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  1. Cardiometabolic and Vascular Disease Factors and Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Gerontology 2022-01-26 Risk factors

    Prevalent MCI and dementia, compared with normal cognition, was associated with higher proportions of persons with any CMVD, hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation, or stroke.

  2. Monthly At-Home Computerized Cognitive Testing to Detect Diminished Practice Effects in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-01-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Overall, individuals improved on all C3 measures over 12 months (β = 0.23, 95% CI [0.21-0.25], p < 0.001), but improvement over the first 3 months was greatest (β = 0.68, 95% CI [0.59-0.77], p < 0.001), suggesting stronger PE over initial repeated exposures.

  3. Sleep Disturbances, Cognitive Status, and Biomarkers of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Risk factors

    Prevalence of insomnia was 14%, 16%, and 11% for normal, MCI, and dementia groups.

  4. Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Phenoconversion to Neurodegenerative Synucleinopathies in Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's disease 2022 Risk factors

    Several studies have suggested that atherosclerotic diseases and diabetes may be risk factors for α-synucleinopathies.

  5. Quantitative MRI Evidence for Cognitive Reserve in Healthy Elders and Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Risk factors

    We observed significant differences in the association between CR and white matter tract MTV in aMCI versus HC when age, gender, intracranial volume, and memory ability were held constant.

  6. Plasma neurofilament light chain is associated with cognitive decline in non-dementia older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Scientific reports 2021-06-28 Biomarkers

    Neurofilament light chain (NfL) has been associated with cognitive status in multiple neurodegenerative conditions.

  7. The Health & Aging Brain among Latino Elders (HABLE) study methods and participant characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-06-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The current data provide strong support for continued investigations that examine the risk factors for and biomarkers of AD among diverse populations.

  8. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cognitive Decline: A Review of Potential Vulnerability and Protective Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-05-27 Risk factors

    Around 40% of dementia risk is attributable to modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity, hypertension, diabetes and obesity.

  9. Altered Functional Connectivity of Hippocampal Subfields in Poststroke Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2021-05-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results showed HP was functionally divided into HPhead , HPbody , and HPtail bilaterally along the longitudinal axis.

  10. Correlation of Frontal Atrophy and CSF Tau Levels With Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Patients With Cognitive Impairment: A Memory Clinic Experience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-03-05 Tau biomarkers

    Delusions, hallucinations, and psychosis cluster were differently distributed among the diagnostic groups (p < 0.05, p < 0.001, and p < 0.05), with LBD patients showing higher scores for hallucinations (vs. MCI, p < 0.001, and AD, p < 0.05) and psychosis cluster (vs. MCI, p < 0.05).

  11. Cognitive reserve and brain maintenance in aging and dementia: An integrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2021-01-25 Risk factors

    This research is an integrative review of scientific evidence differentiating between cognitive reserve (CR) and brain maintenance concepts.

  12. Corticomotor Plasticity Predicts Clinical Efficacy of Combined Neuromodulation and Cognitive Training in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-07-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Combined rTMS and cognitive training may improve the cognitive status of AD patients, with TMS-induced cortical plasticity at baseline serving as predictor of therapeutic outcome for this intervention, and potential mechanism of action.

  13. Cognitive correlates of cerebellar resting-state functional connectivity in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2019-12-17 Brain scans and imaging

    The participants with PD had significantly weaker FC between the vermis and peristriate visual association cortex compared to controls, and the strength of this FC correlated with visuospatial function and global cognition.

  14. EEG evidence of compensatory mechanisms in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain 2019-05-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Neurodegeneration was associated with a widespread increase of median spectral frequency.

  15. Global Evolution of Research in Artificial Intelligence in Health and Medicine: A Bibliometric Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2019-03-14 Risk factors

    The increasing application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and medicine has attracted a great deal of research interest in recent decades.

  16. Vision loss and 12-year risk of dementia in older adults: the 3C cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. European journal of epidemiology 2019-01-04 Risk factors

    To analyze the longitudinal relationships between vision loss and the risk of dementia in the first 2 years, from 2 to 4 years and beyond 4 years after inclusion and to determine the roles of depressive symptomatology and engagement in cognitively stimulating activities in these associations.

  17. Retinal image analytics detects white matter hyperintensities in healthy adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2018-11-15 Treatments

    We developed a robust algorithm to automatically evaluate retinal fundus image that can identify subjects with high WMH burden.

  18. Resting-state connectivity in neurodegenerative disorders: Is there potential for an imaging biomarker?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-03-16 Costs and economics

    In addition to an overview of the results, we briefly outline the methods applied to the concept of resting-state functional connectivity.

  19. Insomnia and somnolence in idiopathic RBD: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2017-03-20 Risk factors

    Although some sleep disorders are markers of prodromal Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, it is unclear whether insomnia and somnolence can predict disease.

  20. Motor-Cognitive Dual-Task Training in Persons With Neurologic Disorders: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPT 2015-07-01 Digital health tools

    The inclusion criteria of the studies reviewed limited the diagnostic groups included.

  21. Self-reported sleep and β-amyloid deposition in community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Among community-dwelling older adults, reports of shorter sleep duration and poorer sleep quality are associated with greater Aβ burden.

  22. Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Part 1: Performance Across Phase of Illness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2011-02-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    Social cognitive impairments are consistently reported in schizophrenia and are associated with functional outcome.

  23. Default-mode brain dysfunction in mental disorders: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2008-09-09 Brain scans and imaging

    In this review we are concerned specifically with the putative role of the default-mode network (DMN) in the pathophysiology of mental disorders.

  24. Metabolic syndrome and dementia risk in a multiethnic elderly cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2007-07-18 Risk factors

    No association was found between MeSy and prevalent dementia.

  25. Depression and memory impairment: a meta-analysis of the association, its pattern, and specificity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Psychological bulletin 1995-03-01 Risk factors

    The existing evidence paints an unclear picture of whether an association exists between depression and memory impairment.

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