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  1. Alcohol use disorder accelerates age-related cognitive decline 2026-09-23
  2. A longitudinal study of age-related traits and cognitive function: The Collaborative Amish Aging and Memory Project (CAAMP) 2026-09-20
  3. Associations of menopause hormone therapy with late-life cognition and brain health vary by formulation and APOEε4 presence 2026-09-20

Studies

1,142 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 42
  • Neurology 41
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 36
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 35
  • Nutrients 23

437 journals in all.

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  1. The Association Between Gait Speed and Cognitive Status in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2019-05-01 Prevention and risk

    The strength of evidence for an association between gait speed and cognition was demonstrated by the number and consistency of results, as well as quality of the studies.

  2. Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet is Associated with Better Sleep Quality in Italian Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nutrients 2019-04-28 Prevention trials

    In an additional analysis stratifying the sample by weight status, the association between sleep quality and high adherence to the Mediterranean diet was observed only among normal/overweight individuals but not in obese participants.

  3. Association Between Periodontitis and Cognitive Impairment in Adults: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2019-04-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Periodontitis is an oral inflammatory disease and may contribute to low-grade systemic inflammation.

  4. Cognitive outcomes following coronary artery bypass grafting: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 91,829 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. International journal of cardiology 2019-04-24 Clinical safety

    The results of this meta-analysis demonstrate that cognitive impairment and delirium are major issues in CABG patients which require specific attention.

  5. Working memory revived in older adults by synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2019-04-08 Lewy body dementia

    Understanding normal brain aging and developing methods to maintain or improve cognition in older adults are major goals of fundamental and translational neuroscience.

  6. Longitudinal Relationships Between Decline in Speech-in-Noise Recognition Ability and Cognitive Functioning: The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2019-04-01 Digital health tools

    Causal pathways corresponding to all 4 hypotheses were supported.

  7. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-03-29 End-of-life care

    Older adults with sensory and cognitive impairments constitute a particularly prevalent and vulnerable population who are at increased risk of hospitalization and contribute to higher healthcare spending.

  8. Exercise and cognitive function in patients with end-stage kidney disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Seminars in dialysis 2019-03-22 Prevention trials

    In this review we summarize the research pertaining to the role of exercise in preventing cognitive decline in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).

  9. Cognitive dispersion is a sensitive marker for early neurodegenerative changes and functional decline in nondemented older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2019-03-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Intraindividual cognitive variability (IIV), a measure of within-person variability across cognitive measures at a single time point, is associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Environmental predictors of objectively measured out-of-home time among older adults with cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2019-03-18 Risk factors

    Older adults with cognitive decline are vulnerable to various health problems.

  11. The effects of 7-week cognitive training in patients with vascular cognitive impairment, no dementia (the Cog-VACCINE study): A randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-03-17 Prevention trials

    Computerized cognitive training significantly improved global cognitive function, which was supported by the improved brain plasticity.

  12. Computerised cognitive training for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in late life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2019-03-13 Prevention trials

    We found no studies on our primary outcome of global cognitive function.

  13. Computerised cognitive training for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in midlife

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2019-03-13 Prevention trials

    Low cognitive and brain reserve and limited cognitive stimulation are associated with increased risk of dementia.

  14. Concepts for brain aging: resistance, resilience, reserve, and compensation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-03-11 Prevention and risk

    A primary goal of research in cognitive impairment and dementia is to understand how some individuals retain sufficient cognitive function for a fulfilling life while many others are robbed of their independence, sometimes their essence, in the last years and decades of life.

  15. Effects of a moderate-intensity aerobic exercise programme on the cognitive function and quality of life of community-dwelling elderly people with mild cognitive impairment: A randomised controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2019-03-05 Prevention and risk

    Whether the cognitive benefits of physical exercise can improve the overall well-being of this group remains unknown.

  16. Assessment of Vascular Event Prevention and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults With Preexisting Vascular Disease or Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2019-03-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Among 45 029 participants undergoing cognitive assessment, mean (SD) age was 67.9 (8.0) years; 80.7% were men.

  17. Individual goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation to improve everyday functioning for people with early-stage dementia: A multicentre randomised controlled trial (the GREAT trial)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2019-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Participants allocated to CR received 10 weekly sessions over 3 months and four maintenance sessions over 6 months.

  18. Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Differences in Cognitive Life Expectancies Among Older Adults in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2019-03-01 Disparities

    Among women, the number of years spent living with dementia for Whites, Blacks, U.S.-born Hispanics, and foreign-born Hispanics was 1.6, 3.9, 4.7, and 6.0 years, respectively.

  19. The Role of Nutrition for the Aging Population: Implications for Cognition and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Annual review of food science and technology 2019-03-01 Prevention trials

    Improved life expectancy worldwide has resulted in a significant increase in age-related diseases.

  20. MIND not Mediterranean diet related to 12-year incidence of cognitive impairment in an Australian longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-02-28 Prevention trials

    Preliminary evidence suggests that protective effects of the MIND diet are geographically generalizable.

  21. The Effect of Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Daily Functioning in Older People

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-02-26 Prevention trials

    A 2-year lifestyle intervention was able to maintain the daily functioning of the at-risk older population.

  22. Effects of Home Photobiomodulation Treatments on Cognitive and Behavioral Function, Cerebral Perfusion, and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Patients with Dementia: A Pilot Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Photobiomodulation, photomedicine, and laser surgery 2019-02-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study sought to replicate and build upon a previously published case series report describing improved cognitive function in five patients with mild-to-moderate dementia after 12 weeks of transcranial and intranasal near-infrared (NIR) PBM therapy.

  23. CPAP Adherence May Slow 1-Year Cognitive Decline in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Apnea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019-02-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Controlling for baseline differences, 1 year of CPAP adherence in MCI +OSA significantly improved cognition, compared with a nonadherent control group, and may slow the trajectory of cognitive decline.

  24. Education and cognitive reserve in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2019-02-06 Caregiving

    The results suggest that the contribution of education to cognitive reserve is limited to its association with level of cognitive function before old age.

  25. Blood Pressure and Cognitive Decline Over 8 Years in Middle-Aged and Older Black and White Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2019-02-01 Disparities

    Although the association between high blood pressure (BP), particularly in midlife, and late-life dementia is known, less is known about variations by race and sex.

  26. Psychosocial Pathways to Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Late-Life Memory Trajectories

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2019-02-01 Disparities

    Depression and external locus of control partially mediate racial/ethnic differences in memory trajectories.

  27. Aerobic exercise combined with computerized cognitive training has better effects on the cognitive functional status of survivors of stroke than an active control.

  28. Cognitive improvement effects of electro-acupuncture for the treatment of MCI compared with Western medications: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMC complementary and alternative medicine 2019-01-08 Digital health tools

    Electroacupuncture was an effective treatment for MCI patients by improving cognitive function.

  29. Detecting Apathy in Older Adults with Cognitive Disorders Using Automatic Speech Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Digital health tools

    These findings reinforce the usability of speech as a reliable biomarker in the detection and assessment of apathy.

  30. Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Decline: key features for prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Current pharmaceutical design 2019-01-01 Prevention trials

    The decline in cognitive function is generally the result of the complex interaction of several factors.

  31. Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Health in Older Adults: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Prevention and risk

    While the role of diet and nutrition in cognitive health and prevention of dementia in older adults has attracted much attention, the efficacy of different dietary patterns remains uncertain.

  32. Maintain Your Brain: Protocol of a 3-Year Randomized Controlled Trial of a Personalized Multi-Modal Digital Health Intervention to Prevent Cognitive Decline Among Community Dwelling 55 to 77 Year Olds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Digital health tools

    MYB will be the largest internet-based trial to attempt to prevent cognitive decline and potentially dementia.

  33. Mediterranean-Dash Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Diet Slows Cognitive Decline After Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2019-01-01 Prevention trials

    High adherence to the MIND diet was associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline after stroke.

  34. Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet Protects from Cognitive Decline in the Invecchiare in Chianti Study of Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-12-19 Prevention trials

    Following a Mediterranean diet high in plant-based foods and fish, low in meat and dairy foods, and with moderate alcohol intake has been shown to promote healthy aging.

  35. Vitamin and mineral supplementation for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in mid and late life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2018-12-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Vitamins and minerals play multiple functions within the central nervous system which may help to maintain brain health and optimal cognitive functioning.

  36. Interventions to Improve Gait in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-12-02 Prevention trials

    Of 6,379 citations, 36 articles met inclusion criteria.

  37. Modifiable lifestyle risk factors have been identified as playing a major role in the development of dementia; hence, interventions addressing these risk factors represent a significant opportunity to reduce the number of people developing dementia.

  38. A Mediterranean diet supplemented with dairy foods improves mood and processing speed in an Australian sample: results from the MedDairy randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nutritional neuroscience 2018-11-08 Prevention trials

    Our study provides evidence that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with dairy foods may benefit cognitive function and psychological well-being in an ageing population at risk of dementia.

  39. There was no significant difference between the two groups in baseline age, sex, illiteracy, years of education, and scores on the K-MMSE, CDR, SNSB-II, and K-MBI.

  40. Vitamin and mineral supplementation for preventing dementia or delaying cognitive decline in people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2018-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    It has been suggested that various different vitamin and mineral supplements might be useful in maintaining cognitive function and delaying the onset of dementia.

  41. Towards Combinatorial Approaches for Preserving Cognitive Fitness in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2018-10-18 Prevention trials

    Aging-related cognitive decline represents a critical risk factor for the development of dementia and is associated with global neurophysiological changes.

  42. Twelve studies with 195 PwD and four with 53 PwMCI met the inclusion criteria.

  43. Exercise-induced brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression: Therapeutic implications for Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2018-10-13 Disease mechanisms

    Emerging evidence indicates that moderate intensity aerobic exercise is positively correlated with cognitive function and memory.

  44. Leisure-time physical activity sustained since midlife and preservation of cognitive function: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-12 Long-term cohort studies

    We tested the hypotheses that higher levels of and persistence of midlife leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) are associated long-term with lower cognitive decline and less incident dementia.

  45. Association of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thinning With Current and Future Cognitive Decline: A Study Using Optical Coherence Tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-10-01 Prevention and risk

    A thinner RNFL was associated with worse cognitive performance on baseline assessment.

  46. Hearing Loss Treatment in Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2018-10-01 Digital health tools

    Based on the systematic review, evidence suggests that treating hearing loss in persons with cognitive impairment can have benefits to communication and quality of life.

  47. American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging Bench-to-Bedside Conference: Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-09-24 Prevention and risk

    This article summarizes the presentations and recommendations of the tenth annual American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging Bench-to-Bedside research conference, "Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Decline," on October 2-3, 2017, in Bethesda, Maryland.

  48. Nutrition and prevention of cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2018-09-21 Prevention and risk

    Nutrition is an important lifestyle factor that can modify the risk of future cognitive impairment and dementia.

  49. Age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline - The potential mechanisms linking the two

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Auris, nasus, larynx 2018-09-01 Prevention and risk

    The amount of attention to age-related hearing loss (ARHL) has been growing, not only from the perspective of being one of the most common health conditions affecting older adults, but also from the perspective of its relation to cognition.

  50. The Role of Nutrition in Cognitive Function and Brain Ageing in the Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Current nutrition reports 2018-09-01 Prevention trials

    Recent findings Results suggest that higher adherence to a healthy dietary pattern is associated with preservation of brain structure and function as well as slower cognitive decline, with the MIND diet substantially slowing cognitive decline, over and above the MeDi and DASH diets.

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