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  1. [Hearing and cognition: neurocognitive test batteries in otorhinolaryngology]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. HNO 2020-03 Risk factors

    A multitude of different neurocognitive screening tests and detailed test batteries are available, particularly in the field of dementia.

  2. Race modifies default mode connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2020-02-19 Tau biomarkers

    We found that race modifies the relationship between functional connectivity of default mode network subsystems and cognitive performance, tau, and amyloid levels.

  3. Is Sleep Disruption a Cause or Consequence of Alzheimer's Disease? Reviewing Its Possible Role as a Biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-02-10 Tau biomarkers

    In recent years, the idea that sleep is critical for cognitive processing has gained strength.

  4. Digital Biomarkers Based Individualized Prognosis for People at Risk of Dementia: the AltoidaML Multi-site External Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2020 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Research investigating treatments and interventions for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer due to difficulties in accurately identifying individuals at risk of AD in the pre-symptomatic stages of the disease.

  5. Contributions of Cerebro-Cerebellar Default Mode Connectivity Patterns to Memory Performance in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results showed that compared to healthy older adults, aMCI patients showed lower anti-correlation between the cerebellar DMN and several cerebral DMN regions.

  6. The Risk of Dementia in Relation to Cognitive and Brain Reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    Higher early-life CR (hazard ratio = 0.48, 95% CI = [0.21; 1.06]) but not early-life BR associated with a lower risk of incident dementia.

  7. Estimation of Brain Functional Connectivity in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain sciences 2019-11-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Mild cognitive impairment is defined as greater cognitive decline than expected for a person at a particular age and is sometimes considered a stage between healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease or other dementia syndromes.

  8. Neurological Changes and Depression: 2020 Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2019-11-15 Risk factors

    This article covers current research on the relationship between depression and cognitive impairment in older adults.

  9. Improving brain age prediction models: incorporation of amyloid status in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-11-14 Risk factors

    Brain age prediction is a machine learning method that estimates an individual's chronological age from their neuroimaging scans.

  10. Cognitive Control Network Homogeneity and Executive Functions in Late-Life Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2019-11-07 Risk factors

    Older adults with depression showed increased ReHo in the bilateral dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the right middle temporal gyrus, with no significant findings for network homogeneity.

  11. Mid-life and late-life vascular risk factor burden and neuropathology in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2019-11-05 Vascular contributions

    The median time interval between FSRP and death was 33.4 years for mid-life FSRP and 4.4 years for final FSRP measurement before death.

  12. Wearable technological platform for multidomain diagnostic and exercise interventions in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International review of neurobiology 2019-09-16 Prevention trials

    Physical activity and exercise have become a central component of medical management of chronic illness, particular for the elderly who suffer from neurodegenerative disorders that impair their cognition and mobility.

  13. Hearing loss and Alzheimer's disease: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The international tinnitus journal 2019-09-04 Risk factors

    Many studies have focused on the relationship between hearing loss and Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  14. Diagnosing and Treating Depression in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2019-08-21 Risk factors

    Although cognitive and functional impairment are the hallmark features of Alzheimer's disease (AD), neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with AD account for increased rates of disability and profoundly impact the quality of life of both patients and their caregivers.

  15. Tau and atrophy: domain-specific relationships with cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-07-27 Brain scans and imaging

    FTP and thickness were differentially related to cognitive performance in several domains.

  16. Linking late life depression and Alzheimer's disease: mechanisms and resilience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current behavioral neuroscience reports 2019-07-25 Risk factors

    Three major neurobiological features shared by LLD and AD include neurodegeneration, disruption to cerebrovascular functioning, and increased levels of neuroinflammation.

  17. Feasibility and Acceptability of Computerised Cognitive Training of Everyday Cognition in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Parkinson's disease 2019-07-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The findings indicated that participants felt the training was acceptable, enhanced their awareness, and encouraged them to monitor their thinking abilities.

  18. [Use AI for Dementia Diagnosis]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 2019-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Using AI for dementia diagnosis is still in research stage, however some of the work points to the development of new medical devices.

  19. Do the posterior midline cortices belong to the electrophysiological default-mode network?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage 2019-06-22 Brain scans and imaging

    The default-mode network (DMN) and its principal core hubs in the posterior midline cortices (PMC), i.e., the precuneus and the posterior cingulate cortex, play a critical role in the human brain structural and functional architecture.

  20. Connections Between Insomnia and Cognitive Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2019-06-20 Risk factors

    Insomnia is a common sleep disorder among older adults, and a risk factor for poor physical and mental health.

  21. Risk Factor Variability and Cardiovascular Outcome: JACC Review Topic of the Week

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2019-05-28 Risk factors

    Until recently, intraindividual visit-to-visit variability of cardiovascular risk factors has been dismissed as random fluctuation.

  22. Peripheral and central hearing impairment and their relationship with cognition: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of audiology 2019-04-02 Risk factors

    In addition to the well-documented relationship between peripheral hearing loss and cognition highlighted in previous comprehensive reviews, there is also some evidence to suggest that there is a relationship between central hearing impairment and cognition.

  23. Attention network dysfunction underlies memory impairment in posterior cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2019-03-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulating evidence suggests that memory is impaired in posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), alongside the early and defining visual disorder.

  24. Dementia prevention and reserve against neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 2019-03 Risk factors

    Similar to other complex disorders, the etiology of Alzheimer disease is multifactorial and characterized by an interplay of biological and environmental risk and protective factors.

  25. Default Mode Network Connectivity in Alzheimers Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    Studies generally indicate a progressive impairment in DMN connectivity during the course of AD.

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