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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 22,976–23,000 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 920 of 1096.

September 2006 25

  1. 2006-09-13

    Chronic psychological distress and risk of Alzheimer's disease in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Neuroepidemiology

    Key finding: Clinical and pathological data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project were used to test the hypothesis that distress proneness is associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2006-09-13

    Nephrologists' reported preparedness for end-of-life decision-making

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

    Key finding: The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived preparedness of nephrologists to make end-of-life decisions and to determine factors that are associated with the highest level of perceived preparedness. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2006-09-11

    Age-dependent axonal degeneration in an Alzheimer mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: We conclude that the intraneuronal accumulation of Abeta-amyloid peptides is followed by axonal degeneration, and thus might be a causative factor for the axonal changes seen in AD.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2006-09-11

    Caregiver burden, health-related quality of life and coping in dementia caregivers: a comparison of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

    Key finding: Overall, passive coping strategies were associated with increased burden and decreased HQoL. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2006-09-10

    Hereditary parkinsonism with dementia is caused by mutations in ATP13A2, encoding a lysosomal type 5 P-type ATPase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Nature genetics

    Key finding: Our findings link a class of proteins with unknown function and substrate specificity to the protein networks implicated in neurodegeneration and parkinsonism.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2006-09-07

    Phenotype associated with APP duplication in five families

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: This study describes the phenotype of this new entity. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2006-09-07

    Dyrk1A phosphorylates alpha-synuclein and enhances intracellular inclusion formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: The Dyrk1A gene resides in the human chromosome 21q22.2 region, which is associated with DS anomalies, including mental retardation. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2006-09-04

    Effects of cholinergic drugs and cognitive training on dementia: 2-year follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

    Key finding: Several studies have shown that pharmacological and cognitive treatments for Alzheimers's disease improve cognitive function for short periods, but fewer studies have evaluated the efficacy of those treatments for longer (2-year) periods. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2006-09-01

    Enriched environments, experience-dependent plasticity and disorders of the nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature reviews. Neuroscience

    Key finding: Behavioural, cellular and molecular studies have revealed significant effects of enriched environments on rodents and other species, and provided new insights into mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity, including adult neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2006-09-01

    Effects of nutrients (in food) on the structure and function of the nervous system: update on dietary requirements for brain. Part 1: micronutrients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The journal of nutrition, health & aging

    Key finding: More specifically, the full genetic potential of the child for physical growth ad mental development may be compromised due to deficiency (even subclinical) of micronutrients. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2006-09-01

    Amyloid-beta peptide remnants in AN-1792-immunized Alzheimer's disease patients: a biochemical analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The American journal of pathology

    Key finding: Experiments with amyloid-beta (Abeta)-42-immunized transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease have revealed amyloid plaque disruption and apparent cognitive function recovery. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2006-09-01

    Exogenous induction of cerebral beta-amyloidogenesis is governed by agent and host

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

    Key finding: Protein aggregation is an established pathogenic mechanism in Alzheimer's disease, but little is known about the initiation of this process in vivo. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2006-09-01

    Update on hypertension and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neurological research

    Key finding: Even though hypertension only results in a moderately increased risk of AD, or overall dementia, better treatment of hypertension may have an immense effect on the total number of demented individuals.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2006-09-01

    Association of metabolic syndrome with Alzheimer disease: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neurology

    Key finding: Metabolic syndrome is associated with Alzheimer disease in elderly subjects. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2006-09-01

    Reduced hippocampal volume correlates with executive dysfunctioning in major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN

    Key finding: The present findings emphasize that patients with reduced hippocampal volumes show more executive dysfunctions than their counterparts. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2006-09-01

    Understanding the moral distress of nurses witnessing medically futile care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Oncology nursing forum

    Key finding: Instances of futile care evoke strong emotional responses from nurses, and nurses require support in dealing with their distress. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2006-09-01

    Fracture risk after the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease: Influence of concomitant dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

    Key finding: In an inception cohort of 196 Olmsted County, Minnesota, residents with Parkinson's disease (PD) first recognized in 1976 to 1995, we tested whether the increased risk of bone fractures is associated with concomitant dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2006-09-01

    Long-term neurocognitive function after critical illness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Chest

    Key finding: Current research indicates that neurocognitive sequelae following critical illness are common, may be permanent, and are associated with impairments in daily function, decreased quality of life, and an inability to return to work. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2006-09-01

    Inflammation in Alzheimer disease: driving force, bystander or beneficial response?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Nature medicine

    Key finding: Although there is still little evidence that inflammation triggers or promotes Alzheimer disease, increasing evidence from mouse models suggests that certain inflammatory mediators are potent drivers of the disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2006-09-01

    Cutting Edge: TREM-2 Attenuates Macrophage Activation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics The Journal of Immunology

    Key finding: Taken together, these data show that TREM-2 is expressed on newly differentiated and alternatively activated macrophages and functions to restrain macrophage activation.

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  21. 2006-09-01

    Cognitive dysfunction associates with white matter hyperintensities and subcortical atrophy on magnetic resonance imaging of the elderly diabetes mellitus Japanese elderly diabetes intervention trial (J-EDIT)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews

    Key finding: Type 2 diabetes is associated with cognitive dysfunction and increases the risk of dementia in the elderly. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2006-09-01

    Pin1 in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of neurochemistry

    Key finding: These observations suggest that phosphorylation events are critical to the understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of this devastating disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2006-09-01

    Subtypes of mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: progression to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

    Key finding: Single domain nonmemory MCI and multiple domains slightly impaired MCI were associated with later development of dementia (P = 0.003; P = 0.04), whereas amnestic MCI subtype was not (P = 0.76). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2006-09-01

    Mutations in progranulin are a major cause of ubiquitin-positive frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Human molecular genetics

    Key finding: Both mutations revealed novel mechanisms that result in loss of functional PGRN. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  25. 2006-09-01

    Senile myoclonic epilepsy in Down syndrome: a video and EEG presentation of two cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape

    Key finding: It is clearly associated with an Alzheimer-type dementia, and may also occur in non-DS patients with Alzheimer's disease: hence the possible denomination of "senile myoclonic epilepsy". [Published with video sequences].

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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