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Newest studies

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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 18,326–18,350 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 734 of 1096.

October 2013 25

  1. 2013-10-23

    Impact of harmonization of collection tubes on Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Alzheimer s & Dementia

    Key finding: The predictive value of Aβ42 was highly affected by the type of collection tube used. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-10-23

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein isoform expression in plaque related astrogliosis in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: In conclusion, the various GFAP isoforms show differential transcript levels and are upregulated in a concerted manner in AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-10-23

    Higher glucose levels associated with lower memory and reduced hippocampal microstructure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Neurology

    Key finding: Our results indicate that even in the absence of manifest type 2 diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose tolerance, chronically higher blood glucose levels exert a negative influence on cognition, possibly mediated by structural changes in learning-relevant brain areas. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2013-10-23

    Impaired glycemia increases disease progression in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are associated with cognitive decline and increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-10-19

    Classification and pathology of primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurology

    Key finding: The final cohort comprised 52 patients, 30 of whom met basic PPA criteria. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-10-19

    Neuroinflammation: the role and consequences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Neuroscience research

    Key finding: This review examines the consequences of excessive and prolonged neuroinflammation, particularly its damaging effects on cellular and/or brain function, as well as its relevance to disease progression and possible interventions. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-10-19

    Why Alzheimer trials fail: removing soluble oligomeric beta amyloid is essential, inconsistent, and difficult

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Their concentration is strongly correlated with synaptic impairment in animals and parallel cognitive decline in animals and humans. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-10-18

    Dementia and cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes and prediabetic stages: towards targeted interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology

    Key finding: Type 2 diabetes is associated with dementia, and also with more slight cognitive decrements.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2013-10-18

    Connected speech as a marker of disease progression in autopsy-proven Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Previous studies from our group have shown that language changes may be reflected in connected speech production in the earliest stages of typical Alzheimer's disease. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-10-17

    Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network: facilitating research and clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) is an international registry of individuals at risk for developing autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (AD). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-10-17

    Quality palliative care for cancer and dementia in five European countries: some common challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Aging & mental health

    Key finding: These are not problems distinct to palliative care, but they may have different origins and explanations compared to other areas of health care. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-10-17

    Non-pharmacological interventions and neuroplasticity in early stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Expert review of neurotherapeutics

    Key finding: Non-pharmacological interventions have the potential to reduce cognitive decline and to improve psychosocial aspects in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's dementia, and the absence of side effects makes them a favorable option also for preventive strategies. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2013-10-17

    Cell number changes in Alzheimer's disease relate to dementia, not to plaques and tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: To investigate whether Alzheimer's disease is associated with changes in the absolute cell numbers of ageing brains, we used the isotropic fractionator, a novel technique designed to determine the absolute cellular composition of brain regions. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2013-10-17

    Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Science

    The conservation of sleep across all animal species suggests that sleep serves a vital function.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2013-10-17

    Bidirectional transcripts of the expanded C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat are translated into aggregating dipeptide repeat proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: Moreover, an antibody targeting the putative carboxyl terminus of DPR proteins can detect inclusion pathology in C9orf72 repeat expansion carriers suggesting that the non-ATG translation continues through the entire repeat and beyond.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2013-10-16

    Dementia in relation to family caregiver involvement and burden in long-term care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society

    Key finding: Adjusted analyses found that although the amount of family visitation did not significantly vary by resident cognitive status (15 versus 20 visits/month to persons with and without dementia, respectively), the nature of the visit did. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2013-10-16

    TREM2 and Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics New England Journal of Medicine

    We and other members of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium assembled multiple data sets from a total of 5896 black patients (1968 cases and 3928 controls).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2013-10-16

    CSF biomarker changes precede symptom onset of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: This study evaluated longitudinal CSF biomarker measures collected when participants were cognitively normal to determine the magnitude and time course of biomarker changes before the onset of clinical symptoms in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2013-10-16

    Heterozygous TREM2 mutations in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: The objective of this study was to evaluate whether heterozygous TREM2 genetic variations might be associated to the risk of FTD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2013-10-16

    Antisense transcripts of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat form nuclear RNA foci and undergo repeat-associated non-ATG translation in c9FTD/ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: We show that ectopic expression of (CCCCGG)66 in cultured cells results in foci formation. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2013-10-16

    Pulse wave velocity is associated with β-amyloid deposition in the brains of very elderly adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Neurology

    Key finding: Arterial stiffness was associated with Aβ plaque deposition in the brain, independent of BP and APOE ε4 allele. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2013-10-16

    Amyloid-first and neurodegeneration-first profiles characterize incident amyloid PET positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: The incidence of amyloid PET positivity is approximately 13% per year among CN participants over age 70 sampled from a population-based cohort. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2013-10-15

    Improved memory function two years after bariatric surgery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)

    Key finding: These findings suggest that cognitive benefits of bariatric surgery may extend to 24-months postoperatively. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2013-10-14

    Do people with dementia die at their preferred location of death? A systematic literature review and narrative synthesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Age and ageing

    Key finding: The aim of this study was to undertake a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the literature concerning place of death of people with dementia and the preferences for location of death of people with dementia as well as family carers and healthcare providers preferred location of death for patients with dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2013-10-14

    Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease and subcortical axonal damage in 5,542 clinical samples

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: The association between an AD-like signature using the established biomarkers Aβ42, T-tau, and P-tau with increased levels of NFL provides in vivo evidence of an association between AD and subcortical axonal degeneration in this uniquely large dataset of CSF samples tested for dementia biomarkers. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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