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Brain imaging, connectivity and assessment

1,533 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Computerized cognitive performance assessments in the Brooklyn Cognitive Impairments in Health Disparities Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognigram was piloted in the Emergency Department, Family Medicine, and Geriatric Psychiatry clinics: 58 adults (23 men, 35 women), 67.9 ± 9.8 years (range 43-91), completed the Cognigram and 5-item liking survey.

  2. Anosognosia Is Associated With Greater Caregiver Burden and Poorer Executive Function in Huntington Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2019-06-18 Caregiving

    Of the 38 patients recruited, 10 (26.3%) met criteria for anosognosia.

  3. Education modulates brain maintenance in presymptomatic frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2019-06-10 Risk factors

    Highly educated at-risk subjects had better cognition and higher grey matter volume at baseline; moreover, higher educational attainment was associated with slower loss of grey matter over time in mutation carriers.

  4. Moderate- to high-intensity exercise does not modify cortical β-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-06-07 Prevention trials

    The intervention showed no effect on follow-up SUVRs in a covariance analysis with group allocation, baseline intervention SUVR, age, sex, and baseline Mini-Mental State Examination as predictors.

  5. Associations between sleep duration and cognitive impairment in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of sleep research 2019-04-21 Risk factors

    The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) increases among elderly people and is associated with a high risk of dementia.

  6. Quality of education impacts late-life cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2019-03-21 Digital health tools

    This work suggests that academic and community factors beyond years of education have a marked impact on late-life cognition.

  7. Multi-Modality Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neuroinformatics 2018-10-01 Digital health tools

    Accurate and early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) plays important role for patient care and development of future treatment.

  8. Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JAMA 2017-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    In a convenience sample of deceased football players who donated their brains for research, a high proportion had neuropathological evidence of CTE, suggesting that CTE may be related to prior participation in football.

  9. Corpus callosum macro and microstructure in late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2017-06-27 Risk factors

    Callosal AFD was lower in patients compared to controls.

  10. Cognitive Testing in People at Increased Risk of Dementia Using a Smartphone App: The iVitality Proof-of-Principle Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2017-05-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Repeated smartphone-assisted cognitive testing is feasible with reasonable adherence and moderate relative validity for the Stroop and the Trail Making tests compared with conventional neuropsychological tests.

  11. The midlife cognitive profiles of adults at high risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease: The PREVENT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-03-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Middle-aged adults at risk of dementia show evidence of poorer cognitive performance, principally in visuospatial functions.

  12. Classification of CT brain images based on deep learning networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Computer methods and programs in biomedicine 2016-10-20 Digital health tools

    While computerised tomography (CT) may have been the first imaging tool to study human brain, it has not yet been implemented into clinical decision making process for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Appetite and Weight Loss Symptoms in Late-Life Depression Predict Dementia Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2016-06-06 Risk factors

    Higher scores on the appetite and weight loss symptom factor were associated with an increased hazard of both AD and non-AD dementia.

  14. The coeruleus/subcoeruleus complex in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2016-02-26 Brain scans and imaging

    Idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder is characterized by nocturnal violence, increased muscle tone during rapid eye movement sleep and the lack of any other neurological disease.

  15. Mediterranean diet and preserved brain structural connectivity in older subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-17 Prevention and risk

    In multivariate voxel-by-voxel analyses, adherence to the MeDi was significantly associated with preserved white matter microstructure in extensive areas, a gain in structural connectivity that was related to strong cognitive benefits.

  16. Abnormalities of fixation, saccade and pursuit in posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-04-19 Risk factors

    In contrast to informal clinical evaluations of oculomotor dysfunction frequency (previous studies: 38%, current clinical examination: 33%), detailed eyetracking investigations revealed eye movement abnormalities in 80% of patients with posterior cortical atrophy (compared to 17% typical Alzheimer's disease, 5% controls).

  17. A review of the effects of physical activity and exercise on cognitive and brain functions in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of aging research 2013-09-11 Prevention trials

    Studies supporting the notion that physical activity and exercise can help alleviate the negative impact of age on the body and the mind abound.

  18. Physical activity, brain plasticity, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of medical research 2012-10-16 Prevention trials

    In this review we summarize the epidemiological, cross-sectional, and interventional studies examining the association between physical activity and brain volume, function, and risk for Alzheimer's disease.

  19. Cognition, reserve, and amyloid deposition in normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid deposition is associated with lower cognitive performance both in AD patients and in the normal elderly, but the association is modified by CR, suggesting that CR may be protective against amyloid-related cognitive impairment.

  20. A population-based study of cognitive function in older people with subjective memory complaints

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Risk factors

    Given the uncertain relationship between objective and subjective memory complaints (SMC), we conducted a study of cognitive function in older people with memory complaints in a large population-based elderly Spanish cohort (NEDICES).

  21. The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study of aging: methodology and baseline characteristics of 1112 individuals recruited for a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2009-05-27 Brain scans and imaging

    The participants comprising the AIBL cohort represent a group of highly motivated and well-characterized individuals who represent a unique resource for the study of AD.

  22. Prevalence and severity of gait disorders in Alzheimer's and non-Alzheimer's dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-10-01 Digital health tools

    The findings support the idea that gait and balance assessment may augment the diagnostic evaluation of dementia.

  23. Saccadic eye movement changes in Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain 2005-03-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) affect cortical and subcortical networks involved in saccade generation.

  24. Behavioral disorders in the frontal and temporal variants of frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2004-03-09 Risk factors

    Both variants of FTD showed significant increases in rates of elation, disinhibition, and aberrant motor behavior compared with AD.

  25. Vascular Factors and Risk of Dementia: Design of the Three-City Study and Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2003-01-01 Risk factors

    After exclusion of the participants who had subsequently refused the medical interview, the 3C Study sample consisted of 3,649 men (39.3%) and 5,645 women, mean age 74.4 years, with a relatively high level of education and income.

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