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  1. Cognitive deficits in progressive supranuclear palsy, Parkinson's disease, and multiple system atrophy in tests sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1994-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Groups of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy, and progressive supranuclear palsy or Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, matched for overall clinical disability, were compared using three computerised cognitive tests previously shown to be sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction.

  2. Working memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 1992-01-01 Digital health tools

    The term working memory refers to a brain system that provides temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for such complex cognitive tasks as language comprehension, learning, and reasoning.

  3. Senile dementia of the Binswanger type. A vascular form of dementia in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JAMA 1987-10-01 Digital health tools

    Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in the elderly have demonstrated the common occurrence of deep white-matter lesions in the aging brain.

  4. Assessment of visual impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. American journal of ophthalmology 1987-08-01 Risk factors

    We examined five patients with Alzheimer's disease who complained of poor vision.

  5. Regulation of cerebral blood flow in humans: physiology and clinical implications of autoregulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Physiological reviews 2021-03-26 Prevention trials

    Brain function critically depends on a close matching between metabolic demands, appropriate delivery of oxygen and nutrients, and removal of cellular waste.

  6. Hearing and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2016-07-02 Risk factors

    Hearing deficits associated with cognitive impairment have attracted much recent interest, motivated by emerging evidence that impaired hearing is a risk factor for cognitive decline.

  7. A review of new insights on the association between hearing loss and cognitive decline in ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale 2016-06-01 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) has a multifactorial pathogenesis and it is an inevitable hearing impairment associated with reduction of communicative skills related to ageing.

  8. Hippocampal sharp wave-ripple: A cognitive biomarker for episodic memory and planning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Hippocampus 2015-10-01 Risk factors

    Sharp wave ripples (SPW-Rs) represent the most synchronous population pattern in the mammalian brain.

  9. The impact of neuroscience on society: cognitive enhancement in neuropsychiatric disorders and in healthy people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2015-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In addition to causing distress and disability to the individual, neuropsychiatric disorders are also extremely expensive to society and governments.

  10. Suprachiasmatic neuron numbers and rest-activity circadian rhythms in older humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-06-18 Disease mechanisms

    The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus, the master mammalian circadian pacemaker, synchronizes endogenous rhythms with the external day-night cycle.

  11. Validation of the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Screen (ECAS): A cognitive tool for motor disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration 2015-04-27 Prevention trials

    Our objective was to assess the validity of the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behaviour ALS Screen (ECAS), a multi-domain screen designed to detect cognitive deficits in patients with motor disorders.

  12. Agitation in cognitive disorders: International Psychogeriatric Association provisional consensus clinical and research definition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 2014-10-14 Clinical safety

    Agitation was defined broadly as: (1) occurring in patients with a cognitive impairment or dementia syndrome; (2) exhibiting behavior consistent with emotional distress; (3) manifesting excessive motor activity, verbal aggression, or physical aggression; and (4) evidencing behaviors that cause excess disability and are not solely attributable to another disorder (psychiatric, medical, or substance-related).

  13. Hierarchical feature representation and multimodal fusion with deep learning for AD/MCI diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage 2014-07-18 Brain scans and imaging

    For the last decade, it has been shown that neuroimaging can be a potential tool for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and also fusion of different modalities can further provide the complementary information to enhance diagnostic accuracy.

  14. Can a novel computerized cognitive screening test provide additional information for early detection of Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-03-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Compared with ERP, MRI, or neuropsychological tests alone, the VR-DOT could provide additional predictive information in a low-cost, computerized, and noninvasive way.

  15. Multivariate data analysis and machine learning in Alzheimer's disease with a focus on structural magnetic resonance imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Digital health tools

    Machine learning algorithms and multivariate data analysis methods have been widely utilized in the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD) research in recent years.

  16. Cognitive frailty: rational and definition from an (I.A.N.A./I.A.G.G.) international consensus group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2013-09-01 Prevention trials

    The frailty syndrome has recently attracted attention of the scientific community and public health organizations as precursor and contributor of age-related conditions (particularly disability) in older persons.

  17. Hippocampal subfield volumetry in mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-08-14 Brain scans and imaging

    The findings suggest that CA1 measurement is more sensitive than global hippocampal volumetry to detect structural changes at the pre-dementia stage, although the predominance of CA1 atrophy does not appear to be specific to AD pathophysiological processes.

  18. The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in cognition and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2013-07-18 Brain scans and imaging

    However, other evidence suggests that the region is highly heterogeneous and may play a direct role in regulating the focus of attention.

  19. Discrete Neural Correlates for the Recognition of Negative Emotions: Insights from Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2013-06-21 Digital health tools

    Patients with frontotemporal dementia have pervasive changes in emotion recognition and social cognition, yet the neural changes underlying these emotion processing deficits remain unclear.

  20. Epidemiology of early-onset dementia: a review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2013-06-14 Prevention and risk

    Presenile Dementia or Early Onset Dementia (EOD) is a public health problem, it differs from Senile Dementia, and encloses a significant number of cases; nevertheless, it is still poorly understood and underdiagnosed.

  21. Accurate multimodal probabilistic prediction of conversion to Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-05-19 Digital health tools

    Accurately identifying the patients that have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who will go on to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD) will become essential as new treatments will require identification of AD patients at earlier stages in the disease process.

  22. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: past progress and anticipation of the future

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-04-03 Risk factors

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are widespread and disabling.

  23. Deep learning-based feature representation for AD/MCI classification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2013-01-01 Digital health tools

    In recent years, there has been a great interest in computer-aided diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

  24. Effectiveness of regional DTI measures in distinguishing Alzheimer's disease, MCI, and normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2013-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) recently added diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), among several other new imaging modalities, in an effort to identify sensitive biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: the dual syndrome hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2012-10-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    Research into the heterogeneous nature of cognitive impairment documented in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) has focused on disentangling deficits that vary between individuals, evolve and respond differentially to pharmacological treatments, and relate differentially to PD dementia (PDD).

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