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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 18,301–18,325 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 733 of 1096.

November 2013 13

  1. 2013-11-01

    Susceptibility to mortality in weather extremes: effect modification by personal and small-area characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Costs and economics Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)

    Key finding: We identified several subgroups of the population who are particularly susceptible to temperature extremes, including persons with atrial fibrillation. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-11-01

    Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Biochimica et biophysica acta

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibits extensive oxidative stress throughout the body, being detected peripherally as well as associated with the vulnerable regions of the brain affected in disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-11-01

    Statins and cognitive function: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: Larger and better-designed studies are needed to draw unequivocal conclusions about the effect of statins on cognition.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2013-11-01

    SQSTM1 mutations in French patients with frontotemporal dementia or frontotemporal dementia with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Although the frequency of the mutations is low in our series (4 of 188 patients [2%]), our results, similar to those already reported, support a direct pathogenic role of p62 in different types of FTD. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-11-01

    Loss of fornix white matter volume as a predictor of cognitive impairment in cognitively normal elderly individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Fornix body volume and axial diffusivity were highly significant predictors (P = .02 and .005, respectively) of cognitive decline from normal cognition. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-11-01

    In contrast to many other mammals, cetaceans have relatively small hippocampi that appear to lack adult neurogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Brain structure & function

    Key finding: We identified that the hippocampus in cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) is both absolutely and relatively small for their overall brain size, and found that the mammalian hippocampus scaled as an exponential function in relation to brain volume. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-11-01

    A novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: Abnormal forms of prion protein that were found in multiple peripheral tissues were associated with diarrhea, autonomic failure, and neuropathy. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-11-01

    TDP-43 pathology, cognitive decline, and dementia in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Cognitive decline is a leading cause of disability and death in old age but its neurobiological bases are not well understood. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2013-11-01

    Risk factors for the progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Clinics in geriatric medicine

    Key finding: The increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment among the older adult population warrants attention to the identification of practices that may minimize the progression of early forms of cognitive impairment, including the transitional stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), to permanent stages of dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-11-01

    Screening for cognitive impairment in older adults: A systematic review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: Brief instruments to screen for cognitive impairment can adequately detect dementia, but there is no empirical evidence that screening improves decision making.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-11-01

    Classification and epidemiology of MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Clinics in geriatric medicine

    Key finding: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate stage in the trajectory from normal cognition to dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-11-01

    Risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia in adults in Europe: a literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Thorax

    Key finding: A range of lifestyle factors and underlying medical conditions are associated with an increased risk of CAP in European adults. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2013-11-01

    The pathobiology of vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neuron

    Key finding: Vascular cognitive impairment defines alterations in cognition, ranging from subtle deficits to full-blown dementia, attributable to cerebrovascular causes. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

October 2013 12

  1. 2013-10-30

    Glucagon-like peptide-1 protects hippocampal neurons against advanced glycation end product-induced tau hyperphosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuroscience

    Key finding: We have previously demonstrated that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist ameliorated neurodegenerative changes in rat models of diabetes-related Alzheimer's disease (AD), and protected neurons from glucose toxicity in vitro. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-10-30

    Reduced CSF p-Tau181 to Tau ratio is a biomarker for FTLD-TDP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: Antemortem CSF samples were collected from 30 patients with FTLD in a single-center validation cohort, and CSF levels of 5 putative FTLD-TDP biomarkers as well as levels of total Tau (t-Tau) and Tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (p-Tau181) were measured using independent assays. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-10-29

    Early Clinical PET Imaging Results with the Novel PHF-Tau Radioligand [F18]-T808

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

    Aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau (PHF-tau), such as neurofibrillary tangles, are linked to the degree of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2013-10-29

    Targeted degradation of sense and antisense C9orf72 RNA foci as therapy for ALS and frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are identified that reduce GGGGCC-containing nuclear foci without altering overall C9orf72 RNA levels. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-10-28

    Neuroprotective and anti-apoptotic effects of liraglutide on SH-SY5Y cells exposed to methylglyoxal stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Journal of neurochemistry

    Key finding: Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a growth factor that has demonstrated neuroprotective properties in a range of studies. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-10-27

    Cerebrospinal fluid τ protein in differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in Chinese population: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

    Key finding: Patients with AD exhibit significantly higher CSF τ protein levels than healthy controls or patients with VaD in the Chinese population. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-10-27

    The microglial sensome revealed by direct RNA sequencing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Nature Neuroscience

    Key finding: Microglia have a distinct transcriptomic signature and express a unique cluster of transcripts encoding proteins for sensing endogenous ligands and microbes, referred to as the sensome. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-10-27

    Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Nature Genetics

    Researchers conducted a large, two-stage meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in individuals of European ancestry.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2013-10-27

    The Alzheimer Conundrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Not indexed

    Key finding: Based on a meticulous account of the history of Alzheimer's disease and extensive in-depth interviews, the book highlights the limitations and the dissent associated with biomarker detection.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-10-26

    A two-decade comparison of prevalence of dementia in individuals aged 65 years and older from three geographical areas of England: results of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study I and II

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is The Lancet

    Key finding: Age-standardized dementia prevalence fell from 8.3% (1991) to 6.5% (2011), OR 0.7 (95% CI 0.6-0.9, P=.003) +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-10-25

    Compensatory changes in cortical resource allocation in adults with hearing loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Frontiers in systems neuroscience

    Key finding: However, it remains unclear whether cortical re-organization associated with hearing loss occurs in early stages of hearing decline and in early stages of auditory processing. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-10-24

    Sleep apnea and the risk of dementia: a population-based 5-year follow-up study in Taiwan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Costs and economics PloS one

    Key finding: SA may be a gender-dependent, age-dependent, and time-dependent risk factor for dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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