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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 19,651–19,675 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 787 of 1096.

February 2012 23

  1. 2012-02-03

    Effects of ω-3 fatty acids on cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Higher intake of omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 FAs) is associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and milder forms of cognitive impairment (e.g. cognitive impairment no dementia [CIND]); however, findings from interventional trials are inconsistent. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2012-02-03

    Cognitive and clinical characteristics of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carrying a C9orf72 repeat expansion: a population-based cohort study

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

    Key finding: Patients with the repeat expansion had significantly more co-morbid FTD than patients without the repeat (50%vs 12%), and a distinct pattern of non-motor cortex changes on high-resolution 3 T magnetic resonance structural neuroimaging. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2012-02-03

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities in patients with Alzheimer's disease treated with bapineuzumab: a retrospective analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: We used Kaplan-Meier survival analysis to examine the distribution of incident ARIA-E from the start of bapineuzumab treatment and proportional hazards regression models to assess risk factors associated with ARIA. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2012-02-02

    Glial cells in (patho)physiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of neurochemistry

    Key finding: Once in the extracellular space, gliotransmitters can modulate synaptic plasticity and cause changes in behavior. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2012-02-02

    Sphingolipid-modulated exosome secretion promotes clearance of amyloid-β by microglia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: Recent studies have demonstrated that a fraction of extracellular Aβ is associated with exosomes, small membrane vesicles of endosomal origin, although the fate of Aβ in association with exosome is largely unknown. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2012-02-02

    Distinct clinical and pathological characteristics of frontotemporal dementia associated with C9ORF72 mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: There was, as expected, a significant association between C9ORF72 mutations and presence of motor neuron disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2012-02-02

    Automatic voxel-based morphometry of structural MRI by SPM8 plus diffeomorphic anatomic registration through exponentiated lie algebra improves the diagnosis of probable Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology

    Key finding: This software program with application of SPM8 plus DARTEL to VBM provides a high performance for AD diagnosis by using MRI.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2012-02-01

    Red blood cell ω-3 fatty acid levels and markers of accelerated brain aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Neurology

    Key finding: Lower RBC DHA levels are associated with smaller brain volumes and a "vascular" pattern of cognitive impairment even in persons free of clinical dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2012-02-01

    BACE1 dependent neuregulin processing: review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: Biochemical studies have shown that the precursor proteins of NRG1 can be released from the membrane through limited proteolysis. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2012-02-01

    Subjective cognition and amyloid deposition imaging: a Pittsburgh Compound B positron emission tomography study in normal elderly individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Archives of neurology

    Key finding: A decrease of self-confidence about memory abilities in cognitively normal elderly subjects may be related to the neuropathological hallmark of AD measured with PiB-positron emission tomography. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2012-02-01

    End-of-life care for people with dementia from ethnic minority groups: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: The qualitative evidence, albeit limited, found that attitudes toward end-of-life care were more similar than different between different ethnic groups. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2012-02-01

    Poststroke delirium incidence and outcomes: validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Critical care medicine

    Key finding: Measurements and main results Criterion validity and overall accuracy of the Czech version of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) were determined using serial daily delirium assessments with CAM-ICU by a junior physician compared with delirium diagnosis by delirium experts using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria that began the first day after stroke onset and continued for at least 7 days. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2012-02-01

    Inhibition of JNK by a peptide inhibitor reduces traumatic brain injury-induced tauopathy in transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: We found that TBI resulted in abnormal axonal accumulation of several kinases that phosphorylate tau. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2012-02-01

    Propagation of Tau Pathology in a Model of Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuron

    Key finding: Tau pathology progresses from EC transgene-expressing neurons to neurons without detectable transgene expression, first to EC neighboring cells, followed by propagation to neurons downstream in the synaptic circuit such as the dentate gyrus, CA fields of the hippocampus, and cingulate cortex. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2012-02-01

    Rare variants in APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 increase risk for AD in late-onset Alzheimer's disease families

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology PloS one

    Key finding: Mutation screening in these genes has been performed in either very small series or in single families with late onset AD (LOAD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2012-02-01

    Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ and tau level fluctuation in an older clinical cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Biomarker validation in a clinical cohort. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2012-02-01

    Age and diagnostic performance of Alzheimer disease CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: Core CSF changes in Alzheimer disease (AD) are decreased amyloid β(1-42), increased total tau, and increased phospho-tau, probably indicating amyloid plaque accumulation, axonal degeneration, and tangle pathology, respectively. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2012-02-01

    Physiological functions of APP family proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine

    Key finding: Biochemically, deposition of the β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides produced from proteolytic processing of APP forms the defining pathological hallmark of AD; genetically, both point mutations and duplications of wild-type APP are linked to a subset of early onset of familial AD (FAD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2012-02-01

    Interventions for Hispanic caregivers of patients with dementia: a review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

    Key finding: Future studies should consider culturally tailoring interventions for Hispanic/Latino caregivers from differing subcultures, utilizing relevant technology in studies, and evaluating the functional level of the care receiver and assess where he/she is in the disease process continuum. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2012-02-01

    Accelerated cortical atrophy in cognitively normal elderly with high β-amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Our findings show that the presence of Aβ in the brain, known to occur in about one-third of asymptomatic elderly individuals, is actually a pathologic state associated with accelerated atrophy. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2012-02-01

    Posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: The progressive neurodegeneration affecting parietal, occipital, and occipitotemporal cortices that underlies PCA is attributable to Alzheimer's disease in most patients. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2012-02-01

    Exergaming and older adult cognition: a cluster randomized clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk American journal of preventive medicine

    Key finding: Cybercycling older adults achieved better cognitive function than traditional exercisers, for the same effort, suggesting that simultaneous cognitive and physical exercise has greater potential for preventing cognitive decline. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2012-02-01

    β-Amyloid burden in healthy aging: regional distribution and cognitive consequences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: Even in a highly selected lifespan sample of adults, Aβ deposition is apparent in some adults and is influenced by APOE status. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

January 2012 2

  1. 2012-01-30

    Spatial navigation impairment is proportional to right hippocampal volume

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: We found that smaller right hippocampal volume was associated with poorer navigation performance in both the real-space (β = -0.62, P < 0.001) and virtual (β = -0.43, P = 0.026) versions, controlling for demographic variables, total brain and left hippocampal volumes. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2012-01-30

    Maternal support in early childhood predicts larger hippocampal volumes at school age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: In humans, a relationship between psychosocial factors in early childhood and later amygdala volumes based on prospective data has been demonstrated, providing a key link between early experience and brain development. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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