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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. Optimal cut-off scores for the Mini Mental State Examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment to detect MCI and dementia in Multiple System Atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2025-07-30 Getting a diagnosis

    According to the II level neuropsychological evaluation, 4.8 % of MSA patients met criteria for dementia and 53,2 % for MCI.

  2. Improved cognitive function, efficiency, saccadic eye movement, and depressive symptoms in mild cognitive impairment with transcranial photobiomodulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-07-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings provide preliminary evidence that tPBM may effectively improve neuropsychological, physiological, and psychological outcomes in individuals with MCI.

  3. Real-world health care costs and resource utilization associated with mild cognitive impairment in the United States: A retrospective cohort study of commercial and Medicare data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy 2025-07-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    < 0.0001) were significantly higher for the MCI cohort.

  4. The utility of the Ascertain Dementia Eight-item Questionnaire (AD8) and Mini-Cog in detecting cognitive impairment in older surgical patients – The Detect CI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 2025-07-21 Getting a diagnosis

    Of 394 participants, 35 % had preoperative CI on the MoCA, 15 % on the AD8, and 12 % on the Mini-Cog.

  5. An inflammatory fingerprint in mild cognitively impaired patients is reversed by physical and cognitive training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health 2025-07-18 Prevention trials

    At baseline, MCI participants displayed elevated levels of IL-17A, CX3CL1, CCL11, with a borderline increase of IL-6 and TNFα.

  6. Mild cognitive impairment among older adults in outpatient clinics: Awareness and knowledge needs survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Experimental Gerontology 2025-07-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    The MCI symptom awareness score among older adults in outpatient clinics was 7.45 ± 3.58 points.

  7. Disease progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia for patients with Alzheimer's disease or Lewy body pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2025-07-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    We found that orientation, memory, and irritability scores were useful in predicting AD dementia onset, while daily living, depression, and executive function scores were identified as strong predictors in the LB cohort.

  8. Reliability of remote self-administered digital cognitive assessments: preliminary validation study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in Digital Health 2025-07-03 Getting a diagnosis

    We found moderate or good agreement between self- and RC-administered performance, with intraclass correlation ranging from 0.59 to 0.83.

  9. Summary of the best evidence for non-pharmaceutical interventions for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-07-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    Thirteen studies were included (five guidelines, two clinical decisions, two systematic reviews, one meta-analysis, and three RCTs).

  10. Classifying mild cognitive impairment from normal cognition: fMRI complexity matches tau PET performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The fMRI entropy classifier matched the tau PET model in accuracy and outperformed it in F1 score (0.64 vs. 0.61) and area under the curve (AUC; 0.73 vs. 0.67).

  11. Machine learning diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment using advanced diffusion MRI and CSF biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-07-01 Digital health tools

    MAP-RTAP (AUC = 0.78) and pTau/Aβ42 (AUC = 0.76) were the best performing individual biomarkers.

  12. Perceived experiences of adults with mild cognitive impairment: a qualitative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMC Psychology 2025-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The results of the data analysis revealed two main categories: emotional schemas in mild cognitive impairment and understanding the meaning of the diagnosis.

  13. Subcortical gray matter volumes and 5‐year dementia risk in individuals with subjective cognitive decline or mild cognitive impairment: A multi‐cohort analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 How common it is

    = 1661), 622 developed dementia within 5 years.

  14. The economic burden of subjective cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's dementia: excess costs and associated clinical and risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-06-26 Costs and economics

    Healthcare costs are already elevated in early subjective and objective cognitive impairment, driven by formal and informal care.

  15. Mild cognitive impairment due to cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer’s

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Neurology neuropsychiatry Psychosomatics 2025-06-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cognitive impairment (CI) is one of the most common causes of disability in the elderly.

  16. Comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of five cross-cultural cognitive screening instruments for dementia and mild cognitive impairment in a multicultural memory clinic sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-06-22 Getting a diagnosis

    BackgroundWith the changing demographic landscape in most countries worldwide, early identification of cognitive impairment in multicultural populations is increasingly relevant.

  17. Gait analysis in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a bibliometric analysis of global trends, hotspots, and emerging frontiers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging 2025-06-19 Mild cognitive impairment

    A total of 1,223 articles were identified.

  18. The Rapid Online Cognitive Assessment for the Detection of Neurocognitive Disorder: Open-Label Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025-06-19 Getting a diagnosis

    RoCA classifies patients similarly to gold standard paper-based tests, with a receiver operating characteristic area under the curve of 0.81 (95% CI 0.67-0.91; P<.001).

  19. Comprehensive Anatomical Staging Predicts Clinical Progression in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Data-Driven Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-06-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) presents significant challenges in clinical practice due to its heterogeneous manifestation and variable progression rates.

  20. Genetic background and multidomain interventions in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-06-09 Prevention trials

    The growing prevalence of dementia emphasizes the need for effective prevention strategies.

  21. Bridging the gap: A conversion framework for CDR-SB and MoCA scores in Alzheimer's disease and related dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-06-07 Getting a diagnosis

    CDR-SB and MoCA scores showed strong inverse correlation (Spearman's ρ = -0.68; p < 0.001).

  22. The patient pathway for mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease in Asia: Current practices, barriers, and expert recommendations for optimization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-06-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Forty-four physicians, primarily neurologists (n = 31; 70.5 %), were interviewed.

  23. Conventional and neuropsychological criteria for mild cognitive impairment show similar prognostic value for dementia across 12 years in a non-clinical setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-06-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    Making early and informative diagnoses of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is highly important for planning timely and appropriate interventions aimed at dementia risk reduction.

  24. Dynamic cerebral autoregulation in people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2025-06-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    Altered cerebrovascular hemodynamics and low cerebral perfusion contribute to the development and progression of dementia.

  25. Oral diadochokinesis performance correlates with mild cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. BMC Oral Health 2025-06-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    Of the participants, 25, 92, and 61 were classified as cognitively normal, with mild cognitive impairment, and with dementia, respectively.

  26. Development of a neural network-based risk prediction model for mild cognitive impairment in older adults with functional disability

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. BMC Public Health 2025-06-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    The results indicated that residence location, alcohol consumption, life satisfaction, depressive symptoms, and education level are key factors influencing the risk of MCI among older adults with functional disability.

  27. Blood Uric Acid in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Cross-Sectional Study of Older Chinese Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2025-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A total of 90 (38.96%) participants were healthy and 141 (61.04%) had MCI.

  28. Extension and external validation of mapping between the Mini‐Mental State Examination and the Clinical Dementia Rating scale in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    demonstrated high goodness of fit and satisfied all validation metrics.

  29. Inequalities in Mild Cognitive Impairment Risk Among Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Insights from an Integrated Learning Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy 2025-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The CNN-BiLSTM-Attention model demonstrated relatively promising predictive performance (AUC: 0.7317), with moderately high sensitivity (0.6902) and a high negative predictive value (NPV) of 0.9414.

  30. Identifying syntactic biomarkers of cognitive impairment in Mandarin-speaking older adults by applying machine learning approaches across multiple speech tasks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Aphasiology 2025-05-28 Digital health tools

    The use of linguistic biomarkers for detecting cognitive decline and early stages of dementia has demonstrated great potential due to its low-cost and non-invasive nature, especially towards a large aging population.

  31. Prediction of mild cognitive impairment using blood multi-omics data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Frontiers in Genetics 2025-05-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) represents an initial phase of memory or other cognitive function decline and is viewed as an intermediary stage between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent type of dementia.

  32. Speech-based digital cognitive assessments for detection of mild cognitive impairment: Validation against paper-based neurocognitive assessment scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-05-25 Getting a diagnosis

    Our findings support speech-based cognitive assessments as a promising avenue towards remote MCI screening, with implications for scalable screening in clinical trials and healthcare.

  33. Machine learning applied to mild cognitive impairment: bibliometric and visual analysis from 2015 to 2024

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-05-21 Digital health tools

    A total of 2056 papers related to machine learning in patients with MCI were retrieved from the Wo SCC database.

  34. Performance of a smell identification test versus the Mini-Mental Status Exam for the detection of dementia and cognitive impairment among persons with cognitive concerns in primary care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-05-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    BackgroundOdor identification deficits predict Alzheimer's disease (AD) in epidemiological studies.

  35. Prevalence and risk factors of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in northern Peru

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2025-05-21 How common it is

    According to the results, 31.4% of the sample consisted of subjects without cognitive impairment, 40.5% were identified as possible cases of MCI, and 24.9% as possible cases of dementia.

  36. Prognostic Value of a Multivariate Gut Microbiome Model for Progression from Normal Cognition to Mild Cognitive Impairment Within 4 Years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-05-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    Little is known about the dysbiosis of the gut microbiome in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) potentially at risk for the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  37. Revealing heterogeneity in mild cognitive impairment based on individualized structural covariance network

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-05-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    In the ADNI dataset, MCI patients exhibited significant alterations in structural covariance edges, mainly involving the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and amygdala.

  38. Application of Upper Limb Multimodal Tasks Combined With fNIRS Technology in the Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Biophotonics 2025-05-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is primarily characterized by a gradual decline in cognitive function, where early detection and intervention are crucial to preventing Alzheimer's disease progression.

  39. Improved dementia screening for elderly with low education in South Korea using the Cognitive Impairment Screening Test (CIST)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2025-05-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    < 0.001) for both measures. When distinguishing NC from MCI/DM, the CIST outperformed the K-MMSE, demonstrating a higher AUC (0.869 vs. 0.842) and F1-score (0.697 vs. 0.409).

  40. Understanding barriers and optimizing socio‐cognitive assessment in the diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Neuropsychology 2025-05-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Harmonized neuropsychological assessment for neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) is an urgent priority in clinics.

  41. Automated remote longitudinal neuropsychological testing with the California Cognitive Assessment Battery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2025-05-13 Getting a diagnosis

    The CCAB showed acceptable to good concurrent validity (rs = 0.44-0.79) and reliability (rs = 0.57-0.84).

  42. Linking oxysterols and different stages of mild cognitive impairment: insights from gut metabolites and N6-methyladenosine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-05-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    EMCIs and LMCIs, especially LMCIs, exhibited poorer performance in almost all global and multidimensional cognitive tests.

  43. Language, literacy, and sensory impairments and missing cognitive test scores in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2025-05-12 Getting a diagnosis

    We observed high levels of missing data in most cognitive test items - on average 13% and as high as 65%.

  44. Cognitive Assessment of Dementia in Incarcerated Populations: The Utility of the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination 3rd Edition and the Mini-Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of Correctional Health Care 2025-05-07 Getting a diagnosis

    There are many reasons why people experiencing incarceration may be predisposed to developing dementia.

  45. Emotional Recognition: A Comparative Study of People with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease Self-Report with Caregiver Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2025-05-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    Participants across all groups showed significant differences in cognition and functionality.

  46. Analysis of the Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment and its Influencing Factors in the Elderly Population in Huzhou City

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría 2025-05-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    A total of 800 questionnaires were sent out in this survey, and 778 were effectively collected, with an effective recovery rate of 97.25%.

  47. Characterizing bidirectional transitions in mild cognitive impairment and post‐reversion based on longitudinal neuroimaging and cognitive assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The probability of reversion increased from 2% at baseline to a maximum of 8% by year 10 before gradual decline thereafter.

  48. Neural network disruptions between default mode network and salience network in mild cognitive impairment with neuropsychiatric symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 2025-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In the MCI+NPS group, the most frequently endorsed NPS was anxiety (46.2 %), the less prevalent NPS was euphoria/elation (1.44 %).

  49. Evaluation of Computer-Based Cognitive Training on Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease (PD-MCI): Α Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025-04-26 Prevention trials

    Of the 747 studies identified, 6 studies fulfilled the eligibility criterion for this review.

  50. Exploring emotion recognition in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s dementia undergoing a rehabilitation program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2025-04-24 Prevention trials

    Emotion scores for fear and surprise were significantly higher for the AD group than for the MCI group during dual tasks (p=0.016), while emotion scores for joy were significantly higher for the MCI group than for the AD group during creative activities (p=0.012).

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