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  1. A blood-based screening tool can serve as a method for increasing access to state-of-the-art AD clinical research by bridging between community-based and clinic-based settings.

  2. Amyloid beta associations with connected speech in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These results indicate that declines in connected speech may be related to preclinical AD.

  3. Development of a smartphone application for the objective detection of attentional deficits in delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2015-03-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The DelApp test showed good performance, supporting the utility of objectively measuring attention in delirium assessment.

  4. Deep learning based imaging data completion for improved brain disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2014-01-01 Digital health tools

    Combining multi-modality brain data for disease diagnosis commonly leads to improved performance.

  5. Carotid atherosclerosis and 10-year changes in cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Atherosclerosis 2012-07-25 Risk factors

    In this population-based longitudinal study, carotid IMT was associated with a higher risk of developing cognitive impairment during the 10-year follow-up, and was associated with poorer performance in a test of executive function 10 years later.

  6. Patients with Alzheimer's disease have reduced activities in midlife compared with healthy control-group members

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2001-03-06 Risk factors

    The development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life may be reflective of environmental factors operating over the course of a lifetime.

  7. COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN EARLY, UNTREATED PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO MOTOR DISABILITY

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Brain 1991-01-01 Risk factors

    Current knowledge of cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD) has largely been obtained from studies of chronically treated patients in whom effects of disease chronicity, treatment, depression and dementia are confounding factors.

  8. Educational attainment and sex modulate clinical outcomes in genetic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain communications 2026-08-04 Risk factors

    Individuals with autosomal dominant frontotemporal dementia (FTD) exhibit considerable variability in disease onset and progression.

  9. Association of sleep duration with Alzheimer's disease and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-07 Risk factors

    Sleep duration exhibited a U-shaped association with SPARE-AD (p = 0.001), Trail Making Tests A and B, and the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (all p < 0.001).

  10. Social isolation and loneliness are increasingly recognized as detrimental risk factors for brain health.

  11. Postural Sway Characteristics Distinguish Types of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2025-02-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The data of 1734 participants (1158 with AD, 105 with DLB, 46 with VaD, and 425 with CN) were analyzed.

  12. Association of a pace of aging epigenetic clock with rate of cognitive decline in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-11-23 Genetics

    Participants with faster DunedinPACE had poorer cognitive functioning at baseline and experienced more rapid cognitive decline over follow-up.

  13. Cognitive Reserve Relationship with Physical Performance in Dementia-Free Older Adults: The MIND-China Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2024-10-01 Risk factors

    Greater educational attainment and mental activity were associated with higher composite SPPB scores and those of its three subtests (p < 0.05).

  14. Depressive Symptoms Are Not Associated with Predementia Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2024-05-10 Biomarkers

    Only the Aβ negative MCI group (MCI-Aβ-) was associated with depressive symptoms (odds ratio [OR] = 2.65, p = 0.005).

  15. Impact of Concurrent Visual and Hearing Impairment on Incident Alzheimer's Disease: The LIFE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Risk factors

    Among 14,186 participants, we identified 1,194 (8.4%) who developed AD over a median follow-up period of 22.6 months.

  16. Plasma neurofilament light and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged urban adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-05-02 Biomarkers

    Elevated plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) is associated with dementia though underlying mechanisms remain unknown.

  17. Roles of physical activity and diet in cognitive aging: is more better?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2022-04-10 Prevention and risk

    There was a significant interaction between PASE and MIND on executive functioning and total grey matter volume.

  18. Assessment of the predictive potential of cognitive scores from retinal images and retinal fundus metadata via deep learning using the CLSA database

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-04-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of beta-amyloid in the brain and cognitive decline are considered hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.

  19. Associations of Physical Activity with Alzheimer's Disease Pathologies and Cognition: The CABLE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Biomarkers

    Regular physical activity was positively associated with CSF Aβ42 (p < 0.001) and Aβ42/40 (p < 0.001), while it was negatively associated with p-tau/Aβ42 (p < 0.001) and t-tau/Aβ42 (p < 0.001).

  20. The Computerized Cognitive Composite (C3) in an Alzheimer's Disease Secondary Prevention Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings provide support for both the feasibility and validity of C3 and computerized cognitive outcomes more generally in AD secondary prevention trials.

  21. Association of genetic risk for Alzheimer disease and hearing impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-02 Risk factors

    Poor speech-in-noise hearing (>-5.5-dB speech reception threshold; prevalence 14%) was associated with lower cognitive scores (ß = -1.28; 95% confidence interval [CI] -1.54 to -1.03).

  22. Audiometric Age-Related Hearing Loss and Cognition in the Hispanic Community Health Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2020-02-14 Risk factors

    The mean age was 58.4 years (SD = 6.2). A 20-dB (equivalent to a one-category worsening) increase in HL was associated with a -1.53 (95% CI, -2.11, -0.94) raw score point difference in the DSST, adjusting for demographics, hearing aid use, and cardiovascular disease.

  23. Computerised cognitive testing of individuals with Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR 2015-09-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mean scaled scores in this longitudinal study were evaluated with repeated measures analysis of variance.

  24. The Effect of Preinjury Sleep Difficulties on Neurocognitive Impairment and Symptoms After Sport-Related Concussion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The American Journal of Sports Medicine 2015-02-03 Risk factors

    The findings may help clinicians identify athletes who are at risk for worse impairments after a concussion due to preinjury sleep difficulties.

  25. A scoping review of remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessments in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2025-05-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Characterizing subtle cognitive changes in preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) is difficult using traditional neuropsychological assessments.

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