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Newest in this topic

  1. Feasibility of remote self-administered cognitive assessment in an Alzheimer's disease treatment clinic 2026-09-16
  2. Structural brain imaging for newly diagnosed cognitive impairment by Medicare coverage type 2026-09-15
  3. Detection and Continuous Monitoring of Memory Dysfunction in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging Through Adaptive Computational Phenotyping 2026-09-12

Studies

849 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 63
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 31
  • Archives of neurology 30
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 25
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 21

316 journals in all.

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  1. Comparing predictors of conversion and decline in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2010-06-30 Genetics

    Patients with MCI converted to AD at an annual rate of 17.2%.

  2. Measuring cognitive reserve based on the decomposition of episodic memory variance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-06-30 Brain tissue and pathology

    In later adulthood brain pathology becomes common and trajectories of cognitive change are heterogeneous.

  3. Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battery-dementia version (SNSB-D): a useful tool for assessing and monitoring cognitive impairments in dementia patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Korean medical science 2010-06-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battery (SNSB) is one of the standardized neuropsychological test batteries widely used in Korea.

  4. Prevalence and pattern of cognitive impairment in rural and urban populations from Northern Portugal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC neurology 2010-06-11 Disparities

    The prevalence of cognitive impairment is higher in rural compared with urban populations.

  5. Subtypes based on cerebrospinal fluid and magnetic resonance imaging markers in normal elderly predict cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-09 Long-term cohort studies

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) show patterns of change in Alzheimer's disease (AD) that precede dementia.

  6. Cognitive dysfunction in HIV patients despite long-standing suppression of viremia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. AIDS (London, England) 2010-06-01 How common it is

    Patients had undetectable HIV-1 RNA concentrations for a median time of 48 months (range 3.2-136.6).

  7. Vegetables, unsaturated fats, moderate alcohol intake, and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2010-05-22 Prevention and risk

    Vegetables, unsaturated fats, and a high MeDi score may be beneficial to cognitive function.

  8. Validity of the telephone interview for cognitive status (TICS) and modified TICS (TICSm) for mild cognitive imparment (MCI) and dementia screening

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2010-05-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study aimed to validate the TICS and modified TICS (TICSm) in Korean elderly population and to compare MCI and dementia screening ability between TICS and TICSm.

  9. Machine-learning techniques for building a diagnostic model for very mild dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-04-09 Digital health tools

    Many researchers have sought to construct diagnostic models to differentiate individuals with very mild dementia (VMD) from healthy elderly people, based on structural magnetic-resonance (MR) images.

  10. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is insensitive to mild cognitive impairment and executive function.

  11. Korean version of mini mental status examination for dementia screening and its' short form

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Psychiatry investigation 2010-04-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We developed a Korean version of Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) optimized for screening dementia (MMSE-DS) and its' short form (SMMSE-DS).

  12. Cognitive intervention programs for individuals with mild cognitive impairment: systematic review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2010-04-01 Prevention trials

    This systematic literature review addressed the efficacy of 15 cognitive intervention programs that have been tested in individuals presenting with mild cognitive impairment of the amnestic type (MCI-A) possibly at risk to progress toward dementia.

  13. When, where, and how the corpus callosum changes in MCI and AD: a multimodal MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2010-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Callosal changes are already present in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild Alzheimer disease (AD).

  14. Assessment of white matter tract damage in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2010-02-16 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Diffusion tensor MRI-based tractography was used to investigate white matter (WM) changes in the major limbic (i.e., fornix and cingulum) and cortico-cortical association pathways [i.e., the uncinate fasciculus, the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), the superior longitudinal fasciculus, and the corpus callosum] in 25 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, 19 amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) patients, and 15 healthy controls (HC).

  15. Brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment in older Japanese: validation of the Japanese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Geriatrics & gerontology international 2010-02-04 Getting a diagnosis

    The Cronbach's alpha of MoCA-J as an index of internal consistency was 0.74.

  16. Brief cognitive screening instruments: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2010-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia remains under-diagnosed in the elderly population.

  17. Late-life depression, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia: possible continuum?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2010-02-01 How common it is

    Clinical and epidemiologic research has focused on the identification of risk factors that may be modified in predementia syndromes, at a preclinical and early clinical stage of dementing disorders, with specific attention to the role of depression.

  18. Cognitive intervention programmes on patients affected by Mild Cognitive Impairment: a promising intervention tool for MCI?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2010-01-01 Prevention trials

    Though both traditional and computer-based cognitive intervention programmes seem to be effective, the computer-based ones present more advantages: 1) they could individualize the programme tailored to the patient's neuropsychological pattern and needs. 2) they permit the user to make an immediate objective comparison with data collected earlier and thus help in setting up a systematic training plan by providing instant value-free feedback. 3) they offer a possibility of a widescale dissemination.

  19. Metabolic syndrome and cognitive impairment: current epidemiology and possible underlying mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A possible role of vascular and lifestyle-related factors was recently proposed for age-related changes of cognitive function, predementia syndromes, and cognitive decline of degenerative (Alzheimer's disease, AD) or vascular origin (vascular dementia, VaD).

  20. Neuropathologic alterations in mild cognitive impairment: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the earliest clinically detectable phase of the trajectory toward dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD), led to the need for even earlier detection and prevention of AD.

  21. Neuropsychiatric predictors of progression from amnestic-mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease: the role of depression and apathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The aim of the study is to evaluate whether depression or apathy in patients with amnestic-mild cognitive impairment (MCI) increases the risk of progressing to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. The Mini Mental State Examination: Review of cutoff points adjusted for schooling in a large Southern Brazilian sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2010-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The increase in life expectancy can influence the prevalence of dementias in the population.

  23. Increased matrix metalloproteinase 9 activity in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2009-12-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Nerve growth factor (NGF)-dependent cholinergic basal forebrain neurons degenerate during the progression of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  24. Mild cognitive impairment: ten years later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 2009-12-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In the past 10 years, there has been a virtual explosion in the literature concerning the construct of mild cognitive impairment.

  25. How predictive is the MMSE for cognitive performance after stroke?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2009-11-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive deficits are commonly observed in stroke patients.

  26. Validation of the telephone interview for cognitive status-modified in subjects with normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, or dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2009-11-05 Caregiving

    The extensive in-person assessment classified 83 persons with normal cognition, 42 persons with MCI, and 42 persons with dementia.

  27. Validity of the MoCA and MMSE in the detection of MCI and dementia in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2009-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, but not the Mini-Mental State Examination, has adequate psychometric properties as a screening instrument for the detection of mild cognitive impairment or dementia in Parkinson disease.

  28. Quantitative gait analysis under dual-task in older people with mild cognitive impairment: a reliability study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation 2009-09-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Reliability of quantitative gait assessment while dual-tasking (walking while doing a secondary task such as talking) in people with cognitive impairment is unknown.

  29. Progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia in clinic- vs community-based cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings add to the growing literature to suggest that the degree of functional impairment at baseline is an important predictor of conversion to dementia and may help explain differences in findings between epidemiological and clinic-based studies.

  30. Making sense of progressive non-fluent aphasia: an analysis of conversational speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-08-20 Digital health tools

    The speech of patients with progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) has often been described clinically, but these descriptions lack support from quantitative data.

  31. Subjective memory complaints and awareness of memory functioning in mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2009-08-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Given the increased risk of progression to dementia for those identified as having MCI, the role of awareness should be explored further with due consideration given to the conceptualization of awareness and the methodology employed.

  32. The Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center's Symposium on Mild Cognitive Impairment. Cognitive training in older adults: lessons from the ACTIVE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2009-08-01 Treatments

    This paper is based on a presentation made during the Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center's Symposium on Mild Cognitive Impairment on April 19, 2008.

  33. Characteristics and performance of a modified version of the ADCS-CGIC CIBIC+ for mild cognitive impairment clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2009-07-01 Treatments

    Change detected by the MCI-CGIC was associated with baseline clinical severity and with change in clinical ratings over 6 and 12 months, supporting the validity of a CGIC approach in MCI.

  34. Mild cognitive impairment in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2009-07-01 Risk factors

    In both its association with PD and its idiopathic form, RBD is an important risk factor for MCI.

  35. Self administered cognitive screening test (TYM) for detection of Alzheimer's disease: cross sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2009-06-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Outpatient departments in three hospitals, including a memory clinic.

  36. Longitudinal brain metabolic changes from amnestic mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-05-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    A sensitive marker for monitoring progression of early Alzheimer's disease would help to develop and test new therapeutic strategies.

  37. Neural correlates of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic and quantitative meta-analysis involving 1351 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-05-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.

  38. Differential memory test sensitivity for diagnosing amnestic mild cognitive impairment and predicting conversion to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition 2009-04-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    Episodic memory is the first and most severely affected cognitive domain in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and it is also the key early marker in prodromal stages including amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  39. Validity of the CogState brief battery: relationship to standardized tests and sensitivity to cognitive impairment in mild traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, and AIDS dementia complex

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2009-03-25 Getting a diagnosis

    This study examined the validity of the four standard psychological paradigms that have been operationally defined within the CogState brief computerized cognitive assessment battery.

  40. Effects of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment on driving ability: a controlled clinical study by simulated driving test

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2009-03-01 Clinical safety

    Mild AD significantly impaired simulated driving fitness, while MCI limitedly affected driving performance.

  41. Montreal Cognitive Assessment Arabic version: reliability and validity prevalence of mild cognitive impairment among elderly attending geriatric clubs in Cairo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Geriatrics & gerontology international 2009-03-01 Prevention and risk

    Test-retest reliability data of the Arabic MoCA were collected approximately 35.0 +/- 17.6 days apart.

  42. Visuospatial memory in healthy elderly, AD and MCI: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Current aging science 2009-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In the literature it is commonly reported that several spatial abilities decline with normal aging, even though such a decline is not uniform.

  43. Mild cognitive impairment and everyday function: an investigation of driving performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2009-02-04 Clinical safety

    Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) involves subtle functional losses that may include decrements in driving skills.

  44. Mediterranean diet and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-02-01 Genetics

    Higher adherence to the MeDi is associated with a trend for reduced risk of developing MCI and with reduced risk of MCI conversion to AD.

  45. Temporal trends in the long term risk of progression of mild cognitive impairment: a pooled analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2008-12-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A 10-15% ACR only appears to hold true in clinical samples monitored over a short observation period.

  46. Baseline and longitudinal patterns of brain atrophy in MCI patients, and their use in prediction of short-term conversion to AD: results from ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-11-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    High-dimensional pattern classification was applied to baseline and multiple follow-up MRI scans of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), in order to investigate the potential of predicting short-term conversion to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) on an individual basis.

  47. The clinical significance of subjective memory complaints in the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2008-11-01 Disparities

    When assessed by simple questions, SMC appear to be present in the minority of those with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

  48. Prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in mild cognitive impairment and normal cognitive aging: population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2008-10-01 How common it is

    Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted after adjusting for age, sex, and educational status.

  49. Correlating cerebral hypometabolism with future memory decline in subsequent converters to amnestic pre-mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-09-01 Genetics

    Individuals with amnestic pre-MCI showed significantly greater correlations between cerebral hypometabolism and subsequent long-term memory decline than nondecliners in Alzheimer disease-affected brain regions.

  50. Peripheral oxidative damage in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2008-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Oxidative stress has been shown to be a triggering event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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