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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 19,351–19,375 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 775 of 1096.

July 2012 25

  1. 2012-07-10

    Brain excitability and connectivity of neuronal assemblies in Alzheimer's disease: from animal models to human findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Progress in neurobiology

    Key finding: Growing evidence supports the idea that Alzheimer's disease (AD) targets selected and functionally connected neuronal networks and, specifically, their synaptic terminals, affecting brain connectivity well before producing neuronal loss and compartmental atrophy. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2012-07-06

    Endotoxin-induced systemic inflammation activates microglia: [¹¹C]PBR28 positron emission tomography in nonhuman primates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system NeuroImage

    Key finding: Microglia play an essential role in many brain diseases. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2012-07-06

    Abnormal insula functional network is associated with episodic memory decline in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment NeuroImage

    Key finding: AMCI subjects, when compared to CN subjects, showed significantly reduced right posterior insula volumes, cognitive deficits and disrupted intrinsic connectivity of the insula networks. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2012-07-05

    Spatial navigation in normal aging and the prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease: insights from imaging and behavioral studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Ageing research reviews

    Key finding: Normal aging and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with declines in navigational skills, including allocentric and egocentric representations, cognitive mapping, landmark processing, and spatial memory. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2012-07-04

    Common hippocampal structural and functional changes in migraine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Brain structure & function

    Key finding: Migraine is an episodic disorder characterized by intermittent attacks with a number of physiological and emotional stressors associated with or provoking each attack. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2012-07-04

    Dietary patterns: a novel approach to examine the link between nutrition and cognitive function in older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Nutrition research reviews

    Key finding: Most studies considered diet in the frame of a single nutrient approach with inconsistent results. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2012-07-03

    Epigenetic modifications in frontal cortex from Alzheimer's disease and bipolar disorder patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Translational psychiatry

    Key finding: We hypothesized that some of these changes are associated with epigenetic modifications of relevant genes. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2012-07-03

    Under-reporting of cardiovascular events in the rofecoxib Alzheimer disease studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments American heart journal

    Key finding: In the 3 studies combined, the data indicated that rofecoxib more than tripled the risk of confirmed CVT death (risk ratio = 3.57 [1.48-9.72], P = .004). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2012-07-02

    Systemic immune challenges trigger and drive Alzheimer-like neuropathology in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of neuroinflammation

    Key finding: Accumulating evidence suggests that neuroinflammation, mediated by the brain's innate immune system, contributes to AD neuropathology and exacerbates the course of the disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2012-07-02

    Locus-specific mutation databases for neurodegenerative brain diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Human mutation

    Key finding: Such analyses revealed that 61.4% of mutations are private to one single family, while only 5.7% of mutations occur in 10 or more families. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2012-07-02

    A benefit-finding intervention for family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer disease: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Trials

    Key finding: The emphasis on benefits, rather than losses and difficulties, provides a new dimension to the way interventions for caregivers can be conceptualized and delivered. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2012-07 month only

    Early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EOFAD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques

    Key finding: Compared with sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), EOFAD has some distinctive features including early age at onset, positive familial history, a variety of non-cognitive neurological symptoms and signs, and a more aggressive course.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2012-07-01

    Biochemistry and cell biology of tau protein in neurofibrillary degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine

    Key finding: Examples are the large number of structural conformations and biochemical modifications (phosphorylation, proteolysis, glycosylation, and others), the multitude of interaction partners (mainly microtubules, but also other cytoskeletal proteins, kinases, and phosphatases, motor proteins, chaperones, and membrane proteins). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2012-07-01

    Overview and findings from the religious orders study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: The Religious Orders Study is a longitudinal clinical-pathologic cohort study of aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2012-07-01

    N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists and memantine treatment for Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: While excessive levels of glutamate result in neurotoxicity, in part through the over-activation of NMDARs, memantine-as a partial NMDAR antagonist, blocks the NMDA glutamate receptors to normalize the glutamatergic system and ameliorate cognitive and memory deficits.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2012-07-01

    Neuroprotective and neurotrophic actions of glucagon-like peptide-1: an emerging opportunity to treat neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development British journal of pharmacology

    Key finding: Studies have revealed that common pathophysiological features, including oxidative stress, insulin resistance, abnormal protein processing and cognitive decline, occur across these.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2012-07-01

    Sources of stress for family members of nursing home residents with advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: Our results support the provision of emotional support to families upon resident admission, education regarding prognosis to guide decision making, improved resident care, and greater communication with health care professionals.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2012-07-01

    The Mediterranean diet is not related to cognitive change in a large prospective investigation: the PATH Through Life study

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

    Key finding: In this large longitudinal investigation of generally healthy individuals Mediterranean diet was not found to be protective of cognitive decline.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2012-07-01

    P3‐402: Detection of PCC functional connectivity characteristics in subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment: A resting‐state fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

    Key finding: Based on position emission tomography (PET) (5) and structural MRI (sMRI) (3) data sets, neuroimaging studies showed that functional and structural deficits in the cortical brain regions [e.g., the medial frontal cortex, the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and the medial temporal lobe] and the subcortical brain regions (e.g., the thalamus and the caudate) in svMCI. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2012-07-01

    P3‐314: Pictorial education of safe medication for the elderly with cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer s & Dementia

    Key finding: All information was provided with both picture and text. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2012-07-01

    The Framingham Brain Donation Program: neuropathology along the cognitive continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: Participants have been undergoing prospective surveillance for incident stroke and dementia and embedded within this cohort is the voluntary Framingham Brain Donation Program that was begun in 1997. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2012-07-01

    The Modified Mini-Mental State Examination test: normative data for Singapore Chinese older adults and its performance in detecting early cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Singapore medical journal

    Key finding: This study aimed to determine the stratified normative data by age and education for a modified version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) test from a large sample of community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Singapore, and to examine the MMSE's value in detecting early cognitive impairment. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2012-07-01

    The Minority Aging Research Study: ongoing efforts to obtain brain donation in African Americans without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: The results examine strategies for recruiting and consenting African Americans without dementia; (2) efforts to maintain high rates of follow-up participation; (3) strategies for achieving high rates of agreement to brain donation; and (4) the methodology of obtaining rapid brain autopsy at death.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2012-07-01

    Donepezil for dementia with Lewy bodies: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Donepezil is safe and well tolerated.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2012-07-01

    Fruit, vegetables and prevention of cognitive decline or dementia: a systematic review of cohort studies

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

    Key finding: Nine studies with a total of 44,004 participants met the inclusion criteria. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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