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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 17,826–17,850 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 714 of 1096.

June 2014 7

  1. 2014-06-01

    Early identification of palliative care needs by family physicians: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators from the perspective of family physicians, community nurses, and patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Palliative medicine

    Key finding: The current practice of palliative care in Belgium is far from the presently considered ideal palliative care approaches.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2014-06-01

    Diabetes Mellitus and Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction: An Overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of pharmacovigilance

    Key finding: The underlying causes of diabetes-induced CNS complications are multifactorial and are relatively little understood although it is now evident that blood-brain barrier (BBB) damage plays a significant role in diabetes-dependent CNS disorders. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2014-06-01

    A Shelter of Others by Charles Dodd White (review)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Appalachian heritage

    Key finding: As Deputy Gibbs’ father says, “I know it’s hard to find people in this world,” he said. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2014-06-01

    Relationship of hearing loss and dementia: a prospective, population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology

    Key finding: At baseline, 4,463 subjects were without dementia, 836 of whom had HL. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2014-06-01

    Effects of galantamine and galantamine combined with nimodipine on cognitive speed and quality of life in mixed dementia: a 24-week, randomized, placebo-controlled exploratory trial (the REMIX study)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

    Key finding: Twenty-one patients received at least one drug dose (9 GAL/NIM and 12 GAL/PLA). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2014-06-01

    MAPT STUDY: A MULTIDOMAIN APPROACH FOR PREVENTING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: DESIGN AND BASELINE DATA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease

    Key finding: AV45 PET scans were performed in 271 individuals and preliminary results showed that 38.0% had a cortical SUVR > 1.17, which gave an indication of significant brain amyloïd deposit.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2014-06-01

    Amyloid PET/MRI in the differential diagnosis of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Clinical nuclear medicine

    Key finding: The potential of brain imaging has grown rapidly with new modalities, hybrid combinations of existing modalities, and novel metabolic tracers. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

May 2014 18

  1. 2014-05-29

    Temsirolimus attenuates tauopathy in vitro and in vivo by targeting tau hyperphosphorylation and autophagic clearance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuropharmacology

    Key finding: Recent findings suggested that temsirolimus also provided beneficial effects in animal models of Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxia type 3, two neurodegenerative diseases caused by accumulation of aberrant proteins within brain. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2014-05-29

    Depression and dementia: cause, consequence or coincidence?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Maturitas

    Key finding: Overall there is convincing evidence to support both the notion that early life depression can act as a risk factor for later life dementia, and that later life depression can be seen as a prodrome to dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2014-05-28

    Multimorbidity and long-term care dependency--a five-year follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools BMC geriatrics

    Key finding: The results should form the basis for future health policy decisions on the treatment of patients with multiple chronic diseases and also show the need to introduce new ways of providing long-term care to this population. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2014-05-28

    Delirium diagnostic and classification challenges in palliative care: subsyndromal delirium, comorbid delirium-dementia, and psychomotor subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of pain and symptom management

    Key finding: Challenges in the diagnosis and classification of delirium in people with advanced disease are compounded by the generalized disturbance of central nervous system function that occurs in the seriously ill, often with comorbid illness, including dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2014-05-28

    Homocysteine exacerbates β-amyloid pathology, tau pathology, and cognitive deficit in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease with plaques and tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Annals of neurology

    Key finding: High level of homocysteine (Hcy) is a recognized risk factor for developing Alzheimer disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2014-05-28

    [Effects of a neuropsychology program based on mindfulness on Alzheimer's disease: randomized double-blind clinical study]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Revista espanola de geriatria y gerontologia

    Key finding: The mindfulness based neuropsychological program showed better cognitive and functional stability, as well as significant improvement in the psychopathological condition of mild to moderate Alzheimer' patients. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2014-05-27

    Does physical activity prevent cognitive decline and dementia?: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials BMC public health

    Key finding: Longitudinal observational studies show an association between higher levels of physical activity and a reduced risk of cognitive decline and dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2014-05-24

    Disease progression model for Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's subjects from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment

    Key finding: The objective of this analysis was to develop a nonlinear disease progression model, using an expanded set of covariates that captures the longitudinal Clinical Dementia Rating Scale-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) scores. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2014-05-23

    Circulating miRNAs as biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)

    Key finding: The brain's ability to compensate for these dysfunctions occurs over a long period of time and results in late clinical manifestation of symptoms, when successful pharmacological intervention is no longer feasible.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2014-05-23

    Crucial role of calbindin-D28k in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Cell death and differentiation

    Key finding: Although marked reductions of CB expression have been observed in the brains of mice and humans with Alzheimer disease (AD), it is unknown whether these changes contribute to AD-related dysfunction. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2014-05-22

    Natural course of care dependency in residents of long-term care facilities: prospective follow-up study

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

    Key finding: The majority of residents were stable in their care dependency status over two subsequent 6-month periods. +1 more finding

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  12. 2014-05-22

    Susceptibility of the conventional criteria for mild cognitive impairment to false-positive diagnostic errors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Four subtypes emerged: (1) dysnomic (n = 153), (2) dysexecutive (n = 102), (3) amnestic (n = 288), and (4) cluster-derived normal (n = 282) who performed within normal limits on cognitive testing. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2014-05-21

    Retinal alterations in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: an optical coherence tomography study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of neurology

    Key finding: In the analysis of variance we saw that RNFL was thinner in MCI patients compared with controls, and it was also thinner in AD patients compared with MCI patients and controls.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2014-05-20

    The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 and amyloid-β clearance in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Frontiers in aging neuroscience

    Key finding: Perturbation in Aβ clearance, rather than Aβ production, is likely the cause of sporadic, late-onset AD, which accounts for the majority of AD cases. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2014-05-20

    The role of FUS gene variants in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Nature reviews. Neurology

    Key finding: Additionally, abnormal aggregation of FUS protein has been reported in multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS, FTLD and the polyglutamine diseases, suggesting a role for FUS in the pathogenesis of these neurodegenerative diseases. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2014-05-19

    Cognitive impairment in older patients with breast cancer before systemic therapy: is there an interaction between cancer and comorbidity?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

    Key finding: There were no overall differences between patients with breast cancer and controls before systemic treatment, but there may be pretreatment cognitive impairment within subgroups of patient cases with greater tumor or comorbidity burden. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2014-05-18

    Advancing research diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease: the IWG-2 criteria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The Lancet Neurology

    This Position Paper evaluates the strengths and limitations of the International Working Group research diagnostic criteria and proposes advances to improve the diagnostic framework for Alzheimer's disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2014-05-17

    Alzheimer's disease risk genes and mechanisms of disease pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Biological psychiatry

    Key finding: More recent advances in understanding of the human genome-technologic advances in methods to analyze millions of polymorphisms in thousands of subjects-have revealed new genes associated with AD risk, including ABCA7, BIN1, CASS4, CD33, CD2AP, CELF1, CLU, CR1, DSG2, EPHA1, FERMT2, HLA-DRB5-DBR1, INPP5D, MS4A, MEF2C, NME8, PICALM, PTK2B, SLC24H4-RIN3, SORL1, and ZCWPW1. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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