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  1. Correlations between Dementia and Loneliness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-12-24 Risk factors

    This review describes associations between dementia and loneliness on the neurobiological and epidemiological levels according to the recent body of literature.

  2. Capturing learning curves with the multiday Boston Remote Assessment of Neurocognitive Health (BRANCH): Feasibility, reliability, and validity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2023-11-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Multiday BRANCH is a feasible, reliable, and valid cognitive measure that may be useful for identifying subtle changes in learning and memory processes in older adults.

  3. Sleep Duration and Executive Function in Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2023-11-14 Risk factors

    Poor sleep efficiency and sleep fragmentation are linked with poorer executive function and increased risk of dementia during follow-up.

  4. A neural mechanism of cognitive reserve: The case of bilingualism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage 2023-09-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive Reserve (CR) refers to the preservation of cognitive function in the face of age- or disease-related neuroanatomical decline.

  5. Stroke Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Delaware journal of public health 2023-08-31 Prevention and risk

    Stroke has three main subtypes - ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage.

  6. Obstructive sleep apnea and dementia: A role to play?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Revue neurologique 2023-08-24 Risk factors

    A growing number of studies, in animal models and humans, have highlighted the link between sleep and Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology.

  7. The Impact of Loneliness and Social Isolation on Cognitive Aging: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023-06-29 Risk factors

    Social concepts such as loneliness and social isolation are fairly new factors that have been recently gaining attention as to their involvement in changes in cognitive function and association with dementia.

  8. Altered resting-state functional connectivity patterns in late middle-aged and older adults with obstructive sleep apnea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-06-19 Brain scans and imaging

    In the whole sample, a higher apnea-hypopnea index was significantly associated with lower FC between (i) the medial prefrontal cortex and bilateral hippocampi, and (ii) the left hippocampus and both the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus.

  9. Sleep and Women's Mental Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Psychiatric clinics of North America 2023-05-27 Risk factors

    Women have increased risks for both sleep disturbances and disorders and for mental health issues throughout their lives, starting in adolescence.

  10. Relationships between hourly cognitive variability and risk of Alzheimer's disease revealed with mixed-effects location scale models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2023-04-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Preclinical AD risk, defined as possessing at least one APOE ε4 allele, is not only associated with mean-level performance differences, but also with increases in variability across repeated testing occasions particularly on a test of processing speed.

  11. Functional and structural alterations of dorsal attention network in preclinical and early-stage Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2023-03-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The SCD and aMCI groups showed both decreased ReHo in the right middle temporal gyrus (MTG) and decreased GMV compared to healthy controls (HCs).

  12. Sleep-Related Changes Prior to Cognitive Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2023-03-07 Risk factors

    The aim of this review is to summarize the current evidence on the relationship between sleep and cognition and present available data reporting the impact that sleep alterations may have on cognitive functions.

  13. Sleep quality and sleep duration predict brain microstructure among community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-02-10 Risk factors

    Although poor sleep quality and extreme sleep durations have been associated with brain atrophy and dementia, it is unclear whether sleep disturbances contribute to neural injury in the absence of neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment.

  14. Cognitive interventions for memory and psychological well-being in aging and dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2023-02-02 Risk factors

    The human lifespan has expanded drastically in the last few centuries, due to improvements in sanitation, medicine, and nutrition, but with this increase in longevity comes higher rates of cognitive pathology such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia; the latter is estimated to reach more than 75 million people by 2030.

  15. Brain Reserve, Resilience, and Cognitive Stimulation Across the Lifespan: How Do These Factors Influence Risk of Cognitive Impairment and the Dementias?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2023-02 Risk factors

    In the absence of effective treatments for dementia, maintaining cognitive health in old age is one of the major challenges facing aging societies.

  16. Late-life depression and multimorbidity trajectories: the role of symptom complexity and severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Age and ageing 2023-02-01 Risk factors

    in multi-adjusted models, relative to individuals without depression, those with major (β per year: 0.33, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.06-0.61) and subsyndromal depression (β per year: 0.21, 95%CI: 0.12-0.30) experienced an accelerated rate of somatic multimorbidity accumulation, whereas those with minor depression did not.

  17. Validity and reliability of a computerized cognitive function evaluation battery (CogEvo) as a screening tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2023-01-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Exploratory factor analysis revealed the orientation/spatial cognitive function (orientation and spatial cognition) and attention/executive function (attention, memory, and execution) factors.

  18. Preclinical Brain Network Abnormalities in Patients with Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    No between-group differences in grey matter volumes were detected.

  19. Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Retinal Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease: Potential and Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a global health challenge in the 21st century due to its increasing prevalence as the major cause of dementia.

  20. Understanding the Association Between Sensory Impairment and Dementia: Toward Informing Future Research and Health Policy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk factors

    Recent epidemiological research has linked decline in multiple sensory functions with an increased risk of dementia.

  21. The Early Stage of Abnormal Aging: Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2023 Risk factors

    Cognitive impairment has become an important aspect affecting the health and quality of life of middle-aged and elderly people, which is defined as the difficulty of thought processing and leads to memory loss, difficulties making decisions, the inability to concentrate, and difficulties learning.

  22. Depressive and Biopsychosocial Frailty Phenotypes: Impact on Late-life Cognitive Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk factors

    In older age, frailty is a detrimental transitional status of the aging process featuring an increased susceptibility to stressors defined by a clinical reduction of homoeostatic reserves.

  23. A framework for concepts of reserve and resilience in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-12-19 Risk factors

    The study of factors, across species, that allow some individuals to age more successfully than others has important implications for individual wellbeing as well as health education, policy and intervention.

  24. Visual disorders and driving ability in persons with dementia: A mini review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2022-11-29 Risk factors

    There is consistent evidence that dementia affects driving ability.

  25. Diverse limbic comorbidities cause limbic and temporal atrophy in lewy body disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Parkinsonism & related disorders 2022-11-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    The mean age at antemortem magnetic resonance imaging of the mLBD patients was higher than that of the pLBD patients (84.3 ± 3.9 vs. 76.5 ± 10.5; p = .046).

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