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  1. Sleep apnoea and cognitive impairment: myth or reality?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement 2021-12-16 Risk factors

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

  2. A Paradox in Digital Memory Assessment: Increased Sensitivity With Reduced Difficulty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in digital health 2021-11-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The One Card Learning Test (OCL80) from the Cogstate Brief Battery-a digital cognitive test used both in-person and remotely in clinical trials and in healthcare contexts to inform health decisions-has shown high sensitivity to changes in memory in early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. Lifelong bilingualism and mechanisms of neuroprotection in Alzheimer dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2021-11-02 Risk factors

    Lifelong bilingualism is associated with delayed dementia onset, suggesting a protective effect on the brain.

  4. Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment: Epidemiology, Common Pathophysiological Findings, and Treatment Considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-10-17 Risk factors

    In recent years, there has been increasing research interest in the correlation between hearing impairment and cognitive decline, two conditions that have demonstrated a strong association.

  5. Cognitive reserve proxies, Alzheimer pathologies, and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-10-14 Risk factors

    This study aimed to explore the moderating effects of the frequently used cognitive reserve (CR) proxies [i.e., education, premorbid intelligence quotient (pIQ), occupational complexity (OC), and lifetime cognitive activity (LCA)] on the relationships between various in vivo Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathologies and cognition.

  6. How Can Cognitive Reserve Promote Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Health?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2021-10-13 Risk factors

    Evidence supports the concept of reserve, which can be influenced by experiences in every stage of life.

  7. Correlation between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology 2021-10-08 Risk factors

    The number of people suffering from dementia in the world is progressively increasing due to the expansion of the geriatric population in which this clinical condition is more frequent.

  8. Cognitive Trajectories and Dementia Risk: A Comparison of Two Cognitive Reserve Measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-08-25 Risk factors

    Both reserve measures were associated with cognitive trajectories [β × time (top tertile, ref.: bottom tertile) = 0.013; 95% CI: -0.126, -0.004 (residual-based) and 0.011; 95% CI: -0.001, 0.024, (activity-based)].

  9. The Central Mechanisms of Resistance Training and Its Effects on Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) 2021-08-21 Prevention trials

    Resistance exercise is used extensively in athletic and general populations to induce neuromuscular adaptations to increase muscle size and performance.

  10. [Post-stroke cognitive deficits and dementia]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Therapeutische Umschau. Revue therapeutique 2021-08 Risk factors

    Post-stroke cognitive deficits and dementia Abstract.

  11. Bilingual experience and intrinsic functional connectivity in adults, aging, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2021-07-26 Brain scans and imaging

    The past decade marked the beginning of the use of resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) imaging in bilingualism studies.

  12. Dementia Syndrome of Depression: Diagnostic Challenges and Clinical Relevance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) 2021-07-09 Risk factors

    Late-life depression is frequently associated with cognitive impairment.

  13. Bariatric surgery and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2021-06-14 Risk factors

    Bariatric surgery has been shown to improve cognition in patients with severe obesity.

  14. Vertical saccadic palsy and foveal retinal thinning in Niemann-Pick disease type C

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PloS one 2021-06-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Saccadometry revealed slowed peak velocity compared to controls most evident vertically.

  15. Sleep, Aging, and Daily Functioning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Nursing clinics of North America 2021-06 Risk factors

    Older adults who do not sleep well frequently have difficulty sustaining attention, display slower physical response times, and have memory issues that may contribute to depression or early dementia.

  16. Hearing Impairment and Cognition in an Aging World

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO 2021-05-18 Risk factors

    With the increasing number of older adults around the world, the overall number of dementia cases is expected to rise dramatically in the next 40 years.

  17. Infratentorial pathology in frontotemporal dementia: cerebellar grey and white matter alterations in FTD phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2021-05-13 Brain scans and imaging

    The contribution of cerebellar pathology to cognitive and behavioural manifestations is increasingly recognised, but the cerebellar profiles of FTD phenotypes are relatively poorly characterised.

  18. Quality of Education and Late-Life Cognitive Function in a Population-Based Sample From Puerto Rico

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2021-05-09 Risk factors

    Quality of education was positively correlated with both educational attainment and cognitive performance.

  19. The Effects of Aerobic Exercise in Patients with Early-Onset Dementia: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2021-05-06 Prevention trials

    Early-onset dementia (EOD) defines all dementia related conditions with an onset before the age of 65 years.

  20. Functional Brain Connectivity Patterns Associated with Visual Hallucinations in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2021-04-29 Brain scans and imaging

    Seed-based analyses reported decreased connectivity of the lateral geniculate nucleus, the superior parietal lobule and the putamen with the medial frontal gyrus in DLB patients with VH.

  21. Advances in healthcare wearable devices

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. npj Flexible Electronics 2021-04-12 Risk factors

    Wearable devices have found numerous applications in healthcare ranging from physiological diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and muscle disorders to neurocognitive disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other psychological diseases.

  22. Educational Benefits and Cognitive Health Life Expectancies: Racial/Ethnic, Nativity, and Gender Disparities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2021-04-03 Disparities

    White respondents lived a greater percentage of their remaining lives cognitively healthy than their minority Black or Hispanic counterparts, regardless of level of education.

  23. Loneliness and Neurocognitive Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in geriatric medicine and research 2021-03-29 Risk factors

    Loneliness imposes significant risks to physical, mental and brain health in older adulthood.

  24. Bilingualism: Pathway to Cognitive Reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2021-03-23 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve is characterized by a dissociation between cognitive level and brain structure, thereby reducing the impact of deteriorating brain structure on cognitive function.

  25. Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer's biological continuum: clues for prediction and prevention of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Minerva medica 2021-03-12 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve is originally an epidemiological concept that encompasses individual abilities to cope with changes.

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