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Brain imaging, connectivity and assessment

1,533 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Computerized cognitive training with older adults: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. PloS one 2012-07-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A systematic review to examine the efficacy of computer-based cognitive interventions for cognitively healthy older adults was conducted.

  2. Neuropsychological measures predict decline to Alzheimer's dementia from mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2012-05-21 Prevention trials

    At 20 months 12.3% of the MCI group progressed to dementia, 62.9% continued to meet MCI criteria, and 24.7% reverted to unimpaired levels of function.

  3. Status of computerized cognitive testing in aging: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2008-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    All test batteries exhibited some of the strengths of computerized cognitive testing: standardization of administration and stimulus presentation, accurate measures of response latencies, automated comparison in real time with an individual's prior performance as well as with age-related norms, and efficiencies of staffing and cost.

  4. Leisure activities and the risk of amnestic mild cognitive impairment in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2006-02-08 Prevention trials

    Cognitive activity participation is associated with lower risk of development of amnestic mild cognitive impairment, even after excluding individuals at early stages of dementia.

  5. Remote, self-administered, smartphone cognitive testing in a registry-based cohort: Feasibility, reliability, and validity findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Adherence was high (82.2%) and usability favorable.

  6. Traumatic Brain Injury, Seizures, and Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-08-01 Disparities

    Among the cohort of 7180 older adults (median age, 74 years [range, 65-102 years]; 4729 women [65.9%]), 1036 were African American or Black (14.4%), 21 were American Indian or Alaska Native (0.3%), 143 were Asian (2.0%), 332 were Hispanic (4.6%), and 5648 were non-Hispanic White (78.7%); the median educational level was 16.0 years (range, 1.0-29.0 years).

  7. Early detection of dementia with default-mode network effective connectivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Nature. Mental health 2024-06-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Altered functional connectivity precedes structural brain changes and symptoms in dementia.

  8. Racial Differences in Clinical Presentation in Individuals Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-11-01 Disparities

    The final sample comprised 2478 individuals, of which 59 (2.4%) were Asian, 63 (2.5%) were Black, and 2356 (95.1%) were White.

  9. Impact of a multidomain lifestyle intervention on white matter integrity: the SUPERBRAIN exploratory sub-study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-09-20 Prevention trials

    In the South Korean study to prevent cognitive impairment and protect BRAIN health through lifestyle intervention in at-risk elderly people (SUPERBRAIN), we evaluated the impact of a 24-week facility-based multidomain intervention (FMI) and home-based MI (HMI) on white matter integrity.

  10. Cognitive and brain reserve predict decline in adverse driving behaviors among cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2022-12-23 Risk factors

    Daily driving is a multi-faceted, real-world, behavioral measure of cognitive functioning requiring multiple cognitive domains working synergistically to complete this instrumental activity of daily living.

  11. Associations of digital neuro-signatures with molecular and neuroimaging measures of brain resilience: The altoida large cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2022-08-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    DNS-br total score and majority of the 11 DNS-br neurocognitive subdomain scores were significantly associated with FDG-PET resilience signature, PIB ratio, cerebral gray matter and white matter volume after adjusting for multiple testing.

  12. Neuropsychiatric Ramifications of Severe COVID-19 and Other Severe Acute Respiratory Infections

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2022-07-01 Digital health tools

    In this cohort study of data from 8.38 million adults (4.18 million women, 4.20 million men; mean [SD] age 49.18 [18.45] years); 16 679 (0.02%) survived a hospital admission for SARI, and 32 525 (0.03%) survived a hospital admission for COVID-19.

  13. Boston cognitive assessment (BOCA) - a comprehensive self-administered smartphone- and computer-based at-home test for longitudinal tracking of cognitive performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. BMC neurology 2022-03-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Longitudinal cognitive testing is essential for developing novel preventive interventions for dementia and Alzheimer's disease; however, the few available tools have significant practice effect and depend on an external evaluator.

  14. APOE Effects on Late Life Cognitive Trajectories in Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2022-03-04 Disparities

    ϵ4 prevalence in Black (46%) and White participants (46%) was almost double that of Latino participants (24%). ϵ4 was associated with poorer baseline episodic memory only in White participants (p = .001), but had a moderately strong association with episodic memory change across all racial/ethnic groups (Blacks= -.061 SD/year, Latinos = -.055,Whites= -.055). ϵ4 association with semantic memory change was strongest in White participants (-.071), intermediate in Latino participants (-.041), and weakest in Black participants (-.022).

  15. Neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation and cognitive decline in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Social science & medicine (1982) 2021-07-12 Disparities

    Social determinants of health, including neighborhood factors, play a key role in the health of diverse older adults.

  16. Dual Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Impairment in the Korean Longitudinal Elderly Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2021-04-07 Risk factors

    At baseline, DSI was significantly associated with increased dementia prevalence compared to normal sensory function (odds ratio [OR] 2.17, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.17-4.02), but SSI was not (OR 1.27, 95% CI 0.66-2.41).

  17. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-12-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    There is clinical overlap between presentations of dementia due to limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) and Alzheimer's disease.

  18. Higher Dementia Incidence in Older Adults with Poor Visual Acuity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2020-10-15 Risk factors

    Over 68,904 person-years of follow-up, 1,349 participants developed dementia.

  19. Unilateral Cochlear Implants for Severe, Profound, or Moderate Sloping to Profound Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review and Consensus Statements

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery 2020-10-01 Risk factors

    These 20 consensus statements on the use of unilateral cochlear implantation in adults with SNHL were relevant to the following 7 key areas of interest: level of awareness of cochlear implantation (1 consensus statement); best practice clinical pathway from diagnosis to surgery (3 consensus statements); best practice guidelines for surgery (2 consensus statements); clinical effectiveness of cochlear implantation (4 consensus statements); factors associated with postimplantation outcomes (4 consensus statements); association between hearing loss and depression, cognition, and dementia (5 consensus statements); and cost implications of cochlear implantation (1 consensus statement).

  20. Is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) screening superior to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in the detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in the elderly?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2018-11-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    ABSTRACTObjective:To compare the accuracy of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in tracking mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  21. Predicting cognitive decline with deep learning of brain metabolism and amyloid imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2018-02-14 Digital health tools

    For effective treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD), it is important to identify subjects who are most likely to exhibit rapid cognitive decline.

  22. Positive effects of combined cognitive and physical exercise training on cognitive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2017-09-12 Prevention trials

    Combined cognitive and physical exercise interventions have potential to elicit cognitive benefits in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia.

  23. A re-examination of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) cutoff scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2017-07-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    A MoCA cutoff score of 23, rather than the initially recommended score of 26, lowers the false positive rate and shows overall better diagnostic accuracy.

  24. Physical Activity and Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2017-06-01 Prevention trials

    The current literature includes several studies investigating the association between physical activity and risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Associations Between Sleep‐Disordered Breathing, Nocturnal Hypoxemia, and Subsequent Cognitive Decline in Older Community‐Dwelling Men: The Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Sleep Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015-03 Risk factors

    Nocturnal hypoxemia was related to greater decline on the 3 MS .

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