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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. Impact of Hypertension on Cognitive Function: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2016-10-10 Risk factors

    After carefully reviewing the literature, the group concluded that there were insufficient data to make evidence-based recommendations.

  2. Female advantage in verbal memory: Evidence of sex-specific cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2016-10-05 Genetics

    Women show better verbal memory than men in aMCI despite similar levels of brain hypometabolism.

  3. Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction and the Risk of Cognitive Decline: a Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2016-09-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although both overt hyper- and hypothyroidism are known to lead to cognitive impairment, data on the association between subclinical thyroid dysfunction and cognitive function are conflicting.

  4. Unrecognized Cognitive Impairment and Its Effect on Heart Failure Readmissions of Elderly Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016-09-27 End-of-life care

    Cognitive impairment, which is frequently undocumented, may indicate greater risk of readmission for individuals with HF than those without.

  5. The Mediterranean Diet and Cognitive Function among Healthy Older Adults in a 6-Month Randomised Controlled Trial: The MedLey Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Nutrients 2016-09-20 Prevention trials

    Evidence from a limited number of randomised controlled intervention trials (RCTs) have shown that a Mediterranean dietary pattern may reduce the risk of cognitive decline and enhance cognitive function among healthy older adults.

  6. Level of and Change in Cognitive Functioning among Dutch Older Adults: Does Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Matter?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Das Gesundheitswesen 2016-09-15 Risk factors

    Along with demographic changes, issues of age-related cognitive decline and impaired cognitive functioning have become more prevalent.

  7. Mediterranean Diet, Cognitive Function, and Dementia: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 2016-09-15 Prevention and risk

    A growing body of evidence suggests that adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) may protect against cognitive decline and dementia.

  8. The Impact of Cognitive Training on Cerebral White Matter in Community-Dwelling Elderly: One-Year Prospective Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-09-15 Prevention trials

    It has been shown that cognitive training (CogTr) is effective and recuperative for older adults, and can be used to fight against cognitive decline.

  9. Age-Related Sensory Impairments and Risk of Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016-09-09 Prevention and risk

    The relationship between sensory impairment and cognitive impairment was not unique to one sensory system, suggesting that sensorineural health may be a marker of brain aging.

  10. Strategy-Based Cognitive Training for Improving Executive Functions in Older Adults: a Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2016-09-09 Prevention trials

    Given projected increases in dementia prevalence, emphasising earlier stages of cognitive impairment in older adults enables targeted early intervention strategies.

  11. Use of the Internet as a prevention tool against cognitive decline in normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2016-09-09 Prevention trials

    Recent demographic trends indicate that older people appear to be one of the fastest growing population groups worldwide.

  12. The associations of an active lifestyle with cognitive change over time in a dementia risk group were stronger than the effects of short-term, specific training interventions.

  13. 205 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MODULATES GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE AGEING: RESULTS FROM THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2016-09-01 Risk factors

    The results support the hypothesis that engaging in physical activity can compensate for urban-rural differences in cognitive performance in ageing.

  14. Cognitive Reserve and the Prevention of Dementia: the Role of Physical and Cognitive Activities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Current psychiatry reports 2016-09-01 Prevention and risk

    Recent findings Both of these leisure-time activities were associated with significant reductions in the risk of dementia in longitudinal studies.

  15. Sleep Duration and White Matter Quality in Middle-Aged Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Sleep 2016-09-01 Disparities

    Study objectives Sleep duration has been associated with risk of dementia and stroke, but few studies have investigated the relationship between sleep duration and brain MRI measures, particularly in middle age.

  16. Neuropsychological Benefits of Neuro-Exergaming for Older Adults: A Pilot Study of an Interactive Physical and Cognitive Exercise System (iPACES)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of aging and physical activity 2016-08-24 Prevention trials

    Dementia cases are on the rise and researchers seek innovative ways to prevent or ameliorate cognitive impairment in later life.

  17. Addition of a non-immersive virtual reality component to treadmill training to reduce fall risk in older adults (V-TIME): a randomised controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2016-08-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    Because of the significant ramifications of falls, many interventions have been proposed, but few have aimed to prevent falls via an integrated approach targeting both motor and cognitive function.

  18. Cognitive leisure activities and future risk of cognitive impairment and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2016-08-09 Prevention and risk

    Nineteen studies met our inclusion criteria and quality assessments.

  19. Adherence to a Mediterranean-Style Diet and Effects on Cognition in Adults: A Qualitative Evaluation and Systematic Review of Longitudinal and Prospective Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Frontiers in nutrition 2016-07-22 Prevention trials

    The Mediterranean-style diet (MedDiet) involves substantial intake of fruits, vegetables, and fish, and a lower consumption of dairy, red meat, and sugars.

  20. Can Ketones Help Rescue Brain Fuel Supply in Later Life? Implications for Cognitive Health during Aging and the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2016-07-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    We propose that brain energy deficit is an important pre-symptomatic feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that requires closer attention in the development of AD therapeutics.

  21. Homocysteine, B Vitamins, and Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annual review of nutrition 2016-07-01 Risk factors

    Moderately elevated plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) is a strong modifiable risk factor for vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

  22. Recruitment of 2600 older people (≥65 years) at increased risk of cardiovascular disease will take place in the Netherlands, Finland and France.

  23. Association Between Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognition, Brain Metabolism, and Brain Atrophy in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2016-06-01 Caregiving

    The use of AC medication was associated with increased brain atrophy and dysfunction and clinical decline.

  24. Cognition and gait in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Maturitas 2016-05-10 Prevention trials

    Cognitive difficulties and gait abnormalities both increase with age.

  25. What is the association between sedentary behaviour and cognitive function? A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. British journal of sports medicine 2016-05-06 Prevention and risk

    8 studies examined the association of sedentary behaviour with cognitive function. 6 studies reported significant negative associations between sedentary behaviour and cognitive function. 8 different measures of sedentary behaviour and 13 different measures of cognitive function were used across all eight studies.

  26. Racial Disparities in Cognitive Performance in Mid- and Late Adulthood: Analyses of Two Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016-05-01 Disparities

    Attenuation of racial inequalities in older age can be extended to cognitive outcomes, which probably reflects selective survival.

  27. Cognitive Reserve in Dementia: Implications for Cognitive Training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2016-04-26 Prevention trials

    Cognitive reserve (CR) is a potential mechanism to cope with brain damage.

  28. The Effects of Cognitive Training for Elderly: Results from My Mind Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Rejuvenation research 2016-04-08 Prevention trials

    Cognitive decline and dementia represent very important public health problems that impact the ability to maintain social function and independent living.

  29. Effects of Exercise on Cognition: The Finnish Alzheimer Disease Exercise Trial: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016-04-01 Treatments

    Regular, long-term, customized HE improved the executive function of community-dwelling older people with memory disorders, but the effects were mild and were not observed in other domains of cognition.

  30. No Association between Dietary Patterns and Risk for Cognitive Decline in Older Women with 9-Year Follow-Up: Data from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2016-03-31 Prevention trials

    Dietary patterns characterized by the aMED, HEI-2010, AHEI-2010, or DASH dietary score were not associated with cognitive decline in older women.

  31. APOE2 eases cognitive decline during Aging: Clinical and preclinical evaluations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2016-03-29 Genetics

    APOE2 is associated with less cognitive decline during aging.

  32. The Lateralization of Intrinsic Networks in the Aging Brain Implicates the Effects of Cognitive Training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2016-03-03 Prevention trials

    Lateralization of function is an important organization of the human brain.

  33. Cognitive Training Program to Improve Working Memory in Older Adults with MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2016-03-02 Prevention trials

    Cogmed was better on one core WM measure and had higher ratings of satisfaction.

  34. Dietary Factors and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2016-03-01 Prevention trials

    Cognitive decline is an increasingly important public health problem, with more than 100 million adults worldwide projected to develop dementia by 2050.

  35. The relationship between hearing impairment and cognitive function: a meta-analysis in adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery 2016-02-28 Prevention and risk

    This meta-analysis suggests that hearing impairment is associated with cognitive problems.

  36. Combining brain stimulation and video game to promote long-term transfer of learning and cognitive enhancement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-02-23 Prevention trials

    Cognitive training offers the potential for individualised learning, prevention of cognitive decline, and rehabilitation.

  37. Neuropathologic comorbidity and cognitive impairment in the Nun and Honolulu-Asia Aging Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2016-02-17 Caregiving

    Total burden of comorbid neuropathologic abnormalities, rather than any single lesion type, was the most relevant determinant of cognitive impairment in both cohorts, often despite clinical diagnosis of only AD.

  38. The Healthy Mind, Healthy Mobility Trial: A Novel Exercise Program for Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Medicine and science in sports and exercise 2016-02-01 Prevention trials

    A 26-wk group-based exercise program combined with dual-task training improved GCF in community-dwelling older adults without dementia.

  39. Higher brain BDNF gene expression is associated with slower cognitive decline in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2016-01-27 Brain tissue and pathology

    We tested whether brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene expression levels are associated with cognitive decline in older adults.

  40. A Personalized 12-week "Brain Fitness Program" for Improving Cognitive Function and Increasing the Volume of Hippocampus in Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2016-01-01 Prevention trials

    Reducing cognitive decline in patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) may slow their progression to develop dementia.

  41. Relearning of Activities of Daily Living: A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Learning Methods in Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2016-01-01 Treatments

    This study examined the effectiveness of three different learning methods: trial and error learning (TE), errorless learning (EL) and learning by modeling with spaced retrieval (MR) on the relearning process of IADL in mild-to-moderately severe Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) patients (n=52), using a 6-weeks randomized controlled trial design.

  42. Cognitive Effects of Intentional Weight Loss in Elderly Obese Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2015-12-29 Prevention and risk

    Intentional weight loss through diet was associated with cognitive improvement in patients with MCI.

  43. Comparing three methods of computerised cognitive training for older adults with subclinical cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neuropsychological rehabilitation 2015-12-16 Prevention trials

    Cognitive rehabilitation for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early Alzheimer's disease is readily available to the geriatric population.

  44. Does targeted cognitive training reduce educational disparities in cognitive function among cognitively normal older adults?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2015-12-07 Prevention trials

    Older adults with less than a secondary education are at elevated risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

  45. The effect of physical activity on cognitive function in patients with dementia: A meta-analysis of randomized control trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2015-11-28 Getting a diagnosis

    Non-pharmacological therapies, such as physical activity interventions, are an appealing alternative or add-on to current pharmacological treatment of cognitive symptoms in patients with dementia.

  46. Association of Dynapenia, Sarcopenia, and Cognitive Impairment Among Community-Dwelling Older Taiwanese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Rejuvenation research 2015-11-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A decline in physical and/or cognitive function is a common feature of aging, and frailty has been shown to be associated with cognitive impairment and dementia.

  47. Effects of education and race on cognitive decline: An integrative study of generalizability versus study-specific results

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Psychology and aging 2015-11-02 Disparities

    The objective of the study was to examine variability across multiple prospective cohort studies in level and rate of cognitive decline by race/ethnicity and years of education.

  48. The rise in the ageing population has resulted in increased incident rates of cognitive impairment and dementia.

  49. The Effect of an Online Cognitive Training Package in Healthy Older Adults: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2015-11-01 Prevention and risk

    Scale of benefit is comparable with in-person training, indicating its potential as a public health intervention.

  50. Vitamin D Status and Rates of Cognitive Decline in a Multiethnic Cohort of Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-11-01 Disparities

    (N = 382 at baseline) had a mean (SD) age of 75.5 (7.0) years; 61.8% were women; and 41.4% were white, 29.6% African American, 25.1% Hispanic, and 3.9% other race/ethnicity.

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