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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. Quality of Education and Late-Life Cognitive Function in a Population-Based Sample From Puerto Rico

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2021-05-09 Risk factors

    Quality of education was positively correlated with both educational attainment and cognitive performance.

  2. Blood biomarkers for dementia in Hispanic and non-Hispanic White adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-04-09 Biomarkers

    T-tau, NfL, GFAP, and YKL-40 discriminated between diagnostic groups (receiver operating curve: 0.647-0.873).

  3. Educational Benefits and Cognitive Health Life Expectancies: Racial/Ethnic, Nativity, and Gender Disparities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2021-04-03 Disparities

    White respondents lived a greater percentage of their remaining lives cognitively healthy than their minority Black or Hispanic counterparts, regardless of level of education.

  4. Loneliness and Neurocognitive Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in geriatric medicine and research 2021-03-29 Risk factors

    Loneliness imposes significant risks to physical, mental and brain health in older adulthood.

  5. Bilingualism: Pathway to Cognitive Reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2021-03-23 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve is characterized by a dissociation between cognitive level and brain structure, thereby reducing the impact of deteriorating brain structure on cognitive function.

  6. Activity Engagement and Cognitive Performance Amongst Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2021-03-11 Risk factors

    Research supporting cognitive reserve theory suggests that engaging in a variety of cognitive, social, and physical activities may serve as protective factors against age-related changes in mental functioning, especially if the activities are cognitively engaging.

  7. Cognitive and behavioural flexibility: neural mechanisms and clinical considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2021-02-03 Prevention trials

    Cognitive and behavioural flexibility permit the appropriate adjustment of thoughts and behaviours in response to changing environmental demands.

  8. Cognitive reserve and brain maintenance in aging and dementia: An integrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2021-01-25 Risk factors

    This research is an integrative review of scientific evidence differentiating between cognitive reserve (CR) and brain maintenance concepts.

  9. Relationships Between Chronic Pain Stage, Cognition, Temporal Lobe Cortex, and Sociodemographic Variables

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Disparities

    There were ethnic/race group differences in MoCA scores but no relationships with chronic knee pain stage.

  10. Cognitive reserve relates to executive functioning in the old-old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2020-12-06 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) is known to reduce or even protect against the negative effects of aging on cognitive functioning.

  11. Does bilingualism protect against dementia? A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Psychonomic bulletin & review 2020-10 Risk factors

    Evidence suggests that bilingualism may contribute to neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve, allowing individuals to resist cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease progression, although the idea remains controversial.

  12. Social factors that predict cognitive decline in older African American adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-09-25 Risk factors

    Social activity was associated with global cognition, perceptual speed, perceptual orientation, and episodic memory over time.

  13. Subjective Cognitive Decline, Cognitive Reserve Indicators, and the Incidence of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-09-20 Risk factors

    Baseline subjective cognitive decline and low cognitive reserve significantly increased the risk of dementia, after 2 years of follow-up.

  14. Tooth Loss and Dementia: A Critical Examination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of dental research 2020-09-18 Risk factors

    Dementia is a major contributor to dependence and disability in older people, with aging societies characterized by growing numbers of people living with the condition.

  15. Positive Psychosocial Factors and Cognitive Decline in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2020-08-25 Disparities

    Higher NIH Toolbox Friendship scores predicted less episodic memory decline.

  16. Education and Cognitive Decline: An Integrative Analysis of Global Longitudinal Studies of Cognitive Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2020-08-13 Risk factors

    This study replicated research showing that education was positively associated with cognition at baseline.

  17. Ageing without dementia: can stimulating psychosocial and lifestyle experiences make a difference?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2020-05-26 Risk factors

    In a world with an ageing population, dementia has become an urgent threat to global health and wellbeing.

  18. Commentary: Composite cognitive and functional measures for early stage Alzheimer's disease trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-05-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In this commentary I consider the issues raised in Schneider and Goldberg's review of composite cognitive and functional measures.

  19. Improving the resistance and resilience framework for aging and dementia studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-04-14 Risk factors

    While the field advances towards consensus definitions of existing concepts, the resistance vs resilience terminology may provide clarity in the communication of results in aging and dementia studies as well as provide a framework for the development of both hypotheses and study designs.

  20. Impact of occupational complexity on cognitive decline in the oldest-old

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2020-04-07 Risk factors

    Neither work complexity (p = 0.995) nor work duration (p = 0.701) showed a significant effect on the likelihood of presenting a lower cognitive profile or developing dementia (p = 0.385 and p = 0.096, for work complexity and work duration, respectively).

  21. Interplay between Socioeconomic Markers and Polygenic Predisposition on Timing of Dementia Diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-03-18 Genetics

    A one standard deviation increase in AD-PGS was associated with an accelerated time to dementia diagnosis by 4.8 months.

  22. Amyloid and tau imaging biomarkers explain cognitive decline from late middle-age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    This study investigated differences in retrospective cognitive trajectories between amyloid and tau PET biomarker stratified groups in initially cognitively unimpaired participants sampled from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention.

  23. Ethnoracial Differences in Lewy Body Diseases with Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Disparities

    Presentation age was similar between groups (median 74-75 years).

  24. Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy and Distinct Longitudinal Profiles of Domain-specific Literacy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2020 Brain tissue and pathology

    Two distinct literacy profiles emerged. The first group (N=121, 44%) had higher level of literacy at baseline, slower decline and less variabilities over time.

  25. The Risk of Dementia in Relation to Cognitive and Brain Reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    Higher early-life CR (hazard ratio = 0.48, 95% CI = [0.21; 1.06]) but not early-life BR associated with a lower risk of incident dementia.

  26. Education does not protect cognitive function from brain pathology in the ADNI 2 cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-12-05 Risk factors

    Educational attainment is widely accepted as a cognitive reserve variable.

  27. Cognitive Reserve from the Perspective of Preclinical Alzheimer Disease: 2020 Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2019-11-15 Risk factors

    The concept of cognitive reserve (CR) was proposed to account for the discrepancy between levels of brain pathologic process or damage and clinical and cognitive function.

  28. Secular trends in cognitive trajectories of diverse older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-10-28 Disparities

    Later birth year was associated with higher initial cognitive levels for Whites and Blacks, but not Hispanics.

  29. Functional ability is associated with higher adherence to behavioral interventions in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2019-10-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Two-hundred and thirty-seven participants completed the 6-month post-intervention follow-up measures, 228 participants completed the 12-month measures, and 218 participants completed the 18-month measures.

  30. The Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project: Study Design and Methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2019-09-27 Caregiving

    Linking detailed HCAP cognitive assessments to the wealth of available longitudinal HRS data on cognition, health, biomarkers, genetics, health care utilization, informal care, and economic resources and behavior will provide unique and expanded opportunities to study cognitive impairment and dementia in a nationally representative US population-based sample.

  31. Brain MRI findings related to Alzheimer's disease in older African American adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Progress in molecular biology and translational science 2019-05-15 Disparities

    Although a substantial body of research has identified brain MRI measures as important markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, progression, and treatment response, most of that research has been performed in non-Hispanic white American populations, leading to questions about the utility of the brain MRI measures among individuals of other races or ethnicities.

  32. Quality of education impacts late-life cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2019-03-21 Digital health tools

    This work suggests that academic and community factors beyond years of education have a marked impact on late-life cognition.

  33. Dementia prevention and reserve against neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 2019-03 Risk factors

    Similar to other complex disorders, the etiology of Alzheimer disease is multifactorial and characterized by an interplay of biological and environmental risk and protective factors.

  34. Influence of young adult cognitive ability and additional education on later-life cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019-01-22 Risk factors

    How and when education improves cognitive capacity is an issue of profound societal importance.

  35. Defining Cognitive Reserve and Implications for Cognitive Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2019-01-09 Risk factors

    RECENT FINDINGS: Evidence to date supports the notion that higher levels of CR, as measured by proxy variables reflective of lifetime experiences, are associated with better cognitive performance, and with a reduced risk of incident mild cognitive impairment/dementia.

  36. Vision loss and 12-year risk of dementia in older adults: the 3C cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. European journal of epidemiology 2019-01-04 Risk factors

    To analyze the longitudinal relationships between vision loss and the risk of dementia in the first 2 years, from 2 to 4 years and beyond 4 years after inclusion and to determine the roles of depressive symptomatology and engagement in cognitively stimulating activities in these associations.

  37. Bilingualism and Dementia: Cognitive Reserve to Linguistic Competency

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Risk factors

    Despite the large number of elderly bilinguals at risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia worldwide, significant questions remain about the relationship between speaking more than one language and later cognitive decline.

  38. Cognitive reserve and dementia A scientometric review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2019 Risk factors

    Research into cognitive reserve (CR) and dementia is advancing rapidly.

  39. Cognitive Reserve in Midlife is not Associated with Amyloid-β Deposition in Late-Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Risk factors

    We examined associations between cognitive reserve and late-life amyloid-β deposition using florbetapir positron emission tomography (PET).

  40. The Panama Aging Research Initiative Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. MEDICC review 2019 Biomarkers

    The Panama Aging Research Initiative is a cohort study of 423 adults aged ≥65 years recruited from an outpatient geriatric department of Panama's largest public hospital, the Social Security Fund's Dr Arnulfo Arias Madrid Hospital Complex (Complejo Hospitalario Dr Arnulfo Arias Madrid de la Caja de Seguro Social).

  41. Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2018-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitive ageing research examines the cognitive abilities that are preserved and/or those that decline with advanced age.

  42. Montreal cognitive assessment reflects cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2018-10-30 Risk factors

    The MoCA reflected total CRIq score (CRI; B = 0.076, P < 0.001), CRI-Education (B = 0.066, P < 0.001), and CRI-Working activity (B = 0.025, P = 0.042), while MMSE reflected total CRI (B = 0.044, P < 0.001) and CRI-Education (B = 0.049, P < 0.001) only.

  43. Polygenic Score for Alzheimer Disease and cognition: The mediating role of personality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2018-10-23 Genetics

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) polygenic risk score (PGS) is associated with lower cognitive functioning even among older individuals without dementia.

  44. Traumatic Brain Injury, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2018-08-21 Costs and economics

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health and economic burden.

  45. Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. British journal of anaesthesia 2018-06-15 Clinical safety

    Cognitive change affecting patients after anaesthesia and surgery has been recognised for more than 100 yr. Research into cognitive change after anaesthesia and surgery accelerated in the 1980s when multiple studies utilised detailed neuropsychological testing for assessment of cognitive change after cardiac surgery.

  46. Education amplifies brain atrophy effect on cognitive decline: implications for cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2018-04-12 Risk factors

    Level of education is often regarded as a proxy for cognitive reserve in older adults.

  47. Cohort Profile Update: The Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. International Journal of Epidemiology 2018-01-29 Genetics

    By wave, compared with those who remained in the LBC1921 study at Waves 1 to 5, participants who dropped out had: significantly lower older-age IQ scores at Wave 1 Wave 2 = and Wave 3 = lower scores at Waves and at Waves 1 = and 2 = By wave, compared with those who remained in the LBC1936 study at Waves 1 to participants who dropped out had: significantly lower older-age IQ scores at Wave 1 Wave 2 = and Wave 3 = lower scores at Wave 1 = Wave 2 and Wave 3 = lower at Wave 1 = Wave 2 = and Wave 3 and lower physical as at Wave 1 Wave 2 = and Wave 3 = and at Wave 1 = at each wave in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 are mean and standard for and for each wave sample = Wave 1 = Waves 1 and 2 = Waves 2 and 3 = Waves IQ from Moray House Test for age in at time of testing and to IQ is the was from to from the in 1 and at Wave 1. as of from the Wave 2 two participants who not Wave 1.

  48. Version 3 of the Alzheimer Disease Centers' Neuropsychological Test Battery in the Uniform Data Set (UDS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2018-01-01 Risk factors

    The UDSNB 3.0 neuropsychological battery provides a valuable non proprietary resource for conducting research on cognitive aging and dementia.

  49. Evaluating Cognitive Reserve Through the Prism of Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Psychiatric clinics of North America 2017-12-07 Risk factors

    The concept of cognitive reserve (CR) was proposed to account for the discrepancy between levels of brain pathologic features or damage and clinical and cognitive function.

  50. Optimizing the preclinical Alzheimer's cognitive composite with semantic processing: The PACC5

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2017-11-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Addition of CAT to the PACC provides unique information about early cognitive decline not currently captured by the episodic memory, executive function, and global cognition components and may therefore improve detection of early Aβ-related cognitive decline.

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