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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 18,426–18,450 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 738 of 1096.

September 2013 24

  1. 2013-09-09

    Bridging animal and human models of exercise-induced brain plasticity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Trends in cognitive sciences

    Key finding: Significant progress has been made in understanding the neurobiological mechanisms through which exercise protects and restores the brain. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-09-08

    Long-term health benefits of physical activity--a systematic review of longitudinal studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is BMC public health

    Key finding: This review revealed a paucity of long-term studies on the relationship between physical activity and the incidence of NCD. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-09-07

    Efficiency, capacity, compensation, maintenance, plasticity: emerging concepts in cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Trends in cognitive sciences

    Key finding: We conclude that cognitive reserve is compatible and complementary with many related concepts, but that each much draw sharper conceptual boundaries in order to truly explain preserved cognitive function in the face of aging or brain damage.

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  4. 2013-09-05

    Increased risk of cognitive impairment in patients with diabetes is associated with metformin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Diabetes care

    Key finding: Metformin use was associated with impaired cognitive performance. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-09-05

    Evaluation of retinal nerve fiber layer and ganglion cell layer thickness in Alzheimer's disease using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

    Key finding: These results indicate that RNFL and RNFL+GCL thickness measurements are reduced in AD patients compared with healthy subjects. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-09-05

    Association between repeat sizes and clinical and pathological characteristics in carriers of C9ORF72 repeat expansions (Xpansize-72): a cross-sectional cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: We assessed whether expansion size is associated with disease severity or phenotype. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-09-05

    Cognitive, emotional, and social benefits of regular musical activities in early dementia: randomized controlled study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Purpose of the study During aging, musical activities can help maintain physical and mental health and cognitive abilities, but their rehabilitative use has not been systematically explored in persons with dementia (PWDs).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-09-04

    Targeting the neural extracellular matrix in neurological disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neuroscience

    Key finding: It is associated with the structural stabilization of neuronal processes and synaptic contacts during the maturation of the central nervous system.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2013-09-04

    Low cerebrospinal fluid concentration of mitochondrial DNA in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction techniques, we measured circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from study participants, selected from a cohort of 282 subjects, who were classified according to their concentrations of amyloid β1-42, total tau, and phosphorylated tau and by the presence or absence of dementia, into asymptomatic subjects at risk of AD, symptomatic patients diagnosed with sporadic AD, presymptomatic subjects carrying pathogenic PSEN1 mutations, and patients diagnosed with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-09-04

    Preclinical Alzheimer's disease and its outcome: a longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: Compared with individuals classed as normal, participants with preclinical Alzheimer's disease had an increased risk of death after adjusting for covariates (hazard ratio 6·2, 95% CI 1·1-35·0; p=0·040). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-09-01

    Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 is a coreceptor for Alzheimer aβ oligomer bound to cellular prion protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuron

    Key finding: PrP(C) and mGluR5 interact physically, and cytoplasmic Fyn forms a complex with mGluR5. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-09-01

    Cognitive frailty: rational and definition from an (I.A.N.A./I.A.G.G.) international consensus group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials The journal of nutrition, health & aging

    Key finding: The present report describes the results of the Consensus Group and provides the first definition of a "Cognitive Frailty" condition in older adults.

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  13. 2013-09-01

    Seizures and epileptiform activity in the early stages of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Patients with aMCI who had epilepsy presented with symptoms of cognitive decline 6.8 years earlier than patients with aMCI who did not have epilepsy (64.3 vs 71.1 years; P = .02). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2013-09-01

    Cyclooxygenase-1-dependent prostaglandins mediate susceptibility to systemic inflammation-induced acute cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: This increasing susceptibility is associated with increased CNS expression of cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 in microglia and perivascular macrophages. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2013-09-01

    A cross sectional study to examine the association between dietary patterns and cognitive impairment in older Chinese people in Hong Kong

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials The journal of nutrition, health & aging

    Key finding: Higher "vegetables-fruits" and "snacks-drinks-milk products" pattern scores were associated with reduced risk of cognitive impairment in Chinese older women in Hong Kong. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2013-09-01

    Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Seminars in neurology

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative cause of dementia and is responsible for significant individual morbidity and mortality, and economic impact on the health care system.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2013-09-01

    Imaging of tau pathology in a tauopathy mouse model and in Alzheimer patients compared to normal controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuron

    Key finding: In vivo optical and positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging of a transgenic mouse model demonstrated sensitive detection of tau inclusions by PBBs.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2013-09-01

    Hypercortisolemia and glucocorticoid receptor-signaling insufficiency in Alzheimer's disease initiation and development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: Theoretical implications are discussed in this review. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2013-09-01

    CHF5074 reduces biomarkers of neuroinflammation in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a 12-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: There were no clinically significant treatmentrelated clinical laboratory, vital sign or ECG abnormalities. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2013-09-01

    Microglial beclin 1 regulates retromer trafficking and phagocytosis and is impaired in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neuron

    Key finding: Accordingly, impairments in different receptors or proteins involved in phagocytosis result in enhanced inflammation and neurodegeneration. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2013-09-01

    Structural covariance of the default network in healthy and pathological aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: Significant progress has been made uncovering functional brain networks, yet little is known about the corresponding structural covariance networks. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2013-09-01

    Impaired functional connectivity of the thalamus in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a resting-state fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: Our results revealed disease severity-related alterations of the thalamo-default mode network and thalamocortical connectivity in AD and MCI patients. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2013-09-01

    Cognitive contributions to gait and falls: evidence and implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

    Key finding: Several neuropsychological investigations have also demonstrated that walking relies on the use of several cognitive domains, including executive-attentional function, visuospatial abilities, and even memory resources.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2013-09-01

    Genetic susceptibility for Alzheimer disease neuritic plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics JAMA neurology

    Key finding: These findings enhance understanding of AD risk factors by relating validated susceptibility alleles to increased neuritic plaque pathology and implicate common genetic variation at the APP locus in the earliest, presymptomatic stages of AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

August 2013 1

  1. 2013-08-31

    Globular glial tauopathies (GGT): consensus recommendations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: These cases are associated with a range of clinical presentations, which correlate with the severity and distribution of underlying tau pathology and neurodegeneration. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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