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  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. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is superior to the Mini-Mental State Examination in detecting patients at higher risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2012-06-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Memory clinic patients were administered the MoCA, MMSE, and a comprehensive formal neuropsychological battery.

  2. Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): validation study for vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2012-06-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief instrument developed for the screening of milder forms of cognitive impairment, having surpassed the well-known limitations of the MMSE.

  3. Screening for cognitive impairment: comparing the performance of four instruments in primary care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012-05-30 Disparities

    In individuals without a prior diagnosis of cognitive impairment, the prevalence of dementia was low, but the prevalence of CIND was high.

  4. Comparison of the quick mild cognitive impairment (Qmci) screen and the SMMSE in screening for mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Age and ageing 2012-05-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The AB Cognitive Screen (ABCS) 135, sensitive in differentiating MCI from dementia, was modified to improve sensitivity and specificity, producing the quick mild cognitive impairment (Qmci) screen.

  5. Chronic kidney disease and cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. American journal of nephrology 2012-05-03 Risk factors

    Most cross-sectional and longitudinal studies suggest an association between cognitive impairment and CKD.

  6. Predicting future clinical changes of MCI patients using longitudinal and multimodal biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. PloS one 2012-03-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    Accurate prediction of clinical changes of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients, including both qualitative change (i.e., conversion to Alzheimer's disease (AD)) and quantitative change (i.e., cognitive scores) at future time points, is important for early diagnosis of AD and for monitoring the disease progression.

  7. Prevalence of sleep disturbances in mild cognitive impairment and dementing disorders: a multicenter Italian clinical cross-sectional study on 431 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2012-03-08 Risk factors

    A careful clinical evaluation of sleep disorders should be performed routinely in the clinical setting of persons with cognitive decline.

  8. Usability of a new electronic assistive device for community-dwelling persons with mild dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2012-02-24 Digital health tools

    With the suggested adaptations, the CDN is expected to be a useful tool for supporting community-dwelling persons with mild dementia and their carers.

  9. Prevalence, distribution, and impact of mild cognitive impairment in Latin America, China, and India: a 10/66 population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2012-02-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    An algorithm-derived diagnosis of aMCI showed few sociodemographic associations but was consistently associated with higher disability and neuropsychiatric symptoms in addition to showing substantial variation in prevalence across LAMIC populations.

  10. Using virtual reality to characterize episodic memory profiles in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: influence of active and passive encoding

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2012-01-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Third, we benchmarked the results of our virtual reality episodic memory test against a classical memory test and a subjective daily memory complaint scale.

  11. Mild cognitive impairment: disparity of incidence and prevalence estimates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-01-01 Caregiving

    Prevalence and incidence estimates associated with MCI vary greatly both between definitions and within a definition across the 42 publications.

  12. The neuropathological profile of mild cognitive impairment (MCI): a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2011-12-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Whether mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has a distinct neuropathological profile that reflects an intermediate state between no cognitive impairment and dementia is not clear.

  13. Montreal cognitive assessment in detecting cognitive impairment in Chinese elderly individuals: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2011-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has been proved brief and sensitive to screen for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia in some developed countries or areas.

  14. Disrupted modular brain dynamics reflect cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. NeuroImage 2011-11-30 Brain scans and imaging

    The relation between pathology and cognitive dysfunction in dementia is still poorly understood, although disturbed communication between different brain regions is almost certainly involved.

  15. Evaluation of a Japanese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination in elderly persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Geriatrics & gerontology international 2011-11-28 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study aimed to examine the validity and item-response characteristics of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), which is used for assessing cognitive function, in Japanese older adults.

  16. Mild cognitive impairment and dementia: the importance of modifiable risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Deutsches Arzteblatt international 2011-11-04 Prevention and risk

    Modifiable risk factors for MCI should be sought (at the very latest) in persons who already have MCI, as their optimal treatment may improve these patients' cognitive performance or keep the existing deficits from progressing.

  17. Screening utility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): in place of--or as well as--the MMSE?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2011-10-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This aim of this study was to assess the clinical utility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) as a screening instrument for cognitive impairment in patients referred to a memory clinic, alone and in combination with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

  18. Transient cognitive impairment in TIA and minor stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Stroke 2011-09-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Acute cognitive impairment and delirium occur after major stroke and are associated with poor cognitive outcome.

  19. Assessment of cognition using surveys and neuropsychological assessment: the Health and Retirement Study and the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2011-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Cognitive assessment appropriate for diagnosis of dementia and CIND in large population surveys could be improved with more targeted information from informants and additional cognitive tests targeting other areas of brain function.

  20. Diet intervention and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-06-01 Treatments

    Our results suggest that diet may be a powerful environmental factor that modulates Alzheimer disease risk through its effects on central nervous system concentrations of Aβ42, lipoproteins, oxidative stress, and insulin.

  21. Outcomes of mild cognitive impairment by definition: a population study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    As ascertained by several operational definitions, MCI is a heterogeneous entity at the population level but progresses to dementia at rates higher than in normal elderly individuals.

  22. The use of the Digit Span Test in screening for cognitive impairment in acute medical inpatients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2011-05-17 Clinical safety

    Dementia and delirium were prevalent, yet under-recognized, in acute medical geriatric inpatients.

  23. Executive function and instrumental activities of daily living in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2011-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This relationship was evident even after accounting for degree of memory deficit across the continuum of cognitive impairment and dementia.

  24. Telephone-based identification of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in a multicultural cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-05-01 Disparities

    The TICS has high diagnostic validity for identification of dementia among ethnically diverse older adults, especially when supported by the DQ and prior visit data.

  25. 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.

  26. Increased plasma levels of lipocalin 2 in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2011-04-03 Inflammation and the immune system

    MCI represents a prodromal stage of AD, and inflammation occurs as one of the earliest pathological events in AD.

  27. Four sensitive screening tools to detect cognitive dysfunction in geriatric emergency department patients: brief Alzheimer's Screen, Short Blessed Test, Ottawa 3DY, and the caregiver-completed AD8

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2011-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive dysfunction, including dementia and delirium, is prevalent in geriatric emergency department (ED) patients, but often remains undetected.

  28. Cognitive decline in prodromal Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia due to Alzheimer disease is preceded by about 5 to 6 years of accelerated decline in multiple cognitive functions.

  29. Longitudinal deficits to attention, executive, and working memory in subtypes of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2011-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The results indicate that a-MCI and na-MCI display a stable pattern of deficits to attention, working memory, and executive function.

  30. Longitudinal neuroimaging correlates of subjective memory impairment: 4-year prospective community study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2011-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Complaints of poor memory by older people, particularly when new, may be a realistic subjective appraisal of recent brain changes independent of observed cognitive decline.

  31. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment and the mini-mental state examination as screening instruments for cognitive impairment: item analyses and threshold scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2011-01-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    135 subjects enrolled in a longitudinal clinicopathologic study were administered the MoCA by a single physician and the MMSE by a trained research assistant.

  32. Default mode network connectivity in stable vs progressive mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2011-01-12 Brain scans and imaging

    GOF indices were highest in normal controls, intermediate in MCI, and lowest in AD (p Conclusions fMRI connectivity indices distinguish patients with MCI who undergo cognitive decline and conversion to AD from those who remain stable over a 2- to 3-year follow-up period.

  33. A nationwide survey on the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Prevention and risk

    We investigated the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the factors associate with risk of dementia from a representative nationwide sample of Korean elders. 8,199 randomly-sampled Koreans aged 65 years or older were invited to participate in the Phase I screening assessment using Mini-Mental State Examination by door-to-door home visit, and 6,141 subjects (response rate = 74.9%) responded.

  34. Cerebrospinal fluid profiles and prospective course and outcome in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Total tau (T-tau), tau phosphorylated at threonine 181, and β-amyloid 1-42 peptide (Aβ42) were immunoassayed in CSF samples obtained from patients with MCI enrolled in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

  35. Synaptic loss in the inferior temporal gyrus in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2011-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressing form of dementia characterized in its earliest stages as a loss of memory.

  36. Predictive markers for AD in a multi-modality framework: an analysis of MCI progression in the ADNI population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-12-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases affect over 20 million people worldwide, and this number is projected to significantly increase in the coming decades.

  37. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is superior to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for the detection of vascular cognitive impairment after acute stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2010-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The MoCA is more sensitive than the MMSE in screening for cognitive impairment after acute stroke.

  38. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and quality of life in patients with very mild and mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2010-10-29 Caregiving

    NPS are common even in the early stages of AD.

  39. Activation and effective connectivity changes following explicit-memory training for face-name pairs in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair 2010-10-09 Brain scans and imaging

    The authors' findings suggest that the effectiveness of explicit-memory training in patients with MCI is associated with training-specific increases in activation and connectivity in a distributed neural system that includes areas involved in explicit memory.

  40. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in MCI subtypes: the importance of executive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2010-09-15 Long-term cohort studies

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a syndrome thought to be a prodrome of dementia for some patients.

  41. Effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and serum levels on the progression of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2010-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The presence of Met-BDNF allele, particularly in association with APOE*E4, may predict a worse cognitive outcome in patients with MCI.

  42. Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease: a multicenter pooled analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2010-09-01 How common it is

    MCI is common in patients with PD without dementia, affecting a range of cognitive domains, including memory, visual-spatial, and attention/executive abilities.

  43. Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment is higher in men. The Mayo Clinic Study of Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2010-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Among 1,969 subjects without dementia, 329 subjects had MCI, with a prevalence of 16.0% (95% confidence interval [CI] 14.4-17.5) for any MCI, 11.1% (95% CI 9.8-12.3) for amnestic MCI, and 4.9% (95% CI 4.0-5.8) for nonamnestic MCI.

  44. Accelerated progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia in people with diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Diabetes 2010-08-16 Mild cognitive impairment

    Diabetes and pre-diabetes substantially accelerate the progression from MCI to dementia, and anticipate dementia occurrence by more than 3 years in people with MCI.

  45. Assessment of cognitive insight: a qualitative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Schizophrenia bulletin 2010-08-06 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The concept of cognitive insight was introduced in 2004 to describe the capacity of patients with psychosis to distance themselves from their psychotic experiences, reflect on them, and respond to corrective feedback.

  46. Defining mild cognitive impairment: impact of varying decision criteria on neuropsychological diagnostic frequencies and correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2010-08-01 Genetics

    MCI diagnosis frequencies are substantively affected by the stringency of the criteria, but the relative rankings of MCI subtype diagnoses are fairly consistent regardless of the stringency of the criteria.

  47. Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment by multiple classifications: The Monongahela-Youghiogheny Healthy Aging Team (MYHAT) project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2010-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A CDR rating of 0.5 (uncertain/very mild dementia) was obtained by 27.6% of participants, whereas 1.2% had CDR ≥ 1 (mild or moderate dementia).

  48. The trajectory of gait speed preceding mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2010-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Longitudinal changes in motor function may be useful in the early detection of dementia during preclinical stages, when the utility of disease-modifying therapies would be greatest.

  49. Comparing predictors of conversion and decline in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2010-06-30 Genetics

    Patients with MCI converted to AD at an annual rate of 17.2%.

  50. Measuring cognitive reserve based on the decomposition of episodic memory variance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-06-30 Brain tissue and pathology

    In later adulthood brain pathology becomes common and trajectories of cognitive change are heterogeneous.

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