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  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. Combining early markers strongly predicts conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2008-08-23 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The five-predictor combination strongly predicted conversion to AD and was markedly superior to combining age and MMSE.

  2. Two-year progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia: to what extent do different definitions agree?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2008-07-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Current classifications of MCI have variable outcomes in population-based samples.

  3. Mild cognitive impairment in the general population: occurrence and progression to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2008-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Two-thirds of MCI-multidomains, but only half of MCI-amnestic progress to AD.

  4. A meta-analysis of the accuracy of the mini-mental state examination in the detection of dementia and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2008-06-24 Getting a diagnosis

    The MMSE is the most widely used cognitive test but its accuracy and clinical utility in diagnosing cognitive disorders is not fully known.

  5. Limitations of the Mini-Mental State Examination for screening dementia in a community with low socioeconomic status: results from the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 2008-06-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the most widely used instrument for the screening of cognitive impairment worldwide, but its ability to produce valid estimates of dementia in populations of low socioeconomic status and minimal literacy skills has not been adequately established.

  6. Brief screening for mild cognitive impairment in elderly outpatient clinic: validation of the Korean version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2008-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief cognitive screening tool with high sensitivity for screening patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  7. The accuracy of the MMSE in detecting cognitive impairment when administered by general practitioners: a prospective observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. BMC family practice 2008-05-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) has contributed to detecting cognitive impairment, yet few studies have evaluated its accuracy when used by general practitioners (GP) in an actual public-health setting.

  8. Mild cognitive impairment and everyday function: evidence of reduced speed in performing instrumental activities of daily living

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2008-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Future research should address the question of whether performance-based functional measures, as well as simple queries regarding whether functional activities take longer than usual to complete, may improve the prediction of future cognitive decline and disease progression among those individuals in whom MCI represents impending dementia.

  9. Risk profiles for mild cognitive impairment and progression to dementia are gender specific

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2008-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Men and women have different risk profiles for both MCI and progression to dementia.

  10. Facial emotion recognition deficit in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2008-04-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    Emotion recognition progresses from a deficit in low-intensity fearful facial recognition in a-MCI phase to a deficit in all intensities and emotions in mild AD.

  11. Frequency and course of mild cognitive impairment in a multiethnic community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Impaired memory and language were useful predictors of transition to AD.

  12. Differences of peripheral inflammatory markers between mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Immunology letters 2008-03-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    Multiple pathogenic factors may contribute to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Rate of progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia--meta-analysis of 41 robust inception cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 2008-02-18 How common it is

    The ACR is approximately 5-10% and most people with MCI will not progress to dementia even after 10 years of follow-up.

  14. A comparison of the mini mental state exam to the Montreal cognitive assessment in identifying cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2008-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dementia is an important and increasingly recognized problem in Parkinson's disease (PD).

  15. Mild cognitive impairment: an overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. CNS spectrums 2008-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) refers to the transitional state between the cognitive changes of normal aging and very early dementia.

  16. Electroencephalography and event-related potentials as biomarkers of mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2007-12-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    As different signature changes associated with particular stages of disease burden are identified and validated, we anticipate expanded application of qEEG as a reliable and sensitive biomarker(s) of MCI and early Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Mapping progressive brain structural changes in early Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2007-12-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disorder of the elderly, ranks third in health care cost after heart disease and cancer.

  18. Patients with MCI and N400 or P600 abnormalities are at very high risk for conversion to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2007-12-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    Abnormalities of the P600 or N400 in mild cognitive impairment are associated with an increased risk of subsequent conversion to Alzheimer disease (AD).

  19. Clinical prediction of Alzheimer disease dementia across the spectrum of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2007-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    From a longitudinal study of normal (Clinical Dementia Rating [CDR] = 0; n = 77) and mildly impaired (CDR = 0.5; n = 167) participants with 5 or more annual clinical assessments, baseline level of cognitive impairment in daily life was graded using CDR sum of boxes (CDR-SB) and level of cognitive performance impairment was graded using neuropsychological test scores.

  20. Conversion of amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment to dementia of Alzheimer type is independent to memory deterioration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2007-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In subjects with aMCI poor global cognitive performance at baseline, the worsening on executive functions and on functional status but not the worsening on memory functions are independently associated with the conversion to dementia of Alzheimer type at 1 year, follow-up.

  21. Hypertension and the risk of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-12-01 Prevention and risk

    A history of hypertension is related to a higher risk of MCI.

  22. Atrophy rates accelerate in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2007-11-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Rates of atrophy accelerate as individuals progress from amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) to typical late onset Alzheimer disease (AD).

  23. Mild cognitive impairment: epidemiology and dementia risk in an elderly Italian population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2007-11-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    MCI occurs often in this elderly Italian cohort and is associated with greater risk of AD, but only when the impairment involves the memory domain.

  24. Cholinesterase inhibitors in mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review of randomised trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2007-11-01 Treatments

    No significant differences emerged in the probability of conversion from MCI to AD or dementia between the treated groups and the placebo groups.

  25. Oxidative damage in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2007-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Increasing evidence supports a role for oxidative damage in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  26. Spatial patterns of brain atrophy in MCI patients, identified via high-dimensional pattern classification, predict subsequent cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2007-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Spatial patterns of brain atrophy in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) were measured via methods of computational neuroanatomy.

  27. Cognitive training for persons with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2007-10-25 Prevention trials

    Recent randomized control trials and meta-analyses of experimental studies indicate positive effects of non-pharmacological cognitive training on the cognitive function of healthy older adults.

  28. Conscientiousness and the incidence of Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2007-10-01 Caregiving

    Level of conscientiousness is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease.

  29. MRI patterns of atrophy associated with progression to AD in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2007-09-26 Brain scans and imaging

    The regions of loss observed in subjects with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) who progressed to Alzheimer disease (AD) within 18 months of the MRI are typical of subjects with AD.

  30. Prediction and longitudinal study of CSF biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2007-09-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    At baseline and at follow-up MCI-AD showed higher levels P-tau(231), T-tau, IP, P-tau(231)/Abeta(42/40) and T-tau/Abeta(42/40) ratios and lower Abeta(42)/Abeta(40) than MCI-MCI or NL-NL.

  31. Mild cognitive impairment in general practice: age-specific prevalence and correlate results from the German study on ageing, cognition and dementia in primary care patients (AgeCoDe)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2007-09-11 Prevention and risk

    MCI is frequent in elderly patients of GPs.

  32. Spatial cognition and the human navigation network in AD and MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2007-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The navigation disability in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) involves a selective impairment of spatial cognition and is associated with atrophy of the right-lateralized navigation network.

  33. Neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated with progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2007-08-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings suggest that neuropsychiatric symptoms in MCI are a predictor of progression to AD.

  34. Mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2007-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    MCI is a nosological entity proposed as an intermediate state between normal aging and dementia.

  35. Damage to lipids, proteins, DNA, and RNA in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Free radical-mediated oxidative damage is thought to play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease.

  36. Defining mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2007-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our purpose was to characterize a state of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in Parkinson's disease (PD) (PD-MCI) that would be analogous to the MCI that is posited as a precursor of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  37. Magnetic resonance imaging predictors of cognition in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-07-01 Treatments

    Medial temporal lobe atrophy seems to be a more important predictor of cognition than small-vessel disease in MCI.

  38. Effects of sociodemographic and health variables on Mini-Mental State Exam scores in older Australians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2007-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The regression models showed that older age, education levels, language spoken at home and in country of birth, socioeconomic status (SES), occupation, sex, and presence of a mood disorder made significant and unique contributions to performance on the MMSE.

  39. Neuropsychological measures in normal individuals that predict subsequent cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Tests of both episodic memory and executive function are predictors of time to progression from mild impairment to a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease.

  40. The rate of conversion of mild cognitive impairment to dementia: predictive role of depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2007-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We conclude that conversion rate from MCI to DSM-IIIR dementia was 21.9% over a period of 3 years.

  41. Predictors of progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2007-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The predictive validity of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) for identifying future Alzheimer disease (AD) cases is improved in the presence of anxiety symptoms.

  42. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment: validity and utility in a memory clinic setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie 2007-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The MoCA is a useful brief screening tool for the detection of mild dementia or MCI in subjects scoring over 25 points on the MMSE.

  43. Brain structural alterations before mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2007-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Structural brain changes in anatomic areas involved in higher cognitive processes precede clinical signs and symptoms in longitudinally followed normal subjects destined to develop mild cognitive impairment.

  44. Relation of diabetes to mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-04-01 Genetics

    Diabetes is related to a higher risk of amnestic MCI in a population with a high prevalence of this disorder.

  45. Hippocampal and entorhinal atrophy in mild cognitive impairment: prediction of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2007-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Hippocampal and entorhinal cortex volumes were each largest in controls, intermediate in MCI nonconverters, and smallest in MCI converters to AD (37 of 139 patients converted to AD).

  46. Longitudinal change in cognitive performance among individuals with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2007-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The authors used mixed-effects growth models to examine longitudinal change in neuropsychological performance over a 4-year period among 197 individuals who were either normal or had mild cognitive impairment (MCI) at baseline.

  47. Spatial navigation deficit in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007-02-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) frequently have difficulties with spatial orientation in their day-to-day life.

  48. Clinical predictors of progression to Alzheimer disease in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2007-02-07 Genetics

    Progression from amnestic mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease in this cohort was best determined by combining four common, easily administered, cognitive measures.

  49. Ethnic and educational differences in cognitive test performance on mini-mental state examination in Asians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2007-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    There were significant ethnic differences in mean MMSE scores among Chinese (26.2), Indians (25.0), and Malays (23.6), but only in noneducated subjects.

  50. Mild cognitive impairment: current research and clinical implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Seminars in neurology 2007-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment refers to the transitional state between the cognitive changes of normal aging and the fully developed clinical features of dementia.

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