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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 18,476–18,500 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 740 of 1096.

August 2013 25

  1. 2013-08-13

    Inflammatory process in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Frontiers in integrative neuroscience

    Key finding: Histopathologically is characterized by the presence of two major hallmarks, the intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and extracellular neuritic plaques (NPs) surrounded by activated astrocytes and microglia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-08-12

    Longitudinal amyloid imaging using 11C-PiB: methodologic considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Key finding: SUVr(60-90) and SUVr(40-60) overestimated binding with 13% and 10%, respectively, compared with RPM2.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-08-12

    Brain atrophy in type 2 diabetes: regional distribution and influence on cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Diabetes care

    Key finding: Neurodegeneration rather than cerebrovascular lesions may play a key role in T2DM-related cognitive impairment. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2013-08-11

    Suppression of eIF2α kinases alleviates Alzheimer's disease-related plasticity and memory deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature neuroscience

    Key finding: Our findings implicate aberrant eIF2α phosphorylation as a previously unidentified molecular mechanism underlying Alzheimer's disease-related synaptic pathophysioloy and memory dysfunction and suggest that PERK and GCN2 are potential therapeutic targets for treatment of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-08-09

    Neuropathologic basis of white matter hyperintensity accumulation with advanced age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Accumulating white matter changes in advanced age are likely driven by small-vessel ischemic disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-08-09

    Relations of arterial stiffness and endothelial function to brain aging in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Greater arterial stiffness and pressure pulsatility are associated with brain aging, MRI vascular insults, and memory deficits typically seen in Alzheimer dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-08-08

    The polyphenol oleuropein aglycone protects TgCRND8 mice against Aß plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE PloS one

    Key finding: These effects have been related to the protection against cognitive decline associated with aging and disease by a number of polyphenols found in red wine and extra virgin olive oil. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-08-07

    Introducing dyadic interviews as a method for collecting qualitative data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Qualitative health research

    Key finding: We conclude with a discussion of directions for future research using dyadic interviews.

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  9. 2013-08-07

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: a review of papers published since its inception

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: This article reviews all papers published since the inception of the initiative and summarizes the results as of February 2011.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-08-07

    Improving the end-of-life for people with dementia living in a care home: an intervention study

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

    Key finding: This small non-randomized study is the first end-of-life care in dementia intervention to report an increase in family satisfaction with a reduction in hospital deaths. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-08-07

    End-of-life communication: a retrospective survey of representative general practitioner networks in four countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of pain and symptom management

    Key finding: The prevalence of end-of-life discussions varied across the four countries. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-08-07

    Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation for persons with mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer's or vascular type: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: Overall estimates of the treatment effect were calculated by using a fixed-effects model, and statistical heterogeneity was measured by using a standard chi-squared statistic. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2013-08-06

    The role of autophagy in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature medicine

    Key finding: Neurons are particularly vulnerable to disruptions of these interactions, especially as the brain ages. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2013-08-06

    Neurocognitive enhancement in older adults: comparison of three cognitive training tasks to test a hypothesis of training transfer in brain connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials NeuroImage

    Key finding: We used cognitive training to test the hypothesis that far transfer is associated with altered attentional control demands mediated by the dorsal attention network and trained sensory cortex. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2013-08-06

    Brain imaging and cognitive predictors of stroke and Alzheimer disease in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Stroke

    Key finding: Exposure to vascular risk factors has a gradual deleterious effect on brain MRI and cognitive measures. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2013-08-02

    Antihypertensive drugs decrease risk of Alzheimer disease: Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neurology

    Key finding: Diuretic, ARB, and ACE-I use was, in addition to and/or independently of mean systolic blood pressure, associated with reduced risk of AD dementia in participants with normal cognition, while only diuretic use was associated with reduced risk in participants with MCI. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2013-08-01

    The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors JAMA

    Key finding: Healthy life expectancy (HALE) was used to summarize overall population health, accounting for both length of life and levels of ill health experienced at different ages. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2013-08-01

    Development of a new method for assessing global risk of Alzheimer's disease for use in population health approaches to prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research

    Key finding: Increasing evidence suggests that many risk factors for AD are modifiable. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2013-08-01

    The relationship between cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cortical microinfarcts in brain ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

    Key finding: The present data show that CAA plays a role in the development of microvascular lesions in the ageing brain, but cannot be considered as the most important factor in this vascular pathology, suggesting that other mechanisms also contribute importantly to the pathogenesis of microvascular changes. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2013-08-01

    CD33 Alzheimer's risk-altering polymorphism, CD33 expression, and exon 2 splicing

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

    Key finding: In summary, these results suggest a novel model wherein SNP-modulated RNA splicing modulates CD33 function and, thereby, AD risk.

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  21. 2013-08-01

    Safety and efficacy of methylphenidate for apathy in Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment The Journal of clinical psychiatry

    Key finding: In a recent crossover trial, methylphenidate treatment decreased apathy in Alzheimer's disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2013-08-01

    Acetylated tau neuropathology in sporadic and hereditary tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE The American journal of pathology

    Key finding: Herein, we extend our observations using IHC with a polyclonal antibody specific for AC-K280. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2013-08-01

    Mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Annals of neurology

    Key finding: The NIA-AA criteria apply to most MCI subjects in both the community and clinical trials settings; however, a sizeable proportion of subjects had conflicting biomarkers, which may be very important and need to be explored. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2013-08-01

    Salience network-based classification and prediction of symptom severity in children with autism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia JAMA psychiatry

    Key finding: Salience network hyperconnectivity may be a distinguishing feature in children with ASD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2013-08-01

    Converging mechanisms in ALS and FTD: disrupted RNA and protein homeostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Neuron

    Key finding: Breakthrough discoveries identifying common genetic causes for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have transformed our view of these disorders. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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