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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 24,201–24,225 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 969 of 1096.

March 2004 5

  1. 2004-03-01

    Patient versus informant perspectives of Quality of Life in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Informant- and self-perceptions of QOL differed substantially. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2004-03-01

    The Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS): a multicultural cognitive assessment scale

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis International psychogeriatrics

    Key finding: The 6-item RUDAS is portable and tests multiple cognitive domains. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2004-03-01

    Plasma levels of beta-amyloid(1-40), beta-amyloid(1-42), and total beta-amyloid remain unaffected in adult patients with hypercholesterolemia after treatment with statins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Archives of neurology

    Key finding: This study questions the effect of statins on the processing of amyloid precursor protein in humans. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2004-03-01

    High prevalence of thorn-shaped astrocytes in the aged human medial temporal lobe

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: Double-labeling with AT8 and anti-GFAP antibodies demonstrated that the abnormal tau protein was deposited in astroglial cell bodies and in proximal and distal astroglial processes. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2004-03-01

    Early Abeta accumulation and progressive synaptic loss, gliosis, and tangle formation in AD brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurology

    Key finding: These data support distinct processes in the initiation and progression of AD pathology within the temporal cortex: Deposition of Abeta reaches a "ceiling" early in the disease process, whereas NFT formation, synaptic loss, and gliosis continue throughout the course of the illness.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

February 2004 20

  1. 2004-02-24

    Transient cerebral ischemia induces aberrant neuronal cell cycle re-entry and Alzheimer's disease-like tauopathy in female rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms The Journal of biological chemistry

    Key finding: Furthermore, inhibition of mitosis-related cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) by roscovitine significantly reduced the hyperphosphorylation of tau. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2004-02-15

    Involvement of oxidative stress-induced abnormalities in ceramide and cholesterol metabolism in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: The pathogenesis of AD is tightly linked to Abeta deposition and oxidative stress, but it remains unclear as to how these factors result in neuronal dysfunction and death. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2004-02-11

    Deaths: preliminary data for 2002

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors PubMed

    Key finding: The age-adjusted death rate in 2002 for the United States decreased from 854.5 deaths per 100,000 population in 2001 to 846.8 in 2002. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2004-02-09

    Incipient Alzheimer's disease: microarray correlation analyses reveal major transcriptional and tumor suppressor responses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: These well powered tests revealed a major transcriptional response comprising thousands of genes significantly correlated with AD markers. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2004-02-06

    Low acetylcholine during slow-wave sleep is critical for declarative memory consolidation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: These findings are in line with predictions that a low cholinergic tone during SWS is essential for declarative memory consolidation.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2004-02-05

    Brain cholesterol: long secret life behind a barrier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology

    Key finding: This oxysterol is capable of escaping the recycling mechanism and traversing the blood-brain barrier. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2004-02-04

    Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of Secondary Structure in Natively Unfolded Proteins: α-Synuclein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Journal of the American Chemical Society

    Key finding: The application of Raman spectroscopy to characterize natively unfolded proteins has been underdeveloped, even though it has significant technical advantages. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2004-02-04

    What's in a name: voxel-based morphometric analyses of MRI and naming difficulty in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Brain : a journal of neurology

    Key finding: We found significant naming deficits in all patient groups. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2004-02-01

    Disclosing a diagnosis of dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving International journal of geriatric psychiatry

    Key finding: Existing evidence regarding diagnostic disclosure in dementia is both inconsistent and limited with the perspectives of people with dementia being largely neglected.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2004-02-01

    Increased risk of type 2 diabetes in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Diabetes

    Key finding: To address this, we first examined the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in a community-based controlled study, the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer Disease Patient Registry (ADPR), which follows patients with Alzheimer disease versus control subjects without Alzheimer disease. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2004-02-01

    The glamour and gloom of glycogen synthase kinase-3

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Trends in biochemical sciences

    Key finding: Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) is now recognized as a key component of a surprisingly large number of cellular processes and diseases. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2004-02-01

    Comparison of kindreds with parkinsonism and alpha-synuclein genomic multiplications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Genomic triplication of the alpha-synuclein gene recently has been associated with familial Parkinson's disease in the Spellman-Muenter kindred.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2004-02-01

    Diagnostic utility of abbreviated fluency measures in Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neurology

    Key finding: A 1-minute semantic fluency test can assist in early detection of dementia in the memory clinic setting. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2004-02-01

    Hippocampal volume and memory performance in a community-based sample of women with posttraumatic stress disorder secondary to child abuse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Journal of traumatic stress

    Key finding: Women with PTSD did not express significant deficits in memory performance or hippocampal volume when compared with the abuse and normal control groups.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2004-02-01

    Medicare program expenditures associated with hospice use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: Hospice enrollment correlates with reduced Medicare expenditures among younger decedents with cancer but increased expenditures among decedents without cancer and those older than 84 years of age. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2004-02-01

    Dying with advanced dementia in the nursing home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: Nursing home residents dying with advanced dementia are not perceived as having a terminal condition, and most do not receive optimal palliative care.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2004-02-01

    Pneumonia in the very old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety The Lancet. Infectious diseases

    Key finding: Although there are no fundamental differences in pathophysiology and microbiology of the two entities, NHAP tends to be much more severe, because milder cases are not referred to the hospital, and residents of nursing homes often suffer from dementia, multiple comorbidities, and decreased functional status. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2004-02-01

    Individual analysis of EEG frequency and band power in mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

    Key finding: This EEG study investigates the role of the cholinergic system, cortico-cortical connections, and sub-cortical white matter on the relationship between individual EEG frequencies and their relative power bands. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2004-02-01

    Nasu-Hakola disease (polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy--PLOSL): a dementia associated with bone cystic lesions. From clinical to genetic and molecular aspects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Cellular and molecular neurobiology

    Key finding: Nasu-Hakola disease is a unique disease characterized by multiple bone cysts associated with a peculiar form of neurodegeneration that leads to dementia and precocious death usually during the fifth decade of life. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2004-02-01

    Binding sites of amyloid beta-peptide in cell plasma membrane and implications for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Current protein & peptide science

    Key finding: This binding has been studied as regards the direct toxicity of Abeta on neurons, and the activation of a local inflammation phase involving microglia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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