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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. Interventions for subjective cognitive decline: systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. BMJ open 2018-07-19 Prevention trials

    There is a lack of high-quality research in this field.

  2. Nutritional Interventions as Beneficial Strategies to Delay Cognitive Decline in Healthy Older Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-07-15 Prevention trials

    Current demographic trends indicate that the population is aging.

  3. Physical activity to improve cognition in older adults: can physical activity programs enriched with cognitive challenges enhance the effects? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity 2018-07-04 Prevention and risk

    Forty-one studies were included.

  4. Prospective Associations between Single Foods, Alzheimer's Dementia and Memory Decline in the Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-06-29 Genetics

    Only higher red wine intake was associated with a lower incidence of AD ( HR = 0.92; P = 0.045).

  5. Cognitive training for freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NPJ Parkinson's disease 2018-05-18 Prevention trials

    The pathophysiological mechanism of freezing of gait (FoG) has been linked to executive dysfunction.

  6. Processed electroencephalogram and evoked potential techniques for amelioration of postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction following non-cardiac and non-neurosurgical procedures in adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2018-05-15 Clinical safety

    We found moderate-quality evidence that postoperative cognitive dysfunction at three months could be reduced in these patients.

  7. Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Computerized Cognitive Training on Executive Functions: a Cross-Disciplinary Taxonomy for Classifying Outcome Cognitive Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2018-05-03 Prevention trials

    The growing prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders associated with aging and cognitive decline has generated increasing cross-disciplinary interest in non-pharmacological interventions, such as computerized cognitive training (CCT), which may prevent or slow cognitive decline.

  8. Circadian Rest-Activity Pattern Changes in Aging and Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Preclinical AD is associated with rest-activity rhythm fragmentation, independent of age or sex.

  9. Cognitive Effects of Multi-Domain Interventions Among Pre-Frail and Frail Community-Living Older Persons: Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2018-05-01 Prevention trials

    Among frail older persons, cognitive training conferred the greatest cognitive benefits.

  10. Cognitive function trajectories and their determinants in older people: 8 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Journal of epidemiology and community health 2018-04-24 Risk factors

    The potential determinants of cognitive decline identified in this study, in particular modifiable risk factors, should be tested in the context of randomised controlled trials.

  11. Virtual reality-based cognitive-motor training for middle-aged adults at high Alzheimer's disease risk: A randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2018-03-27 Prevention trials

    Current pharmacologic therapies are for symptomatic AD patients, whereas nonpharmacologic training is administrable before symptom onset.

  12. Joggin' the Noggin: Towards a Physiological Understanding of Exercise-Induced Cognitive Benefits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2018-03-20 Prevention trials

    This narrative review examines literature pertaining to possible physiological explanations for observed cognitive benefits stemming from improvements to cardiovascular fitness following chronic aerobic exercise.

  13. Effect of the Mediterranean diet on cognition and brain morphology and function: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2018-03-01 Prevention and risk

    Five RCTs of the Mediterranean diet and cognition have been published to date.

  14. The Nordic Prudent Diet Reduces Risk of Cognitive Decline in the Swedish Older Adults: A Population-Based Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-02-17 Prevention trials

    Appropriate dietary pattern for preserving cognitive function in northern Europe remains unknown.

  15. Effect of Area-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation on Risk of Cognitive Dysfunction in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-02-12 Disparities

    This analysis combining data from two health systems shows that area deprivation is an independent risk factor for cognitive dysfunction in older adults.

  16. Telehealth Rehabilitation for Cognitive Impairment: Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2018-02-08 Treatments

    Delivery of cognitive rehabilitation by telehealth appeared feasible but required modifications such as greater reliance on caregivers and clients for manipulating materials.

  17. Efficacy of Cognitive Training in Older Adults with and without Subjective Cognitive Decline Is Associated with Inhibition Efficiency and Working Memory Span, Not with Cognitive Reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2018-02-02 Prevention trials

    The present study explores the role of cognitive reserve, executive functions, and working memory (WM) span, as factors that might explain training outcomes in cognitive status.

  18. Association of Age-Related Hearing Loss With Cognitive Function, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery 2018-02-01 Prevention and risk

    Forty studies from 12 countries met our inclusion criteria.

  19. The effects of an 8-week computerized cognitive training program in older adults: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2018-01-30 Prevention trials

    If results from this study show benefits for cognition at trial completion, CCT programs, alone or in combination with walking, might be a strategy to promote healthy cognitive aging in older adults.

  20. Effect of the replacement of dietary vegetable oils with a low dose of extravirgin olive oil in the Mediterranean Diet on cognitive functions in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of translational medicine 2018-01-19 Prevention trials

    We demonstrated the higher short-term improvement of cognitive functions scores in individuals of the MedDiet plus low dose of extravirgin olive oil rather than MedDiet alone.

  21. Effects of Cognitive Training on Cognition and Quality of Life of Older Persons with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-01-18 Prevention trials

    Systematic cognitive training had no effect on global cognition or HRQoL in community-living persons with mild to moderate dementia.

  22. Dietary salt promotes neurovascular and cognitive dysfunction through a gut-initiated TH17 response

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2018-01-15 Prevention and risk

    A diet rich in salt is linked to an increased risk of cerebrovascular diseases and dementia, but it remains unclear how dietary salt harms the brain.

  23. Person-specific contribution of neuropathologies to cognitive loss in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-01-14 How common it is

    Neuropathology was ubiquitous, with 94% of participants having 1+, 78% having 2+, 58% having 3+, and 35% having 4+.

  24. PARO may have some effect on motor activity of older people with dementia in long-term care, but not on sleep patterns.

  25. Diet, nutrition and the ageing brain: current evidence and new directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2018-01-10 Prevention and risk

    Globally populations are ageing. By 2050, it is estimated that there will be two billion people aged 60 years or over, of which 131 million are projected to be affected by dementia, while depression is predicted to be the second leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020.

  26. Falls in Cognitively Impaired Older Adults: Implications for Risk Assessment And Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-01-10 Prevention and risk

    Falls remain common in older people, with higher prevalence and morbidity in those who are cognitively impaired.

  27. Association of Long-Term Adherence to the MIND Diet with Cognitive Function and Cognitive Decline in American Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2018-01-01 Prevention trials

    Long-term adherence to the MIND diet was moderately associated with better verbal memory in later life.

  28. Body Mass Index and Decline in Cognitive Function in Older Black and White Persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2018-01-01 Disparities

    Late-life lower BMI relates to faster rates of decline in cognition, specifically semantic memory and episodic memory, in both blacks and whites.

  29. Cognitive Aging in Black and White Americans: Cognition, Cognitive Decline, and Incidence of Alzheimer Disease Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2018-01-01 Genetics

    The higher risk of AD among blacks may stem from lower level of cognitive test performance persisting throughout the observation period rather than faster rate of late-life cognitive decline.

  30. Designing an Internet-Based Multidomain Intervention for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: The HATICE Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Prevention trials

    Despite differences in CVR management within the countries considered, it was possible to design and implement the HATICE multidomain intervention.

  31. Dietary patterns and cognition in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care 2018-01-01 Prevention trials

    Numerous epidemiological studies have strongly suggested that multinutrient approaches using the Mediterranean diet (Med diet), dietary approach to systolic hypertension (DASH) and the Mediterranean-DASH diet intervention for neurodegenerative delay (MIND) are associated with a lower risk of cognitive impairment, MCI and Alzheimer's disease in older persons.

  32. Different Cognitive Frailty Models and Health- and Cognitive-related Outcomes in Older Age: From Epidemiology to Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Frailty, a critical intermediate status of the aging process that is at increased risk for negative health-related events, includes physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains or phenotypes.

  33. This population-based study in community-dwellers aged 70 years or over suggested that multidomain intervention and n3 PUFA supplementation have not significant effects on cognitive function change in frail older adults with memory complaints.

  34. Is Computerized Working Memory Training Effective in Healthy Older Adults? Evidence from a Multi-Site, Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Prevention trials

    Home-based CCT Adaptive WM training appears more effective than Non-Adaptive training in older adults from different cultural backgrounds.

  35. Simultaneous Aerobic Exercise and Memory Training Program in Older Adults with Subjective Memory Impairments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Prevention trials

    These findings indicate that a 4-week simultaneous memory training and aerobic exercise program is sufficient to improve memory, attention, and reasoning abilities in older adults.

  36. Botanicals and phytochemicals active on cognitive decline: The clinical evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2017-12-28 Prevention trials

    Beyond the well-known effects on cognitive impairment of the Mediterranean diet, a number of studies have investigated the possible action on cognitive decline of different botanicals and phytochemicals, most of which are well-known anti-inflammatory or antioxidant agents with a good tolerability and safety profile.

  37. Physical exercise improves strength, balance, mobility, and endurance in people with cognitive impairment and dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Journal of physiotherapy 2017-12-27 Clinical safety

    Question Does physical exercise training improve physical function and quality of life in people with cognitive impairment and dementia?

  38. Does Cognitive Training Prevent Cognitive Decline?: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2017-12-19 Prevention and risk

    In older adults with normal cognition, training improves cognitive performance in the domain trained.

  39. Physical Activity Interventions in Preventing Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer-Type Dementia: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2017-12-19 Prevention and risk

    Evidence that short-term, single-component physical activity interventions promote cognitive function and prevent cognitive decline or dementia in older adults is largely insufficient.

  40. Augmenting cognitive training in older adults (The ACT Study): Design and Methods of a Phase III tDCS and cognitive training trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Contemporary clinical trials 2017-12-05 Prevention trials

    The findings from this study have the potential to significantly enhance efforts to ameliorate cognitive aging and slow dementia.

  41. Sensation and Psychiatry: Linking Age-Related Hearing Loss to Late-Life Depression and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2017-12-05 Prevention and risk

    Recent research has linked age-related hearing loss to impaired performance across cognitive domains and increased risk for dementia diagnosis.

  42. Computerized cognitive stimulation and engagement programs in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: comparing feasibility, acceptability, and cognitive and psychosocial effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2017-11-21 Digital health tools

    Both interventions were highly feasible and acceptable and allowed improvement in different aspects of cognitive and psychosocial functioning in MCI subjects.

  43. Adherence to Mediterranean diet and subjective cognitive function in men

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. European journal of epidemiology 2017-11-17 Prevention trials

    Benefits of a Mediterranean diet for cognition have been suggested, but epidemiologic studies have been relatively small and of limited duration.

  44. Cognitive Flexibility Training: A Large-Scale Multimodal Adaptive Active-Control Intervention Study in Healthy Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2017-11-01 Prevention trials

    As aging is associated with cognitive decline, particularly in the executive functions, it is essential to effectively improve cognition in older adults.

  45. How technology is reshaping cognitive assessment: Lessons from the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2017-11-01 Digital health tools

    Technological advances will catalyze groundbreaking discoveries for effective treatments of neurodegenerative cognitive disorders, such as AD, and inform novel strategies for dementia prevention and sustained lifelong cognitive health.

  46. Poor Performance on a Preoperative Cognitive Screening Test Predicts Postoperative Complications in Older Orthopedic Surgical Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2017-11-01 Clinical safety

    Many older elective orthopedic surgical patients have probable cognitive impairment preoperatively.

  47. Changing the food environment: the effect of trained volunteers on mealtime care for older people in hospital

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society 2017-10-29 Risk factors

    This review will describe the evidence for changing the hospital environment to improve nutrition of older people, with particular emphasis on the role of additional mealtime assistance.

  48. Multidomain lifestyle intervention benefits a large elderly population at risk for cognitive decline and dementia regardless of baseline characteristics: The FINGER trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-10-19 Prevention and risk

    The FINGER intervention was beneficial regardless of participants' characteristics and can thus be implemented in a large elderly population at increased risk for dementia.

  49. Factors underlying cognitive decline in old age and Alzheimer's disease: the role of the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Reviews in the neurosciences 2017-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    There are many factors that strongly influence the aetiology, development, and progression of cognitive decline in old age, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  50. Atrial fibrillation and cognitive decline in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Heart rhythm 2017-09-22 Long-term cohort studies

    There is a paucity of longitudinal research investigating the relations between atrial fibrillation (AF) and domain-specific cognitive performance.

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