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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. Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology to Retrain Attention and Enhance Functional Communication Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinical Case Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2024-11-11 Health systems and care delivery

    Through systematic instruction and retraining visual and sustained attention, the patient was able to engage meaningfully with a high-tech device to increase functional personal choice when supported by a partner.

  2. Cognition-oriented treatments (COTs) are a group of non-pharmacological treatments aimed at maintaining or improving cognitive functioning.

  3. Impact of neighborhood disadvantage on cardiometabolic health and cognition in a community‐dwelling cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2024-10-01 Risk factors

    ADI was positively associated with blood pressure and cardiometabolic index (CMI), and negatively associated with global and Preclinical Alzheimer's Cognitive Composite (PACC5) scores, in cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals.

  4. Current perspectives on postoperative cognitive dysfunction in geriatric patients: insights from clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2024-09-27 Prevention trials

    Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a common and serious postoperative complication in elderly patients, affecting cognitive function and quality of life.

  5. Association of Adherence to a MIND-Style Diet With the Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Decline in the REGARDS Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Neurology 2024-09-18 Prevention trials

    Greater MIND diet adherence was associated with decreased risk of cognitive impairment in female participants but not male participants, with no difference between Black participants and White participants.

  6. Effects of Virtual Reality Motor-Cognitive Training for Older People With Cognitive Frailty: Multicentered Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2024-09-11 Prevention trials

    The effects were not statistically significant on other outcomes.

  7. Accelerometer-derived 'weekend warrior' physical activity pattern and brain health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature aging 2024-08-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Extensive evidence shows the beneficial effect of adhering to a regular physical activity (PA) pattern on brain health.

  8. The MIND diet, brain transcriptomic alterations, and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-08-11 Prevention trials

    A brain transcriptomic profile for healthy diets revealed novel genes potentially associated with cognitive health.

  9. Cataract Surgery and Cognitive Benefits in the Older Person: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Ophthalmology 2024-08 Prevention and risk

    This meta-analysis pooled data from 24 observational studies covering over half a million older adults to ask whether cataract surgery is associated with lower long-term cognitive decline compared with leaving cataracts untreated.

  10. Parental History of Memory Impairment and β-Amyloid in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2024-08-01 Treatments

    Of 4413 individuals (mean [SD] age, 71.27 [4.66] years, 2617 women [59.3%]), mean Aβ-PET was elevated in individuals with history of memory impairment in both parents (n = 455; mean [SD] standardized uptake value ratio [SUVR] = 1.12 [0.19]; Wilcoxon P = 1.1 × 10-5) and in those with only maternal history (n = 1772; mean [SD] SUVR = 1.10 [0.19]; Wilcoxon P = 2.70 × 10-5) compared with those with only paternal history (n = 632; mean [SD] SUVR = 1.08 [0.18]; Wilcoxon P = 1.1 × 10-5) or no family history (n = 1554; mean [SD] SUVR = 1.08 [0.19]; Wilcoxon P = 1.1 × 10-5).

  11. Effects of a multidomain intervention against cognitive decline on dementia risk profiles - Results from the AgeWell.de trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-07-05 Prevention trials

    The AgeWell.de intervention reduced dementia risk.

  12. Association of neighborhood disadvantage with cognitive function and cortical disorganization in an unimpaired cohort

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. ArXiv 2024-07-01 Risk factors

    Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with worse health and cognitive outcomes.

  13. The Effects of Dietary Intervention and Macrophage-Activating Factor Supplementation on Cognitive Function in Elderly Users of Outpatient Rehabilitation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nutrients 2024-06-28 Disease mechanisms

    MAF supplementation improved cognitive function, especially after 6 months, in elderly people undergoing rehabilitation.

  14. Investigating the relationships between motor skills, cognitive status, and area deprivation index in Arizona: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2024-06-25 Risk factors

    's < 0.05). The findings suggest that neighborhood-level social deprivation might influence memory and motor status, primarily through its impact on motor brain health.

  15. Impact of cognitive impairment on driving behaviour and route choices of older drivers: a real-world driving study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2024-06-19 Risk factors

    Maintaining driving independence is important for older adults.

  16. A multidomain lifestyle intervention to maintain optimal cognitive functioning in Dutch older adults-study design and baseline characteristics of the FINGER-NL randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-06-13 Prevention trials

    Within 17 months, participant recruitment has been successfully completed (N = 1210; mean age: 67.7 years (SD: 4.6); 64% female).

  17. Associations Between Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Adverse Brain Health Outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Neurology 2024-05-22 Prevention trials

    The cognitive impairment cohort (n = 14,175) included participants without evidence of impairment at baseline who underwent follow-up testing.

  18. Cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives of healthy ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2024-04-04 Prevention trials

    With dementia incidence projected to escalate significantly within the next 25 years, the United Nations declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Healthy Ageing, emphasising cognition as a crucial element.

  19. The time course of motor and cognitive decline in older adults and their associations with brain pathologies: a multicohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2024-04-03 Disparities

    The combinations of pathologies of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias associated with cognitive and motor decline and their onsets of associations varied; only tau tangles, Parkinson's disease pathology, and macroinfarcts were associated with decline of all three phenotypes.

  20. Healthy Lifestyle and Cognition in Older Adults With Common Neuropathologies of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2024-03-01 Prevention trials

    Of 586 included decedents, 415 (70.8%) were female, 171 (29.2%) were male, and the mean (SD) age at death was 90.9 (6.0) years.

  21. Sedentary behavior and lifespan brain health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2024-03-01 Digital health tools

    Higher levels of physical activity are known to benefit aspects of brain health across the lifespan.

  22. People with MCI are at increased risk of developing AD.

  23. Neighborhood disadvantage reduces cognitive reserve independent of neuropathologic change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-02-23 Risk factors

    Higher ADI was significantly associated with lower MMSE score.

  24. Physical Activity and Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2024-02-05 Prevention and risk

    In this meta-analysis of the association of physical activity with cognitive decline, physical activity was associated with better late-life cognition, but the association was weak.

  25. The Mediterranean-Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Diet for the Aging Brain: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 2024-02-03 Prevention trials

    The Mediterranean-Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet seems a promising approach to preserve brain function during aging.

  26. MET-FINGER aims to test a FINGER 2.0 multimodal intervention, combining an updated FINGER multidomain lifestyle intervention with metformin, where appropriate, in an APOE ε4-enriched population of older adults (60-79 years) at increased risk of dementia.

  27. Potential of dietary polyphenols for protection from age-related decline and neurodegeneration: a role for gut microbiota?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutritional neuroscience 2024-01-29 Prevention trials

    Many epidemiological studies have shown the beneficial effects of a largely plant-based diet, and the strong association between the consumption of a Mediterranean-type diet with healthy aging including a lower risk of cognitive decline.

  28. Comparative Study of Risk Factors Associated with Normal Cognition and Cognitive Impairment in Rural West Elderly Texans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2024-01-09 Risk factors

    Summary statistics were obtained for sociodemographic and chronic diseases by using cross-tabulation analysis and comparing the county respondents with proportion tests.

  29. Effect of Personalized Risk-Reduction Strategies on Cognition and Dementia Risk Profile Among Older Adults: The SMARRT Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2024-01-01 Treatments

    The 172 total participants had a mean (SD) age of 75.7 (4.8) years, and 108 (62.8%) were women.

  30. Effects of Exercise on Urinary AD7c-NTP (Alzheimer-Associated Neuronal Thread Protein) Levels and Cognitive Function Among Active Korean Elderly: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-01-01 Treatments

    This is the first study to investigate urine biomarker through exercise intervention.

  31. Longitudinal Trajectories of the Cognitive Function Index in the A4 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024-01-01 Biomarkers

    Both participant and study partner CFI increased over the duration of the study indicating worsening cognitive functioning.

  32. MAs were younger, more likely to be female, less educated, had higher ADI scores, performed worse on trails B (all p < 0.05), and had lower prevalence of APOE4 + when compared to NHWs (p < 0.0001).

  33. Cognitive Screening Beliefs and Behaviors Among Older US Adults: Results from the National Poll on Healthy Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Our primary outcome was self‐reported history of cognitive screening (never versus ever had screening).

  34. Navigational Decision‐Making Among Older Drivers: An Analysis of Real‐World Driving Patterns

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    This study reveals significant differences in driving patterns between cognitively normal older adults and those with cognitive impairment.

  35. Neighborhood problems and sleep difficulties predict subjective cognitive decline in Black American men living in urban areas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    Given that Black Americans have been found to have a higher prevalence of sleep disturbances compared to white Americans, our findings could add to inform future health interventions and policy recommendations that can address modifiable sources of poorer brain health in Black men.

  36. “Taxes, death, and trouble”: Role of structural socioeconomic racism on cognitive function for persons racialized as Black

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    Participants racialized as Black who lived in places with higher levels of area‐level structural socioeconomic racism experienced lower levels of cognition at baseline and at varying time points in the six‐year period—compared to those in places with lower structural socioeconomic racism.

  37. The influence of Area Deprivation Index on cognition in cognitively‐normal adults as measured by Principal Component Analysis of Neuropsychological Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    Our results suggest that the relationship between greater neighborhood disadvantage and poorer cognitive function are very subtle and may only be present for some, but not all, cognitive domains.

  38. “The place where danger waits”: Ten years of the 1994 Crime Bill incarceration on cognitive function in older adults racialized as Black

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    Ten‐year Black‐White disparities in prison population are associated with cognitive decline among people racialized as Black starting one year later.

  39. Late-life food insecurity and cognition: exploring timing, duration, and mechanisms among older Mexican adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2023-11-30 Risk factors

    Approximately half of the sample were persistently food secure, 17% became food secure, 14% became FI, and 15% experienced persistent FI.

  40. Association of medication adherence quality measures for diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia with cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2023-11-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The study population of 99,774 individuals had a mean age of 71.0 years and was 49.1% female, 73.9% White, and 17.8% Black, with 62.0% living in an urban setting.

  41. Economic Evaluation of Exercise or Cognitive and Social Enrichment Activities for Improved Cognition After Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-11-01 Treatments

    Physical exercise and cognitive and social enrichment activities can enhance cognitive function in patients with chronic stroke, but their cost-effectiveness compared with a balance and tone program is uncertain.

  42. Effect of Individual Virtual Reality Cognitive Training Programs on Cognitive Function and Depression in Middle-Aged Women: Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. JMIR mental health 2023-10-25 Treatments

    These programs are considered beneficial nonpharmacological cognitive training interventions for middle-aged women at high risk of cognitive impairment.

  43. Dietary pattern, food, and nutritional supplement effects on cognitive outcomes in mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review of previous reviews

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Nutrition reviews 2023-10-01 Prevention trials

    Few nutritional interventions were found to convincingly improve cognition of individuals with MCI.

  44. H - 09 Neighborhood Disadvantage, Education Quality, and Cognitive Function in Community-Dwelling Black and White Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2023-10-01 Risk factors

    Neighborhood disadvantage was selectively associated with cognitive measures heavily influenced by executive function, namely using an efficient word generation strategy, and incorporating feedback to guide problem-solving.

  45. A multidomain intervention against cognitive decline in an at-risk-population in Germany: Results from the cluster-randomized AgeWell.de trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-09-28 Prevention trials

    The intervention did not improve global cognitive performance.

  46. Addressing the Chronic Pain-Early Cognitive Decline Comorbidity Among Older Adults: Protocol for the Active Brains Remote Efficacy Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2023-09-28 Treatments

    We are conducting a single-blinded, National Institutes of Health stage-2, randomized clinical trial to establish the efficacy of AB versus a time-matched and dose-matched education control (Health Enhancement Program [HEP]) in improving self-reported and objective outcomes of physical, cognitive, and emotional functions in 260 participants.

  47. The prevalence and risk factors study of cognitive impairment: Analysis of the elderly population of Han nationality in Hunan province, China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2023-09-22 Risk factors

    The prevalence of cognitive impairment, MCI, and dementia among participants aged 60 years and older were 21.48% (95% CI, 19.90-23.10), 15.70% (95% CI, 14.30-17.10), and 5.77 (95% CI, 4.90-6.70), respectively.

  48. A Live Video Dyadic Resiliency Intervention to Prevent Chronic Emotional Distress Early After Dementia Diagnoses: Protocol for a Dyadic Mixed Methods Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2023-09-20 Treatments

    We will use results from this study to develop the first live video telehealth dyadic resiliency intervention focused on the prevention of chronic emotional distress in couples shortly after ADRD diagnoses.

  49. This randomized trial gave hearing aids plus counseling, or only general health education, to 977 older adults with untreated hearing loss, then tracked cognition for three years.

  50. Combined exercise and cognitive interventions for adults with mild cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2023-09-01 Prevention trials

    This review suggests the advantage of combined interventions over exercise with comparable effects when compared with cognitive interventions in the population with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

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