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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 18,876–18,900 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 756 of 1096.

February 2013 25

  1. 2013-02-11

    Astrocyte pathology and the absence of non-cell autonomy in an induced pluripotent stem cell model of TDP-43 proteinopathy

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

    Key finding: Glial proliferation and activation are associated with disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2013-02-09

    Pesticides and human chronic diseases: evidences, mechanisms, and perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Toxicology and applied pharmacology

    Key finding: Along with the wide use of pesticides in the world, the concerns over their health impacts are rapidly growing. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2013-02-08

    γ-Secretase modulator (GSM) photoaffinity probes reveal distinct allosteric binding sites on presenilin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: Aβ42) that have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2013-02-08

    Ferulic acid is a nutraceutical β-secretase modulator that improves behavioral impairment and alzheimer-like pathology in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE PloS one

    Key finding: Recent AD therapeutic interest has been directed toward a group of anti-amyloidogenic compounds extracted from plants. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2013-02-08

    Brain amyloid imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of nuclear medicine technology

    Key finding: Imaging of brain β-amyloid plaques with (18)F-labeled tracers for PET will likely be available in clinical practice to assist the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2013-02-07

    Early Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease pathology in urban children: Friend versus Foe responses--it is time to face the evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors BioMed research international

    Key finding: The accumulation of misfolded proteins coincides with the anatomical distribution observed in the early stages of both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2013-02-07

    The C9orf72 GGGGCC repeat is translated into aggregating dipeptide-repeat proteins in FTLD/ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Science (New York, N.Y.)

    Key finding: Here, we found that most of these characteristic inclusions contain poly-(Gly-Ala) and, to a lesser extent, poly-(Gly-Pro) and poly-(Gly-Arg) dipeptide-repeat proteins presumably generated by non-ATG-initiated translation from the expanded GGGGCC repeat in three reading frames. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2013-02-06

    Hospitalization and cognitive decline: Can the nature of the relationship be deciphered?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: There is evidence to support an association between hospitalization and development of cognitive decline.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2013-02-06

    The association between physical activity and dementia in an elderly population: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies European journal of epidemiology

    Key finding: It remains unclear whether physical activity also affects dementia during longer follow-up. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2013-02-06

    Prediction of dementia in MCI patients based on core diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Neurology

    Key finding: When patients with MCI underwent clinical follow-up, 29 progressed to dementia, while 44 remained stable. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2013-02-06

    The association of neuropsychiatric symptoms in MCI with incident dementia and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Neuropsychiatric symptoms in MCI are associated with significantly an increased risk of incident dementia and AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2013-02-06

    Alzheimer disease in the United States (2010-2050) estimated using the 2010 census

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Neurology

    Key finding: The number of people in the United States with AD dementia will increase dramatically in the next 40 years unless preventive measures are developed.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2013-02-06

    Mental and physical activities delay cognitive decline in older persons with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Mahjong and TC can preserve functioning or delay decline in certain cognitive domains, even in those with significant cognitive impairment. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2013-02-06

    "Thinking about it for somebody else": Alzheimer's disease research and proxy decision makers' translation of ethical principles into practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Tensions exist between abstract ethical principles regarding decision-making "standards" and their translation into research decisions. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2013-02-06

    The peaceful mind program: a pilot test of a cognitive-behavioral therapy-based intervention for anxious patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Feasibility was demonstrated with regard to recruitment, attrition, and treatment characteristics. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2013-02-06

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms as risk factors for progression from CIND to dementia: the Cache County Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: These data confirm that NPS are risk factors for conversion from CIND to dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2013-02-05

    Prion protein-mediated toxicity of amyloid-β oligomers requires lipid rafts and the transmembrane LRP1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: The cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) was recently identified as a high affinity neuronal receptor for Aβ oligomers. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2013-02-05

    TREM2 is associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease in Spanish population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Here, we report the first positive replication study in a Spanish population and confirm that TREM2 rs75932628-T is associated with the risk for AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2013-02-04

    ALS-linked TDP-43 mutations produce aberrant RNA splicing and adult-onset motor neuron disease without aggregation or loss of nuclear TDP-43

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

    Key finding: Two ALS-causing mutants (TDP-43(Q331K) and TDP-43(M337V)), but not wild-type human TDP-43, are shown here to provoke age-dependent, mutant-dependent, progressive motor axon degeneration and motor neuron death when expressed in mice at levels and in a cell type-selective pattern similar to endogenous TDP-43. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2013-02-01

    Study of the use of antidepressants for depression in dementia: the HTA-SADD trial – a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of sertraline and mirtazapine

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed Costs and economics Health Technology Assessment

    Key finding: Randomisation: Allocated 1 : 1 : 1 through Trials Unit, independently of trial team. +4 more findings

    Scored 53 on our rubric, shown as 16: non-peer-reviewed sources are capped at 16. See the breakdown.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2013-02-01

    Review: activation patterns of microglia and their identification in the human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

    Key finding: Some authors have suggested that these might be an overlapping continuum of functions rather than discrete categories.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2013-02-01

    Wnt/β-catenin signalling: from plasma membrane to nucleus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The Biochemical journal

    Key finding: Owing to the importance of Wnt signalling in a wide range of biological fields, a better understanding of its precise mechanisms could provide fundamental insights for therapeutic applications. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2013-02-01

    Educating families about end-of-life care in advanced dementia: acceptability of a Canadian family booklet to nurses from Canada, France, and Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care International journal of palliative nursing

    Key finding: The booklet may help nurses educate families about end-of-life issues in dementia palliative care, but local adaptation of the booklet content and physician engagement are necessary.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2013-02-01

    Mediterranean diet, healthy eating index 2005, and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Puerto Rican adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

    Key finding: Greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with higher Mini Mental State Examination score (P trend=0.012) and lower likelihood (odds ratio=0.87 for each additional point; 95% CI 0.80 to 0.94; P<0.001) of cognitive impairment, after adjustment for confounders. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2013-02-01

    The application of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers The Medical clinics of North America

    Key finding: The clinically most relevant biomarkers, total tau, phospho-tau and Aβ42 are discussed, and how they may be used, together with other diagnostic investigations, to make a predementia diagnosis of AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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