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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 24,701–24,725 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 989 of 1096.

November 2002 9

  1. 2002-11-01

    Dementia and Alzheimer disease incidence: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is Archives of neurology

    Key finding: Two hundred fifteen cases of dementia and 151 cases of AD were diagnosed. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2002-11-01

    Use of lipid-lowering drugs in older adults with and without dementia: a community-based epidemiological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Demented individuals were less likely than their nondemented counterparts to be taking lipid-lowering drugs. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2002-11-01

    Attitudes towards euthanasia among physicians, nurses and the general public in Finland

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Public health

    Key finding: This paper conclude that PE was largely accepted among Finnish medical professionals and the general public.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2002-11-01

    Abundant tau filaments and nonapoptotic neurodegeneration in transgenic mice expressing human P301S tau protein

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

    Key finding: Sarkosyl-insoluble tau from brains and spinal cords of transgenic mice ran as a hyperphosphorylated 64 kDa band, the same apparent molecular mass as that of the 383 aa tau isoform in the human tauopathies. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2002-11-01

    Office of Rare Diseases neuropathologic criteria for corticobasal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

    Key finding: The methods required to make this diagnosis include histologic stains to assess neuronal loss, spongiosis and ballooned neurons, and a method to detect tau-positive neuronal and glial lesions. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2002-11-01

    Hormone replacement therapy and incidence of Alzheimer disease in older women: the Cache County Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis JAMA

    Key finding: Prior HRT use is associated with reduced risk of AD, but there is no apparent benefit with current HRT use unless such use has exceeded 10 years. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2002-11-01

    Vascular basis of Alzheimer's pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

    Key finding: Considerable evidence now indicates that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is primarily a vascular disorder. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2002-11-01

    Identifying the elderly at risk for malnutrition. The Mini Nutritional Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Clinics in geriatric medicine

    Key finding: In community-dwelling elderly persons, the MNA detects risk of malnutrition and life-style characteristics associated with nutritional risk while albumin levels and the BMI are still in the normal range.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2002-11-01

    Subcortical ischaemic vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk The Lancet. Neurology

    Key finding: SIVD results from small-vessel disease, which produces either arteriolar occlusion and lacunes or widespread incomplete infarction of white matter due to critical stenosis of medullary arterioles and hypoperfusion (Binswanger's disease). +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

October 2002 16

  1. 2002-10-24

    Lipoprotein lipase: structure, function, regulation, and role in disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany)

    Key finding: Research carried out over the past two decades have not only established a central role for LPL in the overall lipid metabolism and transport but have also identified additional, non-catalytic functions of the enzyme. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2002-10-24

    Alzheimer's Disease Is a Synaptic Failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Science

    In its earliest clinical phase, Alzheimer's disease characteristically produces a remarkably pure impairment of memory.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2002-10-23

    The Apathy Inventory: assessment of apathy and awareness in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

    Key finding: Internal consistency, item reliability, and between-rater reliability were high. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2002-10-15

    Generation of antibodies specific for beta-amyloid by vaccination of patients with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Nature medicine

    Key finding: We collected sera from patients with Alzheimer disease who received a primary injection of pre-aggregated Abeta42 followed by one booster injection in a placebo-controlled study. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2002-10-04

    Tau filament formation and associative memory deficit in aged mice expressing mutant (R406W) human tau

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

    Key finding: As with human cases, tau inclusions were composed of both mutant and endogenous wild-type tau, and were associated with microtubule disruption and flame-shaped transformations of the affected neurons. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2002-10-01

    Metalloenzyme-like Activity of Alzheimer's Disease β-Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of Biological Chemistry

    Key finding: Cholesterol is an important substrate for this activity, as are vitamin C, L-DOPA, and dopamine (V(max) for dopamine = 34.5 nm/min, K(m) = 8.9 microm). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2002-10-01

    Synergistic effects of pesticides and metals on the fibrillation of alpha-synuclein: implications for Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Neurotoxicology

    Key finding: The etiology of PD is unknown, but recent work has shown that except in rare cases, there appears to be no direct genetic basis.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2002-10-01

    Acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity of some Amaryllidaceae alkaloids and Narcissus extracts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Life sciences

    Key finding: Amaryllidaceous plants produce pharmacologically active alkaloids, galanthamine being the most interesting for its use in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease as a cholinesterase inhibitor. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2002-10-01

    Diagnostic strategies in CADASIL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neurology

    Key finding: The spectrum of mutations in this study can be used to plan appropriate screening protocols; a suggested protocol is to screen exon 4, and proceed to exons 3, 5, and 6 where indicated. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2002-10-01

    Pneumonia: the demented patient's best friend? Discomfort after starting or withholding antibiotic treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    Key finding: Irrespective of antibiotic treatment, pneumonia causes substantial suffering in demented patients. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2002-10-01

    The experience of dying: an ethnographic nursing home study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care The Gerontologist

    Key finding: The review of the literature disclosed that research on the experience of dying is limited; most of the studies have been conducted in acute care hospitals among people who were dying of cancer.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2002-10-01

    A Commentary

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery The Gerontologist

    Key finding: Planned transitions among settings need to be carried out with grace, redundancy of information and accountability, and patient/family involvement. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2002-10-01

    Human brain parenchymal microglia express CD14 and CD45 and are productively infected by HIV-1 in HIV-1 encephalitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)

    Key finding: They play significant roles in a number of human CNS diseases including AIDS dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2002-10-01

    The role of macrophage/microglia and astrocytes in the pathogenesis of three neurologic disorders: HIV-associated dementia, Alzheimer disease, and multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Journal of the neurological sciences

    Key finding: Astrocytes, as a significant component of the blood-brain barrier, behave as one of the immune effector cells in the CNS as well. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2002-10-01

    Alzheimer's disease and the basal forebrain cholinergic system: relations to beta-amyloid peptides, cognition, and treatment strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Progress in neurobiology

    Key finding: Brains from AD patients show several distinct neuropathological features, including extracellular beta-amyloid-containing plaques, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of abnormally phosphorylated tau, and degeneration of cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2002-10-01

    Mild cognitive impairment with subcortical vascular features: clinical characteristics and outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Journal of neurology

    Key finding: Patients were enrolled in a prospective study on early cognitive impairment carried out in a Memory Clinic. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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