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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 21,576–21,600 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 864 of 1096.

March 2009 24

  1. 2009-03-01

    Mg2+ imparts NMDA receptor subtype selectivity to the Alzheimer's drug memantine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: As a result, therapeutic memantine concentrations should have negligible effects on NR1/2A or NR1/2B receptor activity but pronounced effects on NR1/2C and NR1/2D receptors. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2009-03-01

    Enriched environment restores hippocampal cell proliferation and ameliorates cognitive deficits in chronically stressed rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Journal of neuroscience research

    Key finding: We observed that chronic restraint stress severely affected formation of new cells and learning. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2009-03-01

    Effects of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment on driving ability: a controlled clinical study by simulated driving test

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Mild AD significantly impaired simulated driving fitness, while MCI limitedly affected driving performance. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2009-03-01

    Cognitive training for early-stage Alzheimer's disease and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of gerontological nursing

    Key finding: The purpose of this article is to critically review and synthesize the literature on the effects of nonpharmacological cognitive training on dementia symptoms in early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2009-03-01

    Association of total tau and phosphorylated tau 181 protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid with cerebral atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN

    Key finding: We sought to examine the association of levels of total tau (t-tau) and phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181) protein with brain morphology in mild cognitive impairment, as defined by the concept of aging-associated cognitive decline (AACD) and Alzheimer disease. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2009-03-01

    Cerebrospinal fluid {beta}-amyloid 42 and tau proteins as biomarkers of Alzheimer-type pathologic changes in the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Archives of neurology

    Key finding: There is a clear need to develop an objective diagnostic test for Alzheimer disease (AD). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2009-03-01

    Visuospatial memory in healthy elderly, AD and MCI: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Current aging science

    Key finding: Further, recent studies have suggested that the allocentric component of spatial memory might be taken as predictor of AD from MCI.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2009-03-01

    Source-based morphometry: the use of independent component analysis to identify gray matter differences with application to schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Human brain mapping

    Key finding: Finally, statistical analyses are used to determine the significant sources and their relationship to other variables. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2009-03-01

    Midlife and late-life obesity and the risk of dementia: cardiovascular health study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Archives of neurology

    Key finding: These results help explain the "obesity paradox" as differences in dementia risk across time are consistent with physical changes in the trajectory toward disability. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2009-03-01

    The role of metabolic disorders in Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia: two roads converged

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Archives of neurology

    Key finding: In recent years a rapidly increasing number of studies has focused on the relationship between dementia and metabolic disorders such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2009-03-01

    The impact of the quality of relationship on the experiences and wellbeing of caregivers of people with dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Aging & mental health

    Key finding: Future research should examine both current and pre-caregiving relationship quality.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2009-03-01

    Prevalence, correlates and course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

    Key finding: Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia affect nearly all people with dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2009-03-01

    Hippocampal atrophy rates in Alzheimer disease: added value over whole brain volume measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Whole brain atrophy rate discriminates Alzheimer disease (AD) from MCI.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2009-03-01

    Progressive supranuclear palsy: clinicopathological concepts and diagnostic challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: Since the first description of PSP in 1963, several distinct clinical syndromes have been described that are associated with PSP; this discovery challenges the traditional clinicopathological definition and complicates diagnosis in the absence of a reliable, disease-specific biomarker.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2009-03-01

    Montreal Cognitive Assessment Arabic version: reliability and validity prevalence of mild cognitive impairment among elderly attending geriatric clubs in Cairo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Geriatrics & gerontology international

    Key finding: Test-retest reliability data of the Arabic MoCA were collected approximately 35.0 +/- 17.6 days apart. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2009-03-01

    Cognitive and sensory declines in old age: gauging the evidence for a common cause

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Psychology and aging

    Key finding: The authors examined reliability-adjusted variances and covariances in longitudinal change for 8 cognitive measures and for close visual acuity, distant visual acuity, and hearing in 516 participants in the Berlin Aging Study (ages 70 to 103 years at 1st measurement). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2009-03-01

    Fish consumption, long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and risk of cognitive decline or Alzheimer disease: a complex association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Nature clinical practice. Neurology

    Key finding: All three observational studies that used cognitive decline as an outcome reported significant benefits, whereas only four of eight observational studies that used incidence of AD or dementia as an outcome reported positive findings.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2009-03-01

    Can cognitive exercise prevent the onset of dementia? Systematic review of randomized clinical trials with longitudinal follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Cognitive exercise training in healthy older individuals produces strong and persistent protective effects on longitudinal neuropsychological performance. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2009-03-01

    Commentary on "A roadmap for the prevention of dementia II. Leon Thal Symposium 2008." The Multidomain Alzheimer Preventive Trial (MAPT): a new approach to the prevention of Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: The MAPT Study is the first preventive trial involving multidomain interventions. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2009-03-01

    Alzheimer's Disease Anti-inflammatory Prevention Trial: design, methods, and baseline results

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

    Key finding: Enrollment began in March 2001 and ended in December 2004 when treatments were suspended because of concerns regarding cardiovascular safety of the treatments.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2009-03-01

    CSF biomarkers in relationship to cognitive profiles in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: Clusters of CSF biomarker levels are related to cognitive profiles in Alzheimer disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2009-03-01

    APOE epsilon2 is associated with intact cognition but increased Alzheimer pathology in the oldest old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: In the oldest old, the presence of the APOE epsilon2 allele (APOE2) was associated with a somewhat reduced risk of dementia, but paradoxically was associated with increased Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2009-03-01

    Contribution of vascular risk factors to the progression in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Archives of neurology

    Key finding: In generalized estimating equation models (adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, and years of education), higher cholesterol (total cholesterol and LDL-C) concentrations and history of diabetes were associated with faster cognitive decline. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2009-03-01

    PGC-1alpha expression decreases in the Alzheimer disease brain as a function of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Therapeutic preservation of neuronal PGC-1alpha expression promotes the nonamyloidogenic processing of amyloid precursor protein precluding the generation of amyloidogenic Abeta peptides. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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  1. 2009-02-27

    MRI of hippocampal volume loss in early Alzheimer's disease in relation to ApoE genotype and biomarkers

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

    Key finding: Moreover, increased rates of hippocampal loss were associated with presence of the ApoE allele epsilon4 gene in Alzheimer's disease and lower CSF Abeta(1-42) in mild cognitive impairment, irrespective of ApoE genotype, whereas relations with tau were only trends.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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