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  1. Enhancing dementia risk screening with GAN-synthesized periodontal examination and general blood test data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2024-08-14 Biomarkers

    This study used measured data from 108 participants and the synthesized data generated from the measured data.

  2. Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Is Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Normal Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-07-09 Vascular contributions

    A total of 124 participants with Alzheimer disease, cerebrovascular disease, or a mix Alzheimer's and cerebrovascular diseases and 55 controlparticipants underwent magnetic resonance imaging and neuropsychological testing.

  3. Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) XpressO: Validation of a digital self-administered cognitive prescreening tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Analysis showed strong correlation between (1) XpressO memory tasks scores and the MoCA Memory Index Score (p-values < 0.001), and between (2) XpressO sub-test scores and MoCA total score (p-values < 0.005).

  4. Hypertension is associated with impaired cognition, and when combined with MCI, it may lead to a poor prognosis.

  5. General cognitive ability in high school, attained education, occupational complexity, and dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-02-20 Risk factors

    Education partially mediated the effect of adolescent cognition on CI in the cognitive assessment aample and AD8 in the questionnaire sample (Ps < 0.001).

  6. Comparing Cognitive Tests and Smartphone-Based Assessment in 2 US Community-Based Cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-01-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A total of 406 FHS (Framingham Heart Study) and 59 BHS (Bogalusa Heart Study) participants with traditional neuropsychological tests and digital assessments using the Defense Automated Neurocognitive Assessment (DANA) smartphone protocol were included.

  7. Tipping the Balance Between Cognitive Reserve, Frailty, and Dementia in the Very Old?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Risk factors

    166 patients were consecutively enrolled (mean age was 85.7 years old, females composed 68%); 25% had a diagnosis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and 75% had a diagnosis of dementia.

  8. Efficacy of smartphone application-based multi-domain cognitive training in older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-11-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Of 101 participants, 85 older adults without dementia (84.1%) who completed the study protocol were included in the statistical analysis.

  9. Racially fair pupillometry measurements for RGB smartphone cameras using the far red spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Scientific reports 2023-08-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Pupillometry is a measurement of pupil dilation commonly performed as part of neurological assessments.

  10. Development of digital voice biomarkers and associations with cognition, cerebrospinal biomarkers, and neural representation in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-01-01 Digital health tools

    These preliminary findings suggest that derived digital biomarkers may identify cognitive impairment in preclinical and prodromal AD, and may predict disease progression.

  11. Weight Loss and Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    Polynomial regressions indicated an 0.23 kg/m2 decrease in BMI per year beginning at age 36.5 years, which occurs alongside the period during which Aβ and tau increase and memory and mental status decline.

  12. Exploring Reasons for Differential Vulnerability and Alzheimer's Disease Risk in Racial and Ethnic Minorities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Disparities

    When considering race/ethnicity, the presence of more vascular comorbidities drove greater vulnerability.

  13. Cognition and brain health among older adults in Iceland: the AGES-Reykjavik study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. GeroScience 2022-08-17 Risk factors

    The paper aimed to compare how factors previously identified as predictive factors for cognitive decline and dementia related to cognitive performance on the one hand and brain health on the other.

  14. Multivariate profile and acute-phase correlates of cognitive deficits in a COVID-19 hospitalised cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2022-04-28 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The pattern of deficits across tasks was qualitatively compared with normal age-related decline, and early-stage dementia.

  15. Structural brain splitting is a hallmark of Granulin-related frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Frontotemporal dementia associated with granulin (GRN) mutations presents asymmetric brain atrophy.

  16. Automated analysis of facial emotions in subjects with cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2022-01-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Differences in expressing facial emotions are broadly observed in people with cognitive impairment.

  17. Depressive symptom profiles predict dementia onset and brain pathology in older persons. The AGES-Reykjavik study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-11-27 Risk factors

    Late-life depression (LLD) increases risk for dementia and brain pathology, but possibly this is only true for one or more symptom profiles of LLD.

  18. Late-Life Depression, Cognitive Impairment, and Relationship with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2021-11-25 Risk factors

    This narrative review aimed to explore the existing knowledge in order to examine the multiple forms of late-life depression (LLD) within a non-neurodegenerative or a neurodegenerative context, in particular Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Metabolic Syndrome and Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current cardiology reports 2021-10-19 Risk factors

    RECENT FINDINGS: MetS was associated with lower domain-specific and global cognitive function in most cross-sectional studies, but findings from longitudinal studies are not consistent.

  20. Depression, cognitive reserve markers, and dementia risk in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2021-09-11 Risk factors

    Baseline depression and low cognitive reserve significantly increased the risk of subsequent dementia at follow-up.

  21. Segregation of functional networks is associated with cognitive resilience in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive resilience is an important modulating factor of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease, but the functional brain mechanisms that support cognitive resilience remain elusive.

  22. Validity and Cultural Generalisability of a 5-Minute AI-Based, Computerised Cognitive Assessment in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-07-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The ICA demonstrated convergent validity with MoCA (Pearson r=0.58, p<0.0001) and ACE (r=0.62, p<0.0001).

  23. Remote monitoring technologies in Alzheimer's disease: design of the RADAR-AD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-04-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our study is well placed to evaluate the clinical utility of RMT assessments.

  24. Continuous gait monitoring discriminates community-dwelling mild Alzheimer's disease from cognitively normal controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-02-05 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Variability in step velocity and cadence had the highest predictive utility in identifying individuals with mild AD.

  25. Electronic Cognitive Screen Technology for Screening Older Adults With Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Community Setting: Development and Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2020-12-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Previous studies have shown that the diagnostic performance of digital cognitive tests is comparable with that of conventional paper-and-pencil tests.

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