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  1. APOE ε4 and resting-state functional connectivity in racially/ethnically diverse older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Compared to APOE ε4 non-carriers, APOE ε4 carriers had lower rsFC in temporal DMN, but only in non-Hispanic Whites.

  2. Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, ADNC pathology, and cognitive decline in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2020-08-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Compared to those without LATE-NC or ADNC, those with pure LATE-NC had a faster decline in global cognition (p = 0.025) and episodic memory (p = 0.002); however, compared to persons with pure ADNC, those with pure LATE-NC showed a slower decline.

  3. Blood Pressure Control and Dementia Risk in Midlife Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2020-03-16 Risk factors

    Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia, even with no overt stroke.

  4. Plasma Neurofilament Light: A Marker of Neurodegeneration in Mild Behavioral Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Biomarkers

    Time*MBI status was the only significant interaction to predict change in NfL concentrations (F(1,574) = 4.59, p = 0.032), even after controlling for age, mild cognitive impairment, and demographics.

  5. Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma neurofilament light relate to abnormal cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-10-22 Biomarkers

    Plasma NFL was related to all domains (P values ≤ .008) except processing speed (P values ≥ .09).

  6. "A priori" Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Function in the SUN Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2019-10-10 Prevention and risk

    Adjusted differences showed advantages in the 6-year change in STICS-m score of 0.25 (95% CI 0.04-0.45) for an increase of 1-SD (9 points) in the AHEI-2010 and of 0.27 (95% CI 0.05-0.48) for an increase of 1-SD (1.5 points) in the MIND diet.

  7. Visual impairment in aging and cognitive decline: experience in a Memory Clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-06-18 Risk factors

    Visual impairment is common in people living with dementia and regular ophthalmological exams may improve their quality of life.

  8. Association of Cognition and Age-Related Hearing Impairment in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery 2018-10-01 Risk factors

    Although hearing loss and cognition are linked, untreated hearing loss drives the association.

  9. Silent hippocampal seizures and spikes identified by foramen ovale electrodes in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature medicine 2017-05-01 Risk factors

    We directly assessed mesial temporal activity using intracranial foramen ovale electrodes in two patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) without a history or EEG evidence of seizures.

  10. Incidence and impact of subclinical epileptiform activity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-11-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Extended monitoring detects subclinical epileptiform activity in a substantial proportion of patients with AD.

  11. Cascading network failure across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-11-19 Brain scans and imaging

    The two main findings of this paper are (i) the posterior default mode network fails before measurable amyloid plaques and appears to initiate a connectivity cascade that continues throughout the disease spectrum; and (ii) high connectivity between the posterior default mode network and hubs of high connectivity (many located in the frontal lobe) is associated with amyloid accumulation.

  12. Neuropsychiatric symptoms as predictors of progression to severe Alzheimer's dementia and death: the Cache County Dementia Progression Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2015-01-13 Clinical safety

    Specific neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated with shorter survival time from mild Alzheimer's dementia to severe dementia and/or death.

  13. Electroencephalographic Finding in Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neuropsychobiology 2015 Risk factors

    The REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a type of parasomnia manifested by vivid, often frightening dreams associated with motor behaviors during REM sleep, sometimes causing injuries to patients themselves or to their bed partners.

  14. Professional fighters brain health study: rationale and methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2013-06-04 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Repetitive head trauma is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and is the primary cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

  15. Overview and findings from the religious orders study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2012-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The Religious Orders Study is a longitudinal clinical-pathologic cohort study of aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Disturbance of emotion processing in frontotemporal dementia: a synthesis of cognitive and neuroimaging findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2012-05-11 Digital health tools

    Accurate processing of emotional information is a critical component of appropriate social interactions and interpersonal relationships.

  17. Subjective cognition and amyloid deposition imaging: a Pittsburgh Compound B positron emission tomography study in normal elderly individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A decrease of self-confidence about memory abilities in cognitively normal elderly subjects may be related to the neuropathological hallmark of AD measured with PiB-positron emission tomography.

  18. DTI measures in crossing-fibre areas: increased diffusion anisotropy reveals early white matter alteration in MCI and mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-12-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Significant differences between MCI and AD were essentially confined to the corpus callosum.

  19. Delaying the onset of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2010-11-08 Risk factors

    We found that the bilingual patients had been diagnosed 4.3 years later and had reported the onset of symptoms 5.1 years later than the monolingual patients.

  20. Hearing loss is negatively related to episodic and semantic long-term memory but not to short-term memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2010-09-30 Risk factors

    The overall relationships between hearing loss and memory systems were predicted by the ease of language understanding model (J. Rönnberg, 2003), but the exact mechanisms of episodic memory decline in hearing aid users (i.e., mismatch/disuse, attentional resources, or information degradation) remain open for further experiments.

  21. Somatic comorbidity of epilepsy in the general population in Canada

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Epilepsia 2005-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Multivariate analyses assessed the strength of association of comorbid conditions with epilepsy as compared with the general population.

  22. Fish consumption and cognitive decline with age in a large community study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-10-10 Prevention trials

    Fish consumption may be associated with slower cognitive decline with age.

  23. Mild Cognitive Impairment as a Clinical Entity and Treatment Target

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 2005-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    M ILD COGNITIVE i m p a i r m e n t (MCI) has been actively investigated for the past decade. , 2 The term was coined in the late 1980s by the New York University group to identify individuals who were not cognitively normal for age and yet did not have overt dementia, and their outcomes were described in an article examining predictors of dementia by Flicker et al in the early 1990s. Flicker et al characterized MCI as equivalent to a Global Deterioration Scale rating of 3 and found that a diagnostic approach combining a careful, structured interview and the appropriate neuropsychological tests can discriminate those individuals with MCI likely to experience cognitive deterioration from those with a benign prognosis.

  24. EEG dynamics in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2004-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive and intellectual deficits and behavior disturbance.

  25. Validation of a 26-point telephone version of the Mini-Mental State Examination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2004-06-01 Risk factors

    The objective of this study was to assess the convergent validity of a 26-point Telephone Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in a longitudinal cohort of 46 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

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