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  1. Alcohol use disorder accelerates age-related cognitive decline 2026-09-23
  2. A longitudinal study of age-related traits and cognitive function: The Collaborative Amish Aging and Memory Project (CAAMP) 2026-09-20
  3. Associations of menopause hormone therapy with late-life cognition and brain health vary by formulation and APOEε4 presence 2026-09-20

Studies

1,138 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 42
  • Neurology 41
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 36
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 33
  • Nutrients 23

437 journals in all.

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  1. Effects of cholinergic drugs and cognitive training on dementia: 2-year follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2006-09-04 Prevention trials

    Several studies have shown that pharmacological and cognitive treatments for Alzheimers's disease improve cognitive function for short periods, but fewer studies have evaluated the efficacy of those treatments for longer (2-year) periods.

  2. Effects of nutrients (in food) on the structure and function of the nervous system: update on dietary requirements for brain. Part 2 : macronutrients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2006-09-01 Prevention and risk

    It was first demonstrated that the differentiation and functioning of cultured brain cells requires not only ALA, but also the very long polyunsaturated omega-3 (DHA) and omega-6 carbon chains.

  3. Older adults with cognitive complaints show brain atrophy similar to that of amnestic MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2006-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive complaints in older adults may indicate underlying neurodegenerative changes even when unaccompanied by deficits on formal testing.

  4. Handgrip strength and cognitive decline in older Mexican Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2006-08-01 Disparities

    By contrast, participants in the highest handgrip strength quartile maintained a higher level of cognitive function.

  5. Telomere length predicts poststroke mortality, dementia, and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2006-08-01 Prevention and risk

    Telomere length is a prognostic marker for poststroke cognitive decline, dementia, and death.

  6. Physical and cognitive domains of the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: validation in a multiethnic population of Asian older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2006-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Factor analyses yielded two strong and reliable factors representing underlying physical and cognitive dimensions of IADL.

  7. Development and evaluation of home-based speed-of-processing training for older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 2006-06-01 Prevention trials

    People can improve their processing speed at home using readily available technology.

  8. Performance-based physical function and future dementia in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 2006-05-01 Genetics

    During follow-up 319 participants developed dementia (221 had AD).

  9. Cognitive processes related to gait velocity: results from the Einstein Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2006-03-01 Clinical safety

    The authors examined the relationship between cognition and gait velocity, performed with and without interference, in elderly participants.

  10. Depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in late life: a prospective epidemiological study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2006-02-01 Disparities

    Depressive symptoms are cross-sectionally associated with cognitive impairment but not subsequent cognitive decline.

  11. Biological markers of age-related memory deficits: treatment of senescent physiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. CNS drugs 2006-01-01 Clinical safety

    In humans, age-related memory impairments begin in mid-life and cognitive weakening continues with advancing age.

  12. Dietary intake of unsaturated fatty acids and age-related cognitive decline: a 8.5-year follow-up of the Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-10-26 Prevention trials

    There is evidence from a population-based study of an inverse relationship between monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) energy intake and age-related cognitive decline (ARCD), while high polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) intake was positively associated with cognitive impairment in elderly subjects.

  13. Links between cognitive impairment in insulin resistance: an explanatory model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-10-24 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cognitive function and peripheral glucose regulation both decrease with age.

  14. Alcohol consumption and cognitive function in late life: a longitudinal community study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2005-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive functions and self-reported drinking habits were assessed at 2-year intervals over an average of 7 years of follow-up.

  15. Association between recurrent concussion and late-life cognitive impairment in retired professional football players

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurosurgery 2005-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Our findings suggest that the onset of dementia-related syndromes may be initiated by repetitive cerebral concussions in professional football players.

  16. Structure-function correlates of cognitive decline in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2005-09-14 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    To explore neural correlates of cognitive decline in aging, we used longitudinal behavioral data to identify two groups of older adults (n = 40) that differed with regard to whether their performance on tests of episodic memory remained stable or declined over a decade.

  17. The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: study design and methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2005-08-15 Getting a diagnosis

    Linking the ADAMS dementia clinical assessment data to the wealth of available longitudinal HRS data on health, health care utilization, informal care, and economic resources and behavior, will provide a unique opportunity to study the onset of CIND and dementia in a nationally representative population-based sample, as well as the risk factors, prevalence, outcomes, and costs of CIND and dementia.

  18. Effect of baseline cognitive function and antihypertensive treatment on cognitive and cardiovascular outcomes: Study on COgnition and Prognosis in the Elderly (SCOPE)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. American journal of hypertension 2005-08-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We examined whether cognitive function at baseline affected cognitive and cardiovascular outcomes in the Study on COgnition and Prognosis in the Elderly (SCOPE), a blood pressure (BP)-lowering intervention trial.

  19. Early and late life cognitive activity and cognitive systems in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2005-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Little is known about the relative benefits of cognitively stimulating activities at different points in the lifespan.

  20. Executive function correlates with walking speed in older persons: the InCHIANTI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-03-01 Vascular contributions

    In nondemented older persons, executive function is independently associated with tasks of lower extremity function that require high attentional demand.

  21. Normative estimates of cross-sectional and longitudinal brain volume decline in aging and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2005-03-01 How common it is

    Nondemented individuals exhibit a slow rate of whole-brain atrophy from early in adulthood with white-matter loss beginning in middle age; in older adults, the onset of dementia of the Alzheimer type is associated with a markedly accelerated atrophy rate.

  22. Serum cholesterol and cognitive performance in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Psychosomatic medicine 2005-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between total cholesterol (TC) and cognitive performance within the context of the Framingham Heart Study, a large, community-based, prospective investigation of cardiovascular risk factors.

  23. Cognitive reserve and the neurobiology of cognitive aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2004-11-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    A hypothetical construct of "cognitive reserve" is widely used to explain how, in the face of neurodegenerative changes that are similar in nature and extent, individuals vary considerably in the severity of cognitive aging and clinical dementia.

  24. Mediterranean diet and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Public health nutrition 2004-10-01 Prevention trials

    Essential components of the Mediterranean diet--MUFA, cereals and wine--seem to be protective against cognitive decline.

  25. Conjugated equine estrogens and global cognitive function in postmenopausal women: Women's Health Initiative Memory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. JAMA 2004-06-01 How common it is

    For women aged 65 years or older, hormone therapy had an adverse effect on cognition, which was greater among women with lower cognitive function at initiation of treatment.

  26. Preserved neural correlates of priming in old age and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neuron 2004-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Implicit memory, including priming, can be preserved in aging and dementia despite impairment of explicit memory.

  27. The association between delirium and cognitive decline: a review of the empirical literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2004-06-01 Clinical safety

    Delirium is a common neurobehavioral syndrome that occurs across health care settings which is associated with adverse outcomes, including death.

  28. Cognitive and behavioural effects of music-based exercises in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Clinical rehabilitation 2004-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Public Psychiatric Hospital Rekem, Belgium.

  29. Effects of cholinergic drugs and cognitive training on dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2004-04-06 Prevention trials

    A study was performed on patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in order to evaluate the efficacy of a combined treatment (donepezil plus cognitive training) in both cognitive processes and affective states.

  30. Declining executive control in normal aging predicts change in functional status: the Freedom House Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Three-year longitudinal cohort study.

  31. Effect of smoking on global cognitive function in nondemented elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2004-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Contrary to early case-control studies that suggested smoking protects against Alzheimer disease (AD), recent prospective studies have shown that elderly who smoke may be at increased risk for dementia.

  32. Predictors of cognitive decline and mortality of aged people over a 10-year period

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2004-03-01 Risk factors

    Long follow-up of a general aged population explains several inconsistencies of earlier reports.

  33. Cognitive impairment in older HIV-1-seropositive individuals: prevalence and potential mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. AIDS (London, England) 2004-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Individuals over 50 years of age comprise 11% of AIDS cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  34. Cognitive impairment in hip fracture patients: timing of detection and longitudinal follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Eight hospitals in Baltimore, Maryland.

  35. Efficacy of an evidence-based cognitive stimulation therapy programme for people with dementia: randomised controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2003-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A recent Cochrane review of reality orientation therapy identified the need for large, well-designed, multi-centre trials.

  36. Impact of viral and bacterial burden on cognitive impairment in elderly persons with cardiovascular diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Stroke 2003-08-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We sought to investigate whether the seropositivity of common infections was associated with cognitive function.

  37. Among postmenopausal women aged 65 years or older, estrogen plus progestin did not improve cognitive function when compared with placebo.

  38. The Study on Cognition and Prognosis in the Elderly (SCOPE): principal results of a randomized double-blind intervention trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Journal of hypertension 2003-05-01 Prevention and risk

    In elderly hypertensive patients, a slightly more effective blood pressure reduction during candesartan-based therapy, compared with control therapy, was associated with a modest, statistically non-significant, reduction in major cardiovascular events and with a marked reduction in non-fatal stroke.

  39. Fitness effects on the cognitive function of older adults: a meta-analytic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Psychological Science 2003-03-01 Prevention and risk

    A meta-analytic study was conducted to examine the hypothesis that aerobic fitness training enhances the cognitive vitality of healthy but sedentary older adults.

  40. Lower cognitive function in the presence of obesity and hypertension: the Framingham heart study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 2003-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The adverse effects of obesity and hypertension in men are independent and cumulative with respect to cognitive deficit.

  41. Cognitive rehabilitation and cognitive training for early-stage Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2003-01-01 Caregiving

    Memory problems are a defining feature of the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia.

  42. Cognitive screening predicts magnitude of functional recovery from admission to 3 months after discharge in hospitalized elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2003-01-01 Clinical safety

    Performance on a brief cognitive screen on admission was strongly related to subsequent change in function.

  43. Multifactorial intervention after a fall in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia presenting to the accident and emergency department: randomised controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2003-01-01 Clinical safety

    Multifactorial intervention was not effective in preventing falls in older people with cognitive impairment and dementia presenting to the accident and emergency department after a fall.

  44. Nursing home characteristics associated with tube feeding in advanced cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003-01-01 Digital health tools

    Assessment by a speech therapist, staffing ratios, advance directives, fiscal considerations, and specialized dementia units are potentially modifiable factors in nursing homes that may influence the practice of tube feeding in advanced cognitive impairment.

  45. The role of diet in cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2003-01-01 Prevention trials

    Recent findings suggest a possible role of diet in age-related cognitive decline, and cognitive impairment of both degenerative (Alzheimer's disease, AD) or vascular origin.

  46. Effects of cognitive training interventions with older adults: a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA 2002-11-01 Prevention trials

    Training effects were of a magnitude equivalent to the amount of decline expected in elderly persons without dementia over 7- to 14-year intervals.

  47. Predictors of functional change: a longitudinal study of nondemented people aged 65 and older

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2002-09-01 Prevention and risk

    Our study has identified not only risk factors associated with functional decline but also the interactions among these factors.

  48. Ageing and diabetes: implications for brain function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2002-04-01 Prevention and risk

    Diabetes mellitus is associated with moderate cognitive deficits and neurophysiological and structural changes in the brain, a condition that may be referred to as diabetic encephalopathy.

  49. Independent predictors of cognitive decline in healthy elderly persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Models combining multiple risk factors should refine the prediction of questionable dementia and persistent cognitive impairment, harbingers of dementia.

  50. Reading level attenuates differences in neuropsychological test performance between African American and White elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2002-03-01 Disparities

    The current study sought to determine if discrepancies in quality of education could explain differences in cognitive test scores between African American and White elders matched on years of education.

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