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  1. Artificial intelligence in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current opinion in ophthalmology 2022-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Artificial intelligence tools are being rapidly integrated into clinical environments and may soon be incorporated into dementia diagnostic paradigms.

  2. Validation of the Computerized Cognitive Assessment Test: NNCT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-08-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Population aging brings with it cognitive impairment.

  3. Hippocampus- and thalamus-related fiber-specific white matter reductions in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2022-07-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) fascinates screening high-risk Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  4. Cognitive and behavioral effects of hearing loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery 2022-07-05 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is one of the largest modifiable risk factors for developing dementia, accounting for up to 9% of the overall modifiable risk.

  5. Functional connectivity correlates of reduced goal-directed behaviors in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2022-06-25 Brain scans and imaging

    We explored the resting state functional connectivity correlates of apathy assessed as a multidimensional construct, using behavioral metrics, in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

  6. Are Brain and Cognitive Reserve Shaped by Early Life Circumstances?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2022-06-16 Risk factors

    When growing older, many people are faced with cognitive deterioration, which may even amount to a form of dementia at some point in time.

  7. From Dementia to Eumentia: A New Approach to Dementia Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2022-05-25 Prevention trials

    Since environmental, socioeconomic, and individual risk factors contribute to dementia, we proposed a Comprehensive, Customized, Cost-effective APProach (the CCC-APP) implemented in actionable units with the focus on promoting brain health (eumentia).

  8. Dynamic functional connectivity patterns associated with dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-05-23 Risk factors

    Associations were found between times spent in (i) a "weakly connected" state and lower self-reported engagement in early- and mid-life cognitive activity and higher LDL cholesterol; (ii) a "SN-negatively connected" state and higher blood pressure, higher depression score, and lower body mass index (BMI); (iii) a "strongly connected" state and higher self-reported engagement in early-life cognitive activity, Preclinical Alzheimer's cognitive composite-5 score, and BMI; and (iv) a "DMN-negatively connected" state and higher self-reported engagement in early- and mid-life stimulating activities and lower LDL cholesterol and blood pressure.

  9. Assessment of Cognitive Reserve using Near Infrared Spectroscopy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of analytical techniques and research 2022-05-19 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) is the ability to preserve cognitive functions in the presence of brain pathology.

  10. Alterations to cognitive abilities and functional networks in rats post broad-band intense noise exposure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2022-05-11 Brain scans and imaging

    This study aimed to investigate the alterations of cognition and functional connectivity post noise, and find the progress and neural substrates of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL)-associated cognitive impairment.

  11. Neurodegenerative Disorders and Sleep

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Sleep medicine clinics 2022-04-22 Risk factors

    Patients suffering from neurodegenerative conditions frequently report sleep complaints, such as insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness.

  12. Predicting brain age from functional connectivity in symptomatic and preclinical Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage 2022-04-20 Brain scans and imaging

    "Brain-predicted age" quantifies apparent brain age compared to normative neuroimaging trajectories.

  13. Exploration of salient risk factors involved in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2022-04-17 Tau biomarkers

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a prevalent and complex condition among older adults that often progresses into Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  14. Neuropathology Studies of Dementia in US Persons other than Non-Hispanic Whites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Free neuropathology 2022-03-10 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia are two of the most prevalent dementias that afflict the aging population in the United States (US).

  15. Cognitively stimulating environments and cognitive reserve: the case of personal social networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-02-04 Risk factors

    Cognitively stimulating environments are thought to be protective of cognitive decline and onset of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) through the development of cognitive reserve (CR).

  16. A Brewed Awakening: Neuropsychiatric Effects of Caffeine in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2022-02 Risk factors

    This article provides a current review of the literature examining caffeine use in older adults.

  17. Short sleep duration and dementia: a narrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) 2022-01-31 Risk factors

    Short sleep duration has been linked to the development of neurocognitive disorders.

  18. Cognitive functions in late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement 2022-01-21 Risk factors

    Cognitive disorders are frequently found during late-life depression (LLD).

  19. The Use of Digital Technology to Assess Cognitive Function in Tunisian Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The AD group performed significantly lower on the associative learning (p = 0.01) and associative memory assessments (p = 0.002), than the HC and AR groups.

  20. Digital Intervention for the Management of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2022 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, multifactorial, chronic, neurodegenerative disease with high prevalence and limited therapeutic options, making it a global health crisis.

  21. Prospective Memory and Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity in Normal and Pathological Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Brain scans and imaging

    We found that the dementia groups showed worse PM performance and altered FC within the DMN as compared to the normal aging individuals.

  22. The New Era of Retinal Imaging in Hypertensive Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Asia-Pacific journal of ophthalmology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2022 Brain scans and imaging

    Structural and functional alterations in the microcirculation by systemic hypertension can cause significant organ damage at the eye, heart, brain, and kidneys.

  23. The Parietal Lobe in Alzheimer's Disease and Blindness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Risk factors

    The progressive aging of the population will notably increase the burden of those diseases which leads to a disabling situation, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and ophthalmological diseases that cause a visual impairment (VI).

  24. [Physical Activity and Mental Health in the Elderly]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Praxis 2022 Risk factors

    Physical Activity and Mental Health in the Elderly Abstract.

  25. Affective Computing for Late-Life Mood and Cognitive Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-12-23 Risk factors

    Affective computing (also referred to as artificial emotion intelligence or emotion AI) is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate emotion or other affective phenomena.

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