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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 19,676–19,700 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 788 of 1096.

January 2012 25

  1. 2012-01-30

    Family perceptions of end-of-life care for long-term care residents with dementia: differences between the United States and the Netherlands

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

    Key finding: Because previous research favored care in the Netherlands to that in the United States, findings suggest improvement in end-of-life care and outcomes in the United States and stability in the Netherlands. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2012-01-30

    The disappearing subject: exclusion of people with cognitive impairment and dementia from geriatrics research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: All original research articles published in 2008 and 2009 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (n = 434) were reviewed using a structured data collection tool. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2012-01-30

    CCL2 is associated with a faster rate of cognitive decline during early stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment PloS one

    Key finding: Only CSF CCL26 was statistically significantly elevated in patients with prodromal AD when compared to controls (p = 0.002). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2012-01-29

    Tau deficiency induces parkinsonism with dementia by impairing APP-mediated iron export

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Nature medicine

    Key finding: In primary neuronal culture, we found loss of tau also causes iron retention, by decreasing surface trafficking of APP. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2012-01-28

    Using Support Vector Machine to identify imaging biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disease: a critical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

    Key finding: Standard univariate analysis of neuroimaging data has revealed a host of neuroanatomical and functional differences between healthy individuals and patients suffering a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2012-01-27

    Endogenous TDP-43 localized to stress granules can subsequently form protein aggregates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Neurochemistry international

    Key finding: Although the cellular mechanisms driving the abnormal accumulation of TDP-43 are not understood, recent studies have shown that an early change to TDP-43 metabolism in disease may be accumulation in cytosolic RNA stress granules (SGs). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2012-01-24

    Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

    Key finding: These diagnostic criteria will support future research efforts to identify at the earliest stage those PD patients at increased risk of progressive cognitive decline and dementia who may benefit from clinical interventions at a predementia stage.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2012-01-21

    The tip of the iceberg: RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Brain research

    Key finding: Recently, perturbed RNA-binding proteostasis of TAF15, which is the 2nd ranked RRM-bearing prion candidate, has been connected with ALS and FTLD-U. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2012-01-18

    Evaluation of a previously suggested plasma biomarker panel to identify Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers PloS one

    Key finding: It has previously been shown that a signature of 18 plasma proteins can identify AD during pre-dementia and dementia stages (Ray et al, Nature Medicine, 2007). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2012-01-18

    Cerebral microbleeds are associated with worse cognitive function: the Rotterdam Scan Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Neurology

    Key finding: Cerebral microbleeds are frequently found in the general elderly population and may reflect underlying vascular disease, but their role in cognitive function is unknown. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2012-01-17

    Using PET with 18F-AV-45 (florbetapir) to quantify brain amyloid load in a clinical environment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

    Key finding: The mean values of SUVr were higher in AD patients (median 1.20, Q1-Q3 1.16-1.30) than in HC subjects (median 1.05, Q1-Q3 1.04-1.08; p = 0.0001) in the overall cortex and all cortical regions (precuneus, anterior and posterior cingulate, and frontal median, temporal, parietal and occipital cortex). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2012-01-16

    Prolonged oral cannabinoid administration prevents neuroinflammation, lowers β-amyloid levels and improves cognitive performance in Tg APP 2576 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of neuroinflammation

    Key finding: We have shown that chronically administered cannabinoid showed marked beneficial effects concomitant with inflammation reduction and increased Aβ clearance. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2012-01-16

    Both common variations and rare non-synonymous substitutions and small insertion/deletions in CLU are associated with increased Alzheimer risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: We identified a new genetic risk association of AD with rare coding CLU variations that is independent of the 5' common association signal identified in the GWA studies. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2012-01-13

    Using virtual reality to characterize episodic memory profiles in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: influence of active and passive encoding

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Neuropsychologia

    Key finding: Third, we benchmarked the results of our virtual reality episodic memory test against a classical memory test and a subjective daily memory complaint scale. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2012-01-11

    Cerebral microinfarcts: a systematic review of neuropathological studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

    Key finding: Vascular cognitive impairment is an umbrella term for cognitive dysfunction associated with and presumed to be caused by vascular brain damage. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2012-01-10

    Association between polypharmacy and dementia in older people: a population-based case-control study in Taiwan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Geriatrics & gerontology international

    Key finding: The risk of dementia increases steadily with the number of medications used and age in older people in Taiwan. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2012-01-10

    FreeSurfer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging NeuroImage

    Key finding: FreeSurfer provides an array of algorithms to quantify the functional, connectional and structural properties of the human brain. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2012-01-10

    Incidence and prevalence of atrial fibrillation and associated mortality among Medicare beneficiaries, 1993-2007

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

    Key finding: Among older Medicare beneficiaries, incident AF is common and has remained relatively stable for more than a decade. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2012-01-06

    APOE genotype alters glial activation and loss of synaptic markers in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Glia

    Key finding: APOE4 mice displayed increased glial activation in response to intracerebroventricular lipopolysaccharide (LPS) compared to APOE2 and APOE3 mice by several measures. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2012-01-06

    Cognitive impairment and vitamin B12: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Low serum vitamin B12 levels are associated with neurodegenerative disease and cognitive impairment. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2012-01-05

    Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA: health benefits throughout life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)

    Key finding: Recently, fish-derived omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA have been associated with fetal development, cardiovascular function, and Alzheimer's disease. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2012-01-05

    Identification and proteomic profiling of exosomes in human cerebrospinal fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Journal of translational medicine

    Key finding: Exosomes were identified in human CSF and their proteome is a potential new reservoir for biomarker discovery in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2012-01-04

    Health span approximates life span among many supercentenarians: compression of morbidity at the approximate limit of life span

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

    Key finding: We observed a progressive delay in the age of onset of physical and cognitive function impairment, age-related diseases, and overall morbidity with increasing age.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2012-01-04

    S-adenosylmethionine reduces the progress of the Alzheimer-like features induced by B-vitamin deficiency in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: We previously demonstrated that hyperhomocysteinemia and DNA hypomethylation induced by B vitamin deficiency are associated with PSEN1 and BACE1 overexpression and amyloid production. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2012-01-04

    Tannic acid is a natural β-secretase inhibitor that prevents cognitive impairment and mitigates Alzheimer-like pathology in transgenic mice

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

    Key finding: Recent focus has been directed toward a group of naturally occurring anti-amyloidogenic polyphenols known as flavonoids. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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