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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. Neural biomarker diagnosis and prediction to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease using EEG technology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-02-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    Our study indicates that EEG can be used as a useful screening tool for the diagnosis and disease progression evaluation of MCI and AD.

  2. Development and Validation of a Cutoff for the Chair Stand Test as a Screening for Mobility Impairment in the Context of the Integrated Care for Older People Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2023-01-01 Treatments

    Fourteen- and 16-second cut points for the CST are suitable to identify people at higher risk of functional decline among older adults in Mexico and Toledo, Spain.

  3. Estimating the Prevalence of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in the US: The 2016 Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The mean (SD) age of the study population sample (N = 3496) was 76.4 (7.6) years, and 2095 participants (60%) were female.

  4. Progression of Subjective Cognitive Decline to MCI or Dementia in Relation to Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease: A Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-26 Tau biomarkers

    The risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia in individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and biomarkers indicating Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology in comparison with individuals with SCD without biomarker evidence for AD is critical to delineate the potential role of biomarker assessment in this group.

  5. Independent replication of advanced brain age in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: detection of future cognitive dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-08-16 Digital health tools

    We previously developed a novel machine-learning-based brain age model that was sensitive to amyloid.

  6. Worldwide prevalence of mild cognitive impairment among community dwellers aged 50 years and older: a meta-analysis and systematic review of epidemiology studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Age and ageing 2022-08-01 Prevention and risk

    The global prevalence of MCI among community dwellers is over 15% and is affected by age, gender, education level and region of study sites.

  7. [The Cost of Early Diagnosis of Cognitive Decline in German Memory Clinics]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie 2022-07-21 Health systems and care delivery

    Dementias are expensive diseases: the net annual cost in European healthcare is about € 28.000 per case with a strong stage dependency, of which medical care accounts for about 19%.

  8. Digital Cognitive Biomarker for Mild Cognitive Impairments and Dementia: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2022-07-19 Digital health tools

    The dementia population is increasing as the world's population is growing older.

  9. Automated detection of mild cognitive impairment and dementia from voice recordings: A natural language processing approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-07-07 Digital health tools

    The proposed approach offers a fully automated identification of MCI and dementia based on a recorded neuropsychological test, providing an opportunity to develop a remote screening tool that could be adapted easily to any language.

  10. Effects of multi-component non-pharmacological interventions on cognition in participants with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2022-06-18 Prevention trials

    Our analyses support that MNPI could improve the global cognition in older adults with MCI.

  11. Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Mechanistic Biomarkers of Diabetes Mellitus-Associated Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-05-30 Disease mechanisms

    Cognitive dysfunctions such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's disease (AD), and other forms of dementia are recognized as common comorbidities of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

  12. Early dementia diagnosis, MCI-to-dementia risk prediction, and the role of machine learning methods for feature extraction from integrated biomarkers, in particular for EEG signal analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-04-07 Digital health tools

    On clinical data, this innovative approach for early diagnosis might provide more insight into pathophysiological processes underlying degenerative changes, as well as toward a personalized risk evaluation for pharmacological, nonpharmacological, and rehabilitation treatments.

  13. Prediction Models for Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-04-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure, and available treatments are only able to postpone the progression of the disease.

  14. Progression to Dementia or Reversion to Normal Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment as a Function of Late-Onset Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2022-03-29 Mild cognitive impairment

    Late-onset NPS improve the specificity of MCI as an at-risk state for progression to dementia.

  15. Novel diagnostic tools for identifying cognitive impairment using olfactory-stimulated functional near-infrared spectroscopy: patient-level, single-group, diagnostic trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-03-08 Biomarkers

    Our trial showed that olfactory-stimulated oxygenation differences in the orbitofrontal cortex detected by fNIRS were associated with cognitive impairment and cognitive-related objectives.

  16. Behavioral Interventions in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Lessons from a Multicomponent Program

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2022-01-01 Prevention trials

    Comparative effectiveness of behavioral interventions to mitigate the impacts of degeneration-based cognitive decline is not well understood.

  17. Efficacy and Moderators of Virtual Reality for Cognitive Training in People with Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022-01-01 Prevention trials

    Our findings suggest that VR training is an effective treatment for both people with MCI and dementia.

  18. Patient cognitive impairment associated with higher home health care delivery costs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Health services research 2021-12-17 Health systems and care delivery

    To assess whether home health agencies incur significantly higher care delivery costs for patients with cognitive impairment across three timeframes relevant to home health payment policy.

  19. Inflammatory markers in type 2 diabetes with vs. without cognitive impairment; a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2021-11-20 Disease mechanisms

    People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at increased risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

  20. Mild behavioral impairment correlates of cognitive impairments in older adults without dementia: mediation by amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2021-11-10 Long-term cohort studies

    The relationship between mild behavioral impairment (MBI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is intricate and still not well investigated.

  21. Evaluation of Available Cognitive Tools Used to Measure Mild Cognitive Decline: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nutrients 2021-11-08 Clinical safety

    Cognitive decline is a broad syndrome ranging from non-pathological/age-associated cognitive decline to pathological dementia.

  22. Subjective Cognitive Decline: Level of Risk for Future Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment, a Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2021-11-08 Prevention and risk

    Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) in older adults has been identified as a risk factor for dementia, although the literature is inconsistent, and it is unclear which factors moderate progression from SCD to dementia.

  23. Acupuncture for amnestic mild cognitive impairment: A pilot multicenter, randomized, parallel controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Medicine 2021-11-01 Treatments

    This pilot trial aims to explore the feasibility of the trial, verify essential information of its efficacy and safety.

  24. Diagnostic performance of digital cognitive tests for the identification of MCI and dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2021-10-30 Digital health tools

    Digital cognitive tests showed good performances for MCI and dementia.

  25. Machine learning methods for predicting progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-09-28 Digital health tools

    Although the performance of the different methods still has room for improvement, the results are promising and this methodology has a great potential as a support tool for clinicians and healthcare professionals.

  26. Transition from mild cognitive impairment to normal cognition: Determining the predictors of reversion with multi-state Markov models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-09-05 Prevention trials

    Overall, our results highlight that the likelihood of progression from MCI to dementia is very similar to that of reversion from MCI to NC.

  27. Overview of the Complex Figure Test and Its Clinical Application in Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Including Copying and Recall

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2021-08-31 Digital health tools

    The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) test is a commonly used neuropsychological assessment tool.

  28. Five-year outcomes after IVIG for mild cognitive impairment due to alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC neuroscience 2021-08-06 Treatments

    An eight-week course of IVIG totaling 2 g/kg in MCI is safe but is not sufficient to sustain an initial reduction in brain atrophy or a temporary delay in conversion to dementia at five years.

  29. Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for the early detection of dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2021-07-27 Getting a diagnosis

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the best-known and the most often used short screening tool for providing an overall measure of cognitive impairment in clinical, research and community settings.

  30. Correlating natural language processing and automated speech analysis with clinician assessment to quantify speech-language changes in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-06-04 Digital health tools

    Our results suggest that correlating NLP and ASA with clinician observations is an objective and novel approach to measuring speech and language changes in neurodegenerative disorders.

  31. Risk of Suicide Attempt in Patients With Recent Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2021-06-01 Disparities

    Most studies have focused on dementia and suicidal behavior, with inconsistent results.

  32. Anticholinergic Medication Burden-Associated Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2021-05-14 Caregiving

    Anticholinergic medication burden in schizophrenia is substantial, common, conferred by multiple medication classes, and associated with cognitive impairments across all cognitive domains.

  33. Using historical data to facilitate clinical prevention trials in Alzheimer disease? An analysis of longitudinal MCI (mild cognitive impairment) data sets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-07 Treatments

    Conventional MCI criteria were insufficient to allow for the creation of well-defined and internationally comparable samples of MCI patients.

  34. Usability and User Experience of Cognitive Intervention Technologies for Elderly People With MCI or Dementia: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2021-04-22 Prevention trials

    Measuring usability and UX in cognitive intervention technologies for older adults with MCI or dementia provides an integrated view that can contribute to their development according to the needs and characteristics of the target population.

  35. The Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment among Chinese People: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2021-03-23 Disparities

    The prevalence of MCI in China was 15.4%, which varied by demographics, lifestyles, morbidity, screening tools, and diagnostic criteria.

  36. A Risk Prediction Model Based on Machine Learning for Cognitive Impairment Among Chinese Community-Dwelling Elderly People With Normal Cognition: Development and Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2021-02-24 Digital health tools

    This simple and feasible cognitive impairment prediction model could identify community-dwelling elderly people at the greatest 3-year risk for cognitive impairment, which could help community nurses in the early identification of dementia.

  37. Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in community-dwelling Chinese populations aged over 55 years: a meta-analysis and systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2021-01-06 Disparities

    Higher MCI prevalence was identified in community-dwelling older adult populations in China compared with some other countries, possibly due to more broadened criteria being adopted for confirming the diagnosis.

  38. BIOFACE: A Prospective Study of Risk Factors, Cognition, and Biomarkers in a Cohort of Individuals with Early-Onset Mild Cognitive Impairment. Study Rationale and Research Protocols

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    BIOFACE is a two-year study of clinical, cognition, and biomarkers that will shed light on the physiopathology and the potential utility of plasma and NPEs as non-invasive early diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in people younger than 65 years.

  39. Current State of Self-Administered Brief Computerized Cognitive Assessments for Detection of Cognitive Disorders in Older Adults: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Digital health tools

    Early diagnosis of cognitive disorders in older adults is a major healthcare priority with benefits to patients, families, and health systems.

  40. Mild Behavioral Impairment and Subjective Cognitive Decline Predict Cognitive and Functional Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    MBI and SCD together were associated with the greatest risk of decline.

  41. Mild cognitive impairment: the Manchester consensus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Age and ageing 2021-01-01 Disparities

    Given considerable variation in diagnostic and therapeutic practice, there is a need for national guidance on the use of neuroimaging, fluid biomarkers, cognitive testing, follow-up and diagnostic terminology in mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  42. Race/Ethnic Disparities in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: The Northern Manhattan Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Disparities

    In this diverse community-based cohort, cross-sectional data revealed significant race/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of MCI and dementia.

  43. Individualized prognosis of cognitive decline and dementia in mild cognitive impairment based on plasma biomarker combinations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Nature aging 2020-11-30 Long-term cohort studies

    We developed models for individualized risk prediction of cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) using plasma biomarkers of β-amyloid (Aβ), tau and neurodegeneration.

  44. Selecting the most important self-assessed features for predicting conversion to mild cognitive impairment with random forest and permutation-based methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-11-26 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's Disease is a complex, multifactorial, and comorbid condition.

  45. Cognitive Assessment At Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit In Fee-For-Service And Medicare Advantage Plans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Health Affairs 2020-11-01 Health systems and care delivery

    The Medicare annual wellness visit-a preventive care visit free to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part B-requires detection of cognitive impairment.

  46. Age- and Sex-Specific Prevalence and Modifiable Risk Factors of Mild Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults in China: A Population-Based Observational Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2020-10-30 Risk factors

    The mean (SD) age of the 4,631 participants was 67.6 (4.89) years, and 2579 (55.7%) were women.

  47. Cognitive disorders associated with hospitalization of COVID-19: Results from an observational cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2020-10-24 Long-term cohort studies

    Our understanding of risk factors for COVID‑19, including pre-existing medical conditions and genetic variations, is limited.

  48. Participants included 10 physiatrists, 6 OTs, and 11 patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia.

  49. Predicting the progression of mild cognitive impairment using machine learning: A systematic, quantitative and critical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Medical image analysis 2020-10-06 Digital health tools

    We performed a systematic review of studies focusing on the automatic prediction of the progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia, and a quantitative analysis of the methodological choices impacting performance.

  50. Physical Activity and Exercise in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: An Umbrella Review of Intervention and Observational Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-10-01 Prevention and risk

    Supported by very low-to-moderate certainty of evidence, physical activity/exercise has a positive effect on several cognitive and noncognitive outcomes in people with MCI and dementia, but RCTs, with low risk of bias/confounding, are still needed to confirm these relationships.

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