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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 22,951–22,975 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 919 of 1096.

October 2006 12

  1. 2006-10-01

    Tracking atrophy progression in familial Alzheimer's disease: a serial MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: Mutation carriers had significantly increased hippocampal and whole-brain atrophy rates compared with controls and these differences increased with time. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2006-10-01

    Mechanisms of Parkinson's disease linked to pathological alpha-synuclein: new targets for drug discovery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Neuron

    Key finding: Classic Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by fibrillar alpha-synuclein inclusions known as Lewy bodies in the substantia nigra, which are associated with nigrostriatal degeneration.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2006-10-01

    Ubiquitinated TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Science (New York, N.Y.)

    Key finding: Although the identity of the ubiquitinated protein specific to either disorder was unknown, we showed that TDP-43 is the major disease protein in both disorders.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2006-10-01

    Prevalence of dementia in rural China: impact of age, gender and education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Acta neurologica Scandinavica

    Key finding: The prevalence of dementia in this population is similar to that reported from other areas in mainland China and Taiwan with aging being a significant risk factor. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2006-10-01

    Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus-associated cognitive impairment in a group of Hispanic women at risk for neurological impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of neurovirology

    Key finding: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated cognitive impairment, a significant cause of morbidity, affects up to 30% of HIV-infected people. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2006-10-01

    Hypoperfusion in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease by arterial spin labeling MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: Frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease display different spatial distributions of hypoperfusion on arterial spin labeling MRI. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2006-10-01

    Comparison of three rating scales as outcome measures for treatment trials of depression in Alzheimer disease: findings from DIADS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: The CSDD, and particularly its mood subscale, appears to be more sensitive than the HDRS, it's subscales or the NPI-M, for comparing drug to placebo in treating major depression in AD patients. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2006-10-01

    Cognitive response to memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer disease patients already receiving donepezil: an exploratory reanalysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: These post-hoc analyses support the beneficial effects of memantine on cognition observed in a previously reported clinical trial. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2006-10-01

    Activities of daily living in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease: an analysis of the treatment effects of memantine in patients receiving stable donepezil treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: In moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease (AD), there are significant losses of activities of daily living (ADL). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2006-10-01

    ADCS Prevention Instrument Project: overview and initial results

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

    Key finding: This initial report describes the ongoing 4-year longitudinal study and provides baseline results, which confirm the feasibility of obtaining home-based clinical information via mail or telephone. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2006-10-01

    Omega-3 fatty acid treatment in 174 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease: OmegAD study: a randomized double-blind trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Archives of neurology

    Key finding: One hundred seventy-four patients fulfilled the trial. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2006-10-01

    Decreased expression and activity of neprilysin in Alzheimer disease are associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: In homogenates of the frontal cortex, NEP protein levels were reduced in AD but not significantly; NEP enzymatic activity was significantly reduced in AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

September 2006 13

  1. 2006-09-29

    CSF phosphorylated tau protein correlates with neocortical neurofibrillary pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Brain

    Hyperphosphorylated tau protein (P-tau) in CSF is a core biomarker candidate of Alzheimer's disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2006-09-29

    The relationship between cerebral Alzheimer's disease pathology and odour identification in old age

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

    Key finding: The results suggest that difficulty in identifying familiar odours in old age is partly due to the accumulation of neurofibrillar pathology in central olfactory regions. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2006-09-29

    Apolipoprotein E and low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein facilitate intraneuronal Abeta42 accumulation in amyloid model mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: We found significantly higher levels of membrane-associated Abeta42 in the hippocampus of mice that overexpressed mLRP2. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2006-09-28

    Spatial patterns of cortical thinning in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: The thickness of the cortex decreased significantly when the healthy elderly brains were compared to those with MCI, mainly in the medial temporal lobe region and in some regions of the frontal and the parietal cortices. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2006-09-28

    Structural anatomy of empathy in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: Voxels in the right temporal pole, the right fusiform gyrus, the right caudate and right subcallosal gyrus correlated significantly with total empathy score (P < 0.05 after whole-brain correction for multiple comparisons). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2006-09-28

    A systematic review of the prevalence and covariates of anxiety in caregivers of people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Coping style may be more associated with anxiety than depression while other covariates (burden and poor physical health) are similar to those for caregiver depression. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2006-09-27

    Selection and characterization of Affibody ligands binding to Alzheimer amyloid beta peptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Journal of biotechnology

    Key finding: Post-selection screening of 384 randomly picked clones, out of which 192 clones were subjected to DNA sequencing and clustering, resulted in the identification of 16 Affibody variants that were produced and affinity purified for ranking of their binding properties. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2006-09-27

    Expression profiles for macrophage alternative activation genes in AD and in mouse models of AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Journal of neuroinflammation

    Key finding: Microglia are associated with neuritic plaques in Alzheimer disease (AD) and serve as a primary component of the innate immune response in the brain. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2006-09-26

    Heterogeneity of ubiquitin pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: classification and relation to clinical phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Acta neuropathologica

    Key finding: The influence of histological type on clinical phenotype was highly significant with type 1 histology being associated clinically with cases of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA), type 2 histology with semantic dementia (SD), and type 3 histology with FTD, or FTD and motor neurone disease (MND).

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2006-09-25

    Resting state oscillatory brain dynamics in Parkinson's disease: an MEG study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

    Key finding: Parkinson's disease is characterized by a slowing of resting state brain activity involving theta, beta and gamma frequency bands. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2006-09-25

    Increased fMRI responses during encoding in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Compared to controls, the MCI subjects exhibited increased fMRI responses in the posterior hippocampal, parahippocampal and fusiform regions, while VBM revealed more atrophy in MCI in the anterior parts of the left hippocampus. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2006-09-21

    Control of peripheral nerve myelination by the beta-secretase BACE1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Science (New York, N.Y.)

    Key finding: We found that very high levels of BACE1 were expressed at time points when peripheral nerves become myelinated.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2006-09-20

    Test performance and classification statistics for the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test in selected clinical samples

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists

    Key finding: Patients were stratified into three age groups, 16-35, 36-59, and 60-88. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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