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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. Complementarity of visual and voxel-based FDG-PET analysis to detect MCI-like hypometabolic pattern in elderly patients with hypertension and isolated memory complaints

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Acta Radiologica 2015-08 Risk factors

    An MCI-like hypometabolic pattern was documented in 5 patients (7%) by SVA and 7 patients (10%) by SPM analysis; however, only 2 of these patients were selected by both methods.

  2. Occupational Complexity and Cognitive Reserve in a Middle-Aged Cohort at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2015-07-08 Risk factors

    Higher occupational attainment has previously been associated with increased Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology when individuals are matched for cognitive function, indicating occupation could provide cognitive reserve.

  3. IPA survey of brief cognitive screening instruments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2006-02-08 Risk factors

    The majority of respondents were geriatric psychiatrists (58%).

  4. Vision Impairment, Vision Correction, and Dementia Risk in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2026-10-14 Risk factors

    Among individuals with mild cognitive impairment, no vision impairment (VI) and corrected VI were associated with a lower risk of dementia than uncorrected VI, particularly among those aged < 75 years.

  5. Digital dementia in adults: an assessment of digital generations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Central European journal of public health 2026-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The mean DDAF score was 40.56 ± 21.18 among digital natives (18-29 years), 34.93 ± 21.88 among the digital transition generation (30-44 years), and 25.17 ± 18.59 among digital immigrants (45-70 years) (p < 0.001).

  6. Introduction to Supplement Issue: Sensory loss in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2026-02-05 Risk factors

    Sensory impairments (e.g., decreased function in hearing, vision, olfaction, and other senses) may be risk factors for or early markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD).

  7. Neuromodulation and cognition in late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2026-01-17 Risk factors

    Late-life depression (LLD) is associated with cognitive decline and increased risk of dementia.

  8. Exercise and Brain Health: Expert Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. American journal of lifestyle medicine 2026-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Preserving brain health is essential to maintaining quality of life and cognitive function with age.

  9. Diffusion tensor imaging analysis of aged dogs with and without canine cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC veterinary research 2025-10-02 Brain scans and imaging

    DTI revealed significant differences in white matter diffusivity between CCD and cognitively healthy aged dogs.

  10. Use of Artificial Intelligence in Imaging Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cells 2024-11-27 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly population (aged 65 years and over), followed by vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and rare types of neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia.

  11. Resting-state global brain activity affects early β-amyloid accumulation in default mode network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-11-27 Brain scans and imaging

    It remains unclear why β-amyloid (Aβ) plaque, a hallmark pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), first accumulates cortically in the default mode network (DMN), years before AD diagnosis.

  12. Neurofilament light chain and cardiac MIBG uptake as predictors for phenoconversion in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2023-05-26 Biomarkers

    Patients were followed for a median of 2.92 years.

  13. Association of gout with brain reserve and vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-05-18 Risk factors

    Studies of neurodegenerative disease risk in gout are contradictory.

  14. Memory for Semantically Related Objects Differentiates Cognitively Unimpaired Autosomal Dominant Mutation Carriers from Non-Carrier Family Members

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Early cognitive changes due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) include difficulties in semantic access and working memory.

  15. DICE-Net: A Novel Convolution-Transformer Architecture for Alzheimer Detection in EEG Signals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. IEEE Access 2023-01-01 Digital health tools

    Our results show that DICE-net achieved an accuracy of 83.28% in the AD-CN problem using Leave-One-Subject-Out validation, outperforming several baseline models, and achieving good generalization performance.

  16. Tau and the fractionated default mode network in atypical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain communications 2022-03-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease-related atrophy in the posterior cingulate cortex, a key node of the default mode network, is present in the early stages of disease progression across clinical phenotypic variants of the disease.

  17. Reproducibility and replicability of high-frequency, in-home digital biomarkers in reducing sample sizes for clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-12-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    For the reproducibility, identical P-values and slope estimates were found with both digital biomarkers and neuropsychological test measures between the previous and current studies.

  18. Multi-label, multi-domain learning identifies compounding effects of HIV and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Medical image analysis 2021-10-13 Prevention trials

    Older individuals infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are at risk for developing HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND), i.e., from reduced cognitive functioning similar to HIV-negative individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) if more severely affected.

  19. Tablet-Based Automatic Assessment for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using Speech Responses to Daily Life Questions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in digital health 2021-03-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Health-monitoring technologies for automatically detecting the early signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have become increasingly important.

  20. Cardiovascular risk and midlife cognitive decline in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-12 Risk factors

    Diabetes, elevated fasting glucose, central obesity, and heart age greater than chronological age were associated with rate of decline in processing speed during midlife.

  21. Unique Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Dysfunction Neuroinflammatory and Immune Profiles in Alzheimer's Disease with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Risk factors

    Sleep dysfunction has been identified in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, the role and mechanism of circadian rhythm dysfunction is less well understood.

  22. DEMNET: A Deep Learning Model for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer Diseases and Dementia From MR Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. IEEE Access 2021-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia globally.

  23. A case of comorbidities highlighting cerebral stroke, vision impairment, and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. SAGE open medical case reports 2020-11-24 Risk factors

    This case report is of a two-time stroke survivor with significant health comorbidities.

  24. Social factors that predict cognitive decline in older African American adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-09-25 Risk factors

    Social activity was associated with global cognition, perceptual speed, perceptual orientation, and episodic memory over time.

  25. Remote cognitive and behavioral assessment: Report of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Task Force on dementia care best practices for COVID-19

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Despite challenges, current literature and practice support implementation of telemedicine assessments for patients with cognitive impairment.

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