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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. Metabolic Syndrome, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2019-02-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    No statistically significant pooled association emerged between MetS and incident dementia and AD.

  2. Early versus late MCI: Improved MCI staging using a neuropsychological approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-02-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our novel neuropsychological approach improved the staging of MCI by (1) capturing individuals at an early symptomatic stage, (2) minimizing false-positive cases, and (3) identifying a late MCI group further along the disease trajectory.

  3. Mild Behavioral Impairment as a Marker of Cognitive Decline in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2019-02-02 Prevention and risk

    MBI may be an earlier marker of neurodegenerative disease than MCI, captured at the stage of subjective cognitive decline or before, raising the possibility that MBI represents a novel target for dementia clinical trials or prevention strategies.

  4. Computerized cognitive training for Chinese mild cognitive impairment patients: A neuropsychological and fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-01-26 Prevention trials

    Multi-model cognitive training help MCI patients to gained cognition benefit, especially in memory, attention and executive function.

  5. State of the science on mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. CNS spectrums 2019-01-17 How common it is

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) represents a transitional stage between healthy aging and dementia, and affects 10-15% of the population over the age of 65.

  6. Neuroinflammation in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2019-01-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our findings support the association of increased neuroinflammation during the progression of MCI and AD, relative to HCs.

  7. A computer-based cognitive training in Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. NeuroRehabilitation 2019-01-01 Prevention trials

    Patients trained with CoRe showed a better evolution of cognitive decline, while untreated patients tended to get worse over time.

  8. Mobile Technology for Cognitive Assessment of Older Adults: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2019-01-01 Digital health tools

    Twenty-nine articles met our inclusion criteria and were categorized into 3 groups as follows: (a) mobile versions of existing article or computerized neuropsychological tests; (b) new cognitive tests developed specifically for mobile platforms; and (c) the use of new types of data for cognitive assessment.

  9. Resting State Abnormalities of the Default Mode Network in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Qualitatively, our review of 57 MCI versus HC comparisons suggests substantial inconsistency; 9 showed no group difference, 8 showed MCI > HC and 22 showed HC > MCI across the brain, and 18 showed regionally-mixed directions of effect.

  10. Cognitive tests for the detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the prodromal stage of dementia: Meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2018-11-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as a prodrome to dementia.

  11. Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment From Speech in Swedish Using Deep Sequential Neural Networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2018-11-15 Digital health tools

    While people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) portray noticeably incipient memory difficulty in remembering events and situations along with problems in decision making, planning, and finding their way in familiar environments, detailed neuropsychological assessments also indicate deficits in language performance.

  12. Speech Analysis by Natural Language Processing Techniques: A Possible Tool for Very Early Detection of Cognitive Decline?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-11-13 Digital health tools

    Neuropsychological tests showed significant differences between controls and mdMCI, and between controls and eD participants; GPCog, MoCA, PF, and SF also discriminated between controls and aMCI.

  13. Optimal cutoffs for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment vary by race and ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-11-03 Disparities

    Our findings suggest cutoffs may need to be stratified by race/ethnicity and education to ensure detecting MCI from normal and MCI from dementia.

  14. Effects of Normative Adjustments to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2018-09-21 Long-term cohort studies

    499 adults 48 to 91 years-old enrolled in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and were administered the MoCA during baseline.

  15. Technology-based cognitive training and rehabilitation interventions for individuals with mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2018-09-15 Prevention trials

    Technology-based cognitive training and rehabilitation interventions show promise, but the findings were inconsistent due to the variations in study design.

  16. Mild cognitive impairment and progression to dementia in people with diabetes, prediabetes and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 2018-09-04 Prevention and risk

    The overall unadjusted pooled odds ratio for the progression of MCI to dementia in people with diabetes/MetS was 1.67 (95% CI 1.27-2.19); the pooled odds ratio for progression in diabetes + MCI was 1.53 (95% CI 1.20-1.97) and in people with MetS + MCI was 2.95 (95% CI 1.23-7.05).

  17. Association of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury With and Without Loss of Consciousness With Dementia in US Military Veterans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-09-01 Prevention and risk

    In this cohort study of more than 350 000 veterans, even mild TBI without LOC was associated with more than a 2-fold increase in the risk of dementia diagnosis.

  18. Sustainable method for Alzheimer dementia prediction in mild cognitive impairment: Electroencephalographic connectivity and graph theory combined with apolipoprotein E

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-08-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Concluding, this innovative EEG analysis, in combination with a genetic test (both low-cost and widely available), could evaluate on an individual basis with great precision the risk of MCI progression.

  19. An Overview of Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2018-08-21 Prevention trials

    Cognitive decline occurs in all persons during the aging process.

  20. Subjective Cognitive Impairment Cohort (SCIENCe): study design and first results

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-08-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    The SCIENCe study confirms that SCD is a heterogeneous group, with preclinical AD and subthreshold psychiatric features.

  21. Mild Cognitive Impairment in Clinical Practice: A Review Article

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2018-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The spectrum of cognitive decline in the elderly ranges from what can be classified as normal cognitive decline with aging to subjective cognitive impairment to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia.

  22. Sex Differences in Cognitive Decline in Subjects with High Likelihood of Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-05-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease (AD) biology and progression are not yet fully characterized.

  23. Connected speech and language in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A review of picture description tasks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 2018-04-19 Digital health tools

    Our review shows that picture description tasks are useful tools for detecting differences in a wide variety of language and communicative measures.

  24. Evidence of demyelination in mild cognitive impairment and dementia using a direct and specific magnetic resonance imaging measure of myelin content

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-04-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    We believe this to be the first demonstration of myelin loss in MCI, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia using a method that provides a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging-based measure of myelin.

  25. Risk of progression from subjective cognitive decline to mild cognitive impairment: The role of study setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-01-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Study setting should be considered when evaluating SCD as a risk state for MCI and dementia.

  26. Declines in Connected Language Are Associated with Very Early Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-01-09 Digital health tools

    Changes to everyday spoken language ("connected language") are evident in persons with AD dementia, yet little is known about when these changes are first detectable on the continuum of cognitive decline.

  27. The effectiveness of physical exercise on cognitive and psychological outcomes in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2018-01-04 Prevention and risk

    Physical exercise, aerobic exercise in particular, benefits global cognition in MCI patients.

  28. Estimating Alzheimer's Disease Progression Rates from Normal Cognition Through Mild Cognitive Impairment and Stages of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2018-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Transition probabilities from normal cognition through AD severity states are important for understanding patient progression across the AD spectrum.

  29. Risk of Conversion to Dementia in a Mild Behavioral Impairment Group Compared to a Psychiatric Group and to a Mild Cognitive Impairment Group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    From 348 patients, 126 evolved to dementia (36.2%).

  30. The Brain Health Assessment for Detecting and Diagnosing Neurocognitive Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The BHA had excellent combined sensitivity and specificity to detect dementia and MCI, including MCI due to diverse etiologies.

  31. Use of Speech Analyses within a Mobile Application for the Assessment of Cognitive Impairment in Elderly People

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2018-01-01 Digital health tools

    Our results indicate the potential value of vocal analytics and the use of a mobile application for accurate automatic differentiation between SCI, MCI and AD.

  32. Validation of the 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test and the 4AT test for combined delirium and dementia screening in older Emergency Department attendees

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Age and ageing 2018-01-01 Clinical safety

    Design diagnostic accuracy study.

  33. MCI prevalence was 6.7% for ages 60-64, 8.4% for 65-69, 10.1% for 70-74, 14.8% for 75-79, and 25.2% for 80-84.

  34. The Efficacy of Cognitive Intervention in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): a Meta-Analysis of Outcomes on Neuropsychological Measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2017-12-27 Prevention trials

    As such, this meta-analytic review was conducted to examine the efficacy of cognitive intervention in individuals diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) versus MCI controls based on performance of neuropsychological outcome measures in randomized controlled trials (RCT).

  35. Efficacy of computer-based cognitive training in neuropsychological performance of patients with multiple sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Multiple sclerosis and related disorders 2017-12-24 Prevention trials

    The present meta-analysis revealed a significant effect for computer-based cognitive training on the performance of the memory domain of patients with MS. This finding may have significant implications in the current treatment practice when cognitive decline is detected in MS patients.

  36. Impact of SSRI Therapy on Risk of Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Dementia in Individuals With Previous Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2017-11-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    Long-term SSRI treatment may delay progression from MCI to Alzheimer's dementia.

  37. Performance validity testing in neuropsychology: a clinical guide, critical review, and update on a rapidly evolving literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2017-11-28 Disparities

    PVTs provide valuable information regarding response bias and, under the right circumstances, can provide excellent evidence of response bias.

  38. Neuropsychological Measures that Predict Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's type dementia in Older Adults: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2017-10-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    This study aimed to determine the extent to which cognitive measures can predict progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's type dementia (AD), assess the predictive accuracy of different cognitive domain categories, and determine whether accuracy varies as a function of age and length of follow-up.

  39. The prevalence and progression of mild cognitive impairment among clinic and community populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2017-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Age and gender were observed to be associated with MCI, in which age was considered as an impact factor for DR. The strong heterogeneity may result from variations in study design and baselines.

  40. Prevalence of mild behavioral impairment in mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive decline, and its association with caregiver burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2017-09-07 Caregiving

    Prevalence estimates across MBI domains were affective dysregulation (77.8%); impulse control (64.4%); decreased motivation (51.7%); social inappropriateness (27.8%); and abnormal perception or thought content (8.7%).

  41. Categorizing Health Outcomes and Efficacy of mHealth Apps for Persons With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2017-08-30 Treatments

    After removal of duplicates, our initial search returned 3955 records.

  42. Association of Dual-Task Gait With Incident Dementia in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results From the Gait and Brain Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2017-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Among 112 study participants with MCI, mean (SD) age was 76.6 (6.9) years, 55 were women (49.1%), and 27 progressed to dementia (24.1%), with an incidence rate of 121 per 1000 person-years.

  43. Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2017-05-17 Getting a diagnosis

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) occurs along a continuum from normal cognition to dementia.

  44. Assessment of cerebral microbleeds by susceptibility-weighted imaging in Alzheimer's disease patients: A neuroimaging biomarker of the disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The neuroradiology journal 2017-05-02 Biomarkers

    Lobar distribution of cerebral microbleeds is associated with Alzheimer's disease and the number of lobar cerebral microbleeds directly correlates with cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta and phosphorylated tau 181 protein levels and with the cognitive decline of Alzheimer's disease patients.

  45. Cognitive Impairment and Heart Failure: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of cardiac failure 2017-04-19 How common it is

    This review suggests a substantial proportion of patients with heart failure have concomitant cognitive problems.

  46. Validation of the Spanish-language version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test in adults older than 60 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neurologia 2017-03-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Few studies have validated the Spanish-language version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-S) test in Latin American populations.

  47. Outcomes after diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment in a large autopsy series

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-03-22 Disease mechanisms

    MCI diagnosis usually was associated with comorbid neuropathologies; less than one-quarter of MCI cases showed "pure" AD at autopsy.

  48. Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Characterized by Deficient Brainstem and Cortical Representations of Speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-03-07 Digital health tools

    Previous neuroimaging studies reveal that MCI is associated with aberrant sensory-perceptual processing in cortical brain regions subserving auditory and language function.

  49. From mild cognitive impairment to subjective cognitive decline: conceptual and methodological evolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 2017-02-16 Mild cognitive impairment

    Identification of subjects at the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is fundamental for drug development and possible intervention or prevention of cognitive decline.

  50. Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion Using a Combination of Independent Component Analysis and the Cox Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2017-02-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) represents a transitional stage from normal aging to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and corresponds to a higher risk of developing AD.

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