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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.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: clinical management, MRI, and therapeutic avenues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2020-09-16 Prevention trials

    Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, demyelinating disease of the CNS.

  2. CCT proved effective in PD-MCI patients when compared with traditional PCT.

  3. Global prevalence and burden of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-04 Caregiving

    Of 5,588 records identified, we included 123 studies involving 35,513 participants from 32 countries.

  4. Are We There Yet? Immersive Virtual Reality to Improve Cognitive Function in Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2020-09-01 Prevention trials

    Our search identified a total of 2,824 citations, following screening for duplicates and application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, five studies were included for analysis.

  5. User-Centered Design and Evaluation of a Web-Based Decision Aid for Older Adults Living With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Their Health Care Providers: Mixed Methods Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2020-08-19 Digital health tools

    The thematic analysis revealed 3 major issues.

  6. Cognitive training interventions and depression in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Age and ageing 2020-08-01 Prevention trials

    Cognitive training interventions show to be a potential treatment to ameliorate depression in people with cognitive impairment.

  7. A New Framework for Automatic Detection of Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Resting-State EEG Signals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2020-07-31 Digital health tools

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an indicator representing the early stage of Alzheimier's disease (AD).

  8. Digital Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment: Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Reality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2020-07-24 Digital health tools

    Elderly people affected by Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) usually report a perceived decline in cognitive functions that deeply impacts their quality of life.

  9. Designing ICTs for Users with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Usability Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-07-17 Prevention trials

    The present work contributes to the literature on ICT usability needs of users with MCI.

  10. Subjective cognitive decline as a predictor of future cognitive decline: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2020-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Over 44 million people suffer from dementia around the world.

  11. Meta-analysis: Resistance Training Improves Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. International Journal of Sports Medicine 2020-06-29 Prevention and risk

    This study investigated the benefits of resistance training on cognition in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

  12. ATN classification and clinical progression in subjective cognitive decline: The SCIENCe project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2020-06-10 Biomarkers

    Among individuals presenting with SCD at a memory clinic, those with a biomarker profile A-T+N+, A+T-N-, A+T+N-, and A+T+N+ were at increased risk of dementia, and showed steeper cognitive decline compared to A-T-N- individuals.

  13. Type 2 diabetes and cognitive dysfunction-towards effective management of both comorbidities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 2020-06-01 Prevention and risk

    Type 2 diabetes and cognitive dysfunction are highly prevalent disorders worldwide.

  14. Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment With In-Home Sensors to Monitor Behavior Patterns in Community-Dwelling Senior Citizens in Singapore: Cross-Sectional Feasibility Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2020-05-05 Digital health tools

    We demonstrated that it was both feasible and acceptable to set up these sensors in the community and unobtrusively collect data.

  15. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Literature Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2020-04-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Late-onset NPS, even in a mild form (mild behavioural impairment) were found to be associated with an increased risk of dementia, even in the absence of cognitive impairment.

  16. Technologies for Cognitive Training and Cognitive Rehabilitation for People With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia. A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2020-04-09 Mild cognitive impairment

    Due to the growing number of older adults with cognitive impairment, it is essential to delay the onset and progression of cognitive decline and promote a healthy lifestyle.

  17. Evaluating the Feasibility of Frequent Cognitive Assessment Using the Mezurio Smartphone App: Observational and Interview Study in Adults With Elevated Dementia Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2020-04-02 Digital health tools

    Despite the extended study duration, participants demonstrated high compliance with the schedule of daily learning tasks and were extremely positive about their experiences.

  18. Cognitive impairment in the U.S.: Lifetime risk, age at onset, and years impaired

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. SSM - population health 2020-03-31 Disparities

    Prior studies have analyzed the burden of cognitive impairment, but often use potentially biased prevalence-based methods or measure only years lived with impairment, without estimating other relevant metrics.

  19. Cognitive training interventions for dementia and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2020-02-26 Disparities

    Selection criteria We included randomised controlled trials where the participants had PDD or PD-MCI, and where the intervention was intended to train general or specific areas of cognitive function, targeting either a single domain or multiple domains of cognition, and was compared to a control condition.

  20. Depression, Anxiety, and Apathy in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Current Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-01-30 Mild cognitive impairment

    MCI patients have a high prevalence of depression/anxiety/apathy; furthermore, patients with MCI and concomitant depression/anxiety/apathy have more pronounced cognitive deficits and progress more often to dementia than MCI patients without depression/anxiety/apathy.

  21. The characterisation of subjective cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The Lancet Neurology 2020-01-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    This text discusses the characterisation of subjective cognitive decline (SCD), a term conceived in 2014 to describe cognitively unimpaired individuals who are concerned about reduced cognitive function and seek medical help.

  22. Assessment of executive function declines in presymptomatic and mildly symptomatic familial frontotemporal dementia: NIH-EXAMINER as a potential clinical trial endpoint

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Identifying clinical measures that track disease in the earliest stages of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is important for clinical trials.

  23. Association of Subclinical Hearing Loss With Cognitive Performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery 2020-01-01 Disparities

    Among 6451 individuals, the mean (SD) age was 59.4 (6.1) years, and 3841 (59.5%) were women.

  24. Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in an At-Home Setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2020-01-01 Digital health tools

    Emerging digital tools have the potential to enable a new generation of qualitative and quantitative assessment of cognitive performance.

  25. Beneficial effect of computer-based multidomain cognitive training in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2019-12-29 Prevention trials

    The purpose of the present study was to explore the effects of computer-based multidomain cognitive training program on Greek patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

  26. Diagnostic accuracy of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) for cognitive screening in old age psychiatry: Determining cutoff scores in clinical practice. Avoiding spectrum bias caused by healthy controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2019-12-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is an increasingly used screening tool for cognitive impairment.

  27. Hypersynchronization in mild cognitive impairment: the 'X' model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Hypersynchronization has been proposed as a synaptic dysfunction biomarker in the Alzheimer's disease continuum, reflecting the alteration of the excitation/inhibition balance.

  28. Prediction of cognitive impairment via deep learning trained with multi-center neuropsychological test data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC medical informatics and decision making 2019-11-21 Digital health tools

    The machine learning algorithm for NPTs has suggested potential use as a reference in differentiating cognitive impairment in the clinical setting.

  29. Prevalence and clinical aspects of mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2019-11-19 Risk factors

    Mild cognitive impairment associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) is a risk factor for the development of dementia.

  30. Prevalence and correlates of mild cognitive impairment among diverse Hispanics/Latinos: Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging results

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-11-18 Disparities

    MCI prevalence varied among Hispanic/Latino backgrounds, but not as widely as reported in the previous studies.

  31. Biomarker-based prognosis for people with mild cognitive impairment (ABIDE): a modelling study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-09-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    The models could aid clinicians in the interpretation of CSF biomarker and hippocampal volume results in individuals with MCI, and help research and clinical settings to prepare for a future of precision medicine in Alzheimer's disease.

  32. Novel Method for Rapid Assessment of Cognitive Impairment Using High-Performance Eye-Tracking Technology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-09-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A rapid increase in the number of patients with dementia has emerged as a global health challenge.

  33. Despite the promise of a multitude of sensors and devices that can be applied, there are no agreed-upon standards for digital biomarkers, nor are there comprehensive evidence-based results for which digital biomarkers may be demonstrated to be most effective.

  34. Effect of computerised cognitive training on cognitive outcomes in mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-08-18 Prevention trials

    This meta-analysis provides evidence that CCT improves cognitive function in older people with MCI.

  35. Mild cognitive impairment has similar alterations as Alzheimer's disease in gut microbiota

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-08-18 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with AD and MCI have decreased microbial diversity, and changes in gut microbiota could be detected for early detection of AD.

  36. Souvenaid in the management of mild cognitive impairment: an expert consensus opinion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-08-17 Prevention trials

    Early and accurate diagnosis of MCI provides a window of opportunity to improve the outcomes using a multimodal management approach including lifestyle risk factor modification and consideration of the multinutrient Souvenaid.

  37. Cognitive dysfunction in diabetes: how to implement emerging guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Diabetologia 2019-08-16 Risk factors

    Cognitive dysfunction, including mild cognitive impairment and dementia, is increasingly recognised as an important comorbidity and complication of diabetes that affects an individual's well-being and diabetes management, and is associated with diabetes treatment-related complications.

  38. Cognitive assessment tools for mild cognitive impairment screening

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2019-08-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a clinical condition with a high risk of progression to dementia.

  39. A Pilot Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Training Combined with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-08-01 Prevention trials

    This study found that CT+Active tDCS did not produce greater memory improvement compared to CT+Sham tDCS.

  40. Computerized Cognitive Training in Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair 2019-07-22 Prevention trials

    CCT is efficacious for overall and key cognitive domains in adults with MS, but efficacy on other outcomes and in progressive subtypes remains unclear.

  41. Validation of neuropsychological tests for the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2019-07-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We recruited 825 individuals from the CHARLS sample and 766 subjects from hospitals in six provinces and cities in China.

  42. The Age-Related Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Silent Impairment of the Cognitive Ear

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2019-06-14 Digital health tools

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), also called presbycusis, is a progressive disorder affecting hearing functions and among the elderly has been recognized as the third most frequent condition.

  43. Association of Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signs With Cognitive Outcomes in Persons With Nonimpaired Cognition and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-05-03 Brain scans and imaging

    In this study, lower AD signature region volumes, brain microhemorrhages, higher WMH volumes, and infarcts were risk factors associated with dementia in older community-based residents.

  44. A Single-Channel EEG-Based Approach to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment via Speech-Evoked Brain Responses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2019-04-18 Digital health tools

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the preliminary stage of dementia, which may lead to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the elderly people.

  45. Cognitive training for people with mild to moderate dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2019-03-25 Caregiving

    Relative to a control condition, we found moderate-quality evidence showing a small to moderate effect of CT on our first primary outcome, composite measure of global cognition at end of treatment (standardised mean difference (SMD) 0.42, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.23 to 0.62), and high-quality evidence showing a moderate effect on the secondary outcome of verbal semantic fluency (SMD 0.52, 95% CI 0.23 to 0.81) at end of treatment, with these gains retained in the medium term (3 to 12 months post treatment).

  46. A Rapid, Mobile Neurocognitive Screening Test to Aid in Identifying Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (BrainCheck): Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. JMIR aging 2019-03-21 Digital health tools

    BrainCheck Memory assessments were significantly correlated to the SLUMS exam, with coefficients ranging from .5 to .7.

  47. Computerised cognitive training for preventing dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2019-03-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    Selection criteria We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-RCTs in which cognitive training via interactive computerised technology was compared with an active or inactive control intervention.

  48. Language Performance of Individuals at Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2019-03-01 Digital health tools

    Language performance deficits can appear early before impairment in episodic memory, visuospatial construction ability, or mental status in individuals at risk for MCI.

  49. Predicting Short-term MCI-to-AD Progression Using Imaging, CSF, Genetic Factors, Cognitive Resilience, and Demographics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-02-19 Digital health tools

    In the Alzheimer's disease (AD) continuum, the prodromal state of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) precedes AD dementia and identifying MCI individuals at risk of progression is important for clinical management.

  50. Metabolic Syndrome, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2019-02-15 Mild cognitive impairment

    No statistically significant pooled association emerged between MetS and incident dementia and AD.

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