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  1. The role of multimodal MRI in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2021-11-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Classification of MCI and HC displayed highest accuracy based on diffusion MRI, which besides demonstrated high correlation with clinical scores.

  2. Sharper in the morning: Cognitive time of day effects revealed with high-frequency smartphone testing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 2021-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Decades of research has established a shift from an "eveningness" preference to a "morningness" preference with increasing age.

  3. Altered Cerebellar Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease Patients With Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2021-08-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Compared to healthy control subjects with no cognitive deficits, altered cerebellar FC were observed in early PD participants with both motor and cognitive deficits, but not in PD patients with normal cognition, nor elderly subjects showing signs of a cognitive impairment.

  4. The Effectiveness of Computerized Cognitive Training Combined With Whole Body Cryotherapy in Improving Cognitive Functions in Older Adults. A Case Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-06-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The results show evidence for increased performance in the assessment of general cognitive functioning in both EGs (p ≤ 0.05).

  5. Telomere shortening in late-life depression: A potential marker of depression severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain and behavior 2021-06-21 Risk factors

    TL was significantly shorter in the LLD compared with control participants (p = .039).

  6. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning for Measuring Cognitive Impairment Using Eye-Tracking in a Distributed Tablet-Based Environment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2020-12-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This work demonstrates a mobile version of VisMET capable of estimating the presence of cognitive impairment.

  7. Deep Learning-Based Screening Test for Cognitive Impairment Using Basic Blood Test Data for Health Examination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2020-12-14 Biomarkers

    There were significant positive correlations between the predicted MMSE scores and ground truth scores in the Patient and Healthy groups (r = 0.66, p < 0.001).

  8. Selective Aberrant Functional-Structural Coupling of Multiscale Brain Networks in Subcortical Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2020-09-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment (svMCI) is a common prodromal stage of vascular dementia.

  9. Protocol of Aerobic Exercise and Cognitive Health (REACH): A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2020-05-02 Prevention trials

    A growing body of evidence supports that aerobic exercise can decrease the risk of future cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Cerebral Perfusion in Whites and African Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    When risk factor p-values were FDR-adjusted, diastolic blood pressure was significantly associated with mean perfusion.

  11. Gender Differences in the Association Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2019-09-11 Risk factors

    Moderate/severe hearing loss was significantly associated with lower composite z score in males (β = -28.67, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] = -57.13 to -0.20) but not in females (β = -8.82, 95% CI = -36.61 to 18.96).

  12. Which features of subjective cognitive decline are related to amyloid pathology? Findings from the DELCODE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-07-31 Biomarkers

    Lower Aß-42 levels were associated with a reported decline in memory and language abilities, and with the following SCD-plus features: onset of subjective decline within 5 years, confirmation of cognitive decline by an informant, and decline-related worries.

  13. Automated classification of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment using a single MRI and deep neural networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-12-18 Digital health tools

    We built and validated a deep learning algorithm predicting the individual diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment who will convert to AD (c-MCI) based on a single cross-sectional brain structural MRI scan.

  14. A Deep Learning Model to Predict a Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease by Using 18 F-FDG PET of the Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Radiology 2018-11-06 Digital health tools

    By using fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET of the brain, a deep learning algorithm developed for early prediction of Alzheimer disease achieved 82% specificity at 100% sensitivity, an average of 75.8 months prior to the final diagnosis. © RSNA, 2018 Online supplemental material is available for this article.

  15. Joint Classification and Regression via Deep Multi-Task Multi-Channel Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2018-09-12 Digital health tools

    In the field of computer-aided Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, jointly identifying brain diseases and predicting clinical scores using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have attracted increasing attention since these two tasks are highly correlated.

  16. The ERICA Score: An MR Imaging-based Visual Scoring System for the Assessment of Entorhinal Cortex Atrophy in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Radiology 2018-03-07 Biomarkers

    An ERICA score of 2 or greater indicates probable AD with high diagnostic accuracy. © RSNA, 2018 Online supplemental material is available for this article.

  17. Fibre-specific white matter reductions in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is increasingly considered a large-scale network disconnection syndrome, associated with progressive aggregation of pathological proteins, cortical atrophy, and functional disconnections between brain regions.

  18. Quantitative EEG power and synchronization correlate with Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-11-16 Tau biomarkers

    Synaptic dysfunction is the best anatomical correlate of early cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Brain-predicted age in Down syndrome is associated with beta amyloid deposition and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2017-04-18 Digital health tools

    Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) are more likely to experience earlier onset of multiple facets of physiological aging.

  20. Multi-Domain Transfer Learning for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuroinformatics 2017-04 Prevention trials

    Recently, transfer learning has been successfully applied in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) based on multi-domain data.

  21. Connected Speech in Neurodegenerative Language Disorders: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2017-03-06 Digital health tools

    Language assessment has a crucial role in the clinical diagnosis of several neurodegenerative diseases.

  22. Amyloid Imaging, Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers Predict Driving Performance Among Cognitively Normal Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2017 Tau biomarkers

    Postmortem brain studies of older drivers killed in car accidents indicate that many had Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathologic changes.

  23. Cognitive Function in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Settings: Validation of the Tablet-Based Oxford Cognitive Screen in the Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2016-10-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The OCS-Plus represents a major methodological advance in dementia studies in LMICs, and enhances understanding of cognitive aging.

  24. CSF proteins and resting-state functional connectivity in Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2015-05-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Participants with PD had significantly reduced sensorimotor functional connectivity, which correlated with reduced CSF levels of α-synuclein.

  25. Fast parallel image registration on CPU and GPU for diagnostic classification of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2014-01-16 Long-term cohort studies

    Nonrigid image registration is an important, but time-consuming task in medical image analysis.

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