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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 23,951–23,975 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 959 of 1096.

October 2004 6

  1. 2004-10-01

    Detection and management of cognitive impairment in primary care: The Steel Valley Seniors Survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Physicians noted impairment in a minority of impaired patients. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2004-10-01

    Clinical and neuropathologic variation in neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Neurology

    Key finding: NIFID is a neuropathologically distinct, clinically heterogeneous variant of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) that may include parkinsonism or MND.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2004-10-01

    Barriers to excellent end-of-life care for patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Journal of general internal medicine

    Key finding: While great strides have been made recently in improving end-of-life care in the United States, people with dementia often die with inadequate pain control, with feeding tubes in place, and without the benefits of hospice care. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2004-10-01

    Alcohol intake in relation to brain magnetic resonance imaging findings in older persons without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging The American journal of clinical nutrition

    Key finding: Light-to-moderate alcohol intake is associated with a lower prevalence of vascular brain findings and, in APOE epsilon4 carriers, hippocampal and amygdalar atrophy on MRI. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2004-10-01

    The relationship between brain structure and neurocognition in schizophrenia: a selective review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Schizophrenia research

    Key finding: The review revealed that whole brain volume tends to correlate with the measures of general intelligence as well as with a range of specific cognitive functions in normal controls and female schizophrenia patients, but this relationship is disrupted in male patients. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2004-10-01

    Clinical, genetic, and neuropathologic characteristics of posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology

    Key finding: The authors identified 40 PCA cases. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

September 2004 19

  1. 2004-09-30

    RAGE (yin) versus LRP (yang) balance regulates alzheimer amyloid beta-peptide clearance through transport across the blood-brain barrier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Stroke

    Key finding: Whether Abeta-related pathology in the CNS is reversible or not and what key therapeutic targets are controlling Abeta/amyloid levels in the aging brain remain debatable. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2004-09-30

    Amyloid angiopathy-related vascular cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Stroke

    Key finding: The two population-based autopsy studies that have analyzed cognitive status during life as a function of CAA have each suggested deleterious effects of CAA on cognition even after controlling for age and Alzheimer disease pathology. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2004-09-27

    Spatial memory, recognition memory, and the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: These findings show that the hippocampus is important for both spatial memory and recognition memory.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2004-09-21

    Ability to perform activities of daily living is the main factor affecting quality of life in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Health and quality of life outcomes

    Key finding: Dependency upon others to perform ADL was the main factor affecting HRQoL. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2004-09-15

    Frontal-hippocampal double dissociation between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

    Key finding: Group-level analyses revealed that nondemented age-related differences were greater in anterior than posterior callosal regions and were not augmented by early-stage AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2004-09-13

    Disruption of ceruloplasmin and hephaestin in mice causes retinal iron overload and retinal degeneration with features of age-related macular degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: This pathology indicates that Cp and Heph are critical for CNS iron homeostasis and that loss of Cp and Heph in the mouse leads to age-dependent retinal neurodegeneration, providing a model that can be used to test the therapeutic efficacy of iron chelators and antiangiogenic agents.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2004-09-09

    Chronic administration of statins alters multiple gene expression patterns in mouse cerebral cortex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics

    Key finding: These studies revealed 15 genes involved in cell growth and signaling and trafficking that were similarly changed by all three statins. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2004-09-01

    REM Sleep Behavior Disorder in Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

    Key finding: Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia manifested by vivid, often frightening dreams associated with simple or complex motor behavior during REM sleep. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2004-09-01

    Motor signs during the course of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Costs and economics Neurology

    Key finding: Most motor signs occur frequently and progress rapidly in Alzheimer disease. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2004-09-01

    Deciphering the molecular basis of memory failure in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuron

    Key finding: Experiments in rodents suggest that soluble oligomers of the amyloid beta protein (Abeta) may discretely interfere with synaptic mechanisms mediating aspects of learning and memory, including long-term potentiation. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2004-09-01

    Docosahexaenoic acid protects from dendritic pathology in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Neuron

    Key finding: High DHA consumption is associated with reduced Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, yet mechanisms and therapeutic potential remain elusive. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2004-09-01

    The Informant Questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly (IQCODE): a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: Because the IQCODE provides information complementary to brief cognitive tests, harnessing them together can improve screening accuracy.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2004-09-01

    Techniques to study amyloid fibril formation in vitro

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Methods (San Diego, Calif.)

    Key finding: Amyloid fibrils are ordered aggregates of peptides or proteins that are fibrillar in structure and contribute to the complications of many diseases (e.g., type 2 diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's disease, and primary systemic amyloidosis). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2004-09-01

    Pharmacological inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase 3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Trends in pharmacological sciences

    Key finding: A large body of evidence supports speculation that pharmacological inhibitors of GSK-3 could be used to treat several diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, bipolar affective disorder, diabetes, and diseases caused by unicellular parasites that express GSK-3 homologues. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2004-09-01

    Early N-terminal changes and caspase-6 cleavage of tau in Alzheimer's disease

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

    Key finding: Collectively, these results suggest a role for caspase-6 and N-terminal truncation of tau during neurofibrillary tangle evolution and the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2004-09-01

    Strategies for disease modification in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Nature reviews. Neuroscience

    Key finding: Treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the biggest unmet medical need in neurology. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2004-09-01

    Frontal lobe volume, function, and beta-amyloid pathology in a canine model of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: In vitro neuropathological studies and behavioral measures in a canine model of aging previously suggested that the frontal lobes of the dog might be sensitive to aging. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2004-09-01

    Smaller hippocampal volume in Dutch police officers with posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Biological psychiatry

    Key finding: We confirmed previous findings of smaller hippocampal volume in PTSD in a new population made up of police officers, excluding comorbidity as a confounder. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2004-09-01

    Methods for assessment of cognitive failure and delirium in palliative care patients: implications for practice and research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Palliative medicine

    Key finding: Ten different instruments were used: The Mini Mental State Exam was used in 13 studies. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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