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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. The physiological approach: functional architecture of working memory and disordered cognition in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-09-01 Genetics

    The method of single-cell recording in awake behaving monkeys as they perform behavioral tasks is perhaps the most powerful approach to understanding the neural basis of behavior.

  2. Depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in nondemented elderly women: a prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PubMed 1999-05-01 Prevention and risk

    At baseline, 211 (3.6%) of the women had 6 or more depressive symptoms.

  3. Attention and executive deficits in Alzheimer's disease. A critical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1999-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    In this review we summarize the progress that has been made in the research on attentional and executive deficits in Alzheimer's disease.

  4. CSF spaces in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: morphology and volumetry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PubMed Central 1998-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In patients with idiopathic NPH, the CSF volume was significantly increased in the ventricles and decreased in the superior convexity and medial subarachnoid spaces as compared with patients with other dementias.

  5. Volume loss of the hippocampus and temporal lobe in healthy elderly persons destined to develop dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1997-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    NoD as well as PreD subjects had significant, time-dependent decreases in hippocampal and parahippocampal volume.

  6. Diagnostic guidelines in central nervous system Whipple's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 1996-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Many cases of central nervous system (CNS) Whipple's disease are not diagnosed until postmortem.

  7. Visual dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: relation to normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1991-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), compared with age-matched and young healthy control subjects, visual deficits in the following functions were observed: color, stereoacuity, contrast sensitivity, and backward masking (homogeneous and pattern).

  8. Quantification of magnetic resonance scans for hippocampal and parahippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1991-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) invariably exhibit neuropathology in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex when examined postmortem.

  9. A Chinese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination; impact of illiteracy in a Shanghai dementia survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of clinical epidemiology 1988-01-01 Risk factors

    A dementia screening survey was carried out in Shanghai using a culturally adapted Chinese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination.

  10. Cognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (leuko-araiosis)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1987-01-01 Digital health tools

    As part of a prospective clinicopathologic study, a cohort of 105 "normal" elderly volunteers was investigated with computed tomographic scans, psychometric testing (Extended Scale for Dementia [ESD]) and neurologic examination.

  11. Cholinergic correlates of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: comparisons with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 1985-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Expectation of reward potentiates sensorimotor transformations to drive vigorous movements.

  12. Atypical presentation of progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 1985-04-01 Digital health tools

    Four pathologically documented cases of progressive supranuclear palsy are reported.

  13. Loss of neurons in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in Alzheimer's disease, paralysis agitans and Korsakoff's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 1983-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The nucleus basalis of Meynert, the major source of cholinergic innervation of the cerebral cortex, was morphometrically investigated in 58 cases of neuropsychiatric disorders and compared to 14 controls.

  14. Regional cerebral oxygen supply and utilization in dementia. A clinical and physiological study with oxygen-15 and positron tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1981-12-01 Risk factors

    The cerebral blood flow, oxygen extraction and oxygen utilization has been measured regionally in 22 dements, and 14 aged normal volunteers.

  15. Circadian and Sleep Dysfunctions in Neurodegenerative Disorders-An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-01-18 Risk factors

    Disruptions of sleep and circadian rhythms are among the most debilitating symptoms in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.

  16. Is there a relationship between blood pressure values and dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology 2020-11-18 Risk factors

    The relationship between arterial hypertension and cognitive decline, two among the conditions with higher prevalence in the elderly population, has gained significant interest, in the scientific community, during the last few years, stemming from the numerous epidemiologic, experimental, and therapeutic evidences suggesting a non-casual correlation between the two conditions.

  17. Brain Amyloid Burden and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2020-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Non-linear relations of brain amyloid beta (Aβ) with task- based functional connectivity (tbFC) measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been reported in late middle age.

  18. Interaction between Cognitive Reserve and Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-08-30 Risk factors

    Patients with comparable degree of neuropathology could show different cognitive impairments.

  19. Global Brain Involvement in Posterior Cortical Atrophy: Multimodal MR Imaging Investigation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain topography 2020-08-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), considered a visual variant of Alzheimer's disease, has similar pathological characteristics yet shows a selective visual manifestation with relative preservation of other cortical areas, at least at early stages of disease.

  20. Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment from multi-domain features of resting-state EEG

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2020-07 Prevention trials

    In recent years, electroencephalography (EEG) has emerged as a low-cost, accessible and objective tools for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. Alzheimer's Disease in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Tanaffos 2020-07 Risk factors

    Serious OSAS and short sleep duration are associated with a high risk of developing dementia.

  22. The Role of Resting-State Network Functional Connectivity in Cognitive Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-06-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Aging is associated with disruptions in the resting-state functional architecture of the brain.

  23. Effects of Physical Activity on Brain Energy Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-06-08 Prevention trials

    The prevalence of dementia has substantially increased worldwide.

  24. [The cognitive-behavioural impact of hypertension]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Hipertension y riesgo vascular 2020-05-17 Risk factors

    Arterial hypertension is considered the main modifiable vascular risk factor that causes silent damage to brain vessels.

  25. Cognitive impairment in remitted late-life depression is not associated with Alzheimer's disease-related CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2020-05-01 Risk factors

    ANCOVA (age and schooling as covariates) displayed statistically significant results with respect to CSF biomarkers' profiles regardless of the socio-demographic divergencies previously identified by one-way ANOVA.

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