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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 24,551–24,575 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 983 of 1096.

March 2003 24

  1. 2003-03-01

    Neurodegenerative diseases and exposure to pesticides in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors American journal of epidemiology

    Key finding: These results suggest the presence of neurologic impairments in elderly persons who were exposed occupationally to pesticides.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2003-03-01

    Protein carbonyl groups as biomarkers of oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry

    Key finding: Among these diseases are those in which high levels of protein carbonyl (CO) groups have been observed, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, sepsis, chronic renal failure, and respiratory distress syndrome. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2003-03-01

    The effects of improving hearing in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Age and ageing

    Key finding: Measures of cognition and psychiatric symptoms, activities of daily living, and burden on carers were made over 6 months. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2003-03-01

    Aberrant expression of peroxiredoxin subtypes in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Brain research

    Key finding: An increasing body of evidence indicates that oxidative stress and damage play a role in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases associated with neurodegeneration, including Down syndrome (DS), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Pick's disease (PD). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2003-03-01

    APP processing and synaptic function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Neuron

    Key finding: In turn, Abeta selectively depresses excitatory synaptic transmission onto neurons that overexpress APP, as well as nearby neurons that do not. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2003-03-01

    Association between dementia and midlife risk factors: the Radiation Effects Research Foundation Adult Health Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Increased SBP and low milk intake in midlife were associated with VaD detected 25 to 30 years later. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2003-03-01

    Hippocampal sclerosis is a progressive disorder: a longitudinal volumetric MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Annals of neurology

    Key finding: Twelve patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy and unilateral hippocampal sclerosis had repeat volumetric magnetic resonance imaging scans after a mean of 3.4 years to determine whether progressive hippocampal volume loss occurred. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2003-03-01

    PET imaging of 5-HT1A receptor binding in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Neurology

    Key finding: These findings support the hypothesis of reduced serotonin receptor binding in temporal lobe epileptic foci. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2003-03-01

    Predictors of six-month survival among patients with dementia: an evaluation of hospice Medicare guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care The American journal of hospice & palliative care

    Key finding: The Kaplan-Meier estimation of survival and a Cox regression analysis (p > 0. 05) revealed no significant relationship between the Medicare guidelines or any component of the guidelines and survival at six months for the initial and validation samples. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2003-03-01

    Quinolinic acid upregulates chemokine production and chemokine receptor expression in astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Glia

    Key finding: We found that QUIN induces astrocytes to produce large quantities of MCP-1 (CCL2) and lesser amounts of RANTES (CCL5) and IL-8 (CXCL8). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2003-03-01

    Fitness effects on the cognitive function of older adults: a meta-analytic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Psychological Science

    A meta-analytic study was conducted to examine the hypothesis that aerobic fitness training enhances the cognitive vitality of healthy but sedentary older adults.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2003-03-01

    17beta-estradiol reduces plasma Abeta40 for HRT-naïve postmenopausal women with Alzheimer disease: a preliminary study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: These results provide preliminary clinical evidence to support an effect of estradiol on Abeta-processing for AD women who are HRT-naïve. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2003-03-01

    Immune reactive cells in senile plaques and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Neurobiology of aging

    Key finding: By measuring the fractional area (FA) of immunoreactivity, we found that Abeta deposits appear early in the pathogenesis of Abeta, but cannot account for cognitive decline. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2003-03-01

    Interleukin-1 mediates pathological effects of microglia on tau phosphorylation and on synaptophysin synthesis in cortical neurons through a p38-MAPK pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    Key finding: In addition, the overexpression of interleukin-1 (IL-1) has been implicated in tangle formation in AD. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2003-03-01

    Impact of comorbidity on lung cancer survival

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology International journal of cancer

    Key finding: We evaluated the impact of comorbidity on lung cancer survival. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2003-03-01

    White matter structural integrity in healthy aging adults and patients with Alzheimer disease: a magnetic resonance imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Imaging and postmortem studies suggest that frontal lobe white matter (FLWM) volume expands until about the age of 44.6 years and then declines. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2003-03-01

    Mortality and cancer incidence among individuals with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Archives of internal medicine

    Key finding: Individuals with DS have a substantially increased risk of mortality due to specific causes and may have an elevated risk of other incident cancers in addition to leukemia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2003-03-01

    Prevalence of PD and other types of parkinsonism in three elderly populations of central Spain

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

    Key finding: We found 118 subjects with parkinsonism: 81 affected by PD (68.6%), 26 drug-induced parkinsonism (22.0%), 6 parkinsonism in dementia (5.1%), 3 vascular parkinsonism (2.5%), and 2 unspecified parkinsonism (1.7%). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2003-03-01

    Associations of stressors and uplifts of caregiving with caregiver burden and depressive mood: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences

    Key finding: Furthermore, we found evidence that the association of caregiver burden with the number of caregiving tasks, perceived uplifts of caregiving, and the level of physical impairment of the care receiver were stronger in probability samples than in convenience samples.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2003-03-01

    Prevalence and characteristics of dementia in Parkinson disease: an 8-year prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Archives of neurology

    Key finding: More than three quarters of this representative PD cohort developed dementia during the 8-year study period. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  21. 2003-03-01

    Prospective study of alcohol consumption and risk of dementia in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging JAMA

    Key finding: Compared with abstention, consumption of 1 to 6 drinks weekly is associated with a lower risk of incident dementia among older adults. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  22. 2003-03-01

    Dementia diagnosis in developing countries: a cross-cultural validation study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Lancet (London, England)

    Key finding: Each measure independently predicted a diagnosis of dementia.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  23. 2003-03-01

    Usefulness of plasma haloperidol levels for monitoring clinical efficacy and side effects in Alzheimer patients with psychosis and behavioral dyscontrol

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

    Key finding: Measurement of HL plasma levels may have potential usefulness as an adjunct in monitoring treatment response to oral HL in AD patients with psychosis or disruptive behavior. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  24. 2003-03-01

    A pilot study of vitamins to lower plasma homocysteine levels in Alzheimer disease

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

    Key finding: High-dose vitamin supplementation reduces homocysteine levels in patients with AD. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

February 2003 1

  1. 2003-02-27

    Is breakdown of the blood-brain barrier responsible for lacunar stroke, leukoaraiosis, and dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Stroke

    Key finding: Proof that blood-brain barrier failure is key to these conditions could provide a target for new treatments to reduce the effects of vascular disease on the brain and prevent cognitive decline and dementia. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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