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Newest studies

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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 20,276–20,300 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 812 of 1096.

February 2011 25

  1. 2011-02-09

    Caregiver support groups in patients with dementia: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Support groups benefit caregivers and findings of this meta-analysis serve as immediate guidance for group facilitators. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2011-02-08

    Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and plasma fatty acids: data from the Bordeaux sample of the Three-City study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials The British journal of nutrition

    Key finding: After adjusting for age, sex, energy intake, physical activity, smoking status, BMI, plasma TAG and apoE-ɛ4 genotype, plasma palmitoleic acid was significantly inversely associated with MeDi adherence, whereas plasma DHA, the EPA+DHA index and total n-3 PUFA were positively associated with MeDi adherence. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2011-02-08

    Epidemiology of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Nature reviews. Neurology

    Key finding: The neuropathological hallmarks of the AD brain are diffuse and neuritic extracellular amyloid plaques-which are frequently surrounded by dystrophic neurites-and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2011-02-07

    Relation of late-life social activity with incident disability among community-dwelling older adults

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

    Key finding: Social activity is associated with a decreased risk of incident disability in activities of daily living, mobility, and instrumental activities of daily living, among community-dwelling older adults. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2011-02-07

    IScore: a risk score to predict death early after hospitalization for an acute ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Circulation

    Key finding: Among patients with ischemic stroke, factors identifiable within hours of hospital presentation predicted mortality risk at 30 days and 1 year.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2011-02-07

    Treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Parkinson's disease

    Key finding: These complications include motor fluctuations, dyskinesia, unpredictable or absent response to medications, falls, dysautonomia, dementia, hallucinations, sleep disorders, depression, and psychosis. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2011-02-05

    The redox basis of epigenetic modifications: from mechanisms to functional consequences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Antioxidants & redox signaling

    Key finding: Recent research is revealing that redox metabolism is an increasingly important determinant of epigenetic control that may have significant ramifications in both human health and disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2011-02-04

    Alpha-synuclein sequesters Dnmt1 from the nucleus: a novel mechanism for epigenetic alterations in Lewy body diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: Hypomethylation of CpG islands at intron 1 of the SNCA gene has recently been reported to result in overexpression of α-synuclein in Parkinson disease (PD) and related disorders. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2011-02-04

    Pre-dementia clinical stages in presenilin 1 E280A familial early-onset Alzheimer's disease: a retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: The cognitive profile was predominantly amnestic and was associated with multiple domains.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2011-02-02

    Leukocyte telomere length and mortality in the Cardiovascular Health Study

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

    Key finding: These data weakly corroborate prior findings of associations between LTL and mortality in the elderly. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2011-02-02

    Retinal vascular caliber and risk of dementia: the Rotterdam study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurology

    Key finding: Retinal vessels provide a unique opportunity to study both systemic and cerebrovascular disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2011-02-01

    Association of hospice agency profit status with patient diagnosis, location of care, and length of stay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care JAMA

    Key finding: Compared with nonprofit hospice agencies, for-profit hospice agencies had a higher percentage of patients with diagnoses associated with lower-skilled needs and longer lengths of stay. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2011-02-01

    [Efficacy of cognitive training programs based on new software technologies in patients with Alzheimer-type dementia]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Psicothema

    Key finding: The study aims to assess the efficacy of the Big Brain Academy (BBA), a computerized cognitive training program (CT) based on video games, compared to the Integrated Psychostimulation Program (IPP), a classical CT tool for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2011-02-01

    Mediterranean diet and magnetic resonance imaging-assessed cerebrovascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Higher adherence to the MeDi is associated with reduced cerebrovascular disease burden. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2011-02-01

    The frontotemporal dementia mutation R406W blocks tau's interaction with the membrane in an annexin A2-dependent manner

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms The Journal of cell biology

    Key finding: Loss of binding is associated with decreased trapping at the tip of neurites and increased length fluctuations during process growth. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2011-02-01

    Astrocytes: implications for neuroinflammatory pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Current Alzheimer research

    Key finding: Neuroinflammation is involved in the onset of several neurodegenerative disorders. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2011-02-01

    Diagnostic criteria for apathy in clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Apathy is an important and distressing behavioural symptom in Alzheimer's disease and in various neuropsychiatric disorders. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2011-02-01

    Assessment of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) beta-amyloid (1-42), phosphorylated tau (ptau-181) and total Tau protein in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementia at Siriraj Hospital, Thailand

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet thangphaet

    Key finding: The combination of decreased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of beta-amyloid (1-42) and increased levels of phosphorylated tau (ptau-181) or total tau protein are known to be biomarkers ofAlzheimer's disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2011-02-01

    Review: cerebral microvascular pathology in ageing and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

    Key finding: Current evidence suggests that there is decreased vascular density in ageing, Alzheimer's disease and leukoaraiosis, and cerebrovascular dysfunction precedes and accompanies cognitive dysfunction and neurodegeneration.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2011-02-01

    Cognitive function, dementia and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Nature reviews. Endocrinology

    Key finding: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a 1.5-2.5-fold increased risk of dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2011-02-01

    Trends in antipsychotic use in dementia 1999-2007

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Archives of general psychiatry

    Key finding: In 1999, 17.7% (95% confidence interval [CI], 17.2-18.1) of patients with dementia were using atypical or conventional antipsychotics. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2011-02-01

    Determinants of medical expenditures in the last 6 months of life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: It was hypothesized that race or ethnicity, social support, and functional status are independently associated with treatment intensity and controlling for regional characteristics, and that individual characteristics account for a substantial proportion of expenditure variation. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2011-02-01

    Local amygdala structural differences with 3T MRI in patients with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Histologic studies show that the amygdala is affected by Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology, and its medial aspect is the most involved.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2011-02-01

    In vivo fibrillar beta-amyloid detected using [11C]PiB positron emission tomography and neuropathologic assessment in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Archives of neurology

    Key finding: In older adults, variable agreement between in vivo imaging and CERAD NP score was observed. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2011-02-01

    Review: sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

    Key finding: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) may result from focal to widespread amyloid-β protein (Aβ) deposition within leptomeningeal and intracortical cerebral blood vessels. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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