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Newest in this topic

  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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. MRI-Based Classification Models in Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Late-Life Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-02-02 Long-term cohort studies

    Late-life depression (LLD) is associated with development of different types of dementia.

  4. Optimizing Neuropsychological Assessments for Cognitive, Behavioral, and Functional Impairment Classification: A Machine Learning Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Behavioural neurology 2017-01-31 Digital health tools

    Subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show loss of cognitive functions and change in behavioral and functional state affecting the quality of their daily life and that of their families and caregivers.

  5. Natural course of mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease: A 5-year population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2017-01-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Early PD-MCI, regardless of persistence or reversion to normal cognition, has prognostic value for predicting dementia in patients with PD.

  6. Multimodal Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia: A Multi- Center, Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind, Crossover Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Prevention trials

    We developed and evaluated the effect of Multimodal Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (MCET) consisting of cognitive training, cognitive stimulations, reality orientation, physical therapy, reminiscence therapy, and music therapy in combination in older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia.

  7. Prediction of Incipient Alzheimer's Disease Dementia in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Digital health tools

    The method presented in this paper can be used to separate stable MCI patients from those who are at early stages of AD dementia with high accuracy.

  8. Prevalence of Depression in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2017-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Of 5687 unique abstracts, 255 were selected for full-text review, and 57 studies, representing 20 892 patients, met all inclusion criteria.

  9. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Normative Data from a Large Swedish Population-Based Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has a high sensitivity for detecting cognitive dysfunction.

  10. The Risk of Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment and Progression to Dementia Considering Mild Cognitive Impairment Subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2017-01-01 Genetics

    Cognitively normal subjects with an APOE ε4 allele had a higher likelihood of developing aMCI and the MCI subtype was associated with the dementia subtype.

  11. Computerized Cognitive Training in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2016-11-14 Prevention trials

    CCT is efficacious on global cognition, select cognitive domains, and psychosocial functioning in people with mild cognitive impairment.

  12. Normative Data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Middle-Aged and Elderly Quebec-French People

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2016-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Given that aging is associated with higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia, improving early detection of cognitive impairment has become a research and clinical priority.

  13. MoCA test better meets the criteria for screening tests for the detection of MCI among patients over 60 years of age than MMSE.

  14. Mild cognitive impairment and risk of depression and anxiety: A population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2016-08-09 Long-term cohort studies

    Many people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) suffer from concomitant depression or anxiety.

  15. Does mild cognitive impairment always lead to dementia? A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2016-07-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has often been studied in its association with dementia, yet higher rates of reversion to normal cognition than progression to dementia suggest that MCI does not necessarily lead to dementia.

  16. Subjective cognitive decline: The first clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2016-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings support the idea that subjective cognitive complaints may be an early clinical marker that precedes mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome and Falls Risk: A Multi-Center Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-06-01 Clinical safety

    MCR is associated with an increased risk of falls.

  18. Remote Neuropsychological Assessment in Rural American Indians with and without Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2016-05-30 Disparities

    The sample consisted of 84 participants from the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma, including 53 females and 31 males [M age = 64.89 (SD = 9.73), M education = 12.58 (SD = 2.35)].

  19. Biomarkers for dementia and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2016-05-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cognitive decline is one of the most frequent and disabling nonmotor features of Parkinson's disease.

  20. Disrupted Network Topology in Patients with Stable and Progressive Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2016-05-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Recent findings suggest that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a disconnection syndrome characterized by abnormalities in large-scale networks.

  21. The Impact of Mild Cognitive Impairment on Gait and Balance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies Using Instrumented Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Gerontology 2016-05-13 Getting a diagnosis

    Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and reported quantitative gait (n = 11) or postural balance (n = 4) parameters to be included in the meta-analysis.

  22. Mini-Mental State Examination in Elderly Chinese: A Population-Based Normative Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-05-01 Disparities

    It could be of great improvement for the use of the MMSE in dementia screening in Chinese elderly population.

  23. Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2016-04-01 How common it is

    As individuals age, the quality of cognitive function becomes an increasingly important topic.

  24. Neuropsychological Criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Risk in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2016-03-31 Mild cognitive impairment

    The Petersen/Winblad criteria classified 34% of participants as having MCI while the Jak/Bondi criteria classified 24% as MCI.

  25. The Differentiation of Amnestic Type MCI from the Non-Amnestic Types by Structural MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2016-03-30 Mild cognitive impairment

    The amnestic mild cognitive impairment/non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment separation is not only theoretical but backed by structural imaging methods and neuropsychological tests.

  26. A Feasibility Study with Image-Based Rendered Virtual Reality in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2016-03-18 Prevention trials

    Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool in many domains of therapy and rehabilitation, and has recently attracted the attention of researchers and clinicians working with elderly people with MCI, Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

  27. Beta-Band Functional Connectivity is Reorganized in Mild Cognitive Impairment after Combined Computerized Physical and Cognitive Training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2016-02-29 Prevention trials

    Physical and cognitive idleness constitute significant risk factors for the clinical manifestation of age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

  28. Mini Mental State Examination and Logical Memory scores for entry into Alzheimer's disease trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2016-02-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Specific cutoff scores on the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Logical Memory (LM) test are used to determine inclusion in Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials and diagnostic studies.

  29. Predicting Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Dementia Using Clinical, MRI, and Plasma Biomarkers via Probabilistic Pattern Classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PloS one 2016-02-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    We developed an accurate prognostic model for predicting MCI-to-dementia progression over a three-year period.

  30. Routine cognitive screening in a neurology practice: Effect on physician behavior

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Neurology. Clinical practice 2016-02-01 Treatments

    There was a 37.4% screen positive rate on the Mini-Cog.

  31. Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for the detection of dementia in clinically unevaluated people aged 65 and over in community and primary care populations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2016-01-13 Getting a diagnosis

    We did not apply any language or date restrictions to the electronic searches, and we did not use any methodological filters as a method to restrict the search overall.

  32. Association Between Olfactory Dysfunction and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Disease Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-01-01 Genetics

    Among the 1430 cognitively normal participants included, the mean (SD) age was 79.5 (5.3) years, 49.4% were men, the mean duration of education was 14.3 years, and 25.4% were APOE ε4 carriers.

  33. Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment: Comparison of "MCI Specific" Screening Instruments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Sensitive and specific instruments are required to screen for cognitive impairment (CI) in busy clinical practice.

  34. Montreal Cognitive Assessment for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2015-10-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dementia is a progressive syndrome of global cognitive impairment with significant health and social care costs.

  35. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Creating a Crosswalk with the Mini-Mental State Examination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015-10-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Scores on the full and abbreviated versions of the MoCA can be linked directly to the MMSE.

  36. Montreal Cognitive Assessment: One Cutoff Never Fits All

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Stroke 2015-10-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The objective of this study is to examine the discrepancy between single versus age and education corrected cutoff scores in classifying performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack.

  37. Working memory and executive function decline across normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. BioMed research international 2015-10-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease marked by deficits in episodic memory, working memory (WM), and executive function.

  38. Relationship between the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Mini-mental State Examination for assessment of mild cognitive impairment in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2015-09-07 Getting a diagnosis

    MoCA and MMSE were more similar for dementia cases, but MoCA distributes MCI cases across a broader score range with less ceiling effect.

  39. Marked gender differences in progression of mild cognitive impairment over 8 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2015-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Women with MCI have greater longitudinal rates of cognitive and functional progression than men.

  40. Cognitive Frailty: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological and Neurobiological Evidence of an Age-Related Clinical Condition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Rejuvenation research 2015-08-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Advancing age is the focus of recent studies on familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), suggesting a prolonged pre-clinical phase several decades before the onset of dementia symptoms.

  41. The cognitive profile of ALS: a systematic review and meta-analysis update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2015-08-17 Caregiving

    Cognitive impairment is present in approximately 30% of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and, especially when severe, has a negative impact on survival and caregiver burden.

  42. A multicenter study of the early detection of synaptic dysfunction in Mild Cognitive Impairment using Magnetoencephalography-derived functional connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2015-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Synaptic disruption is an early pathological sign of the neurodegeneration of Dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT).

  43. Progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia due to AD in clinical settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2015-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Under circumstances emulating routine clinical practice, the positive predictive value of an MCI diagnosis is in line with previous clinical studies and the external validity of the concept is strengthened.

  44. Neuropsychiatric symptoms as early manifestations of emergent dementia: Provisional diagnostic criteria for mild behavioral impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-18 Prevention and risk

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are common in dementia and in predementia syndromes such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  45. Memory, executive, and multidomain subtle cognitive impairment: clinical and biomarker findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2015-06-17 Long-term cohort studies

    We studied the biomarker signatures and prognoses of 3 different subtle cognitive impairment (SCI) groups (executive, memory, and multidomain) as well as the subjective memory complaints (SMC) group.

  46. Non-pharmacological interventions for adults with mild cognitive impairment and early stage dementia: An updated scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular aspects of medicine 2015-06-10 Prevention trials

    The purpose of this scoping review was to examine the science related to non-pharmacological interventions designed to slow decline for older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment or early-stage dementia.

  47. Deficits in narrative discourse elicited by visual stimuli are already present in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2015-05-28 Digital health tools

    Language batteries used to assess the skills of elderly individuals, such as naming and semantic verbal fluency, present some limitations in differentiating healthy controls from patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI).

  48. Risk factors for predicting progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2015-05-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    Patients with MCI with APOEε4, abnormal CSF τ level, hippocampal and medial temporal lobe atrophy, entorhinal atrophy, depression, diabetes, hypertension, older age, female gender, lower MMSE score and higher ADAS-cog score, had a high risk for the progression to AD.

  49. Relation between subcortical grey matter atrophy and conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2015-04-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    Analysis of variances, adjusted for sex and age, showed that all structures, except the globus pallidus, were smaller in AD than in controls.

  50. Prevalence of post-stroke cognitive impairment in china: a community-based, cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. PloS one 2015-04-13 Disparities

    International hospital-based studies have indicated a high risk of cognitive impairment after stroke, evidence from community-based studies in China is scarce.

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