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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 20,126–20,150 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 806 of 1096.

May 2011 25

  1. 2011-05-09

    A systematic review of different models of home and community care services for older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery BMC health services research

    Key finding: The outcomes of each model of care differ and correspond to the model's focus. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2011-05-09

    Risk factors and preventive interventions for Alzheimer disease: state of the science

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Currently, insufficient evidence exists to draw firm conclusions on the association of any modifiable factors with risk of AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2011-05-09

    Comparison of analytical platforms for cerebrospinal fluid measures of β-amyloid 1-42, total tau, and p-tau181 for identifying Alzheimer disease amyloid plaque pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Archives of neurology

    Key finding: The INNOTEST and INNO-BIA CSF platforms perform equally well in identifying individuals with underlying amyloid plaque pathology. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2011-05-06

    β-carboline compounds, including harmine, inhibit DYRK1A and tau phosphorylation at multiple Alzheimer's disease-related sites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's PloS one

    Key finding: We and others have implicated DYRK1A in the phosphorylation of tau protein on multiple sites associated with tau pathology in Down Syndrome and in Alzheimer's disease (AD). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2011-05-06

    Alzheimer's disease markers, hypertension, and gray matter damage in normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: It is not well known whether Alzheimer's disease (AD) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers are associated with brain damage in cognitively normal elderly. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2011-05-06

    The effect of comorbidity burden on health care utilization for patients with cancer using hospice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of palliative medicine

    Key finding: These findings underscore the complexity of the hospice patient population and highlight a potential need to risk adjust the per diem hospice reimbursement rates to account for increased resource requirements for hospices serving patients with higher comorbidity burden. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2011-05-04

    Complement in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Molecular immunology

    Key finding: As a result, the detection and clearance of invading microorganisms and senescent cells as well as surplus neurotransmitters, aged and glycated proteins, in order to maintain a healthy environment for neuronal and glial cells, is largely confined to the innate immune system. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2011-05-03

    Decision-making and outcomes of feeding tube insertion: a five-state study

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

    Key finding: Based on the perceptions of bereaved family members, important opportunities exist to improve decision-making in feeding tube insertion. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2011-05-03

    Depression and risk of developing dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Nature reviews. Neurology

    Key finding: In particular, earlier-life depression (or depressive symptoms) has consistently been associated with a more than twofold increase in dementia risk.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2011-05 month only

    More good news about the magic ion: lithium may prevent dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

    Key finding: Lithium is an established treatment for affective disorders with good evidence of antisuicidal properties. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2011-05-01

    Soluble Aβ oligomers inhibit long-term potentiation through a mechanism involving excessive activation of extrasynaptic NR2B-containing NMDA receptors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: We examined field EPSPs and whole-cell recordings in wild-type mouse hippocampal slices. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2011-05-01

    Disease-modifying properties of long-term lithium treatment for amnestic mild cognitive impairment: randomised controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

    Key finding: The present data support the notion that lithium has disease-modifying properties with potential clinical implications in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2011-05-01

    Mutations in DNMT1 cause hereditary sensory neuropathy with dementia and hearing loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Nature genetics

    Key finding: Exome sequencing led to the identification of DNMT1 mutation c.1484A>G (p.Tyr495Cys) in two American kindreds and one Japanese kindred and a triple nucleotide change, c.1470-1472TCC>ATA (p.Asp490Glu-Pro491Tyr), in one European kindred. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2011-05-01

    Boosting brain uptake of a therapeutic antibody by reducing its affinity for a transcytosis target

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Science translational medicine

    Key finding: Anti-TfR antibodies that bind with high affinity to TfR remain associated with the BBB, whereas lower-affinity anti-TfR antibody variants are released from the BBB into the brain and show a broad distribution 24 hours after dosing. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2011-05-01

    FTD and ALS: a tale of two diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: Over the last 150 years, and especially in the last two decades, there has been growing evidence that FTD signs can be seen in patients primarily diagnosed with ALS, implying clinical overlap among these two disorders. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2011-05-01

    Brain oligomeric β-amyloid but not total amyloid plaque burden correlates with neuronal loss and astrocyte inflammatory response in amyloid precursor protein/tau transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: An alternative hypothesis is that soluble oligomers ofAβ play a much larger role in neuronal damage than the insoluble component. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2011-05-01

    Etiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

    Key finding: Based on the actions of toxins, postmortem investigations, and gene defects responsible for familial Parkinson's disease, there is now a general consensus about the mechanisms of cell death that contribute to neuronal loss in Parkinson's disease. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2011-05-01

    Lewy- and Alzheimer-type pathologies in Parkinson's disease dementia: which is more important?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Cortical and striatal amyloid-β scores, Braak tau stages, cortical Lewy body, Lewy neurite scores and Lewy body densities, but not Braak α-synuclein stages, were all significantly greater in the Parkinson's disease-dementia group (P<0.05), with all the pathologies showing a significant positive correlation to each other (P<0.05). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2011-05-01

    Parkinson's disease: the quintessential neuropsychiatric disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

    Key finding: In addition to the most commonly studied disorders of dementia, depression, and psychosis, other relatively common and clinically significant psychiatric complications include impulse control disorders, anxiety symptoms, disorders of sleep and wakefulness, and apathy.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2011-05-01

    Midlife overweight and obesity increase late-life dementia risk: a population-based twin study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurology

    Key finding: Both overweight and obesity at midlife independently increase the risk of dementia, AD, and VaD. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2011-05-01

    Incidence of and risk factors for dementia in the Ibadan study of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: At 3-year follow-up, 85 participants had developed dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2011-05-01

    Telephone-based identification of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in a multicultural cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Archives of neurology

    Key finding: The TICS has high diagnostic validity for identification of dementia among ethnically diverse older adults, especially when supported by the DQ and prior visit data. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2011-05-01

    Executive function and instrumental activities of daily living in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: This relationship was evident even after accounting for degree of memory deficit across the continuum of cognitive impairment and dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2011-05-01

    Diet and Alzheimer's disease risk factors or prevention: the current evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Expert review of neurotherapeutics

    Key finding: Poorer cognitive function and an increased risk of vascular dementia (VaD) were found to be associated with a lower consumption of milk or dairy products. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2011-05-01

    Test-retest reliability of memory task functional magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer disease clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Encoding-task fMRI was successfully implemented in a single-site, 24-week, AD randomized controlled trial. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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