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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

851 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 23

316 journals in all.

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  1. Mild cognitive impairment and its management in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2015-04-10 Prevention and risk

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a common condition in the elderly.

  2. Case-Based fMRI Analysis after Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS: A Novel Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2015-04-08 Prevention trials

    The occurrence of different and opposed response patterns after the same training indicates a risk in applying classical group statistics.

  3. Predicting the risk of mild cognitive impairment in the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2015-03-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    We have developed MCI risk scores using variables easily assessable in the clinical setting and that may be useful in routine patient care.

  4. Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for the detection of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2015-03-05 Getting a diagnosis

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the best-known and the most often used short screening tool for providing an overall measure of cognitive impairment in clinical, research and community settings.

  5. Screening for cognitive impairment after stroke: A systematic review of psychometric properties and clinical utility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of rehabilitation medicine 2015-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Data sources EMBASE, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychInfo.

  6. Thinner changes of the retinal nerve fiber layer in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. BMC neurology 2015-02-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our data indicate that the retinal nerve fiber layer degeneration is paralleled with dementia progression.

  7. Modifiable predictors of dementia in mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2015-02-20 Prevention and risk

    Diabetes increased the risk of conversion to dementia.

  8. Montreal Cognitive Assessment 5-minute protocol is a brief, valid, reliable, and feasible cognitive screen for telephone administration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Stroke 2015-02-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-Canadian Stroke Network Vascular Cognitive Impairment Harmonization working group proposed a brief cognitive protocol for screening of vascular cognitive impairment.

  9. Cognitive function in patients with diabetes mellitus: guidance for daily care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2015-02-16 Risk factors

    Diabetes mellitus is associated with an increase in the risk of dementia and the proportion of patients who convert from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia.

  10. Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease and its progression onto dementia: a 16-year outcome evaluation of the Denbighshire cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2015-02-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease is an important predictor for the progression to PDD.

  11. Cognitive impairment in patients with AIDS - prevalence and severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) 2015-01-29 Clinical safety

    The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy has prolonged the life expectancy of HIV patients and decreased the number of adults who progress to AIDS and HIV-associated dementia.

  12. Autonomous unobtrusive detection of mild cognitive impairment in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2015-01-09 Digital health tools

    The current diagnosis process of dementia is resulting in a high percentage of cases with delayed detection.

  13. Mild cognitive impairment with suspected nonamyloid pathology (SNAP): Prediction of progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2015-01-07 Genetics

    The proportion of progressors was 11% (8/41), 34% (14/41), 56% (19/34), and 71% (60/85) in A-N-, A+N-, SNAP, and A+N+, respectively; the proportion of APOE ε4 carriers was 29%, 70%, 31%, and 71%, respectively, with the SNAP group featuring a significantly different proportion than both A+N- and A+N+ groups (p ≤ 0.005).

  14. Auditory Verbal Learning Test is Superior to Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Memory for Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2015-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The delayed recall of auditory verbal learning test (AVLT_DR) identified 116 subjects as MCI, resulted in the conversion rate as 44% over the roughly 30-month time interval, missed 7.8% incipient Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients in SCD group who eventually converted to dementia.

  15. Cognitive Impairment Precedes and Predicts Functional Impairment in Mild Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The temporal relationship of cognitive deficit and functional impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not well characterized.

  16. Latent Classes of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in NACC Controls and Conversion to Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    A number of studies have linked neuropsychiatric symptoms to increase risk of dementia.

  17. Olfactory cortex degeneration in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Decline in olfactory activity was correlated with the AD structural degeneration in the POC.

  18. Optimal cutoff scores for dementia and mild cognitive impairment of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment among elderly and oldest-old Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    All versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) lack population-based data of 80-plus individuals.

  19. Mobile technologies in the early detection of cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2014-12-23 Disparities

    The identification of biological and pathophysiological processes implicated in different forms of dementia is itself dependent on reliable descriptions of cognitive performance and capacities.

  20. The diagnosis and management of mild cognitive impairment: a clinical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA 2014-12-01 Prevention and risk

    The prevalence of MCI in adults aged 65 years and older is 10% to 20%; risk increases with age and men appear to be at higher risk than women.

  21. Independent comparison of CogState computerized testing and a standard cognitive battery with neuroimaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-11-15 Biomarkers

    Inexpensive, non-invasive tools for assessing Alzheimer-type pathophysiologies are needed.

  22. Normative data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in an Italian population sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2014-11-08 Getting a diagnosis

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a rapid screening battery, also including subtests to assess frontal functions such as set-shifting, abstraction and cognitive flexibility.

  23. Conversion between mini-mental state examination, montreal cognitive assessment, and dementia rating scale-2 scores in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2014-11-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive impairment is one of the earliest, most common, and most disabling non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD).

  24. Anxiety symptoms in amnestic mild cognitive impairment are associated with medial temporal atrophy and predict conversion to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2014-10-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Anxiety symptoms in aMCI predict conversion to AD, over and beyond the effects of depression, memory loss, or atrophy within AD neuroimaging biomarkers.

  25. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) - a sensitive screening instrument for detecting cognitive impairment in chronic hemodialysis patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. PloS one 2014-10-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) therapy have an increased risk of developing cognitive impairment and dementia, which are known relevant factors in disease prognosis and therapeutic success, but still lack adequate screening in clinical routine.

  26. The Study of Mental and Resistance Training (SMART) study—resistance training and/or cognitive training in mild cognitive impairment: a randomized, double-blind, double-sham controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2014-10-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) increases dementia risk with no pharmacologic treatment available.

  27. 3D-CAM: derivation and validation of a 3-minute diagnostic interview for CAM-defined delirium: a cross-sectional diagnostic test study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2014-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The 3D-CAM operationalizes the CAM algorithm using a 3-minute structured assessment with high sensitivity and specificity relative to a reference standard and could be an important tool for improving recognition of delirium.

  28. Mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a clinical perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Mayo Clinic proceedings 2014-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia are common problems in the elderly.

  29. The Mini-Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination: a new assessment tool for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2014-09-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We developed and validated the Mini-Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (M-ACE) in dementia patients.

  30. Cognitive impairment and memory dysfunction after a stroke diagnosis: a post-stroke memory assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 2014-09-09 Vascular contributions

    Cognitive impairment and memory dysfunction following stroke diagnosis are common symptoms that significantly affect the survivors' quality of life.

  31. Test accuracy of cognitive screening tests for diagnosis of dementia and multidomain cognitive impairment in stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Stroke 2014-09-04 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Guidelines recommend screening stroke-survivors for cognitive impairments.

  32. Subjective cognitive complaints contribute to misdiagnosis of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2014-08-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    Subjective cognitive complaints are a criterion for the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), despite their uncertain relationship to objective memory performance in MCI.

  33. Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)-Italian version: regression based norms and equivalent scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2014-08-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief cognitive screening instrument developed by Nasreddine et al. to detect mild cognitive impairment, a high-risk condition for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

  34. A validation study of the Hong Kong version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HK-MoCA) in Chinese older adults in Hong Kong

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi 2014-08-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognition clinic and memory clinic of a public hospital in Hong Kong.

  35. Post-stroke cognitive impairment: epidemiology, mechanisms and management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of translational medicine 2014-08-01 How common it is

    Post-stroke cognitive impairment occurs frequently in the patients with stroke.

  36. Quantitative electroencephalogram utility in predicting conversion of mild cognitive impairment to dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-07-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as a precursor of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the focus of recent research, trying to explore the early mechanisms and possible biomarkers of DLB.

  37. The new DSM-5 diagnosis of mild neurocognitive disorder and its relation to research in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2014-06-10 Prevention and risk

    The Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5 (DSM-5) has included a category named the neurocognitive disorder which was formally known in DSM-IV as 'dementia, delirium, amnestic, and other cognitive disorders'.

  38. Telemedicine and the evaluation of cognitive impairment: the additive value of neuropsychological assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2014-06-07 Disparities

    Teleneuropsychology is proving to be an excellent resource for clarifying cognitive and psychiatric diagnoses, and integrating individual strengths, weaknesses, and preferences into treatment and care plans used by other health care providers, patients, and caregivers.

  39. Susceptibility of the conventional criteria for mild cognitive impairment to false-positive diagnostic errors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-05-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Four subtypes emerged: (1) dysnomic (n = 153), (2) dysexecutive (n = 102), (3) amnestic (n = 288), and (4) cluster-derived normal (n = 282) who performed within normal limits on cognitive testing.

  40. Retinal alterations in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: an optical coherence tomography study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2014-05-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFL) measured by means of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has been used as a marker not only of ophthalmologic diseases but also of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  41. A prospective study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the risk for mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A diagnosis of COPD is associated with an increased risk for MCI, particularly NA-MCI.

  42. Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in an urban community in China: a cross-sectional analysis of the Shanghai Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-03-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Among 2985 nondemented individuals, 601 were diagnosed with MCI, resulting in a prevalence of 20.1% for total MCI, 13.2% for amnestic MCI (aMCI), and 7.0% for non-amnestic MCI (naMCI).

  43. Mild cognitive impairment: a concept in evolution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2014-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The construct of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has evolved over the past 10 years since the publication of the new MCI definition at the Key Symposium in 2003, but the core criteria have remained unchanged.

  44. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Deutsches Arzteblatt international 2014-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    POCD can markedly impair postoperative recovery.

  45. The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment and its etiological subtypes in elderly Chinese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-10 Disparities

    The prevalences of overall MCI, MCI-A, MCI-CVD, MCI-VRF, and MCI-O were 20.8% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 20.0-21.6%), 6.1% (95% CI = 5.7-6.6%), 3.8% (95% CI = 3.4-4.2%), 4.9% (95% CI = 4.5-5.4%), and 5.9% (95% CI = 5.5-6.4%) respectively.

  46. Association of mediterranean diet with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Out of the 664 studies screened, five studies met eligibility criteria.

  47. Body mass index, weight change, and clinical progression in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2014-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The speed and severity of clinical progression after Alzheimer disease (AD) diagnosis varies and depends on multiple factors, most not well elucidated.

  48. Cognitive changes preceding clinical symptom onset of mild cognitive impairment and relationship to ApoE genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2014-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cognitive changes in normal individuals who will subsequently decline may be observed at least 6.5 years prior to symptom onset.

  49. Depression in mild cognitive impairment is associated with progression to Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Depressive symptoms in MCI appear to be predictors for progression to AD.

  50. Determinants, MRI correlates, and prognosis of mild cognitive impairment: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) marks a transitional stage between healthy aging and dementia, but the understanding of MCI in the general population remains limited.

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