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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. Positive Psychosocial Factors and Cognition in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2017-09-19 Disparities

    Positive associations between self-efficacy and language did not significantly differ across race/ethnicity, although the bivariate association between self-efficacy and language was not significant among Hispanics.

  2. A re-examination of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) cutoff scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2017-07-21 Mild cognitive impairment

    A MoCA cutoff score of 23, rather than the initially recommended score of 26, lowers the false positive rate and shows overall better diagnostic accuracy.

  3. Cognitive reserve is not associated with improved performance in all cognitive domains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2017-06-08 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve beneficially affects cognitive performance, even into advanced age.

  4. The midlife cognitive profiles of adults at high risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease: The PREVENT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-03-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Middle-aged adults at risk of dementia show evidence of poorer cognitive performance, principally in visuospatial functions.

  5. Cognitive Function in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Settings: Validation of the Tablet-Based Oxford Cognitive Screen in the Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2016-10-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The OCS-Plus represents a major methodological advance in dementia studies in LMICs, and enhances understanding of cognitive aging.

  6. Associations between Performance on an Abbreviated CogState Battery, Other Measures of Cognitive Function, and Biomarkers in People at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2016-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    It is not known whether computerized cognitive assessments, like the CogState battery, are sensitive to preclinical cognitive changes or pathology in people at risk for Alzheimer's disease(AD).

  7. Association Between Oral Health and Cognitive Status: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016-04-01 Digital health tools

    It is unclear how or whether oral health and cognitive status are related.

  8. The Locus Coeruleus: Essential for Maintaining Cognitive Function and the Aging Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2016-03-01 Risk factors

    Research on cognitive aging has focused on how decline in various cortical and hippocampal regions influence cognition.

  9. Bilingualism, dementia, cognitive and neural reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2015-12 Risk factors

    We discuss the role of bilingualism as a source of cognitive reserve and we propose the putative neural mechanisms through which lifelong bilingualism leads to a neural reserve that delays the onset of dementia.

  10. Cerebral correlates of cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging 2015-10-19 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve is a hypothetical concept introduced to explain discrepancies between severity of clinical dementia syndromes and the extent of dementia pathology.

  11. Occupational Complexity and Cognitive Reserve in a Middle-Aged Cohort at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2015-07-08 Risk factors

    Higher occupational attainment has previously been associated with increased Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology when individuals are matched for cognitive function, indicating occupation could provide cognitive reserve.

  12. Trajectory of Cognitive Decline After Incident Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA 2015-07-01 Disparities

    Incident stroke was associated with an acute decline in cognitive function and also accelerated and persistent cognitive decline over 6 years.

  13. Effects of metabolic syndrome on language functions in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2015-02 Risk factors

    This study explored effects of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) on language in aging.

  14. Traumatic brain injury and reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Handbook of clinical neurology 2015 Risk factors

    The potential role of brain and cognitive reserve in traumatic brain injury (TBI) is reviewed.

  15. Bilingualism and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Bilingualism Language and Cognition 2014-11-27 Risk factors

    The relation between bilingualism and cognition is informative about the connection between language and mind.

  16. The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMC neurology 2014-10-14 Prevention trials

    Our study is a unique resource of neuroimaging and cognitive measures relevant to change across the adult lifespan.

  17. Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2014-05-04 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), as a neurodegenerative process caused by widespread senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, is faced with an increasingly higher incidence as the global aging develops.

  18. Baseline neuropsychiatric symptoms and the risk of incident mild cognitive impairment: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2014-05-01 Clinical safety

    An increased incidence of mild cognitive impairment was observed in community-dwelling elderly adults who had nonpsychotic psychiatric symptoms at baseline.

  19. Age at surgical menopause influences cognitive decline and Alzheimer pathology in older women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2013-12-11 Prevention and risk

    Early age at surgical menopause was associated with cognitive decline and AD neuropathology.

  20. Right hemisphere role in cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2013-12-04 Digital health tools

    High levels of education, occupational complexity, and/or premorbid intelligence are associated with lower levels of cognitive impairment than would be expected from a given brain pathology.

  21. Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2013-10-01 Risk factors

    Patients in medical and surgical ICUs are at high risk for long-term cognitive impairment.

  22. Efficiency, capacity, compensation, maintenance, plasticity: emerging concepts in cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2013-09-07 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve (CR) is a concept meant to account for the frequent discrepancy between an individual's measured level of brain pathology and her expected cognitive performance.

  23. Meta-analysis of amyloid-cognition relations in cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Neurology 2013-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Based on this meta-analytic survey of the literature, increased amyloid burden has small but nontrivial associations with specific domains of cognitive performance in individuals who are currently cognitively normal.

  24. Neuroimaging of cognitive dysfunction and depression in aging retired National Football League players: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-03-01 Biomarkers

    Cognitive deficits and depression appear to be more common in aging former NFL players compared with healthy controls.

  25. Carotid atherosclerosis and 10-year changes in cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Atherosclerosis 2012-07-25 Risk factors

    In this population-based longitudinal study, carotid IMT was associated with a higher risk of developing cognitive impairment during the 10-year follow-up, and was associated with poorer performance in a test of executive function 10 years later.

  26. Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in cognitive sciences 2012-04-01 Risk factors

    Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine the effects of bilingualism on cognition in adulthood and explore possible mechanisms for these effects.

  27. Cognitive activity, education and socioeconomic status as preventive factors for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2012-03-04 Disparities

    Growing epidemiological evidence suggests that premorbid participation in cognitive leisure activities (CLA) reduces the risk of dementia by increasing cognitive reserve.

  28. Intraindividual cognitive decline using a brief computerized cognitive screening test

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Intraindividual decline in cognitive performance can be detected in otherwise healthy, community-dwelling, older persons, and this may deserve further study as a potential indicator of early Alzheimer's disease pathology.

  29. Reshaping the mind: The benefits of bilingualism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale 2011-09-12 Risk factors

    Studies have shown that bilingual individuals consistently outperform their monolingual counterparts on tasks involving executive control.

  30. Cognitive reserve in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2011-06-01 Risk factors

    Cognitive reserve explains why those with higher IQ, education, occupational attainment, or participation in leisure activities evidence less severe clinical or cognitive changes in the presence of age-related or Alzheimer's disease pathology.

  31. Delaying the onset of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2010-11-08 Risk factors

    We found that the bilingual patients had been diagnosed 4.3 years later and had reported the onset of symptoms 5.1 years later than the monolingual patients.

  32. Cognition, reserve, and amyloid deposition in normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid deposition is associated with lower cognitive performance both in AD patients and in the normal elderly, but the association is modified by CR, suggesting that CR may be protective against amyloid-related cognitive impairment.

  33. A population-based study of cognitive function in older people with subjective memory complaints

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2010-01-01 Risk factors

    Given the uncertain relationship between objective and subjective memory complaints (SMC), we conducted a study of cognitive function in older people with memory complaints in a large population-based elderly Spanish cohort (NEDICES).

  34. Cognitive reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2009-03-13 Risk factors

    The concept of reserve has been proposed to account for the disjunction between the degree of brain damage and its clinical outcome.

  35. The measurement of everyday cognition (ECog): scale development and psychometric properties

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2008-07-01 Risk factors

    This article describes the development and validation of an instrument to assess cognitively mediated functional abilities in older adults, Everyday Cognition (ECog).

  36. Executive dysfunction and its association with personality and behaviour changes in the development of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome and mild to moderate learning disabilities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The British journal of clinical psychology 2008-03-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    These findings provide further evidence for a specific impairment in frontal-lobe functioning in the preclinical stages of AD in DS.

  37. Frailty is associated with incident Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Psychosomatic medicine 2007-06-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Increasing frailty is associated with incident AD and the rate of cognitive decline in older persons.

  38. Estimation of premorbid IQ in individuals with Alzheimer's disease using Japanese ideographic script (Kanji) compound words: Japanese version of National Adult Reading Test

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2006-06-01 Risk factors

    The National Adult Reading Test (NART) is widely used as a measure of premorbid IQ of the English-speaking patients with dementia.

  39. Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2006 Risk factors

    Epidemiologic evidence suggests that individuals with higher IQ, education, occupational attainment, or participation in leisure activities have a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer disease (AD).

  40. Cognitive decline and literacy among ethnically diverse elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2005-12-01 Disparities

    Researchers on genetic and environmental influences on risk for Alzheimer's disease must be prepared for the growing ethnic and racial diversity of our participants.

  41. The effect of body mass index on global brain volume in middle-aged adults: a cross sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC Neurology 2005-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Age and BMI were each associated with decreased brain volume.

  42. Social resources and cognitive decline in a population of older African Americans and whites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2004-12-01 Prevention trials

    Greater social resources, as defined by social networks and social engagement, are associated with reduced cognitive decline in old age.

  43. The Informant Questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly (IQCODE): a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2004-09-01 Risk factors

    Because the IQCODE provides information complementary to brief cognitive tests, harnessing them together can improve screening accuracy.

  44. Relation of education and occupation-based socioeconomic status to incident Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2004-01-01 Disparities

    In this study, the authors evaluated whether the association between low educational level and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia may be explained by occupation-based socioeconomic status (SES).

  45. Proneness to psychological distress is associated with risk of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2003-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Proneness to experience psychological distress is a risk factor for AD, an effect independent of AD pathologic markers such as cortical plaques and tangles.

  46. The Effect of Education on Cognitive Performances and Its Implication for the Constitution of the Cognitive Reserve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Developmental Neuropsychology 2003-06-01 Disparities

    Some studies have suggested that people with a high educational level have a lower risk of developing dementia compared to people with a low educational level.

  47. Disability and mild cognitive impairment: a longitudinal population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2001-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Difficulties in the performance of everyday activities were found more frequently in non-demented subjects with mild cognitive deficits than in the general population.

  48. Childhood socioeconomic position and cognitive function in adulthood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International journal of epidemiology 2001-04-01 Disparities

    Higher SEP during childhood and greater educational attainment are both associated with cognitive function in adulthood, with mothers and fathers each contributing to their offspring's formative cognitive development and later life cognitive ability (albeit in different ways).

  49. Patients with Alzheimer's disease have reduced activities in midlife compared with healthy control-group members

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2001-03-06 Risk factors

    The development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life may be reflective of environmental factors operating over the course of a lifetime.

  50. Norms for letter and category fluency: demographic corrections for age, education, and ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Assessment 1999-06-01 Risk factors

    Letter and category fluency tasks are used to assess semantic knowledge, retrieval ability, and executive functioning.

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