±35.4ml lower than manual, amounting to 2.8% of the overall mean TIV in the study). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2014-10-01

    Feasibility and validity of the self-administered computerized assessment of mild cognitive impairment with older primary care patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: These results support the feasibility of using self-administered computerized cognitive tests with older primary care patients, given the increasing reliance on computers by people of all ages.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2014-10-01

    Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood-based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research

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

    Key finding: The lack of readily available biomarkers is a significant hindrance toward progressing to effective therapeutic and preventative strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2014-10-01

    A randomized trial to measure the impact of a community-based cognitive training intervention on balance and gait in cognitively intact Black older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education

    Key finding: They provide initial evidence that cognitive training may be an efficacious approach toward improving balance and gait in older adults known to have a history of falls. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2014-10-01

    Comprehensive Longitudinal Health Care in the Home for High‐Cost Beneficiaries: A Critical Strategy for Population Health Management

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

    Key finding: Despite using more home health and hospital services than controls in the baseline preenrollment period, which suggests that they were sicker, participants receiving house calls had 17% lower overall Medicare costs than controls, and there was no indication of poorer quality of care, greater mortality, or underservice. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2014-10-01

    Alzheimer CSF biomarkers may be misleading in normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neurology

    Key finding: This article discusses why CSF biomarkers found in normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) can be misleading when distinguishing NPH from comorbid NPH with Alzheimer disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2014-10-01

    Global differential expression of genes located in the Down Syndrome Critical Region in normal human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Colombia medica (Cali, Colombia)

    Key finding: The precise regulation of DSCR gene expression is crucial to maintain the brain homeostasis, especially in those areas with high levels of gene expression associated with a remarkable process of learning and cognition. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2014-10-01

    Redox proteomics analysis to decipher the neurobiology of Alzheimer-like neurodegeneration: overlaps in Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's The Biochemical journal

    Key finding: In particular, we focus attention on dysregulated pathways that underlie neurodegeneration in both aging adults with DS (Down's syndrome) and AD (Alzheimer's disease). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2014-10-01

    Connections between sleep and cognition in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: These findings suggest that the sleep-wake cycle plays a crucial part in brain ageing, pointing to a potential avenue for improvement of cognitive outcomes in people at risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2014-10-01

    ALS and other motor neuron diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.)

    Key finding: TAR DNA binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43), for instance, has been shown to cause frontotemporal dementia as well as some cases of familial ALS, and is associated with frontotemporal dysfunction in ALS.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2014-10-01

    Midlife hypertension and 20-year cognitive change: the atherosclerosis risk in communities neurocognitive study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Midlife hypertension and elevated midlife but not late-life systolic BP was associated with more cognitive decline during the 20 years of the study. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2014-10-01

    The telehealth satisfaction scale: reliability, validity, and satisfaction with telehealth in a rural memory clinic population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association

    Key finding: The study findings demonstrate high user satisfaction with telehealth in a rural memory clinic and the sound psychometric properties of the TeSS in this population. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2014-10-01

    Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and aging: epidemiology to management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving World journal of gastroenterology

    Key finding: In conclusion, further epidemiological and pathophysiological insight is warranted.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2014-10-01

    Mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a clinical perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Mayo Clinic proceedings

    Key finding: The etiology of mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia can often be established through the clinical examination, although imaging and other laboratory tests may also contribute. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2014-10-01

    3D-CAM: derivation and validation of a 3-minute diagnostic interview for CAM-defined delirium: a cross-sectional diagnostic test study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: The 3D-CAM operationalizes the CAM algorithm using a 3-minute structured assessment with high sensitivity and specificity relative to a reference standard and could be an important tool for improving recognition of delirium. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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