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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 18,401–18,425 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 737 of 1096.

September 2013 25

  1. 2013-09-21

    miR128 up-regulation correlates with impaired amyloid β(1-42) degradation in monocytes from patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: New evidence has shown that the lysosomal system might be a crossroad in which etiological factors in AD pathogenesis converge. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-09-20

    Increased neurofilament light chain blood levels in neurodegenerative neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers PloS one

    Key finding: We developed and validated a novel ECL based sandwich immunoassay for the NfL protein in serum (NfL(Umea47:3)); levels in ALS were more than 20-fold higher than in controls. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-09-20

    Planning for tomorrow whilst living for today: the views of people with dementia and their families on advance care planning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Health and social care professionals can build on people's preferences for informal planning by exploring the assumptions underlying them, providing information about the possible illness trajectory and discussing the options of care available.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2013-09-20

    The amyloid cascade-inflammatory hypothesis of Alzheimer disease: implications for therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: We suggest that this, in itself, cannot be the cause of AD because demonstrating such toxicity requires micromolar concentrations of these Abeta forms, while their levels in brain are a million times lower in the picomolar range. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-09-19

    The vast complexity of primary open angle glaucoma: disease genes, risks, molecular mechanisms and pathobiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Progress in retinal and eye research

    Key finding: We found that the proteins corresponding to these 65 (candidate) POAG disease genes take part in as few as four common functional molecular networks. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-09-19

    The touchscreen operant platform for testing learning and memory in rats and mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Nature protocols

    Key finding: An increasingly popular method of assessing cognitive functions in rodents is the automated touchscreen platform, on which a number of different cognitive tests can be run in a manner very similar to touchscreen methods currently used to test human subjects. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-09-18

    Pathways to neurodegeneration: mechanistic insights from GWAS in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics American journal of neurodegenerative disease

    Key finding: Recently, GWAS of complex diseases and traits have focused less on individual susceptibility variants and instead have emphasized the biological pathways and networks revealed by genetic associations. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-09-18

    Prospective study of Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension- and Mediterranean-style dietary patterns and age-related cognitive change: the Cache County Study on Memory, Health and Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials The American journal of clinical nutrition

    Key finding: Higher levels of accordance with both the DASH and Mediterranean dietary patterns were associated with consistently higher levels of cognitive function in elderly men and women over an 11-y period. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2013-09-18

    Preclinical AD predicts decline in memory and executive functions in subjective complaints

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: We assessed whether preclinical Alzheimer disease (AD) based on CSF biomarkers at baseline predicts decline in cognitive functioning as measured by repeated neuropsychological tests for 4 cognitive domains in patients with subjective complaints. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-09-18

    The pattern of atrophy in familial Alzheimer disease: volumetric MRI results from the DIAN study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Atrophy in FAD is observed early, both in areas commonly associated with sporadic Alzheimer disease and also in the putamen and thalamus, 2 regions associated with early amyloid deposition in FAD mutation carriers. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-09-16

    Mediterranean diet, stroke, cognitive impairment, and depression: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Adherence to a Mediterranean diet may contribute to the prevention of a series of brain diseases; this may be of special value given the aging of Western societies. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-09-15

    Does loneliness mediate the relation between social support and cognitive functioning in later life?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Social science & medicine (1982)

    Key finding: Moreover, little is known about the underlying mechanisms between social support and cognitive functioning. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2013-09-15

    Interaction of FUS and HDAC1 regulates DNA damage response and repair in neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Nature neuroscience

    Key finding: We found that FUS, an RNA/DNA-binding protein that has been linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, is important for the DNA damage response (DDR). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2013-09-13

    Assessing the role of the TREM2 p.R47H variant as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Also, rare recessive mutations have been associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2013-09-13

    Reliability of two-dimensional and three-dimensional pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI in elderly populations: comparison with 15O-water positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI

    Key finding: The 3D GRASE pCASL offers better repeatability than 2D EPI pCASL, thereby may provide a reliable imaging marker for the evaluation of disease progression and treatment effects in MCI and early AD subjects. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2013-09-12

    Multivariate classification of blood oxygen level-dependent FMRI data with diagnostic intention: a clinical perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology

    Key finding: There has been a recent upsurge of reports about applications of pattern-recognition techniques from the field of machine learning to functional MR imaging data as a diagnostic tool for systemic brain disease or psychiatric disorders. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2013-09-12

    Estimating and comparing time-dependent areas under receiver operating characteristic curves for censored event times with competing risks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Statistics in medicine

    Key finding: In this work, we propose nonparametric inverse probability of censoring weighting estimators of the AUC corresponding to these two definitions, and we study their asymptotic properties. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2013-09-11

    Tau immunotherapy and imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuro-degenerative diseases

    Key finding: Over 12 years ago, we initiated a tau immunotherapy program, seeking to alleviate the functional impairments associated with tau lesions in tauopathies. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2013-09-11

    A review of the effects of physical activity and exercise on cognitive and brain functions in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of aging research

    Key finding: Studies supporting the notion that physical activity and exercise can help alleviate the negative impact of age on the body and the mind abound. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2013-09-11

    Dementia care in eight European countries: developing a mapping system to explore systems

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

    Key finding: The mapping system appears useful from a nurse manager's standpoint for exploring the dementia care pathway. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2013-09-11

    7,8-dihydroxyflavone prevents synaptic loss and memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

    Key finding: These results suggest that 7,8-DHF represents a novel oral bioactive therapeutic agent for treating AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2013-09-10

    Pain and the risk for falls in community-dwelling older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

    Key finding: Community-dwelling older adults with pain were more likely to have fallen in the past 12 months and to fall again in the future. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2013-09-10

    U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex and RNA splicing alterations in Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: Similar accumulations in mild cognitive impairment cases indicate that spliceosome changes occur in early stages of AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2013-09-10

    Midlife risk score for the prediction of dementia four decades later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: A combination of modifiable vascular risk factors in midlife is highly predictive of the likelihood of dementia decades later.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2013-09-09

    Alteration of the microRNA network during the progression of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology EMBO Molecular Medicine

    Key finding: Profiling of miRNAs in the prefrontal cortex of a second independent cohort of 49 patients grouped by Braak stages revealed 41 deregulated miRNAs.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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