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  1. Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2 Clinical Core: Progress and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Plans for the next phase of the ADNI project include maintaining longitudinal follow-up of the normal and mild cognitive impairment cohorts, augmenting specific clinical cohorts, and incorporating novel computerized cognitive assessments and patient-reported outcomes.

  2. Long-term systemic inflammation and cognitive impairment in a population-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014-08-14 Risk factors

    With data collected over 20 years, this study demonstrated greater likelihood of cognitive impairment in individuals with repeated high or increasing IL-6.

  3. Development of a new method for assessing global risk of Alzheimer's disease for use in population health approaches to prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research 2013-08-01 Prevention trials

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects approximately 35 million people worldwide.

  4. Risk factors and preventive interventions for Alzheimer disease: state of the science

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-05-09 Prevention trials

    Currently, insufficient evidence exists to draw firm conclusions on the association of any modifiable factors with risk of AD.

  5. Metabolic syndrome and risk of dementia in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2010-03 Risk factors

    Risk of overall dementia and its subtypes was not associated with MetS or any MetS component in participants younger than 75.

  6. Cognitive impairment in incident, untreated Parkinson disease: the Norwegian ParkWest study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2008-11-19 Risk factors

    The findings demonstrate a twofold increase in the proportion with cognitive impairment in subjects with early, untreated Parkinson disease (PD) compared to controls.

  7. Walking while talking: effect of task prioritization in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 2007-01-01 Digital health tools

    Changing instructions while maintaining the same cognitive and motor tasks on WWT in older adults result in task prioritization effects.

  8. Decision rules guiding the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in two community-based cohort studies compared to standard practice in a clinic-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2006-10-10 Long-term cohort studies

    We developed prediction rules to guide the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in two community-based cohort studies (the Religious Orders Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project).

  9. Memory and MRI-based hippocampal volumes in aging and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2000-02-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The volume of the hippocampal formation predicted performance on most acquisition and recall measures across the spectrum of normal aging and AD.

  10. Relationship of hearing impairment to dementia and cognitive dysfunction in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA 1989-04-01 Risk factors

    We conducted a case-control study in 100 cases who had Alzheimer's-type dementia and 100 age-, sex-, and education-matched, nondemented controls to evaluate the hypothesis that hearing impairment contributes to cognitive dysfunction in older adults.

  11. Re: Clarifying comparative claims in digital cognitive assessment: Assessing concurrent validity in a shared cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-05-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In response to correspondence from Cognivue, Inc. regarding our publication (Jannati et al., 2025), we clarify that our analysis employed a rigorous paired-sample design using the same 930 participants from the Bio-Hermes-001 study for both the Digital Clock and Recall® (DCR) and Cognivue Clarity® assessments.

  12. Epigenetic age acceleration, telomere length, and neurocognitive function in long-term survivors of childhood cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-11-27 Genetics

    Survivors of childhood cancer are prone to neurocognitive impairment and premature aging, raising concerns about early onset dementia.

  13. Utility of a contemporary digital cognitive-motor biomarker in Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-11-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    BackgroundCognitive impairment significantly impacts the quality of life in patients with neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington's disease (HD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and Alzheimer's disease (AD).ObjectiveThis study aims to assess the utility of MemTrax, a contemporary digital continuous recognition task platform originally developed for AD, as an effective tool for revealing cognitive and clinical motor impairments in HD and PD populations as aligned with respective disease staging.

  14. Racial/ethnic differences in neuropsychological test performance in frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-10-22 Disparities

    Minoritized individuals had lower scores and/or greater likelihood of impairment on measures of lexical retrieval, processing speed, cognitive flexibility, and working memory but not global cognition, verbal recall, attention, and category fluency.

  15. Comparing psychometric characteristics of a computerized cognitive test (BrainCheck Assess) against the Montreal cognitive assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2024-09-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A high Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.77 (CI = 0.63-0.86) was observed between the two scores.

  16. Sleep Disorders and Cognitive Aging Among Cognitively Impaired Versus Unimpaired Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2024-05-01 Risk factors

    In participants with impaired cognition, baseline sleep apnea was related to better baseline MoCA performance (b = 0.65, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] = [0.07, 1.23]) and less decline in GCA over time (b = 0.06, 95% CI = [0.001, 0.12]).

  17. Reserve, resilience and maintenance of episodic memory and other cognitive functions in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-05-01 Risk factors

    We tested if cognitive and brain reserve and maintenance explain individual differences in episodic memory and other cognitive domains from late middle to early older adulthood.

  18. Quantitative estimate of cognitive resilience and its medical and genetic associations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-11-06 Risk factors

    CR varied across five cognitive assessments and was greater in female participants, associated with longer survival, and weakly associated with educational attainment or APOE ε4 allele.

  19. Memory-driven eye movements prospectively predict dementia in people at risk of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-12-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Baseline data predicted that 36 patients with MCI would progress to the AD clinical syndrome (ADS Progressing).

  20. Brain vitamin D forms, cognitive decline, and neuropathology in community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-07 Prevention and risk

    The main form of vitamin D in all brain regions measured was 25(OH)D3 .

  21. Deep-learning retinal vessel calibre measurements and risk of cognitive decline and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-08-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Previous studies have explored the associations of retinal vessel calibre, measured from retinal photographs or fundus images using semi-automated computer programs, with cognitive impairment and dementia, supporting the concept that retinal blood vessels reflect microvascular changes in the brain.

  22. Transfer learning for cognitive reserve quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. NeuroImage 2022-06-04 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) has been introduced to explain individual differences in susceptibility to cognitive or functional impairment in the presence of age or pathology.

  23. Interactions Between Weight Loss and Plasma Neurodegenerative Markers for Determining Cognitive Decline Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-06-01 Biomarkers

    This study aimed to investigate the interaction between weight loss (WL) and plasma amyloid-β 42/40 (Aβ 42/40), neurofilament light chain (NfL), progranulin, and their association with cognitive decline over time among older adults.

  24. Remote Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognition in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Proof-of-Concept Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2022-02-02 Risk factors

    CVRF prevalence was 62.8% (n=150) for high cholesterol, 45.2% (n=108) for hypertension, 10.9% (n=26) for atrial fibrillation, and 7.5% (n=18) for diabetes.

  25. Gender differences in cognitive reserve: implication for subjective cognitive decline in women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2021-10-08 Risk factors

    The proportion between women and men was significantly different (68.7% [95% CI 63.9-73.4 vs 31.4%, 95% CI 26.6-36.0]).

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