Newest studies
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Showing 18,001–18,025 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 721 of 1096.
March 2014 17
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2014-03-01
Cerium oxide nanoparticle: a remarkably versatile rare earth nanomaterial for biological applications
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors NPG Asia Materials
Key finding: Cerium oxide nanoparticles (CeONPs) have attracted much attention because they possess multi-enzyme mimetic properties and have been used in bioanalysis, biomedicine, drug delivery, bioscaffold and so on. +1 more finding
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2014-03-01
Cognition in Late Life Depression: Treatment Considerations
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Current treatment options in psychiatry
Key finding: Late life depression (LLD) frequently presents with cognitive impairment, and growing evidence suggests that these disease processes are "linked" in multiple ways. +4 more findings
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2014-03-01
Beyond comorbidity: expanding the definition and measurement of complexity among older adults using administrative claims data
55/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Medical care
Key finding: Claims data studies that include indicators of potentially diminished patient functional status better capture heterogeneity of patients with multiple chronic conditions.
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2014-03-01
Deaths in the United States among persons with Alzheimer's disease (2010-2050)
67/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Key finding: Individuals with AD comprise a substantial number of older adult deaths in the United States, a number expected to rise considerably in coming decades.
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2014-03-01
Amyloid-ß-directed immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of internal medicine
Key finding: A potential disadvantage is the variability in the antibody response across patients. +4 more findings
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2014-03-01
Pathways to Alzheimer's disease
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of internal medicine
Key finding: Recent trials of anti-amyloid agents have not produced convincing improvements in clinical outcome in Alzheimer's disease; however, the reason for these poor or inconclusive results remains unclear.
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2014-03-01
Problem-Solving Therapy in the Elderly
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Current treatment options in psychiatry
Key finding: Our results indicate that PST led to greater reduction in depressive symptoms of late-life major depression than supportive therapy (ST) and reminiscence therapy. +4 more findings
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2014-03-01
Treatment of psychosis and dementia in Parkinson's disease
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Current treatment options in neurology
Key finding: Psychosis and dementia, in particular, greatly affect quality of life for both patients and caregivers and are associated with poor outcomes. +1 more finding
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2014-03-01
Clinical trials and late-stage drug development for Alzheimer's disease: an appraisal from 1984 to 2014
70/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Journal of internal medicine
Key finding: Since then, despite the evaluation of numerous potential treatments in clinical trials, only four cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine have shown sufficient safety and efficacy to allow marketing approval at an international level. +3 more findings
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2014-03-01
Mild cognitive impairment: a concept in evolution
66/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of internal medicine
Key finding: Major controversial issues that remain to be further explored are algorithmic versus clinical classification, reliability of clinical judgment, temporal changes in cognitive performances and predictivity of putative biomarkers.
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2014-03-01
Development and evaluation of a decision aid on mammography screening for women 75 years and older
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities JAMA internal medicine
Key finding: The median age of participants was 79 years, 69% (31 of 45) were of non-Hispanic white race/ethnicity, and 60% (27 of 45) had attended at least some college. +1 more finding
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2014-03-01
2014 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures
60/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Key finding: This report discusses the public health impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including incidence and prevalence, mortality rates, costs of care, and overall effect on caregivers and society. +1 more finding
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2014-03-01
Caregiver burden: a clinical review
78/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving JAMA
Key finding: Physicians have a responsibility to recognize caregiver burden. +2 more findings
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2014-03-01
Longitudinal change in CSF biomarkers in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease
60/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Science translational medicine
Key finding: Clinicopathological evidence suggests that the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) begins many years before the appearance of cognitive symptoms. +2 more findings
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2014-03-01
Advances in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease and dementia
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Journal of internal medicine
Key finding: Building infrastructures for international collaborations is necessary for managing the worldwide public health problem of AD and dementia.
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2014-03-01
The A4 study: stopping AD before symptoms begin?
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Science translational medicine
Key finding: A new secondary prevention trial in older people with amyloid accumulation at high risk for Alzheimer's disease dementia should provide insights into whether anti-amyloid therapy can delay cognitive decline.
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2014-03-01
Elevated serum pesticide levels and risk for Alzheimer disease
61/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics JAMA neurology
Key finding: Levels of DDE were 3.8-fold higher in the serum of those with AD (mean [SEM], 2.64 [0.35] ng/mg cholesterol) when compared with control participants (mean [SEM], 0.69 [0.1] ng/mg cholesterol; P Conclusions and relevance Elevated serum DDE levels are associated with an increased risk for AD and carriers of an APOE4 ε4 allele may be more susceptible to the effects of DDE. +1 more finding
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2014-02-28
Insulin, IGF-1 and GLP-1 signaling in neurodegenerative disorders: targets for disease modification?
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Progress in neurobiology
Key finding: Growing evidence suggests that dysfunction of these pathways contribute to the progressive loss of neurons in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), the two most frequent neurodegenerative disorders. +4 more findings
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2014-02-28
Logopenic and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia are differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools PloS one
Key finding: Discriminant function analyses revealed that a measure of relative vowel duration differentiated nfvPPA cases from both control and lvPPA cases (r(2) = 0.47) with 88% agreement with expert judgment of presence of apraxia of speech in nfvPPA cases. +2 more findings
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2014-02-27
The ubiquitin-proteasome system in neurodegeneration
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Antioxidants & redox signaling
Key finding: Impairment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases. +1 more finding
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2014-02-27
Lixisenatide rescues spatial memory and synaptic plasticity from amyloid β protein-induced impairments in rats
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuroscience
Key finding: We found that: (1) bilateral intrahippocampal injection of Aβ25-35 resulted in a significant decline in spatial learning and memory of rats, as well as a suppression of in vivo hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP); (2) lixisenatide treatment effectively prevented the Aβ25-35-induced impairments; (3) lixisenatide inhibited the Aβ25-35 injection-induced activation of glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β), with a significant increase in the phosphorylation of ser9 and a significant decrease in the phosphorylation of Y216. +1 more finding
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2014-02-27
Histone deacetylase 6 inhibition improves memory and reduces total tau levels in a mouse model of tau deposition
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Alzheimer's research & therapy
Key finding: Potential mechanisms by which HDAC6 inhibitors might benefit the rTg4510 mouse include stabilization of microtubules secondary to increased tubulin acetylation, increased degradation of tau secondary to increased acetylation of HSP90 or both. +2 more findings
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2014-02-26
A novel presenilin 1 mutation (Ala275Val) as cause of early-onset familial Alzheimer disease
33/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neuroscience letters
Key finding: Here, we report on a 50-year-old patient presenting with progressive deterioration of his short-term memory and a family history of early-onset dementia. +3 more findings
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2014-02-26
Subjective cognitive concerns and neuropsychiatric predictors of progression to the early clinical stages of Alzheimer disease
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Key finding: From a total sample of 559 older adults from the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center longitudinal cohort, 454 were included in the primary analysis: 283 with clinically normal cognition (CN), 115 with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 56 with subjective cognitive concerns (SCC) but no objective impairment, a proposed transitional group between CN and MCI.
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2014-02-26
Neurodegenerative disorder risk in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder: study in 174 patients
63/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis PloS one
Key finding: In a large IRBD cohort diagnosed in a tertiary referal sleep center, prolonged follow-up indicated that the majority of patients are eventually diagnosed with the synucleinopathies PD, DLB and less frequently MSA. +2 more findings
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