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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 20,076–20,100 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 804 of 1096.

June 2011 24

  1. 2011-06-14

    Effects of low versus high frequencies of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on cognitive function and cortical excitability in Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Journal of neurology

    Key finding: Forty-five AD patients were randomly classified into three groups. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2011-06-13

    Longitudinal change of biomarkers in cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Trajectories of Aβ42 level in CSF, FDG uptake, and hippocampal volume vary across different cognitive stages. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2011-06-12

    Upregulation of select rab GTPases in cholinergic basal forebrain neurons in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of chemical neuroanatomy

    Key finding: Specifically, upregulation of rab4, rab5, rab7, and rab27 was observed in CBF neurons microdissected from postmortem brains of individuals with MCI and AD compared to age-matched control subjects with no cognitive impairment (NCI). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2011-06-12

    Face-name associative memory performance is related to amyloid burden in normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Neuropsychologia

    Key finding: A significant inverse relationship for FN-N was found with Aβ deposition in frontal (R(2)=0.29, β=-2.2, p=0.02) and PPCLP cortices (R(2)=0.26, β=-2.4, p=0.05). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2011-06-11

    Resting-state brain networks: literature review and clinical applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology

    Key finding: Resting-state functional connectivity has revealed a number of networks which are consistently found in healthy subjects and represent specific patterns of synchronous activity.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2011-06-11

    Parkinson's disease progression at 30 years: a study of subthalamic deep brain-stimulated patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Clinical findings in Parkinson's disease suggest that most patients progressively develop disabling non-levodopa-responsive symptoms during the course of the disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2011-06-10

    Cerebral microvascular endothelium and the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Expert reviews in molecular medicine

    Key finding: For example, endothelial dysfunction has been implicated as a crucial event in the development of several CNS disorders, such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1-associated neurocognitive disorder and traumatic brain injury. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2011-06-10

    Soluble oligomers of amyloid-β peptide disrupt membrane trafficking of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid receptor contributing to early synapse dysfunction

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

    Key finding: Emerging evidences suggest that soluble Aβ oligomers adversely affect synaptic function, leading to cognitive failure associated with AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2011-06-09

    MDS Task Force on mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: critical review of PD-MCI

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

    Key finding: The primary conclusions of the Task Force are that: (1) Parkinson's disease-mild cognitive impairment is common, (2) there is significant heterogeneity within Parkinson's disease-mild cognitive impairment in the number and types of cognitive domain impairments, (3) Parkinson's disease-mild cognitive impairment appears to place patients at risk of progressing to dementia, and (4) formal diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease-mild cognitive impairment are needed.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2011-06-07

    Advance directives for euthanasia in dementia: how do they affect resident care in Dutch nursing homes? Experiences of physicians and relatives

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

    Key finding: Advance directives for euthanasia are never adhered to in the Netherlands in the case of people with advanced dementia, and their role in advance care planning and end-of-life care of people with advanced dementia is limited.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2011-06-07

    Dementia medications and risk of falls, syncope, and related adverse events: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: ChEIs may increase the risk of syncope, with no effects on falls, fracture, or accidental injury in cognitively impaired older adults. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2011-06-06

    Tau oligomers impair memory and induce synaptic and mitochondrial dysfunction in wild-type mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Molecular neurodegeneration

    Key finding: This study identifies tau oligomers as an acutely toxic tau species in vivo, and suggests that tau oligomers induce neurodegeneration by affecting mitochondrial and synaptic function, both of which are early hallmarks in AD and other tauopathies. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2011-06-04

    A harmonized classification system for FTLD-TDP pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Acta Neuropathologica

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2011-06-01

    Potentially inappropriate medications defined by STOPP criteria and the risk of adverse drug events in older hospitalized patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: STOPP criteria PIMs, unlike Beers criteria PIMs, are significantly associated with avoidable ADEs in older people that cause or contribute to urgent hospitalization. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2011-06-01

    Genetic counseling and testing for Alzheimer disease: joint practice guidelines of the American College of Medical Genetics and the National Society of Genetic Counselors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics

    Key finding: Furthermore, research has demonstrated that testing individuals for apolipoprotein E can be valuable and safe in certain contexts.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2011-06-01

    Caregiver care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care American family physician

    Key finding: Caring for loved ones is associated with several benefits, including personal fulfillment. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2011-06-01

    Cognitive reserve in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: Cognitive reserve may allow for more flexible strategy usage, an ability thought to be captured by executive functions tasks. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2011-06-01

    Reliability of repeated cognitive assessment of dementia using a brief computerized battery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

    Key finding: In established dementia, administration of the CogState tasks appears sensitive to cognitive impairment in dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2011-06-01

    Progression of cognitive, functional, and neuropsychiatric symptom domains in a population cohort with Alzheimer dementia: the Cache County Dementia Progression study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Progression of Alzheimer dementia (AD) is highly variable. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2011-06-01

    Outcomes of mild cognitive impairment by definition: a population study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Archives of neurology

    Key finding: As ascertained by several operational definitions, MCI is a heterogeneous entity at the population level but progresses to dementia at rates higher than in normal elderly individuals.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2011-06-01

    Positron emission tomography of brain β-amyloid and τ levels in adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Consistent with neuropathological findings from postmortem studies, [(18)F]FDDNP positron emission tomography shows high binding levels in Down syndrome comparable to Alzheimer disease and greater levels than in members of a control group. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2011-06-01

    Wrist actigraphy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Chest

    Key finding: Clinical guidelines and research suggest that wrist actigraphy is particularly useful in the documentation of sleep patterns prior to a multiple sleep latency test, in the evaluation of circadian rhythm sleep disorders, to evaluate treatment outcomes, and as an adjunct to home monitoring of sleep-disordered breathing.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2011-06-01

    Genome-wide association studies of cerebral white matter lesion burden: the CHARGE consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Annals of neurology

    Key finding: This large GWAS of WMH burden in community-based cohorts of individuals of European descent identifies a novel locus on chromosome 17. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2011-06-01

    Diet intervention and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Our results suggest that diet may be a powerful environmental factor that modulates Alzheimer disease risk through its effects on central nervous system concentrations of Aβ42, lipoproteins, oxidative stress, and insulin. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

May 2011 1

  1. 2011-05-31

    New insights: dose-response relationship between psychotropic drugs and falls: a study in nursing home residents with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of clinical pharmacology

    Key finding: The authors found significant dose-response relationships for the use of antipsychotics (hazard ratio [HR], 2.78; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.49-5.17), anxiolytics (1.60; 1.20-2.14), hypnotics and sedatives (2.58; 1.42-4.68), and antidepressants (2.84; 1.93-4.16). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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