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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 21,376–21,400 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 856 of 1096.

July 2009 19

  1. 2009-07-01

    Different cognitive profiles for single compared with recurrent fallers without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Neuropsychology

    Key finding: Relationships between self-reported retrospective falls and cognitive measures (executive function, reaction time [RT], processing speed, working memory, visual attention) were examined in a population based sample of older adults (n = 658).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2009-07-01

    Pyroglutamate formation influences solubility and amyloidogenicity of amyloid peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Biochemistry

    Key finding: The far-UV CD spectroscopic analysis points toward an enhanced beta-sheet structure of the pGlu-Abeta. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2009-07-01

    Tangle-bearing neurons survive despite disruption of membrane integrity in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are associated with neuronal loss and correlate with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease, but how NFTs relate to neuronal death is not clear. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2009-07-01

    Presenilins are essential for regulating neurotransmitter release

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature

    Key finding: Moreover, we found that presynaptic but not postsynaptic inactivation of presenilins alters short-term plasticity and synaptic facilitation. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2009-07-01

    Amyloid Deposition Is Associated with Impaired Default Network Function in Older Persons without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neuron

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2009-07-01

    Longitudinal modeling of age-related memory decline and the APOE epsilon4 effect

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology The New England journal of medicine

    Key finding: The APOE epsilon4 allele is associated with the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2009-07-01

    Mild cognitive impairment in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Annals of neurology

    Key finding: In both its association with PD and its idiopathic form, RBD is an important risk factor for MCI. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2009-07-01

    Non-Fluent Speech in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of neurolinguistics

    Key finding: PNFA patients were significantly less fluent than controls and other FTLD patients. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2009-07-01

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes: progressive tauopathy after repetitive head injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: Since the 1920s, it has been known that the repetitive brain trauma associated with boxing may produce a progressive neurological deterioration, originally termed dementia pugilistica, and more recently, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2009-07-01

    Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for dementia and cognitive decline: meta-analysis of prospective studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: The pooled relative risks (RRs) of AD, VaD, and Any dementia for light to moderate drinkers compared with nondrinkers were 0.72 (95% CI = 0.61-0.86), 0.75 (95% CI = 0.57-0.98), and 0.74 (95% CI = 0.61-0.91), respectively. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2009-07-01

    Dementia in the acute hospital: prospective cohort study of prevalence and mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

    Key finding: The rising prevalence of dementia will have an impact on acute hospitals.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2009-07-01

    Superficial siderosis in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Our results provide further indirect support for the presumed link between superficial siderosis and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2009-07-01

    MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal, MCI, and AD subjects: diagnostic discrimination and cognitive correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: We found no significant correlation between CSF biomarkers and cognitive scores in any of the 3 clinical groups individually. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2009-07-01

    MRI and CSF biomarkers in normal, MCI, and AD subjects: predicting future clinical change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: MRI and CSF provide complimentary predictive information about time to conversion from amnestic mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease and combination of the 2 provides better prediction than either source alone. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2009-07-01

    Drugs with anticholinergic properties, cognitive decline, and dementia in an elderly general population: the 3-city study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: Elderly people taking anticholinergic drugs were at increased risk for cognitive decline and dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2009-07-01

    CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis JAMA

    Key finding: During follow-up, 271 participants with MCI were diagnosed with AD and 59 with other dementias. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2009-07-01

    Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and cognitive decline in older adults with hypertension: results from the Cardiovascular Health Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: These results should be confirmed with a randomized clinical trial of a centrally active ACE inhibitor in the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2009-07-01

    Efficacy of rivastigmine for cognitive symptoms in Parkinson disease with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The neurologist

    Key finding: Rivastigmine therapy for PDD is associated with significant tradeoffs in efficacy and adverse effects. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2009-07-01

    Characteristics and performance of a modified version of the ADCS-CGIC CIBIC+ for mild cognitive impairment clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: Change detected by the MCI-CGIC was associated with baseline clinical severity and with change in clinical ratings over 6 and 12 months, supporting the validity of a CGIC approach in MCI. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

June 2009 6

  1. 2009-06-30

    Change in Blood Pressure and Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Hypertension

    Key finding: In an analysis of 1890 men who completed all 6 of the exams, 112 diagnosed with incident dementia at examination 6 were compared with the 1778 survivors without dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2009-06-30

    Impairment of synaptic plasticity and memory formation in GLP-1 receptor KO mice: Interaction between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Behavioural brain research

    Key finding: Previous studies have shown that the incretin glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) helps to normalise insulin signalling in type 2 diabetes. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2009-06-30

    Greater than the sum of its parts: a review of studies combining structural connectivity and resting-state functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Brain structure & function

    Key finding: All studies examined show largely convergent results: the strength of resting-state functional connectivity is positively correlated with structural connectivity strength.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2009-06-30

    Elevated basal cortisol level predicts lower hippocampal volume and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia

    Key finding: Basal plasma cortisol levels increased with age. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2009-06-28

    Age-associated cerebral atrophy in mouse lemur primates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Cross-sectional analysis suggests that the atrophy follows a gradual pathway, starting in the frontal region then involving the temporal and/or the parietal part of the brain and finally the occipital region. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2009-06-27

    Dementia and life expectancy: what do we know?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

    Key finding: Despite much data, we lack a unifying guideline for dementia prognostication.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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