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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 21,526–21,550 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 862 of 1096.

April 2009 15

  1. 2009-04-01

    Dysphagia in patients with dementia: Alzheimer versus vascular

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: The results indicate that there are some different patterns of swallowing disorders. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2009-04-01

    Cognitive training in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Impact on cognitive and functional performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Dementia & neuropsychologia

    Key finding: Aging is associated with cognitive decline, yet this does not prevent older adults from finding ways to compensate for age-related deficits. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2009-04-01

    Neurodegenerative Diseases Target Large-Scale Human Brain Networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neuron

    Key finding: Five different neurodegenerative syndromes cause circumscribed atrophy within five distinct, healthy, human intrinsic functional connectivity networks. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2009-04-01

    Activation of microglia by amyloid {beta} requires P2X7 receptor expression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

    Key finding: Release of this and other nucleotides modulates microglia responses via P2Y and P2X receptors, among which the P2X(7) subtype stands out for its proinflammatory activity and for up-regulation in a transgenic model of Alzheimer disease and in brains from Alzheimer disease patients. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2009-04-01

    TARDBP mutations in motoneuron disease with frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Mutations in TARDBP gene, coding for TDP-43, were found in patients with pure MND. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2009-04-01

    Genetic control of human brain transcript expression in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology American journal of human genetics

    Key finding: We have now analyzed additional samples with a confirmed pathologic diagnosis of late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD; final n = 188 controls, 176 cases). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2009-04-01

    Risk of dementia in MCI: combined effect of cerebrovascular disease, volumetric MRI, and 1H MRS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Neurology

    Key finding: Seventy-five subjects with MCI progressed to dementia by last follow-up. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2009-04-01

    Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative: a one-year follow up study using tensor-based morphometry correlating degenerative rates, biomarkers and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment NeuroImage

    Key finding: Voxelwise statistical analyses revealed regional differences in atrophy rates, and these differences were correlated with clinical measures and biomarkers. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2009-04-01

    A systemic review of the roles of n-3 fatty acids in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of the American Dietetic Association

    Key finding: Furthermore, additional controlled clinical trials are needed to document whether long-term consumption or supplementation with eicosapentaenoic acid/docosahexaenoic acid or the plant-derived counterpart (alpha-linolenic acid) results in better quality of life.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2009-04-01

    The Alzheimer's Disease Centers' Uniform Data Set (UDS): the neuropsychologic test battery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: The results demonstrate performance on tests sensitive to cognitive aging and to the early stages of Alzheimer disease in a relatively well-educated sample. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2009-04-01

    Silent ischemic infarcts are associated with hemorrhage burden in cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: MRI evidence of small subacute infarcts is present in a substantial proportion of living patients with advanced cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2009-04-01

    Hypoglycemic episodes and risk of dementia in older patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis JAMA

    Key finding: Among older patients with type 2 diabetes, a history of severe hypoglycemic episodes was associated with a greater risk of dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2009-04-01

    Neuropathologic intermediate phenotypes enhance association to Alzheimer susceptibility alleles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: Discovery efforts for susceptibility loci for Alzheimer disease could benefit from the use of neuropathologic intermediate phenotypes as a complement to other approaches. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2009-04-01

    A randomized controlled study on effects of ibuprofen on cognitive progression of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Aging clinical and experimental research

    Key finding: Ibuprofen, if used for relatively short periods of time and although well tolerated thanks to gastroprotection, does not seem to be effective in tertiary prevention of mild-moderate AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2009-04-01

    Effect of APOE genotype on amyloid plaque load and gray matter volume in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: These results indicate that the epsilon4-positive APOE genotype not only represents a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), but also results in higher levels of Abeta plaque deposition in epsilon4-positive patients with AD compared to age-matched epsilon4-negative patients with similar levels of cognitive impairment and brain atrophy. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

March 2009 10

  1. 2009-03-31

    Neuroprotective secreted amyloid precursor protein acts by disrupting amyloid precursor protein dimers

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

    Key finding: Regulated proteolysis of APP generates biologically active fragments such as the neuroprotective secreted ectodomain sAPPalpha and the neurotoxic beta-amyloid peptide. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2009-03-31

    Serial PIB and MRI in normal, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: implications for sequence of pathological events in Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: The purpose of this study was to use serial imaging to gain insight into the sequence of pathologic events in Alzheimer's disease, and the clinical features associated with this sequence. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2009-03-31

    The retina in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: In addition, visual symptoms are common, ranging from complaints of dry eyes and reading difficulties, through to perceptual disturbances (feelings of presence and passage) and complex visual hallucinations. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2009-03-26

    The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia: version III--the final common pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Schizophrenia bulletin

    Key finding: This hypothesis seeks to be comprehensive in providing a framework that links risk factors, including pregnancy and obstetric complications, stress and trauma, drug use, and genes, to increased presynaptic striatal dopaminergic function. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2009-03-25

    Neurovascular mechanisms and blood-brain barrier disorder in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: Recent data from brain imaging studies in humans and animal models suggest that cerebrovascular dysfunction may precede cognitive decline and onset of neurodegenerative changes in AD and AD models. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2009-03-25

    Validity of the CogState brief battery: relationship to standardized tests and sensitivity to cognitive impairment in mild traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, and AIDS dementia complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists

    Key finding: Taken together, the results suggest that the cognitive paradigms operationally defined in the CogState brief battery have acceptable construct and criterion validity in a neuropsychological context.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2009-03-24

    Image-driven population analysis through mixture modeling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools IEEE transactions on medical imaging

    Key finding: Our analysis suggests that these subgroups mainly correspond to age groups. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2009-03-24

    Hippocampal tau pathology is related to neuroanatomical connections: an ageing population-based study

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

    Key finding: In this population sample, which includes the full ageing spectrum from individuals with no cognitive impairment to those with dementia satisfying clinico-pathology criteria for Alzheimer's disease, we have demonstrated a high prevalence at death of tau pathology. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2009-03-24

    Mild behavioral impairment and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 358 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The Journal of clinical psychiatry

    Key finding: Thirty-four percent of MCI patients and over 70% of patients with MBI developed dementia (log-rank p = .011). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2009-03-21

    Exposure to enriched environment restores the survival and differentiation of new born cells in the hippocampus and ameliorates depressive symptoms in chronically stressed rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Neuroscience letters

    Key finding: Recently, we demonstrated that EE following restraint stress restores cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus (DG), hippocampal volume and learning. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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