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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 20,801–20,825 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 833 of 1096.

May 2010 25

  1. 2010-05-18

    Recording care time in nursing homes: development and validation of the "RUD-FOCA" (Resource Utilization in Dementia-Formal Care)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Overall time and the times for ADL care and supervision can be considered valid estimates. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2010-05-17

    Effect of prolonged exposure to diesel engine exhaust on proinflammatory markers in different regions of the rat brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Particle and fibre toxicology

    Key finding: Our results indicate that different brain regions may be uniquely responsive to changes induced by exposure to DEE. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2010-05-17

    Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype has dissociable effects on memory and attentional-executive network function in Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: The epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but limited work has suggested that APOE genotype may modulate disease phenotype. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2010-05-17

    Amyloid imaging results from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurobiology of Aging

    Key finding: High PiB binding was present in 33% of HC (49% in ApoE-epsilon4 carriers vs 21% in noncarriers) and increased with age, most strongly in epsilon4 carriers. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2010-05-16

    Plasma Abeta42 and Abeta40 as markers of cognitive change in follow-up: a prospective, longitudinal, population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: Low or decreasing plasma Aβ42 during the follow-up is associated with cognitive decline. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2010-05-14

    Exploring the brain network: a review on resting-state fMRI functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology

    Key finding: These studies have revealed interesting new findings about the functional connections of specific brain regions and local networks, as well as important new insights in the overall organization of functional communication in the brain network. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2010-05-14

    Systemic inflammation induces acute working memory deficits in the primed brain: relevance for delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: LPS-treated ME7 animals showed heightened and prolonged transcription of inflammatory mediators in the central nervous system (CNS), compared with LPS-treated normal animals, despite having equivalent levels of circulating cytokines.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2010-05-14

    Validity of the telephone interview for cognitive status (TICS) and modified TICS (TICSm) for mild cognitive imparment (MCI) and dementia screening

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Archives of gerontology and geriatrics

    Key finding: TICS and TICSm were administered to 70 cognitively normal (CN), 75 MCI, and 85 dementia subjects, with mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and other cognitive and functional measures. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2010-05-14

    Reduction of brain beta-amyloid (Abeta) by fluvastatin, a hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitor, through increase in degradation of amyloid precursor protein C-terminal fragments (APP-CTFs) and Abeta clearance

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

    Key finding: Although one possible explanation is through an effect on beta-amyloid (Abeta) metabolism, its effect remains to be elucidated. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2010-05-12

    Longitudinal fMRI in elderly reveals loss of hippocampal activation with clinical decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: Longitudinal fMRI provides a reliable indicator of brain activation over time, and may prove useful in identifying functional brain changes associated with cognitive decline on the trajectory toward clinical Alzheimer disease. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2010-05-11

    Physical activity and functional limitations in older adults: a systematic review related to Canada's Physical Activity Guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity

    Key finding: Sixty-six studies met inclusion criteria for the relationship between physical activity and functional independence, and 34 were included with a cognitive function outcome. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2010-05-07

    Glycemia and levels of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid and tau in patients attending a memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: In regression analyses across the whole study sample adjusted for age, sex, and diagnostic group, there was no relationship between HbA1c or fasting glucose and CSF tau, p-tau 182, or Abeta42 levels. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2010-05-07

    Alzheimer disease pathology in cognitively healthy elderly: a genome-wide study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Both a genotype test, using logistic regression, and an allele test provided consistent evidence that variants in the RELN gene are associated with neuropathology in the context of cognitive health. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2010-05-06

    Cognition, language, and clinical pathological features of non-Alzheimer's dementias: an overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of communication disorders

    Key finding: The value and durability of this potential contribution, however, demands an improved discipline-wide knowledge base about the unique features associated with different dementia variants.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2010-05-06

    Genome-wide analysis of miRNA expression reveals a potential role for miR-144 in brain aging and spinocerebellar ataxia pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Neurodegenerative pathologies associated with aging exhibit clinical and morphological features that are relatively specific to humans. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2010-05-05

    Dual-task performances can be improved in patients with dementia: a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neurology

    Key finding: Classification of evidence This study provides Class II evidence that specific dual-task training improves dual-task performance during walking under complex S3 conditions in geriatric patients with mild to moderate dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2010-05-02

    Why pleiotropic interventions are needed for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Molecular neurobiology

    Key finding: This approach would not only focus on blocking early events in pathogenesis, but also adequately correct for loss of synapses, substrates for neuroprotective pathways (e.g., docosahexaenoic acid), defects in energy metabolism, and adverse consequences of inappropriate compensatory responses (aberrant sprouting). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2010-05-02

    Metabolic-cognitive syndrome: a cross-talk between metabolic syndrome and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Ageing research reviews

    Key finding: A growing body of epidemiological evidence suggested that metabolic syndrome (MetS) and Mets components (impaired glucose tolerance, abdominal or central obesity, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, and reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol) may be important in the development of age-related cognitive decline (ARCD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), vascular dementia, and Alzheimer's disease (AD). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2010-05-01

    Deaths: final data for 2007

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System

    Key finding: Mortality patterns in 2007, such as the decline in the age-adjusted death rate to a record historical low, were generally consistent with long-term trends.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2010-05-01

    The assessment of frailty in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Clinics in geriatric medicine

    Key finding: Expanded models of physical frailty (models that included clusters other than the original 5 items such as dementia) increased considerably the predicting capacity of poor clinical outcomes when compared with the predictive capacity of the physical phenotype.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2010-05-01

    Alzheimer's disease: strategies for disease modification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Nature reviews. Drug discovery

    Key finding: Current drugs improve symptoms, but do not have profound disease-modifying effects. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2010-05-01

    Update on the magnetic resonance imaging core of the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: We will modernize and expand the MRI protocol for all newly enrolled ADNI-GO and ADNI-2 subjects. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2010-05-01

    Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative biomarkers as quantitative phenotypes: Genetics core aims, progress, and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Major goals include (1) blood sample processing, genotyping, and dissemination, (2) genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of longitudinal phenotypic data, and (3) providing a central resource, point of contact and planning group for genetics within the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2010-05-01

    Clinical Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: progress and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    Key finding: Furthermore, these data have facilitated the development of novel clinical trial designs. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2010-05-01

    Concomitant astroglial atrophy and astrogliosis in a triple transgenic animal model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Glia

    Key finding: We found reduction of surface and volume of GFAP profiles from early ages (6 months; 43.84 and 52.76%, respectively), persisting at 12 (40.73 and 45.39%) and 18 months (64.80 and 71.95%) in the dentate gyrus (DG) of 3xTg-AD, whereas in CA1 it appears at 18 months (29.42 and 32.74%). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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