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examination

847 studies tagged examination, dated 1982-05-01 to 2026-09-16. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

Newest in this topic

  1. Feasibility of remote self-administered cognitive assessment in an Alzheimer's disease treatment clinic 2026-09-16
  2. Structural brain imaging for newly diagnosed cognitive impairment by Medicare coverage type 2026-09-15
  3. Detection and Continuous Monitoring of Memory Dysfunction in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging Through Adaptive Computational Phenotyping 2026-09-12

Studies

847 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 63
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 31
  • Archives of neurology 30
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 25
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 21

315 journals in all.

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  1. Higher risk of progression to dementia in mild cognitive impairment cases who revert to normal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2013-12-18 Getting a diagnosis

    Over a median follow-up of 5.1 years, 153 of 534 participants (28.7%) with prevalent or incident MCI progressed to dementia (71.3 per 1,000 person-years).

  2. Criterion and convergent validity of the Montreal cognitive assessment with screening and standardized neuropsychological testing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2013-12-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cross-sectional observational study.

  3. Abnormal salience network in normal aging and in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2013-11-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    The salience network (SN) serves to identify salient stimuli and to switch between the central executive network (CEN) and the default-mode network (DMN), both of which are impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD)/amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).

  4. Nonamnestic mild cognitive impairment progresses to dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2013-11-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    In a clinical sample, patients with nonamnestic MCI were more likely to develop DLB, and those with amnestic MCI were more likely to develop probable AD.

  5. Risk factors for the progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2013-11-01 Caregiving

    The increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment among the older adult population warrants attention to the identification of practices that may minimize the progression of early forms of cognitive impairment, including the transitional stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), to permanent stages of dementia.

  6. Impaired glycemia increases disease progression in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-10-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are associated with cognitive decline and increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Antisaccade task reflects cortical involvement in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2013-08-28 Brain scans and imaging

    The AS task is a useful measure of executive function across the AD spectrum.

  8. Validation of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2013-08-15 Getting a diagnosis

    The results of this study provide objective validation of the ACE-III as a screening tool for cognitive deficits in FTD and AD.

  9. Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation for persons with mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer's or vascular type: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-08-07 Prevention trials

    Overall estimates of the treatment effect were calculated by using a fixed-effects model, and statistical heterogeneity was measured by using a standard chi-squared statistic.

  10. Mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2013-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The NIA-AA criteria apply to most MCI subjects in both the community and clinical trials settings; however, a sizeable proportion of subjects had conflicting biomarkers, which may be very important and need to be explored.

  11. Frailty and cognitive impairment--a review of the evidence and causal mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2013-07-04 How common it is

    Incidence rates of cognitive impairment and dementia are rising with the ageing population.

  12. BrainAGE in Mild Cognitive Impaired Patients: Predicting the Conversion to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. PloS one 2013-06-27 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, shares many aspects of abnormal brain aging.

  13. Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2013-06-05 Caregiving

    Overall estimates of treatment effect were calculated using a fixed-effect model, and statistical heterogeneity was measured using a standard Chi(2) statistic.

  14. Odor identification deficit predicts clinical conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2013-05-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between olfactory and cognitive functions in subjects affected by mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and to investigate whether olfactory deficits might reflect the likelihood of conversion from MCI to dementia.

  15. Combined prevalence of frailty and mild cognitive impairment in a population of elderly Japanese people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2013-05-10 How common it is

    Using the OSHPE criteria, we found more participants with MCI than with frailty.

  16. Prognosis of mild cognitive impairment in early Parkinson disease: the Norwegian ParkWest study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Significantly more patients with MCI than without MCI at baseline (10 of 37 [27.0%] vs 1 of 145 [0.7%]; relative risk, 39.2 [95% CI, 5.2-296.5]; P Conclusions and relevance Mild cognitive impairment at PD diagnosis predicts a highly increased risk for early dementia.

  17. Targeting norepinephrine in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2013-04-29 Mild cognitive impairment

    Advances in AD biomarker research have demonstrated changes in amyloid-beta (Aβ), brain metabolism and other pathophysiologies prior to the onset of memory loss, with some markers possibly changing one or two decades earlier.

  18. Association of diabetes with amnestic and nonamnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-04-03 Prevention and risk

    Diabetes was associated with an increased risk of MCI in elderly persons.

  19. Factors predicting reversion from mild cognitive impairment to normal cognitive functioning: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. PloS one 2013-03-27 Prevention and risk

    There were 66 reverters to normal cognition and 157 non-reverters (stable MCI).

  20. Efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation therapies for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in older adults: working toward a theoretical model and evidence-based interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2013-03-08 Prevention and risk

    To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation therapies (CRTs) for mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  21. Screening for predementia AD: time-dependent operating characteristics of episodic memory tests

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2013-03-06 Genetics

    For follow-up intervals of 2-4 years, the FCSRT-FR is more predictive than the LM-IR for identifying individuals with memory complaints who will develop incident AD.

  22. Cognitive impairment associated with atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2013-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Evidence suggests that AF is associated with a higher risk for cognitive impairment and dementia, with or without a history of clinical stroke.

  23. Late-life depression, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The association of depression with prevalent MCI and with progression from MCI to dementia, but not with incident MCI, suggests that depression accompanies cognitive impairment but does not precede it.

  24. Motor cortex and gait in mild cognitive impairment: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy and volumetric imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2013-03-01 Clinical safety

    Our purpose was to determine whether the neurochemistry of the primary motor cortex measured with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and its volume, were associated with gait performance while single and dual-tasking in mild cognitive impairment.

  25. Efficacy of a cognitive intervention program in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2013-02-18 Prevention trials

    These results suggest that persons with MCI can improve their performance on cognitive and functional measures when provided with early cognitive training and it could persist in a long-term follow-up.

  26. Prediction of dementia in MCI patients based on core diagnostic markers for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2013-02-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    When patients with MCI underwent clinical follow-up, 29 progressed to dementia, while 44 remained stable.

  27. The association of neuropsychiatric symptoms in MCI with incident dementia and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2013-02-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms in MCI are associated with significantly an increased risk of incident dementia and AD.

  28. Cerebral atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: rates and acceleration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2013-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    We found no evidence of acceleration in whole-brain atrophy rates in any group.

  29. Automated assessment of cognitive health using smart home technologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine 2013-01-01 Digital health tools

    The results suggest that it is possible to automatically quantify the task quality of smart home activities and perform limited assessment of the cognitive health of individual if smart home activities are properly chosen and learning algorithms are appropriately trained.

  30. Characterization of Mexican Americans with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Disparities

    The purpose of the study was to provide characterization of Mexican Americans who meet criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  31. Psychometric limitations of the mini-mental state examination among nondemented older adults: an evaluation of neurocognitive and magnetic resonance imaging correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Experimental aging research 2013-01-01 Disparities

    Overall, MMSE scores exhibited ceiling effects, poor test-retest reliability, limited sensitivity to subtle brain abnormalities, and a high rate of intrusion elsewhere in the neuropsychological battery.

  32. The Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association Workgroups on Diagnostic Guidelines for Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry 2013-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association charged a workgroup with the task of developing criteria for the symptomatic predementia phase of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), referred to in this article as mild cognitive impairment due to AD.

  33. Comparative accuracies of two common screening instruments for classification of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-12-21 Getting a diagnosis

    The findings support recent data indicating that the MoCA is superior to the MMSE as a global assessment tool, particularly in discerning earlier stages of cognitive decline.

  34. Engagement in social activities and progression from mild to severe cognitive impairment: the MYHAT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2012-12-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alternatively, lesser engagement in social activities may be a marker of impending cognitive decline in MCI.

  35. A composite score for executive functioning, validated in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants with baseline mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2012-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) measures abilities broadly related to executive function (EF), including WAIS-R Digit Symbol Substitution, Digit Span Backwards, Trails A and B, Category Fluency, and Clock Drawing.

  36. Mild cognitive impairment in moderate to severe COPD: a preliminary study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Chest 2012-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive impairment is a frequent feature of COPD.

  37. The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive-Plus (ADAS-Cog-Plus): an expansion of the ADAS-Cog to improve responsiveness in MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2012-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale cognitive subscale (ADAS-Cog) is widely used in AD, but may be less responsive to change when used in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  38. Mild cognitive impairment in a community sample: the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-10-27 Mild cognitive impairment

    Incidence rates for MCI are higher than previously reported, particularly in men and for single-domain MCI; rates for amnestic and nonamnestic MCI were comparable.

  39. Prediction of Alzheimer's disease in subjects with mild cognitive impairment from the ADNI cohort using patterns of cortical thinning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. NeuroImage 2012-10-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    Predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) in individuals with some symptoms of cognitive decline may have great influence on treatment choice and disease progression.

  40. Mild cognitive impairment as a predictor of falls in community-dwelling older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2012-10-01 Clinical safety

    Of the participants, 342 (81.6%) had normal cognitive functioning, 58 (13.8%) had nonamnestic MCI, and 19 (4.5%) had amnestic MCI.

  41. Reversion from mild cognitive impairment to normal or near-normal cognition: risk factors and prognosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2012-09-26 Getting a diagnosis

    Even in a cohort of patients seen at dementia research centers, reversion from MCI was fairly common.

  42. The Beijing version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment as a brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment: a community-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. BMC psychiatry 2012-09-25 Getting a diagnosis

    In general, the MoCA-BJ is an acceptable tool for MCI screening in both urban and rural regions of Beijing.

  43. Disrupted topological organization in white matter structural networks in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: relationship to subtype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Radiology 2012-09-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Moreover, cognitive correlations with topological network properties suggest their potential use as markers to assess the risk of Alzheimer disease.

  44. Plasma microRNA biomarkers for detection of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Aging 2012-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Early stages of many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular and frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson's disease, are frequently associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

  45. Docosahexaenoic acid-concentrated fish oil supplementation in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI): a 12-month randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Psychopharmacology 2012-08-30 Mild cognitive impairment

    Studies with larger sample sizes, longer intervention periods, different fish oil dosages and genetic determinations should be investigated before definite recommendations can be made.

  46. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and global functional impairment along the Alzheimer's continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2012-08-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    These results suggest that increased baseline hallucinations, apathy and anxiety are associated with current and future disease progression in AD.

  47. Effect of acupuncture in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: a functional MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PloS one 2012-08-20 Brain scans and imaging

    We aim to clarify the mechanisms of acupuncture in treating mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

  48. Microstructural white matter changes in cognitively normal individuals at risk of amnestic MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2012-07-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Microstructural white matter changes are present in cognitively normal individuals in the pre-aMCI stage, and may serve as a potential imaging marker of early AD-related brain changes.

  49. The Modified Mini-Mental State Examination test: normative data for Singapore Chinese older adults and its performance in detecting early cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Singapore medical journal 2012-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study aimed to determine the stratified normative data by age and education for a modified version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) test from a large sample of community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Singapore, and to examine the MMSE's value in detecting early cognitive impairment.

  50. Sparse learning and stability selection for predicting MCI to AD conversion using baseline ADNI data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. BMC neurology 2012-06-25 Long-term cohort studies

    Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) are at high risk of progression to Alzheimer's dementia.

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