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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. Hearing and cognitive scores measured with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale in The HUNT Study, Norway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-01-23 Getting a diagnosis

    We included 6879 persons (mean 56.1 years, standard deviation 6.2).

  2. Explainable machine learning models for identifying mild cognitive impairment in older patients with chronic pain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMC Nursing 2025-01-21 Digital health tools

    Age, education level, number of pain sites, pain duration, pain level, depression and sleep quality were risk factors of MCI in older patients with chronic pain.

  3. Distinguishing Early from Late Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Magnetic Resonance Free-Water Diffusion Tensor Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NeuroSci 2025-01-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a transitional stage between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease.

  4. Neural deterioration and compensation in visual short‐term memory among individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-01-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    Among the atrophic brain regions in aMCI, VSTM performance correlated with the volume of the right prefrontal cortex (PFC) but not the medial temporal lobe (MTL), and this correlation was mainly present in patients with greater MTL atrophy.

  5. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and neuroimaging‐based brain age in mild cognitive impairment and early dementia: A multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2025-01-17 Digital health tools

    All groups showed significantly increased brain-PAD, and the median (IQR) brain-PAD was 4.3 (5.4) years in MCI, 6.3 (6.2) years in AD, and 5.0 (6.5) years in DLB.

  6. Lateralization of the Aberrant Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation within the Default Mode Network in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Academic Radiology 2025-01-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    The DMN is the highest coverage of brain network regarding changes in local brain activity in patients with MCI.

  7. Assessment of Cognitive Functions in Multimorbid Patients in Lithuanian Primary Care Settings: A Cross-Sectional Study Using MMSE and LT-GPCOG

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Medicina 2025-01-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Out of 796 participants, 793 completed the study.

  8. Development and Validation of a Tool to Predict Onset of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-01-08 Treatments

    Among the 1665 AIBL participants (741 [44.5%] female) and 2029 ADNI participants (925 [45.6%] female), the mean (SD) age at first evaluation was 71.8 (7.1) years and 74.5 (6.7) years, respectively.

  9. Barriers to self-management engagement among community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a qualitative study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2025-01-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    Twenty-six participants participated in the formal semi-structured interviews.

  10. Subjective cognitive decline predicts longitudinal neuropsychological test performance in an unsupervised online setting in the Brain Health Registry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-01-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    (n = 16,683) had an average age of 69.07 ± 7.34, 72.04% were female, and had an average of 16.66 ± 2.26 years of education.

  11. Transcriptomic predictors of rapid progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-01-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    We discovered a remarkable gender-specific difference in DEGs that distinguish P-MCI from S-MCI.

  12. A Multimodal Approach for Early Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease With Fusion Network Using Eye Movements and Speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) in its earliest stages, particularly during an onset of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), remains challenging due to the overlap of initial symptoms with normal aging processes.

  13. Acute Kidney Injury, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Cohort Study of Patients from SPRINT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Kidney Medicine 2025-01-01 How common it is

    Adjudicated AKI, which was largely mild and reversible, was independently associated with increased risk of probable dementia and the composite of probable dementia and MCI in older adults at high cardiovascular risk.

  14. Advancing Early Diagnosis: Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment Progression in Normal Individuals Using Deep Learning on MRI Features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. IEEE Access 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    One of the most challenging tasks for neurologists is the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  15. Clinical Utility and Diagnostic Accuracy of the Tablet-Based Seoul Cognitive Status Test: Evidence for Scalable Cognitive Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia and Neurocognitive Disorders 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    <0.001), with key domain correlations ≥0.7 (language, memory, executive).

  16. Cognitive Impairment Screening Test in Korea as a Screening Tool for Dementia: The Correlation Study of Subtest Scores With Korean Version of the Mini Mental State Examination 2nd Edition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and Neurocognitive Disorders 2025-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Multivariate correlation analysis, which was adjusted for age, sex, and education level, revealed a significant correlation between the two tests in orientation, memory, and attention.

  17. Electroencephalogram and Event-Related Potential in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Recent Developments in Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors 2025-01-01 Digital health tools

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an early stage of non-age-related cognitive decline with an increased risk of progressing to dementia.

  18. Event-related potential markers of subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment during a sustained visuo-attentive task

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. NeuroImage Clinical 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    • SCD patients showed attenuation of sensory (P1, N1, P2) and cognitive (P300, P600, P900) components, with performance-related gains. • MCI patients exhibited neural compensations, reversing the downward trend observed in SCD, which resulted in a non-monotonic pattern of ERPs. • The progression of cognitive decline was linked to electrophysiological discontinuity, suggesting resilience mechanisms in both low and higher order cognitive regions.

  19. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease: Clinical pattern and diagnostic implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. AIMS neuroscience 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    NPS affects up to 80% of individuals with early AD or MCI, often preceding cognitive decline.

  20. Normative data of the Spanish version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in older individuals from Peru

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Dementia & Neuropsychologia 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Sex was not a predictor of the total scores of MoCA.

  21. Progression of clinical diagnostic features and cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Psychological Medicine 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    When an individual with MCI-LB endorsed more clinical features, they typically experienced a faster cognitive decline (ACE-R Score Difference β = -1.1 [-1.7 to -0.5]), specifically when experiencing visual hallucinations (β = -2.1 [-3.5 to -0.8]) or cognitive fluctuations (β = -3.4 [-4.8 to -2.1]).Individuals with MCI-LB typically acquired more clinical features with the passage of time (25.5% [20.0-32.0%] one-year probability), limiting the prognostic utility of baseline-only features.

  22. Slowing Cognitive Decline in Major Depressive Disorder and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2025-01-01 Treatments

    Of 486 older adults who provided consent, 375 (with rMDD, MCI, or both) received at least 1 intervention session (mean [SD] age, 72.2 [6.4] years; 232 women [62%] and 143 men [38%]).

  23. The Validity and Reliability of the Mini-Mental State Examination-2 for Detecting Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Dementia in a Korean Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Korean Medical Science 2025-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The MMSE-2 demonstrated robust performance in differentiating participants across Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) stages and CDR-Sum of Boxes scores.

  24. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Global Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Chonnam Medical Journal 2025-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition characterized by noticeable deficits in memory retrieval or other cognitive domains than the individuals with the same age but do not significantly interfere with daily functioning.

  25. Evaluating Sociodemographic Bias in an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to Detect Cognitive Impairment in Electronic Health Records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    Our study highlights the potential of Decipher‐AI for screening undiagnosed cognitive impairment in primary care.

  26. Evaluating Sociodemographic Bias in an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to Detect Cognitive Impairment in Electronic Health Records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    Our study highlights the potential of Decipher‐AI for screening undiagnosed cognitive impairment in primary care.

  27. Neighborhood Deprivation, Subjective and Objective Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    Neighborhood deprivation is associated with Future research should investigate the possible mechanisms of this association to identify optimal interventions at the neighborhood level.

  28. Screening for the Spectrum of Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care: Development of a Machine Learning Informed, Workflow‐Friendly Care Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    In the testing cohort, the super learner obtained a concordance statistic (95% confidence interval) of 0.822 (0.810, 0.835), higher than any of the individual ML models (Figure 1), and its predicted risk aligned with observed risk in calibration slope plots (Figure 2).

  29. Social determinants of health and mild cognitive impairment in a diverse community sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024-11-20 Risk factors

    In this cohort, several community‐wide social/environmental factors were associated with MCI.

  30. Post-discharge Follow-up of Standardized Management for Patients with Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alternative therapies in health and medicine 2024-11-01 Health systems and care delivery

    At baseline, no significant difference (P > .05) existed between the groups in the scores: (1) for cognitive function on the MMSE or MoCA, (2) for the physiological, psychological, social, and environmental domains and the total score on the WHOQOL-BREF, or (3) for self-efficacy on the GSES scores.

  31. The Italian guideline on diagnosis and treatment of dementia and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Age and ageing 2024-11-01 End-of-life care

    Considering the significant impact of dementia, the Italian Ministry of Health entrusted the Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) with the development of a guideline within the Italian National Guideline System (Sistema Nazionale Linee Guida, SNLG) on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia and MCI.

  32. Prevalence of Unrecognized Cognitive Impairment in Federally Qualified Health Centers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2024-10-22 Risk factors

    A total of 844 eligible individuals were consecutively approached, 294 consented to participate, and 204 completed the study (mean [SD] age, 70.0 [5.1] years; 127 women [62.3%]).

  33. Acceleration of Brain Atrophy and Progression From Normal Cognition to Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-10-01 Tau biomarkers

    It remains unclear which risk factors accelerate brain atrophy along with a progression from normal cognition to mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  34. Subjective Cognitive Decline Plus and Longitudinal Assessment and Risk for Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2024-10-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is recognized to be in the Alzheimer disease (AD) cognitive continuum.

  35. Predicting Cognitive Decline in Amyloid-Positive Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Mild Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2024-07-10 Biomarkers

    We constructed models for MCI and mild dementia that predict MMSE over time.

  36. Effects of intensive lifestyle changes on the progression of mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, controlled clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-06-07 Mild cognitive impairment

    Fifty-one AD patients enrolled, mean age 73.5.

  37. Characterizing Neighborhood Vulnerabilities in Mild Cognitive Impairment using the Environmental Justice Index

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2024-01-09 Risk factors

    Environmental Burden Rank (EBR) across the sample (0.53±0.32) was near the 50th percentile nationally.

  38. Computerized cognitive training for memory functions in mild cognitive impairment or dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2024-01-03 Prevention trials

    Dementia is a common medical condition in the ageing population, and cognitive intervention is a non-pharmacologic strategy to improve cognitive functions.

  39. Digital Clock and Recall is superior to the Mini-Mental State Examination for the detection of mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-01-02 Digital health tools

    DCR outperforms the MMSE in detecting and classifying cognitive impairment-in a fraction of the time-while being not influenced by a patient's ethnicity.

  40. The diagnostic accuracy of the Mini-Cog screening tool for the detection of cognitive impairment—A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. PLOS ONE 2024 Getting a diagnosis

    This meta-analysis pooled 14 studies of the Mini-Cog, a 3-minute memory-and-clock-drawing test doctors can give in a routine visit, to see how well it catches dementia.

  41. Incidence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the United States Medicare population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Among Medicare beneficiaries from 2008 to 2018, AD incidence generally decreased while MCI increased.

  42. Prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the United States Medicare population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Among Medicare beneficiaries from 2008 to 2018, AD prevalence was generally stable, while MCI increased.

  43. Detection Rates of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care for the United States Medicare Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2023-10-26 Health systems and care delivery

    The average detection rates for mild cognitive impairment is 0.08 (interquartile range=0.00-0.02) for both clinicians and practices, suggesting that only about 8% of expected cases were diagnosed on average.

  44. Relevance of Minor Neuropsychological Deficits in Patients With Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2023-10-11 Tau biomarkers

    This study included patients with clinical SCD and SCD-free, healthy control (HC) participants with available baseline CSF and/or longitudinal cognitive data from the observational DZNE Longitudinal Cognitive Impairment and Dementia study.

  45. Optimizing detection of Alzheimer's disease in mild cognitive impairment: a 4-year biomarker study of mild behavioral impairment in ADNI and MEMENTO

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-07-29 Tau biomarkers

    Disease-modifying drug use necessitates better Alzheimer disease (AD) detection.

  46. Expected and diagnosed rates of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in the U.S. Medicare population: observational analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-07-22 Disparities

    These results highlight the need to increase the overall detection rates of MCI and of dementia particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.

  47. Developing a machine learning model for detecting depression, anxiety, and apathy in older adults with mild cognitive impairment using speech and facial expressions: A cross-sectional observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2023-07-07 Digital health tools

    The machine learning model developed in this study demonstrated strong classification performance in detecting and differentiating depression, anxiety, and apathy.

  48. Mild Cognitive Impairment: Data-Driven Prediction, Risk Factors, and Workup

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science 2023-06-16 Getting a diagnosis

    Over 78 million people will suffer from dementia by 2030, emphasizing the need for early identification of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) at risk, and personalized clinical evaluation steps to diagnose potentially reversible causes.

  49. Association between lipocalin-2 and mild cognitive impairment or dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-06-15 Inflammation and the immune system

    In peripheral blood, the overall pooled results showed no significant difference in LCN2 across Alzheimer's disease (AD), MCI and control groups.

  50. Deep learning-based EEG analysis to classify normal, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia: Algorithms and dataset

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NeuroImage 2023-03-29 Digital health tools

    For automatic EEG diagnosis, this paper presents a new EEG data set with well-organized clinical annotations called Chung-Ang University Hospital EEG (CAUEEG), which has event history, patient's age, and corresponding diagnosis labels.

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