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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. Comparative Evaluation of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Basic Scale Against the Mini-Mental State Examination for Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. ALPHA PSYCHIATRY 2025-04-22 Getting a diagnosis

    Most factors of the MoCA-B were significantly different between the two groups, and the PSCN group completed the MoCA-B faster (p 0.05).

  2. Mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease dementia, and predictors of driving cessation: A 7-year longitudinal prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-04-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    BackgroundPatients with dementia face driving difficulties and, at some point, cease driving.

  3. Precision neurocognition: An emerging diagnostic paradigm leveraging digital cognitive assessment technology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-04-22 Getting a diagnosis

    is a heuristic that seeks to develop methodologies capable of identifying subtle behavior(s) that may flag emerging AD and other dementia related syndromes.

  4. The 3D-CAM-S severity scores correlated with DRS, delirium duration, and biomarkers of delirium.

  5. Self- and Informant-Report Cognitive Decline Discordance and Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-04-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    ADNI participants (921 dyads) had a mean (SD) age of 71 (7) years and mean (SD) of 17 (3) years of education; 485 (53%) were female, 30 (3%) were Asian, 105 (11%) were Black, and 756 (82%) were White. eVAL participants (279 dyads) had a mean (SD) age of 71 (8) years and mean (SD) of 17 (2) years of education; 151 (54%) were female, 17 (6%) were Asian, 12 (4%) were Black, and 245 (88%) were White.

  6. Eye tracking based detection of mild cognitive impairment: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Information Fusion 2025-04-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a transitional stage between normal age-related cognitive decline and the more severe cognitive loss seen in dementia.

  7. Assessing Cognitive Impairment in the Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project: Comparing a Diagnostic Algorithm With a Diagnostic Consensus Panel

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Aging and Health 2025-04-15 Getting a diagnosis

    BackgroundAccurate classification of cognitive impairment in population studies is challenging.

  8. Conversion to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia Related to Apathy, APOE Genotype and Antidepressant Use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2025-04-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our findings support apathy and APOE ε4 as robust predictors of conversion to MCI and ADD, and demonstrate novel associations between antidepressant use and conversion.

  9. Cognitive therapies and their impact on neuropsychiatric symptoms in mild cognitive impairment or dementia: a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in Psychology 2025-04-10 Prevention trials

    To date, the impact of cognitive therapies on patients with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been studied in terms of cognition, quality of life and activities of daily living rather than in the context of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS).

  10. Caregiver burden in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease—a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics 2025-04-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    At baseline, the mean ZBI score was 24.5 ± 15.2 and correlated positively with caregiver CES-D and STAI scores and with patient neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPI-frequency × severity) and distress felt by the caregiver (NPI-distress).

  11. Concurrent validity, test–retest reliability, and normative properties of the ignite app: A cognitive assessment for frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2025-04-07 Getting a diagnosis

    90%) rated the app favorably, stating it was enjoyable and easy to complete unsupervised.

  12. A 12-week app-based multidomain intervention ameliorates cognitive performance in patients with mild cognitive impairment: preliminary results of the MEMODIO_APP@CARE RCT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. European Psychiatry 2025-04-01 Prevention trials

    For the interim analysis as of October 2024, the results of the MCI study arm are reported (n=42).

  13. This innovative study aims to test the feasibility of iTBS as a cognitive enhancement strategy in MCI.

  14. Clinical evaluation of medicines for patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease in Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2025-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Though biomarker assessments showed significant Aβ reduction for both anti-amyloid therapies, no direct correlation with clinical outcomes was observed, limiting their use as surrogate endpoints.

  15. Cognitive assessment in hearing aid clinics: Is it feasible to implement in a National Health Service (NHS) setting?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Science Progress 2025-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    BackgroundCognitive impairment is common in older adults and negatively affects hearing aid use.

  16. Federated learning with multi‐cohort real‐world data for predicting the progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Of 44,899 MCI patients, 6391 progressed to AD.

  17. Performance of the Brain Health Test-7, Mini-Mental State Examination, and Montreal Cognitive Assessment for detecting subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 2025-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The three cognitive assessment tools were valid for detecting subjects with MCI or dementia according to ROC analysis.

  18. The impact of mild cognitive impairment on healthcare utilization and costs: A UK Biobank study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-04-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Of 164,508 eligible participants, 6605(4%) had cognitive testing scores consistent with MCI.

  19. Exploring the neuromagnetic signatures of cognitive decline from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2025-03-29 Mild cognitive impairment

    MEG 16-38Hz spectral power, particularly over parieto-occipital magnetometers, was significantly reduced in the AD progression group.

  20. Application of mini-mental state examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment in the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Applied Neuropsychology Adult 2025-03-21 Getting a diagnosis

    > 0.05). We observed distinct cognitive performances in subjects from both the DLB and AD groups across different stages of dementia.

  21. Altered face perception in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: Evidence from representational similarity analysis of event-related potential

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    BackgroundStructural changes in medial temporal lobes including the fusiform gyrus, a critical area in face recognition, precede the progression of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  22. Enhancing Mild Cognitive Impairment Auxiliary Identification Through Multimodal Cognitive Assessment with Eye Tracking and Convolutional Neural Network Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicines 2025-03-18 Getting a diagnosis

    Overall, the combined features model achieved a higher discrimination accuracy than models with single feature sets alone.

  23. The Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA) 8.1 version, including the memory index score (MoCA-MIS): Italian norms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurological Sciences 2025-03-17 Getting a diagnosis

    The results showed that Age, Education, and, occasionally, Biological sex were significant predictors.

  24. Exploration of working memory retrieval stage for mild cognitive impairment: time-varying causality analysis of electroencephalogram based on dynamic brain networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2025-03-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our results showed that: (a) Behavioral data analysis: there were significant differences in accuracy and accuracy / reaction time between MCI and NC in tasks with memory load capacity of low load-four and high load-six, especially in tasks with memory load capacity of four.

  25. Neuropsychological tests and machine learning: identifying predictors of MCI and dementia progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2025-03-12 Getting a diagnosis

    The tests qualitatively and statistically associated to a cognitive decline are MMSE, FAB, BSTR, AM, and VSF, of which at least three were considered the most informative also by machine learning. 73% average accuracy was obtained in the diagnosis prediction on three subsets of original and external data.

  26. No model terms met the a priori cut-off beyond the base model, including device type, response input source (e.g. mouse, etc.), or session interference.

  27. Comparison of Deep Learning and Traditional Machine Learning Models for Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Plasma Proteomic Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-03-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a clinical condition characterized by a decline in cognitive ability and progression of cognitive impairment.

  28. Prevalence, incidence and modifiable factors for subtypes of mild cognitive impairment: results from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. General Psychiatry 2025-03-07 How common it is

    Among our participants, aMCI and VCIND demonstrated prevalence of 14.83% and 2.71%, respectively, and annual incidence (per 1000 person-years) of 69.6 and 10.6, respectively.

  29. Statistical analysis revealed a trend toward more impaired prefrontal FC with declining cognitive function.

  30. Correlation of magnetic resonance imaging parameters with montreal cognitive assessment-Indonesian (MOCA-INA) score in dementia patients at Prof. Dr. IGNG Ngoerah General Hospital, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine 2025-03-05 Getting a diagnosis

    Parameters such as clinical status, GCA scale, MTA scale, Fazekas scale, strategic infarction, Koedam score, stroke, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular disease do not have significant correlations with MoCA-INA scores.

  31. Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging analysis of early mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    BackgroundEarly mild cognitive impairment (EMCI) represents a prodromal stage of dementia, and early detection is crucial for delaying dementia progression.

  32. Cognitive assessment across normal aging and subjective cognitive decline using PGIMS and Stroop color-word test: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus 2025-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Early detection of abnormal neurodegeneration amidst normal cognitive aging is crucial.

  33. Obfuscation via pitch‐shifting for balancing privacy and diagnostic utility in voice‐based cognitive assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    With the top 20 acoustic features, our framework achieved classification accuracies of 62.2% (EER: 0.3335) on the FHS dataset for NC, MCI, and DE differentiation, and 63.7% (EER: 0.1796) on the DBD dataset for NC and MCI differentiation, using obfuscated speech files.

  34. Revisiting the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a European cohort of elderly living with type 2 diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    BackgroundIndividuals with type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of developing both vascular and Alzheimer's dementia.

  35. Statistical Method for Identification of Alzheimer's Disease in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Multimodal Predictive Markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal 2025-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our findings showed the strong predictive potential of PET, particularly florbetaben (FBB), which achieved an AUC of 0.84.

  36. The combination of antiretroviral therapy (cART) and preventive measures has significantly enhanced the management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.

  37. Cognitive performance classification of older patients using machine learning and electronic medical records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-02-24 Digital health tools

    Dementia rates are projected to increase significantly by 2050, posing considerable challenges for healthcare systems worldwide.

  38. In amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), neuroinflammation evolves during disease progression, affecting microglial function and potentially accelerating the pathological process.

  39. Talking during walking: the diagnostic potential of turn dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment and cognitive aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-02-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    -values compared to gait features. Linear regression analysis indicated that turn dynamics had stronger correlations with executive function and working memory, suggesting a more pronounced relationship between cognitive performance and turn features than gait variables.

  40. Prevalence and correlates of the head turning sign in mild cognitive impairment and dementia due to neurodegenerative, chronic cerebrovascular, and mixed etiologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In patients with cognitive impairment due to diverse causes, the HTS might occur regardless of MCI versus dementia status and across different etiologies.

  41. Montreal Cognitive Assessment vs the Mini-Mental State Examination as a Screening Tool for Patients With Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2025-02-14 Getting a diagnosis

    < 0.001] total scores differed significantly between groups, with controls (median MoCA 28.5, 95% CI 28.0-29.0; median MMSE 30, 95% CI 30.0-30.0) outperforming prodromal (median MoCA 26, 95% CI 23.0-27.0; median MMSE 29, 95% CI 27.5-29.5) and symptomatic (median MoCA 20.5, 95% CI 17.0-24.0; median MMSE 26, 95% CI 23.5-29.0) carriers.

  42. Development and validation of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for People with Vision Impairment (MOCA-VI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Psychological Assessment 2025-02-13 Getting a diagnosis

    Vision impairment is common among older adults and affects dementia screening assessments, which include visually presented items.

  43. AI-powered model for accurate prediction of MCI-to-AD progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2025-02-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a formidable challenge in modern healthcare, necessitating innovative approaches for its early detection and intervention.

  44. Nomogram for predicting changes in cognitive function in community dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment based on Korea Longitudinal Study of Ageing Panel Data: a retrospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2025-02-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    The rate of reversion from MCI to normal cognition was 37.0% after 2 years and 32.9% after 12 years.

  45. Role of visual function and performance of activities of daily living in cognitive function in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-02-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings suggest that visual function plays a crucial role in the cognitive and functional abilities of patients with MCI.

  46. Altered Default Mode Network Connectivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Insights from Resting-State fMRI Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2025-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is marked by a measurable decline in cognitive function that exceeds typical age-related changes but does not yet qualify as dementia.

  47. Effects of intensive lifestyle changes on the progression of mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease: the need for rigor

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    We consider the recent publication by Ornish and colleagues and the rigor expected for interventional clinical trials.

  48. Parallel changes in cognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and amyloid in cognitively unimpaired older adults and those with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    NPS was longitudinally associated with performance in each cognitive domain.

  49. Population‐Based Norms for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Arab Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain and Behavior 2025-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Female gender, older age, and lower levels of education were associated with poorer overall test scores.

  50. Enhanced detection of mild cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease: a hybrid model integrating dual biomarkers and advanced machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-01-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex, progressive, and irreversible neurodegenerative disorder marked by cognitive decline and memory loss.

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