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

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  1. Reliability of repeated cognitive assessment of dementia using a brief computerized battery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2011-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In established dementia, administration of the CogState tasks appears sensitive to cognitive impairment in dementia.

  2. Retinal thickness in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical neurology and neurosurgery 2011-03-31 Brain scans and imaging

    Our data confirm the retinal involvement in AD, as reflected by loss of axons in the optic nerves.

  3. Does corticobasal degeneration exist? A clinicopathological re-evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-07-01 Risk factors

    The pathological findings of corticobasal degeneration are associated with several distinct clinical syndromes, and the corticobasal syndrome has been linked with a number of diverse pathologies.

  4. Amyloid plaques disrupt resting state default mode network connectivity in cognitively normal elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2009-10-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Before any manifestations of cognitive or behavioral changes, there were differences in resting state connectivity in cognitively normal subjects with brain amyloid deposition, suggesting that early manifestation of Abeta toxicity can be detected using resting state fMRI.

  5. Disruption of functional connectivity in clinically normal older adults harboring amyloid burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid deposition is present in 20-50% of nondemented older adults yet the functional consequences remain unclear.

  6. Change in Blood Pressure and Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Hypertension 2009-06-30 Drug development

    Studies of the association of high blood pressure (BP) with dementia are not consistent.

  7. Test-retest reliability and minimal detectable change scores for the timed "up & go" test, the six-minute walk test, and gait speed in people with Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Physical therapy 2009-04-23 Digital health tools

    The TUG, the 6MWT, and gait speed are reliable outcome measures for use with people with AD, recognizing that individual variability of performance is high.

  8. Image-driven population analysis through mixture modeling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2009-03-24 Digital health tools

    We present iCluster, a fast and efficient algorithm that clusters a set of images while co-registering them using a parameterized, nonlinear transformation model.

  9. Cortical hubs revealed by intrinsic functional connectivity: mapping, assessment of stability, and relation to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Recent evidence suggests that some brain areas act as hubs interconnecting distinct, functionally specialized systems.

  10. Physical activity and Alzheimer's disease: from prevention to therapeutic perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2008-06-02 Prevention trials

    A number of factors, including physical activity, may contribute to prevention of cognitive decline and delay the onset of dementia.

  11. Executive dysfunction and its association with personality and behaviour changes in the development of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome and mild to moderate learning disabilities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The British journal of clinical psychology 2008-03-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    These findings provide further evidence for a specific impairment in frontal-lobe functioning in the preclinical stages of AD in DS.

  12. Disruption of large-scale brain systems in advanced aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuron 2007-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive decline is commonly observed in advanced aging even in the absence of disease.

  13. Selective changes of resting-state networks in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007-11-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that prominently affects cerebral connectivity.

  14. Associations of gait speed and other measures of physical function with cognition in a healthy cohort of elderly persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2007-11-01 Digital health tools

    In very healthy older adults, performance-based measures better predict early cognitive decline than do subjective measures, and tasks requiring greater functional reserve, such as fast-paced walking, appear to be the most sensitive in assessing these relationships.

  15. Capitalizing on cortical plasticity: influence of physical activity on cognition and brain function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2007-07-12 Prevention trials

    Given the aging populations in many countries throughout the world, there is an increasing interest in lifestyle factors and interventions that will enhance the cognitive vitality of older adults and reduce the risk for age-related neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.

  16. Alterations in memory networks in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: an independent component analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Memory function is likely subserved by multiple distributed neural networks, which are disrupted by the pathophysiological process of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Chronic psychological distress and risk of Alzheimer's disease in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2006-09-13 Prevention trials

    Clinical and pathological data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project were used to test the hypothesis that distress proneness is associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Exercise, cognition, and the aging brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 2006-06-15 Prevention trials

    We provide a brief review of the literature on exercise effects on brain and cognition.

  19. Estimation of premorbid IQ in individuals with Alzheimer's disease using Japanese ideographic script (Kanji) compound words: Japanese version of National Adult Reading Test

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2006-06-01 Risk factors

    The National Adult Reading Test (NART) is widely used as a measure of premorbid IQ of the English-speaking patients with dementia.

  20. Relationship between cognitive impairment and retinal morphological and visual functional abnormalities in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 2006-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Our study confirms some other studies in showing that in AD patients there is a reduction of parapapillary and macular RNFL thickness and macular volume as measured by OCT.

  21. Changes in hippocampal connectivity in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease: evidence from resting state fMRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2006-02-09 Brain scans and imaging

    A selective distribution of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathological lesions in specific cortical layers isolates the hippocampus from the rest of the brain.

  22. Increased hippocampal plaques and tangles in patients with Alzheimer disease with a lifetime history of major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2006-02-01 Health systems and care delivery

    In AD, the presence of a lifetime history of depression corresponds to increases in AD-related neuropathological changes within the hippocampus.

  23. Patterns of brain atrophy that differentiate corticobasal degeneration syndrome from progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Distinct patterns of brain atrophy exist in CBDS and PSP that can be used to differentiate the 2 diseases.

  24. Altered resting state networks in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease: an fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2005-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Activity and reactivity of the default mode network in the brain was studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 28 nondemented individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 18 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 41 healthy elderly controls (HC).

  25. Social reasoning, emotion and empathy in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2005-09-28 Caregiving

    It appears that social reasoning is disrupted in a number of ways in fvFTD, and the findings provide a basis for the understanding and further study of abnormal behaviour in this disease.

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