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Newest in this topic

  1. Intelligent digital tools for screening of brain connectivity and dementia risk estimation in people affected by mild cognitive impairment: the AI-Mind clinical study protocol 2024-01-05
  2. Screening over Speech in Unselected Populations for Clinical Trials in AD (PROSPECT-AD): Study Design and Protocol 2023-01-01
  3. Study Protocol of a Comprehensive Activity Promotion Program for the Prevention of Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol 2022-01-01

Studies

9 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2016 to 2024

Top journals

  • BMC geriatrics 2
  • BMJ open 2
  • The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 1
  • Frontiers in neurorobotics 1

6 journals in all.

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  1. Intelligent digital tools for screening of brain connectivity and dementia risk estimation in people affected by mild cognitive impairment: the AI-Mind clinical study protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neurorobotics 2024-01-05 Cognitive tests and assessment

    More than 10 million Europeans show signs of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transitional stage between normal brain aging and dementia stage memory disorder.

  2. Screening over Speech in Unselected Populations for Clinical Trials in AD (PROSPECT-AD): Study Design and Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Speech features on the linguistic and paralinguistic level will be extracted from the recordings and compared to data from CSF and blood biomarkers, neuroimaging, neuropsychological evaluations, genetic profiles, and family history.

  3. Study Protocol of a Comprehensive Activity Promotion Program for the Prevention of Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study has the potential to provide the first evidence of the effectiveness of information communication technology and Internet of Things in incident dementia.

  4. Cognitive training and neuroplasticity in mild cognitive impairment (COG-IT): protocol for a two-site, blinded, randomised, controlled treatment trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-08-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We will test if CCT, versus CPT, leads to improved cognitive functioning, transfers to functional ability and tasks of everyday life and impacts hippocampal volume changes and changes in the default mode network of the brain measured by resting-state functional MRI.

  5. Media Coverage of the Benefits and Harms of Testing the Healthy: a protocol for a descriptive study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMJ open 2019-08-24 Biomarkers

    Much testing in medicine is aimed at healthy people to facilitate the early detection of health conditions.

  6. Towards a unified protocol for handling of CSF before β-amyloid measurements

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-07-19 Biomarkers

    CSF can be stored for up to 72 h at RT, 1 week at 4 °C, or at least 2 weeks at either - 20 °C or - 80 °C before Aβ measurements.

  7. Diagnostic test accuracy of a novel smartphone application for the assessment of attention deficits in delirium in older hospitalised patients: a prospective cohort study protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2018-09-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Measures of the accuracy of DelApp will include sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and area under the ROC curve.

  8. Behavioral Interventions to Prevent or Delay Dementia: Protocol for a Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2017-11-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This paper describes the protocol for a randomized comparative effectiveness study of behavioral interventions to prevent or delay dementia.

  9. Group-based exercise and cognitive-physical training in older adults with self-reported cognitive complaints: The Multiple-Modality, Mind-Motor (M4) study protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2016-01-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dementia is associated with cognitive and functional deficits, and poses a significant personal, societal, and economic burden.

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