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  1. Paths of Aging Minds: Health Journeys of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment 2026-11-01
  2. Cognition in healthy aging, ages 36 to 108: Associations with dementia risk factors and neurodegenerative disease biomarkers 2026-10-28
  3. Geographic Heterogeneity in the Association Between Schooling and Cognitive Change Among Older Adults in India 2026-10-28

Studies

208 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1979 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 14
  • Research Square 14
  • Neurobiology of aging 10
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 9
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 7

107 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. Paths of Aging Minds: Health Journeys of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Among 10,489 participants with incident MCI, the mean age at the incident MCI wave was 70.6 years (SD = 11.53), and 56.6% were female.

  2. Cognition in healthy aging, ages 36 to 108: Associations with dementia risk factors and neurodegenerative disease biomarkers

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-28 Biomarkers

    Most evidence on dementia risk factors comes from older or clinical samples, leaving their relation to normal cognitive aging unclear.

  3. Geographic Heterogeneity in the Association Between Schooling and Cognitive Change Among Older Adults in India

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-28 Risk factors

    Higher educational attainment is associated with steeper measured cognitive decline among older adults in India, but whether this association is uniform across the country is unknown.

  4. Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation for Dementia: From Network Degeneration to Compassionate and Skilled Care

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PsyArXiv 2026-10-28 Risk factors

    Dementia is a progressive syndrome characterized by neurodegeneration across distributed brain networks that results in cognitive, behavioral, and functional declines.

  5. Parental Dementia History is Associated with Peripheral Immune Aging Rather than Generalized Biological and Brain Age Acceleration in Midlife

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Genetics

    Parental history of dementia is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, although the mechanisms underlying this association remain poorly understood.

  6. Plasma Proteomic Correlates of Cognitive Function in Older Adults From Central Africa

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-24 Biomarkers

    Key Points Question Which candidate plasma proteins are associated with cognitive performance across multiple domains in older adults from the Democratic Republic of Congo?

  7. Prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in Morocco: A population-based study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-22 Disparities

    This nationwide study provides epidemiological data on dementia and MCI among adults aged ≥ 60 years across all 12 administrative regions of Morocco.

  8. Functional neuroimaging as a tool to understand social determinants of health in cognitive aging and ADRD: a scoping review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PsyArXiv 2026-10-20 Brain scans and imaging

    The social, structural, and physical conditions in which individuals live, work, and age, collectively termed social determinants of health (SDOH), are associated with risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

  9. Memory Intraindividual Variability and its Association with Hippocampal Integrity in Older Latino Adults Without Dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Disparities

    Memory IIV may be more closely linked to hippocampal white matter, while mean memory performance may better reflect hippocampal volume.

  10. Cognitive Impairment during Migraine Attacks: An Analysis from the American Registry for Migraine Research (ARMR)

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-18 Mild cognitive impairment

    Among 1,231 patients (87.2% women; mean age 46.0 ± 13.7 years; 71.5% chronic migraine), 1,175/1,231 (95.5%) endorsed cognitive symptoms, with a mean Mig-SCog total score of 8.2 ± 4.8.

  11. Vision Impairment, Vision Correction, and Dementia Risk in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2026-10-14 Risk factors

    Among individuals with mild cognitive impairment, no vision impairment (VI) and corrected VI were associated with a lower risk of dementia than uncorrected VI, particularly among those aged < 75 years.

  12. Social participation diversity and cognitive trajectories in older adults with hypertension and diabetes: a longitudinal cohort study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-12 Prevention trials

    Greater diversity of social participation was associated with better long-term cognitive maintenance among older adults with hypertension and/or diabetes.

  13. Brief Communication: Frailty and Neurocognitive Impairment in Older People Living with HIV: A Cross-Sectional Study from Southeastern Brazil

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-06 Risk factors

    Mean age was 59.6 years, and 57.8% were male.

  14. Memory and executive functioning show differential associations with scam susceptibility in middle to older adulthood

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-06 Risk factors

    Prior work has demonstrated a link between cognitive impairment and financial vulnerability.

  15. Multilingualism and ageing: Cognitive and affective trajectories in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    This study aimed to address these limitations by examining whether multilingual experience is associated with longitudinal ageing trajectories across objective and subjective measures spanning cognitive, affective, linguistic, and non-linguistic domains.

  16. Adaptive Memory and Metacognition in Older Adulthood: A Path Towards Successful Aging

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PsyArXiv 2026-10-05 Risk factors

    Aging is characterized by normative changes in memory and a continued capacity for goal-directed learning and adaptation.

  17. Separating ECog scale-score information from dyad availability: observation-process contributions to dyadic prediction of cognitive impairment in ADNI

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-22 Caregiving

    The conventional model (M2) concordance index (C-index) was 0.680, but fell to 0.649 when missingness indicators were removed.

  18. Coronary artery disease and neurocognitive performance among older adults in Uganda

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-10 Risk factors

    CAD was not associated with global or domain-level neurocognitive performance.

  19. Stage-dependent indirect association between mobility and the cognition-ADL relationship: a cross-sectional study of older adults across the cognitive continuum

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    In this cross-sectional sample, mobility showed a progressively stronger statistical indirect association with the cognition-ADL relationship as cognitive impairment deepened.

  20. Dyadic self- and informant-reported cognitive concern and subsequent MCI/AD diagnosis in ADNI: an exploratory prognostic modelling study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-04 Caregiving

    M2 C-index 0.682, M3 0.692, M4 0.687. Adding the dyadic mean yielded an estimated ΔC of 0.010 (95% CI -0.003 to 0.024).

  21. Repetitive negative thinking moderates the association between self-referential thoughts and cognition amongst older adults: a natural speech analysis approach

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-04 Digital health tools

    Natural language processing has been examined as a possible biomarker for cognitive decline and dementia, but it has also been associated with components of well-being and psychological distress.

  22. Cognitive Performance in Spouses of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Controlled Cross-Sectional Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We compared global and domain-level cognitive performance in older adults without a prior dementia diagnosis based on whether their cohabiting spouse had Alzheimer’s disease.

  23. Bilingualism and Cognitive Aging in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from HABS-HD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2026-08-04 Disparities

    ObjectivesIdentifying modifiable factors that shape cognitive aging trajectories is a central goal in aging research.

  24. A study on the Mini-cog scale in the general screening of cognitive status among the elderly in Putian city

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In dialect-dominant, educationally diverse elderly, Mini-cog provides superior diagnostic accuracy for MCI versus HKBC and MoCA, and comparable accuracy for dementia.

  25. Art-based intervention in promoting brain health among the elderly in Okere City, Otuke District, Northern Uganda. A protocol for a Quasi-experimental study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-29 Prevention trials

    Population ageing is accelerating globally, with a rising burden of neurocognitive disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

  26. Epigenetic Clock Trajectories and Brain Health in Midlife

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-18 Biomarkers

    Middle-aged adults with faster 15-year epigenetic aging trajectories demonstrated worse cognitive performance, whereas those with slower biological aging trajectories exhibited cognitive resilience and more favorable AD biomarker profiles.

  27. A clustering approach based on neuropsychological testing to detect early signs of probable MCI among community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2026-07-09 Clinical trials

    Individuals with cognitive profiles consistent with probable executive MCI were identified using simple assessments of global cognition, memory and executive functions in a community-dwelling older population.

  28. Dissociable structural and molecular pathways of age-related variability in sustained attention

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-07-03 Biomarkers

    Older age was associated with lower Att-Z (β = −0.315, p < 0.001).

  29. All Big Five domains had prospective associations with multiple dementia risk factors and with cognitive impairment, cognitive function, and self-reported memory.

  30. Combining p-tau217 and digital cognitive testing to predict cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-04 Biomarkers

    Adding MDLC to p-tau217 significantly explained longitudinal cognitive trajectory beyond p-tau217 alone.

  31. Epigenetic age acceleration, telomere length, and neurocognitive function in long-term survivors of childhood cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature communications 2025-11-27 Genetics

    Survivors of childhood cancer are prone to neurocognitive impairment and premature aging, raising concerns about early onset dementia.

  32. In an older-age vascular cohort, carotid stenosis is associated with processing speed and executive function cognitive deficits, which correlate with p-tau217

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-11 Biomarkers

    aECAD was associated with significantly worse scores in processing speed (β = -0.19, p = 0.004) and executive function (β = -0.20, p = 0.009) domains after controlling for age, sex, education, race, and ethnicity.

  33. Life-Course Burden of Blood Pressure Is Associated With Midlife Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2025-10-08 Risk factors

    Trajectories of systolic BP were separated markedly around 25 to 45 years of age, with the group below the median of cognition score having higher levels of systolic BP than the group above the median.

  34. Peruvian validation and standardization of the TabCAT-brain health assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in public health 2025-08-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    By incorporating sex, place of residence, age, and years of education as covariates, the TabCAT-BHA demonstrated greater accuracy in detecting cognitive impairment (AUC = 75.3%) compared to the MMSE (AUC = 66.4%) and RUDAS (AUC = 71.4%).

  35. Joint association of cognitive reserve and frailty with incident Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Behavioural brain research 2025-07-15 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve and frailty are factors associated with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

  36. Modifiable risk factor profiles moderate the effect of β-amyloid pathology on cognition in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2025-05-15 Prevention trials

    Although modifiable risk factors may account for around 40 % of population variability in dementia risk, the effect of risk factor interrelationships on pathology-cognition relationships is poorly understood.

  37. Bilingualism and "brain reserve" in subregions of the hippocampal formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. GeroScience 2025-04-08 Risk factors

    With aging, the hippocampal formation shows variable structural atrophy, which is associated with a decline in cognitive performance.

  38. Educational attainment, Aβ, tau, and structural brain reserve in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-01-24 Risk factors

    A+/High-EA individuals exhibited slower cognitive decline in global cognition and language domains than A+/Low-EA individuals.

  39. Association of a pace of aging epigenetic clock with rate of cognitive decline in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-11-23 Genetics

    Participants with faster DunedinPACE had poorer cognitive functioning at baseline and experienced more rapid cognitive decline over follow-up.

  40. Cognitive reserve in individuals with frontotemporal dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 2024-10-17 Risk factors

    As the literature related to cognitive reserve (CR) in individuals with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is only emerging, a clear consensus on the relationship among CR proxies, brain status, and clinical performance has not been reached.

  41. Social isolation and social cognition: A cross-sectional analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-10-17 Risk factors

    No significant association was found between social isolation and ToM abilities for both the unadjusted and adjusted models.

  42. APOE ε4 carrier status moderates the effect of lifestyle factors on cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-11 Genetics

    Significant interactions were found between APOE ε4 status and mindfulness and social engagement on cognitive reserve, indicating stronger associations for APOE ε4 carriers.

  43. Cognitive Reserve Relationship with Physical Performance in Dementia-Free Older Adults: The MIND-China Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2024-10-01 Risk factors

    Greater educational attainment and mental activity were associated with higher composite SPPB scores and those of its three subtests (p < 0.05).

  44. Epigenetic age acceleration and cognitive performance over time in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-09-14 Genetics

    Associations between epigenetic AA and cognitive performance over-time varied by sex.

  45. Factors associated with cognitive reserve according to education level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-10 Risk factors

    In the low-education group, low literacy, long sleep duration(>8 h/day), and diabetes were negatively associated with CR, whereas cognitive and physical activity were positively associated with CR.

  46. Loneliness, cerebrovascular and Alzheimer's disease pathology, and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-05 Risk factors

    In weighted models, greater loneliness was associated with microinfarcts, lower episodic and working memory in the absence of AD pathology, lower working memory in the absence of infarcts, a stronger association of infarcts with lower episodic memory, and a stronger association of microinfarcts with lower working and semantic memory.

  47. Traumatic Brain Injury, Seizures, and Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-08-01 Disparities

    Among the cohort of 7180 older adults (median age, 74 years [range, 65-102 years]; 4729 women [65.9%]), 1036 were African American or Black (14.4%), 21 were American Indian or Alaska Native (0.3%), 143 were Asian (2.0%), 332 were Hispanic (4.6%), and 5648 were non-Hispanic White (78.7%); the median educational level was 16.0 years (range, 1.0-29.0 years).

  48. Cognitive reserve, cortisol, and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers: A memory clinic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-06-04 Risk factors

    Higher CRI scores were associated with better cognition.

  49. Reserve, resilience and maintenance of episodic memory and other cognitive functions in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2024-05-01 Risk factors

    We tested if cognitive and brain reserve and maintenance explain individual differences in episodic memory and other cognitive domains from late middle to early older adulthood.

  50. Cognitive resilience/reserve: Myth or reality? A review of definitions and measurement methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-03-13 Risk factors

    We evaluate-also in a critical way-the methods commonly used to define and measure CR, including sociobehavioral proxies, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological and genetic measures.

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