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Newest in this topic

  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.

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  1. Cognitive reserve proxies for individuals with intellectual developmental disability: A scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID 2024-03 Risk factors

    Some of these were the same already detected in a population without intellectual disabilities (education, occupation, physical activity, leisure, community and social activities); others were found to be specifically relevant for this population: type of schooling, parental educational level, environmental stimulation and living place.

  2. General cognitive ability in high school, attained education, occupational complexity, and dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-02-20 Risk factors

    Education partially mediated the effect of adolescent cognition on CI in the cognitive assessment aample and AD8 in the questionnaire sample (Ps < 0.001).

  3. A national program to advance dementia research in Vietnam

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMC health services research 2024-02-01 Caregiving

    Over four years (2019-2023), we received 62 applications, reviewed 58 applications, and funded 21 projects (4-5 per year).

  4. Cognition and Cognitive Reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Integrative psychological & behavioral science 2024-01-27 Risk factors

    Cognition is a mental process that provides the ability to think, know, and learn.

  5. Tipping the Balance Between Cognitive Reserve, Frailty, and Dementia in the Very Old?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Risk factors

    166 patients were consecutively enrolled (mean age was 85.7 years old, females composed 68%); 25% had a diagnosis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and 75% had a diagnosis of dementia.

  6. Longitudinal trajectories of cognitive reserve in hypometabolic subtypes of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-12-19 Risk factors

    Previous studies have demonstrated resilience to AD-related neuropathology in a form of cognitive reserve (CR).

  7. Food Insecurity, Race and Ethnicity, and Cognitive Function Among United States Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Journal of nutrition 2023-11-19 Disparities

    Compared with food secure older adults, those reporting food insecurity experienced worsened cognitive functioning over time (B = -0.63, p < .001), and they were more likely to have onset of cognitive impairment (OR= 1.46, p < .001) in the 6-y observation.

  8. Quantitative estimate of cognitive resilience and its medical and genetic associations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-11-06 Risk factors

    CR varied across five cognitive assessments and was greater in female participants, associated with longer survival, and weakly associated with educational attainment or APOE ε4 allele.

  9. Plasma Aβ42/40 and cognitive variability are associated with cognitive function in Black Americans: Findings from the AA-FAIM cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2023-09-25 Biomarkers

    IICV was associated with concurrent/baseline performance on several outcomes but did not modify associations between age and cognitive decline.

  10. Handicraft art leisure activities and cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2023-09-06 Risk factors

    ObjectiveOlder individuals face a higher likelihood of developing dementia.

  11. The effects of COVID-19 on cognitive performance in a community-based cohort: a COVID symptom study biobank prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2023-07-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Stratification by self-reported recovery revealed that deficits were only detectable in SARS-CoV-2 positive individuals who did not feel recovered from COVID-19, whereas individuals who reported full recovery showed no deficits.

  12. The Impact of Loneliness and Social Isolation on Cognitive Aging: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2023-06-29 Risk factors

    Social concepts such as loneliness and social isolation are fairly new factors that have been recently gaining attention as to their involvement in changes in cognitive function and association with dementia.

  13. Measures of cognitive reserve: An umbrella review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2023-04-18 Risk factors

    Thirty-one reviews were identified, sixteen of which were systematic reviews, and fifteen were meta-analyses.

  14. Brain Reserve, Resilience, and Cognitive Stimulation Across the Lifespan: How Do These Factors Influence Risk of Cognitive Impairment and the Dementias?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2023-02 Risk factors

    In the absence of effective treatments for dementia, maintaining cognitive health in old age is one of the major challenges facing aging societies.

  15. Memory for Semantically Related Objects Differentiates Cognitively Unimpaired Autosomal Dominant Mutation Carriers from Non-Carrier Family Members

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Early cognitive changes due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) include difficulties in semantic access and working memory.

  16. Cognitive and brain reserve predict decline in adverse driving behaviors among cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2022-12-23 Risk factors

    Daily driving is a multi-faceted, real-world, behavioral measure of cognitive functioning requiring multiple cognitive domains working synergistically to complete this instrumental activity of daily living.

  17. A framework for concepts of reserve and resilience in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-12-19 Risk factors

    The study of factors, across species, that allow some individuals to age more successfully than others has important implications for individual wellbeing as well as health education, policy and intervention.

  18. Social participation and mild cognitive impairment in low- and middle-income countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Preventive medicine 2022-08-31 Risk factors

    Social participation may theoretically decrease risk for mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  19. Musical Activity During Life Is Associated With Multi-Domain Cognitive and Brain Benefits in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2022-08-25 Prevention trials

    Regular musical activity as a complex multimodal lifestyle activity is proposed to be protective against age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

  20. Cognition and brain health among older adults in Iceland: the AGES-Reykjavik study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. GeroScience 2022-08-17 Risk factors

    The paper aimed to compare how factors previously identified as predictive factors for cognitive decline and dementia related to cognitive performance on the one hand and brain health on the other.

  21. Impact of a multidomain lifestyle intervention on regional spontaneous brain activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-07-28 Prevention trials

    In the SoUth Korean study to PrEvent cognitive impaiRment and protect BRAIN health through lifestyle intervention in at-risk elderly people (SUPERBRAIN), we evaluated the impact of multidomain lifestyle intervention on regional homogeneity (ReHo) in resting-state functional brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data.

  22. Metacognition, cortical thickness, and tauopathy in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-06-25 Brain scans and imaging

    We investigated self-rating of cognitive task performance (self-appraisal) and the difference between self-rating and actual task performance (appraisal discrepancy) in cognitively healthy older adults and their relationship with cortical thickness and Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers, amyloid and tau.

  23. Are Brain and Cognitive Reserve Shaped by Early Life Circumstances?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2022-06-16 Risk factors

    When growing older, many people are faced with cognitive deterioration, which may even amount to a form of dementia at some point in time.

  24. Multivariate profile and acute-phase correlates of cognitive deficits in a COVID-19 hospitalised cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2022-04-28 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The pattern of deficits across tasks was qualitatively compared with normal age-related decline, and early-stage dementia.

  25. Exploration of salient risk factors involved in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2022-04-17 Tau biomarkers

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a prevalent and complex condition among older adults that often progresses into Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  26. High lifelong cognitive reserve prolongs disability-free survival: The role of cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-03-28 Risk factors

    CR score was dose-dependently associated with disability/death (hazard ratio [HR] 0.96, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.93-0.99).

  27. APOE Effects on Late Life Cognitive Trajectories in Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2022-03-04 Disparities

    ϵ4 prevalence in Black (46%) and White participants (46%) was almost double that of Latino participants (24%). ϵ4 was associated with poorer baseline episodic memory only in White participants (p = .001), but had a moderately strong association with episodic memory change across all racial/ethnic groups (Blacks= -.061 SD/year, Latinos = -.055,Whites= -.055). ϵ4 association with semantic memory change was strongest in White participants (-.071), intermediate in Latino participants (-.041), and weakest in Black participants (-.022).

  28. Occupational complexity and cognition in the FINGER multidomain intervention trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-02-09 Risk factors

    Higher levels of occupational complexity were associated with better baseline cognition.

  29. The relationship between cognitive engagement and better memory in midlife

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-02-09 Risk factors

    Educational attainment and leisure activity engagement were individually associated with memory performance.

  30. Effects of Cognitive Reserve in Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitively Unimpaired Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-02-07 Risk factors

    The concept of cognitive reserve (CR) has been proposed as a protective factor that modifies the effect of brain pathology on cognitive performance.

  31. Cognitively stimulating environments and cognitive reserve: the case of personal social networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2022-02-04 Risk factors

    Cognitively stimulating environments are thought to be protective of cognitive decline and onset of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) through the development of cognitive reserve (CR).

  32. Cognitive reserve as one of the determinants of the progression of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement 2022-01-12 Risk factors

    To assess the validity of Yaakov Stern's theory, which postulates that the first cognitive deficits of Alzheimer disease are delayed in patients with high cognitive reserve, compared to those with low cognitive reserve, but this is subsequently associated with faster cognitive decline when cerebral lesions have reached a certain degree of severity.

  33. Causal association of cognitive reserve on Alzheimer's disease with putative sex difference

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-12-31 Genetics

    AD was associated with lower PRS for premorbid cognitive performance, intelligence, and educational attainment.

  34. Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Social science & medicine (1982) 2021-11-09 Risk factors

    Cognitive impairment associated with aging is a serious and growing public health problem.

  35. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Correspondence Between Subjective Cognitive Ratings and Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2021-11-06 Disparities

    Blacks and Hispanics were more prone to falsely positive perceptions of their cognitive function in the presence of cognitive impairment than non-Hispanic Whites.

  36. Lifelong bilingualism and mechanisms of neuroprotection in Alzheimer dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2021-11-02 Risk factors

    Lifelong bilingualism is associated with delayed dementia onset, suggesting a protective effect on the brain.

  37. Improvement in executive function for older adults through smartphone apps: a randomized clinical trial comparing language learning and brain training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition 2021-10-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Bilingualism has been linked to improved executive function and delayed onset of dementia, but it is unknown whether similar benefits can be obtained later in life through deliberate intervention.

  38. Cognitive reserve proxies, Alzheimer pathologies, and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-10-14 Risk factors

    This study aimed to explore the moderating effects of the frequently used cognitive reserve (CR) proxies [i.e., education, premorbid intelligence quotient (pIQ), occupational complexity (OC), and lifetime cognitive activity (LCA)] on the relationships between various in vivo Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathologies and cognition.

  39. How Can Cognitive Reserve Promote Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Health?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2021-10-13 Risk factors

    Evidence supports the concept of reserve, which can be influenced by experiences in every stage of life.

  40. Gender differences in cognitive reserve: implication for subjective cognitive decline in women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2021-10-08 Risk factors

    The proportion between women and men was significantly different (68.7% [95% CI 63.9-73.4 vs 31.4%, 95% CI 26.6-36.0]).

  41. Cognitive Reserve Characteristics and Occupational Performance Implications in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-09-26 Risk factors

    The Cognitive Reserve hypothesis suggests that there are individual differences in the ability to cope with the pathologic changes in Alzheimer's Disease.

  42. Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Cognitive Decline: A Twin Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2021-09-13 Genetics

    In cross-sectional analyses at baseline, there was no association between DNAm age acceleration and cognitive function scores.

  43. Depression, cognitive reserve markers, and dementia risk in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2021-09-11 Risk factors

    Baseline depression and low cognitive reserve significantly increased the risk of subsequent dementia at follow-up.

  44. Cognitive Trajectories and Dementia Risk: A Comparison of Two Cognitive Reserve Measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-08-25 Risk factors

    Both reserve measures were associated with cognitive trajectories [β × time (top tertile, ref.: bottom tertile) = 0.013; 95% CI: -0.126, -0.004 (residual-based) and 0.011; 95% CI: -0.001, 0.024, (activity-based)].

  45. [Post-stroke cognitive deficits and dementia]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Therapeutische Umschau. Revue therapeutique 2021-08 Risk factors

    Post-stroke cognitive deficits and dementia Abstract.

  46. Neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation and cognitive decline in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Social science & medicine (1982) 2021-07-12 Disparities

    Social determinants of health, including neighborhood factors, play a key role in the health of diverse older adults.

  47. Effects of restriction of activities and social isolation on risk of dementia in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2021-06-28 Risk factors

    Both Restriction (HR = 2.22, 95% CI [1.42, 3.47], P < .001) and Isolation (HR = 1.78, 95% CI [1.17, 2.70], P = 0.007) were associated with episodic memory and incident dementia, controlling for age, sex, and education.

  48. The Health & Aging Brain among Latino Elders (HABLE) study methods and participant characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-06-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The current data provide strong support for continued investigations that examine the risk factors for and biomarkers of AD among diverse populations.

  49. [Cognitive reserve, one of the determinants of the progression of Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement 2021-06-01 Risk factors

    To appraise the validity of the Yaakov Stern's theory, which postulates that the first cognitive deficits of Alzheimer's disease are delayed in patients with high cognitive reserve, compared to those with low cognitive reserve, but is subsequently associated with faster cognitive decline when cerebral lesions have reached some degree of severity.

  50. Amyloid beta associations with connected speech in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-05-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These results indicate that declines in connected speech may be related to preclinical AD.

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