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  1. Association of deep white matter infarction with chronic communicating hydrocephalus: implications regarding the possible origin of normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PubMed Central 1991-01-01 Digital health tools

    The coexistence of cerebrovascular disease leading to deep white matter infarction and normal-pressure hydrocephalus has been noted previously in clinical studies, as both diseases can present with the triad of gait disturbance, dementia, and incontinence.

  2. Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. A treatable parasomnia affecting older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA 1987-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia defined by intermittent loss of electromyographic atonia during REM sleep with emergence of complex and vigorous behaviors.

  3. Why do frontal lobe symptoms predominate in vascular dementia with lacunes?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1986-03-01 Digital health tools

    We studied 30 necropsy cases of vascular dementia with a lacunar state.

  4. Some morphometric aspects of the brain in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1981-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Image analysis apparatus was used to count and measure glial and neuronal perikarya in ten size classes in the midfrontal region and superior temporal gyrus of 18 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type for comparison with 12 age-matched normal specimens.

  5. Validation of a MIND diet screener in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-10 Prevention and risk

    MIND diet scores from the screener showed strong positive correlation (r = 0.71, ρ = 0.70, p < 0.001) and comparable ranking ability (63% correctly classified, 1% grossly misclassified, kw = 0.67) compared to those from the FFQ, as well as significant associations with nutrient profiles.

  6. Modifiable risk factor profiles moderate the effect of β-amyloid pathology on cognition in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2025-05-15 Prevention trials

    Although modifiable risk factors may account for around 40 % of population variability in dementia risk, the effect of risk factor interrelationships on pathology-cognition relationships is poorly understood.

  7. Plasma neurofilament light chain mediates the effect of subsyndromal symptomatic depression on cognitive decline in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2025-05-14 Biomarkers

    Participants with SSD exhibited a greater increase in plasma NfL levels and more pronounced declines in global cognition, memory, executive function, language, and processing speed over 2 years compared to non-SSD participants.

  8. Color Fundus Photography and Deep Learning Applications in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health 2024-08-26 Brain scans and imaging

    The self-supervised ADRET model had superior accuracy when compared with ADVAS, in both UK Biobank (98.27% vs 77.20%; P<.001) and our institutional testing data sets (98.90% vs 94.17%; P=.04).

  9. Digital remote assessment of speech acoustics in cognitively unimpaired adults: feasibility, reliability and associations with amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-08-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The speech assessment was feasible, indicated by 91.6% adherence and usability scores of 86.0 ± 9.9.

  10. Sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-01-06 Risk factors

    Compared to controls, bvFTD patients showed longer time in bed (95% confidence interval [CI]: 79.31, 321.83) and total sleep time (95% CI: 24.38, 321.88), lower sleep efficiency (95% CI: -12.58, -95.54), and rest-activity rhythm alterations in the morning and early afternoon.

  11. Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of glaucoma and neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical & experimental optometry 2023-09-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Artificial Intelligence is a rapidly expanding field within computer science that encompasses the emulation of human intelligence by machines.

  12. Dietary Habits and Risk of Early-Onset Dementia in an Italian Case-Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nutrients 2020-11-29 Prevention and risk

    Risk of early-onset dementia (EOD) might be modified by environmental factors and lifestyles, including diet.

  13. Associations Between Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions and Intrinsic Capacity Domains During Aging: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. JAR life 2020-09-03 Prevention trials

    Multidomain interventions were associated with improvements on locomotion (as measured by performance-based tests of lower-limb function) and vitality (as measured by handgrip strength); benefits on cognitive function were also found, in particular among populations at increased risk of dementia and when operationalizing strong multidomain interventions (eg, using regular exercise training instead of physical activity advices).

  14. Cognitive Reserve Is Not Associated With Hippocampal Microstructure in Older Adults Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-01-23 Risk factors

    CR was not associated with hippocampal GM MD and hippocampal GM volume.

  15. Intrinsic functional connectivity, CSF biomarker profiles and their relation to cognitive function in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Acta neuropsychiatrica 2019-12-05 Tau biomarkers

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often precedes Alzheimer's Dementia (AD), and in a high proportion of individuals affected by MCI, there are already neuropathological processes ongoing that become more evident when patients progress to AD.

  16. Resting state network modularity along the prodromal late onset Alzheimer's disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-01-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease is considered a disconnection syndrome, motivating the use of brain network measures to detect changes in whole-brain resting state functional connectivity (FC).

  17. Intrinsic connectivity networks in posterior cortical atrophy: A role for the pulvinar?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-12-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with PCA showed disproportionate deficits in the visuospatial domain; they also showed preserved social sensitivity and endorsed more depressive symptoms than HCs.

  18. Identifying Brain Connectivity Using Network-Based Statistics in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Stratified by β-Amyloid Positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2018-11-29 Brain scans and imaging

    One hundred sixteen participants (Aβ- cognitively normal [CN], n = 35; Aβ- aMCI, n = 42; Aβ+ aMCI, n = 39) were included.

  19. Disrupted structural and functional brain networks in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-11-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Studies have demonstrated that the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with abnormal connections in either functional connectivity networks (FCNs) or structural connectivity networks (SCNs).

  20. Chronic depressive symptomatology and CSF amyloid beta and tau levels in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2018-06-28 Tau biomarkers

    As compared to the non-SSD group, the SSD group displayed lower CSF Aβ1-42 levels (β = -24.293, S.E. = 6.345, P < 0.001).

  21. Color Vision Impairment Differentiates Alzheimer Dementia From Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2018-03 Risk factors

    Fifty-two patients were included in this study with a median age of 77 years, of which 44% were female.

  22. Functional Connectivity of the Hippocampus in Early- and vs. Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) 2017-10 Brain scans and imaging

    The functional connectivity from the hippocampus to other brain regions differed between patients with EOAD and LOAD.

  23. Systemic inflammation and resting state connectivity of the default mode network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2017-01-23 Brain scans and imaging

    The default mode network (DMN) encompasses brain systems that exhibit coherent neural activity at rest.

  24. A Multimodal Structural and Functional Neuroimaging Study of Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2016-05-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Examination of brain structural and functional abnormalities in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) has the potential to enhance our understanding of the initial pathophysiological changes in dementia.

  25. Clinicopathological correlates of depression in early Alzheimer's disease in the NACC

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016-02-14 Risk factors

    GDS was not associated with cognitive status, NP score, Braak Stages, or their interaction.

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