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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 18,801–18,825 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 753 of 1096.

March 2013 25

  1. 2013-03-19

    The lived experience of family caregivers who provided end-of-life care to persons with advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Palliative & supportive care

    Key finding: Further findings are organized according to the existential life worlds. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-03-19

    Pain and hospice care in nursing home residents with dementia and terminal cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Geriatrics & gerontology international

    Key finding: Preliminary results suggest that hospice enrolment might be influenced by the facility or region of this particular country. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-03-18

    Risk Factors for β-Amyloid Deposition in Healthy Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging JAMA Neurology

    Key finding: Participants in the hypertension group with at least 1 ε4 allele showed significantly greater amyloid burden than those with only 1 risk factor or no risk factors. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2013-03-18

    Changes in cognition and behaviour in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: nature of impairment and implications for assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: Deficits are characterised by executive and working-memory impairments, extending to changes in language and social cognition. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-03-17

    Causes of hospital admission for people with dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

    Key finding: Many older people's crisis teams tend to focus on prevention and reducing psychiatric admissions. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-03-15

    Atrophy rates in asymptomatic amyloidosis: implications for Alzheimer prevention trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers PloS one

    Key finding: Cortical β-amyloid plaques, the first stage of AD pathology, can be detected in vivo using positron emission tomography (PET), and several studies have shown that ~1/3 of healthy elderly have significant β-amyloid deposition. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-03-14

    Contemporary prevalence and correlates of incident heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities The American journal of medicine

    Key finding: Compared with white patients, black patients were less likely to have heart failure with preserved systolic function. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-03-13

    Disruption of cerebral networks and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: The structural brain network of patients showed reduced local efficiency compared to controls. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2013-03-13

    Blocking the interaction between apolipoprotein E and Aβ reduces intraneuronal accumulation of Aβ and inhibits synaptic degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The American journal of pathology

    Key finding: Compared with neurons cultured alone, intraneuronal Aβ content was significantly increased in neurons co-cultured with wild-type but not with ApoE knockout (KO) astrocytes. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-03-12

    New therapies for treating Down syndrome require quality of life measurement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's American journal of medical genetics. Part A

    Key finding: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic cause of cognitive deficits. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-03-12

    Pathogenesis of cerebral microbleeds: In vivo imaging of amyloid and subcortical ischemic small vessel disease in 226 individuals with cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Parietal and occipital lobar CMBs counts were higher in PiB(+) ADCI with moderate WMH than PiB(+) ADCI with minimal WMH, whereas PiB(-) patients with SVCI (ie, "pure" SVCI) showed both lobar and deep CMBs. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-03-11

    Chronic treatment with the GLP1 analogue liraglutide increases cell proliferation and differentiation into neurons in an AD mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development PloS one

    Key finding: A significant increase was observed with chronically treated 6, 12, 15 month APP/PS1 and WT groups. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2013-03-08

    Plasma amyloid beta measurements - a desired but elusive Alzheimer's disease biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: Based on our review of the current literature on plasma Aβ, we conclude that further clinical research and assay development are needed before measures of plasma Aβ can be interpreted so they can be applied as trait, risk or state biomarkers for AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2013-03-08

    Amyloid β deposition, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline in sporadic Alzheimer's disease: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: At baseline, significantly higher Aβ burdens were noted in patients with AD (2·27, SD 0·43) and those with MCI (1·94, 0·64) than in healthy controls (1·38, 0·39).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2013-03-08

    Efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation therapies for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in older adults: working toward a theoretical model and evidence-based interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neuropsychology review

    Key finding: Our review revealed a need for evidence-based treatments for MCI and a lack of a theoretical rehabilitation model to guide the development and evaluation of these interventions. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2013-03-07

    A review of butyrylcholinesterase as a therapeutic target in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The primary care companion for CNS disorders

    Key finding: AChE-selective inhibitors and a dual AChE and BuChE inhibitor demonstrate symptomatic efficacy in AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2013-03-07

    Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in plasma, serum and blood - conceptual and practical problems

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Alzheimer's research & therapy

    Key finding: Companion reviews in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy will review specific types of biomarkers or applications; in this overview, we cover key concepts related to AD blood biomarker studies in general. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2013-03-07

    Clinicopathologic correlations in 172 cases of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder with or without a coexisting neurologic disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Sleep medicine

    Key finding: In this large series of PSG-confirmed and probable RBD cases that underwent autopsy, the strong association of RBD with the synucleinopathies was further substantiated and a wider spectrum of disorders which can underlie RBD now are more apparent. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2013-03-06

    The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2: "TREM-ming" the inflammatory component associated with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity

    Key finding: Recently, a novel variant in the gene encoding the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) has been identified that has refocused the spotlight back onto inflammation as a major contributing factor in AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2013-03-06

    Pomegranate polyphenols and extract inhibit nuclear factor of activated T-cell activity and microglial activation in vitro and in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE The Journal of nutrition

    Key finding: This study aimed to determine whether a dietary intervention could attenuate microgliosis. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2013-03-06

    Prion-like spreading of pathological α-synuclein in brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that endogenous mouse α-synuclein started to accumulate 3 months after inoculation, while injected human α-synuclein fibrils disappeared in about a week. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2013-03-06

    The changing scene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Nature reviews. Neuroscience

    Key finding: In addition, these breakthroughs have revealed mechanistic links between ALS and frontotemporal dementia, as well as between ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as the cerebellar atrophies, myotonic dystrophy and inclusion body myositis.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2013-03-06

    Adipose tissue dysfunction contributes to obesity related metabolic diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism

    Key finding: Obesity significantly increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, fatty liver disease, dementia, obstructive sleep apnea and several types of cancer.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2013-03-06

    Screening for predementia AD: time-dependent operating characteristics of episodic memory tests

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: For follow-up intervals of 2-4 years, the FCSRT-FR is more predictive than the LM-IR for identifying individuals with memory complaints who will develop incident AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2013-03-05

    Precipitating and predisposing events and symptoms for admission to assisted living or nursing home care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ

    Key finding: Of 353 people admitted during the enrolment period, 174 (49%) took part in the survey. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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