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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 21,451–21,475 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 859 of 1096.

May 2009 25

  1. 2009-05-27

    The relation between content and structure in language production: an analysis of speech errors in semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Brain and language

    Key finding: Relative to controls, patients were significantly more likely to (a) substitute and omit open class words, (b) substitute (but not omit) closed class words, (c) substitute incorrect complex morphological forms and (d) produce semantically and/or syntactically anomalous sentences. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2009-05-27

    Omega-3 fatty acids and risk of dementia: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The American journal of clinical nutrition

    Key finding: No associations between n-3 PUFAs and dementia or AD were found. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2009-05-26

    Several factors influenced attrition in a population-based elderly cohort: neurological disorders in Central Spain Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of clinical epidemiology

    Key finding: These findings on participants who are at high risk of dropout may be useful in the planning phase of future prospective studies. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2009-05-22

    TDP-43 is intrinsically aggregation-prone, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked mutations accelerate aggregation and increase toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: Here, we report that, in the absence of other components, TDP-43 spontaneously forms aggregates bearing remarkable ultrastructural similarities to TDP-43 deposits in degenerating neurons of ALS and FTLD-U patients [corrected] . +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2009-05-21

    Automated MRI measures identify individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: For the discrimination of mild cognitive impairment, entorhinal cortex thickness, hippocampal volume and supramarginal gyrus thickness demonstrated an area under the curve of 0.91 (specificity 94%, sensitivity 74%, positive likelihood ratio 12.12, negative likelihood ratio 0.29) for the first cohort and an area under the curve of 0.95 (specificity 91%, sensitivity 90%, positive likelihood ratio 10.0, negative likelihood ratio 0.11) for the second cohort. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2009-05-21

    Healthcare proxies of nursing home residents with advanced dementia: decisions they confront and their satisfaction with decision-making

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

    Key finding: HCPs of NH patients with advanced dementia can most commonly expect to encounter medical decisions relating to feeding problems, infections, and pain. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2009-05-20

    Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) protects against methylglyoxal-induced PC12 cell apoptosis through the PI3K/Akt/mTOR/GCLc/redox signaling pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Neuroscience

    Key finding: The data showed that MG induced PC12 apoptosis in accordance with the redox (glutathione (GSH) and GSH/glutathione disulfide [GSSG]) imbalance. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2009-05-20

    Modifiers of cognitive function and brain structure in middle-aged and elderly individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Brain research

    Key finding: T2DM is associated with obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical (HPA) axis abnormalities and inflammation, all of which have been shown to negatively impact the brain. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2009-05-20

    Familial aggregation of parkinsonism in progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurology

    Key finding: Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by aggregates of the microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2009-05-20

    Neural correlates of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic and quantitative meta-analysis involving 1351 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment NeuroImage

    Key finding: Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2009-05-15

    Defining the human hippocampus in cerebral magnetic resonance images--an overview of current segmentation protocols

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans NeuroImage

    Key finding: Directing resources to replication studies that incorporate characteristics of the segmentation protocols presented herein may help resolve seemingly contradictory volumetric results between prior neuroimaging studies and facilitate the appropriate selection of protocols for manual or automated delineation of the hippocampus for future research purposes.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2009-05-14

    Beta-amyloid, blood vessels, and brain function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Stroke

    Key finding: Accumulating evidence suggests that the presence of brain infarction, including silent infarction, influences the course of Alzheimer disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2009-05-13

    Review of lithium effects on brain and blood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Cell transplantation

    Key finding: Recent studies revealed a mechanism that ties together these disparate effects of lithium. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2009-05-13

    Predicting risk of dementia in older adults: The late-life dementia risk index

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neurology

    Key finding: The late-life dementia risk index accurately stratified older adults into those with low, moderate, and high risk of developing dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2009-05-13

    Incidence and prediction of falls in dementia: a prospective study in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk PloS one

    Key finding: The management of symptomatic orthostatic hypotension, autonomic symptoms and depression, and the encouragement of physical activity may provide the core elements for the most fruitful strategy to reduce falls in people with dementia. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2009-05-12

    Brain metabolic correlates of cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid 42 and tau in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

    Key finding: After correction for multiple comparisons, a strong positive association between CSF Abeta42 levels and glucose metabolism was identified for 2 extensive clusters located in the right temporal, prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2009-05-12

    Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using cortical thickness: impact of cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Normalized thickness index at baseline differed significantly among all the four diagnosis groups (P < 0.001) and correctly distinguished Alzheimer's disease patients from healthy controls with an 85% cross-validated accuracy. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2009-05-07

    Rapid progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease in subjects with elevated levels of tau in cerebrospinal fluid and the APOE epsilon4/epsilon4 genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

    Key finding: CSF T-tau and P-tau as well as the APOE epsilon4/epsilon4 genotype are robust predictors of AD and are also associated with a more rapid progression from MCI to AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2009-05-07

    Population variation in glial fibrillary acidic protein levels in brain ageing: relationship to Alzheimer-type pathology and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

    Key finding: In a population-based sample, increasing gliosis precedes development of Alzheimer lesions. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2009-05-05

    Sanfilippo syndrome type B, a lysosomal storage disease, is also a tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: Our findings indicate that the Sanfilippo syndrome type B should also be considered a tauopathy.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2009-05-05

    Periodontitis is associated with cognitive impairment among older adults: analysis of NHANES-III

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

    Key finding: Further exploration of relationships between oral health and cognition is warranted. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2009-05-04

    Longitudinal progression of Alzheimer's-like patterns of atrophy in normal older adults: the SPARE-AD index

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Recent literature suggests that spatial patterns of brain atrophy discriminate amongst Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and cognitively normal (CN) older adults with high accuracy on an individual basis, thereby offering promise that subtle brain changes can be detected during prodromal Alzheimer's disease stages. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2009-05-04

    Purpose in life is associated with mortality among community-dwelling older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Psychosomatic medicine

    Key finding: Greater purpose in life is associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality among community-dwelling older persons. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2009-05-03

    A peptidyl-prolyl isomerase, FKBP12, accumulates in Alzheimer neurofibrillary tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neuroscience letters

    Key finding: Similar results were obtained in reactive astrocytes for the combination of FKBP12 and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2009-05 month only

    Metabolic links between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Expert review of neurotherapeutics

    Key finding: Alterations in insulin signaling, glucose and fatty acid metabolism, as well as the accumulation of oxidatively modified and glycated proteins, are associated with both diabetes and the dementias. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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