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  1. Motor signs during the course of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2004-09-01 Costs and economics

    Most motor signs occur frequently and progress rapidly in Alzheimer disease.

  2. In an older-age vascular cohort, carotid stenosis is associated with processing speed and executive function cognitive deficits, which correlate with p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Biomarkers

    aECAD was associated with significantly worse scores in processing speed (β = -0.19, p = 0.004) and executive function (β = -0.20, p = 0.009) domains after controlling for age, sex, education, race, and ethnicity.

  3. Plasma NfL and cognitive functioning in older adults: The moderating role of HDL cholesterol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-10-14 Biomarkers

    Significant interaction effects were observed: MoCA (β = -1.86×10-4, P = 0.006) and PACC (β = -4.0×10-5, P = 0.004), indicating HDL moderates the negative association between NfL and cognition.

  4. Bilingualism and "brain reserve" in subregions of the hippocampal formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. GeroScience 2025-04-08 Risk factors

    With aging, the hippocampal formation shows variable structural atrophy, which is associated with a decline in cognitive performance.

  5. Healthy dietary patterns in relation to cognitive performance and Alzheimer's disease mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-03-06 Prevention and risk

    A total of 260 AD deaths occurred during a median follow-up of 9.8 years.

  6. Performance and validation of a digital memory test across the Alzheimer's disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain communications 2025-01-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Digital cognitive testing using online platforms has emerged as a potentially transformative tool in clinical neuroscience.

  7. The ADNI Administrative Core: Ensuring ADNI's success and informing future AD clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Administrative Core oversees and coordinates all ADNI activities, to ensure the success and maximize the impact of ADNI in advancing Alzheimer's disease (AD) research and clinical trials.

  8. ATN blood biomarkers are related to digital cognitive assessment in type 1 diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-10-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Higher concentrations of pTau181 and GFAP were associated with slower responses on working memory tasks (pTau181: β = 0.261; p = 0.007; GFAP: β = 0.175, p = 0.036), and higher β-amyloid 42/40 ratio was associated with better vocabulary (β = 0.260, p = 0.009).

  9. Psychometric and adherence considerations for high-frequency, smartphone-based cognitive screening protocols in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2024-09-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Average compliance by time of day ranged from 90.2% for morning sessions, to 77.9% for afternoon sessions, and 84.4% for evening sessions.

  10. Predicting CDR status over 36 months with a recall-based digital cognitive biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The best predictor of CDR at 36 months was M, a DCB reflecting recall ability (area under the curve = 0.84), outperforming traditional scores.

  11. Cognitive resilience/reserve: Myth or reality? A review of definitions and measurement methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-03-13 Risk factors

    We evaluate-also in a critical way-the methods commonly used to define and measure CR, including sociobehavioral proxies, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological and genetic measures.

  12. Dual-task turn velocity - a novel digital biomarker for mild cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-02-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our results demonstrated that dual-task could significantly improve the ability to predict cognitive impairment based on gait parameters such as gait speed (GS) and stride length (SL).

  13. Digital neuropsychological measures by defense automated neurocognitive assessment: reference values and clinical correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2024-02-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Age- and sex-specific reference values were generated for three DANA tasks.

  14. Ocular biomarkers of cognitive decline based on deep-learning retinal vessel segmentation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2024-01-06 Brain scans and imaging

    The fractal dimension (FD) and global vein width were significantly correlated with the CI (P < 0.05).

  15. The Association Between Plasma Amyloid-β 42/40 and Percentage of Semantic Intrusion Errors in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Biomarkers

    The aMCI plasma Aβ+ group evidenced the greatest percentage of SIEs, followed by the aMCI Aβ-.

  16. Vascular risk, gait, behavioral, and plasma indicators of VCID

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-06 Biomarkers

    VRFs and gait were associated with diffusion changes even in low age strata.

  17. Sensory impairment and algorithmic classification of early cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-04-14 Risk factors

    Cross-sectionally, participants with ≥3 SI had twice the prevalence of ECI (prevalence ratio = 2.10, p = 0.02).

  18. Feasibility and acceptability of remote smartphone cognitive testing in frontotemporal dementia research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings suggest that the ALLFTD-mApp study protocol is feasible and acceptable for remote FTD research.

  19. Reconceptualization of the Erlangen Score for the Assessment of Dementia Risk: The ERlangen Score

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Biomarkers

    The distribution of subjects between ES and ERS among the groups differed considerably, as grouping allocated 32 subjects to ES group 2, but only 2 to ERS group 2.

  20. Insomnia Symptoms and Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in the Community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk factors

    Higher ISI score was associated with greater average levels of CSF Aβ42 (per point: 30.7 pg/mL, 95% CI: 4.17-57.3, p = 0.023), as was higher WASO (per 10 min: 136 pg/mL, 95% CI: 48-223, p = 0.002) and more awakenings (per 5:123 pg/mL, 95% CI = 55-192, p < 0.001).

  21. The role of cognitive and brain reserve in late-life depressive events: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2022-09-30 Risk factors

    Higher cognitive (HR: 0.91/SD, 95%CI: 0.84; 1.00) and brain reserve (HR: 0.88/SD, 95%CI: 0.77; 1.00) were associated with a lower risk of a depressive event after adjustment for baseline depressive symptoms.

  22. Abnormal characterization of dynamic functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2022-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Numerous studies have shown abnormal brain functional connectivity in individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).

  23. Trajectories of sleep duration and timing before dementia: a 14-year follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Age and ageing 2022-08-02 Risk factors

    long baseline nighttime and 24-h sleep durations (≥9 h) as well as being persistent or becoming long sleepers during follow-up were associated with dementia incidence.

  24. Associations Between Sleep Duration and Sensory Impairments Among Older Adults in China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-06-07 Risk factors

    Of the 17,668 respondents, 8,396 (47.5%) were men.

  25. Negative affective burden is associated with higher resting-state functional connectivity in subjective cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-04-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD), as expressed by older adults, is associated with negative affect, which, in turn, is a likely risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

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