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  1. The prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: Systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2015-10-24 Risk factors

    NPS were observed to be highly prevalent in AD patients.

  2. Effects of combined cognitive and exercise interventions on cognition in older adults with and without cognitive impairment: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2014-03-12 Prevention trials

    Global concern on the potential impact of dementia is mounting.

  3. Working memory improvement with non-invasive brain stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain and cognition 2014-02-08 Risk factors

    Recent studies have used non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), to increase dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) activity and, consequently, working memory (WM) performance.

  4. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: a review of papers published since its inception

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-08-07 Tau biomarkers

    This article reviews all papers published since the inception of the initiative and summarizes the results as of February 2011.

  5. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5: A quick glance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2013-01-01 Risk factors

    The diagnostic criteria continued to result in rather frequent diagnosis of comorbidity.

  6. Clinical Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: progress and plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2010-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    The Clinical Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has provided clinical, operational, and data management support to ADNI since its inception.

  7. Computerized cognitive assessment in primary care to identify patients with suspected cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The incidence and prevalence in those over age 65 of neurodegenerative disorders and chronic diseases, which often have deleterious effects on cognition, are rapidly increasing in western societies.

  8. Depression and risk for Alzheimer disease: systematic review, meta-analysis, and metaregression analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2006-05-01 Risk factors

    A history of depression may confer an increased risk for later developing AD.

  9. Diabetes mellitus and risk of Alzheimer disease and decline in cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2004-05-01 Risk factors

    Diabetes mellitus may be associated with an increased risk of developing AD and may affect cognitive systems differentially.

  10. Disability and mild cognitive impairment: a longitudinal population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2001-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Difficulties in the performance of everyday activities were found more frequently in non-demented subjects with mild cognitive deficits than in the general population.

  11. The Natural History of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 1994-06-01 Risk factors

    Of the 204 patients enrolled in the study, re-review after as many as 5 years of follow-up resulted in a final clinical classification of 188 with probable AD.

  12. Alzheimer's disease: a study of epidemiological aspects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1984-04-01 Prevention and risk

    A case-control study was performed to determine the possible roles of various environmental factors, prior illnesses, drug use, and personal habits in the development of Alzheimer's disease.

  13. Evaluating the accuracy and reliability of telephone-derived Clinical Dementia Rating scores: A comparative analysis with in-person assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Agreement for the global CDR was moderate (κ = 0.53, 95% CI: 0.47-0.59).

  14. Validating remote cognitive tests in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-07-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Correlations between in-person and T-COG scores were of moderate to large magnitude (Pearson r: 0.57 to 0.80, intraclass correlation coefficients: 0.52 to 0.79).

  15. Educational attainment, Aβ, tau, and structural brain reserve in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-01-24 Risk factors

    A+/High-EA individuals exhibited slower cognitive decline in global cognition and language domains than A+/Low-EA individuals.

  16. Plasma neurofilament light chain as prognostic marker of cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases, a clinical setting study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-10-19 Biomarkers

    In 320 patients, baseline plasma NfL levels were negatively associated with global cognition (β=-1.28 (-1.81 ; -0.75) P < 0.001), memory (β=-1.48 (-2.38 ; -0.59), P = 0.001), language (β=-1.72(-2.49 ; -0.95) P < 0.001), praxis (β=-2.02 (-2.91 ; -1.13) P < 0.001) and executive functions (β=-0.81, P < 0.001).

  17. Loneliness, cerebrovascular and Alzheimer's disease pathology, and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-05 Risk factors

    In weighted models, greater loneliness was associated with microinfarcts, lower episodic and working memory in the absence of AD pathology, lower working memory in the absence of infarcts, a stronger association of infarcts with lower episodic memory, and a stronger association of microinfarcts with lower working and semantic memory.

  18. Associations of plasma neurofilament light chain with cognition and neuroimaging measures in community-dwelling early old age men

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-04-25 Biomarkers

    After adjusting for age, health status, and young adult general cognitive ability, plasma NfL level was only significantly associated with processing speed and white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume, but not with other cognitive or neuroimaging measures.

  19. Latin American Initiative for Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Cognitive Decline (LatAm-FINGERS): Study design and harmonization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-05-19 Prevention trials

    Currently, 1549 participants have been screened, and 815 randomized.

  20. Metabolic syndrome and cognitive deficits in the Greek cohort of Epirus Health Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2023-05-10 Risk factors

    Multivariable linear regressions showed an association of metabolic syndrome with lower performance in attention (β=1.62 seconds, 95% CI=0.20, 3.04) and memory (β=-0.62 words, 95% CI=-1.19, -0.05) that could be driven by associations with elevated fasting glucose and abdominal obesity.

  21. Association between depression, gender and Alzheimer's neuropathology in older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2022-10 Risk factors

    This study included 407 participants (96 Thal, 405 Braak, and 406 CERAD).

  22. Cholesterol profiles and incident cognitive decline among older adults: the Shanghai Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Age and ageing 2021-02-26 Risk factors

    among VRFs-free participants, TC (HR 0.62, 95%CI 0.40-0.95) and LDL-C (HR 0.47, 95%CI 0.28-0.80) were inversely associated with incident dementia, LDL-C was inversely associated with incident AD (HR 0.50, 95%CI 0.28-0.90).

  23. Structural and functional brain connectivity in presymptomatic familial frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2014-07-08 Brain scans and imaging

    Carriers (n = 39) and noncarriers (n = 36) had similar neuropsychological performance, except for lower Letter Digit Substitution Test scores in carriers.

  24. Bilingualism and Cognitive Aging in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from HABS-HD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2026-08-04 Disparities

    ObjectivesIdentifying modifiable factors that shape cognitive aging trajectories is a central goal in aging research.

  25. Primary care detection of Alzheimer's disease using a self-administered digital cognitive test and blood biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Nature medicine 2025-09-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    After the clinical implementation of amyloid-β-targeting therapies for people with cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD), there is an urgent need to efficiently identify this patient population in primary care.

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