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  1. Alcohol use disorder accelerates age-related cognitive decline 2026-09-23
  2. A longitudinal study of age-related traits and cognitive function: The Collaborative Amish Aging and Memory Project (CAAMP) 2026-09-20
  3. Associations of menopause hormone therapy with late-life cognition and brain health vary by formulation and APOEε4 presence 2026-09-20

Studies

1,138 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 42
  • Neurology 41
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 36
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 33
  • Nutrients 23

437 journals in all.

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  1. Cognitive training in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Impact on cognitive and functional performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2009-04-01 Prevention trials

    Aging is associated with cognitive decline, yet this does not prevent older adults from finding ways to compensate for age-related deficits.

  2. Can cognitive exercise prevent the onset of dementia? Systematic review of randomized clinical trials with longitudinal follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2009-03-01 Prevention and risk

    Cognitive exercise training in healthy older individuals produces strong and persistent protective effects on longitudinal neuropsychological performance.

  3. Cognitive and sensory declines in old age: gauging the evidence for a common cause

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Psychology and aging 2009-03-01 Prevention and risk

    Resource accounts of behavioral aging postulate that age-associated impairments within and across intellectual and sensory domains reflect, in part, a common set of senescent alterations in the neurochemistry and neuroanatomy of the aging brain.

  4. Cognitive impairment improves the predictive validity of the phenotype of frailty for adverse health outcomes: the three-city study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2009-02-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Six thousand thirty community-dwelling persons aged 65 to 95.

  5. Educational attainment and cognitive decline in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2009-02-01 Disparities

    The results suggest that education is robustly associated with level of cognitive function but not with rate of cognitive decline and that the former association primarily accounts for education's correlation with risk of dementia in old age.

  6. Executive decline and dysfunction precedes declines in memory: the Women's Health and Aging Study II

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2009-01-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Understanding preclinical transitions to impairment in cognitive abilities associated with risks for functional difficulty and dementia.

  7. The impact of cognitive impairment on rehabilitation outcomes in elderly patients admitted with a femoral neck fracture: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001) 2009-01-01 Disparities

    Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria.

  8. Can training in a real-time strategy video game attenuate cognitive decline in older adults?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Psychology and aging 2008-12-01 Prevention trials

    Declines in various cognitive abilities, particularly executive control functions, are observed in older adults.

  9. Effectiveness of Cognitive/Behavioral Small Group Intervention for Reduction of Depression and Stress in Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latino Women Dementia Family Caregivers: Outcomes and Mediators of Change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy : RET 2008-12-01 Disparities

    This study enrolled 184 middle-aged and older women (95 Non-Hispanic White and 89 Hispanic/Latino) who provided in-home hands-on care to an elderly relative with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia.

  10. Examination of cognitive and instrumental functional performance as indicators for driving cessation risk across 3 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2008-12-01 Prevention trials

    We used Cox proportional hazard analyses to examine prospective predictors of driving cessation over a 3-year period.

  11. The effects of an engaged lifestyle on cognitive vitality: a field experiment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Psychology and aging 2008-12-01 Prevention trials

    Experimental studies on cognitive training have suggested that the effects of experience are narrow in augmenting or maintaining cognitive abilities, while correlational studies report a wide range of benefits of an engaged lifestyle, including increased longevity, resistance to dementia, and enhanced cognitive flexibility.

  12. Exercise and cognition in older adults: is there a role for resistance training programmes?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. British journal of sports medicine 2008-11-19 Clinical safety

    In recent years, there has been a strong interest in physical activity as a primary behavioural prevention strategy against cognitive decline.

  13. Folic acid with or without vitamin B12 for the prevention and treatment of healthy elderly and demented people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2008-10-08 Prevention and risk

    Folic acid supplements may sometimes therefore include vitamin B12 supplements with simultaneous administration of vitamin B12.Lesser degrees of folate inadequacy are associated with high blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine which has been linked with the risk of arterial disease, dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

  14. Enrichment Effects on Adult Cognitive Development: Can the Functional Capacity of Older Adults Be Preserved and Enhanced?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society 2008-10-01 Prevention trials

    In practice, knowledge and expertise are critical for effective functioning, and the available evidence suggests that older adults effectively employ specific knowledge and expertise and can gain new knowledge when it is required.

  15. Longitudinal changes in memory and executive functioning are associated with longitudinal change in instrumental activities of daily living in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2008-09-23 Caregiving

    Impaired everyday function is a diagnostic criterion for dementia, and a determinant of healthcare utilization and caregiver burden.

  16. Cardiovascular risk and memory in non-demented elderly women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2008-09-21 Treatments

    These findings suggest that subtle elevation of CHD risk may negatively affect memory functioning even in otherwise healthy, non-demented older women without a history of heart disease.

  17. Effect of physical activity on cognitive function in older adults at risk for Alzheimer disease: a randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. JAMA 2008-09-01 Treatments

    In this study of adults with subjective memory impairment, a 6-month program of physical activity provided a modest improvement in cognition over an 18-month follow-up period.

  18. The role of reduced fitness to drive due to medical impairments in explaining crashes involving older drivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Traffic injury prevention 2008-08-01 Clinical safety

    Medical conditions overall, do impact the fitness to drive of older drivers; however, the crash risk tends to be only slightly to moderately increased.

  19. Olfaction and the 5-year incidence of cognitive impairment in an epidemiological study of older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2008-07-24 Prevention and risk

    Olfactory impairment at baseline was strongly associated with 5-year incidence of cognitive impairment as measured using the MMSE.

  20. Thyroid function and cognitive decline in the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2008-07-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Hypothyroidism and subclinical hyperthyroidism have both been associated with cognitive impairment and dementia.

  21. Traumatic Brain Injury and Cognitive Rehabilitation: Current Approaches to Research, Reimbursement, and Clinical Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. ASHA Leader 2008-07-01 Risk factors

    The existing evidence suggests that both could be addressed with either antecedent behavior management strategies, such as creating verbal scripts and routines (e.g., an “escape” routine when he is losing his temper, greeting routines for customers), or consequence-oriented management such as reinforcement of either positive behaviors or low rates of negative behaviors (Ylvisaker, Turkstra, & Coelho, 2005).

  22. Whole-brain atrophy rate and cognitive decline: longitudinal MR study of memory clinic patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Radiology 2008-06-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    Baseline brain volume was lowest in AD but did not differ significantly between MCI, subjective complaints, and control groups (P > .38).

  23. Neuropsychological performance in advanced age: influences of demographic factors and Apolipoprotein E: findings from the Cache County Memory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Clinical neuropsychologist 2008-06-10 Digital health tools

    The Cache County Study of Memory in Aging (CCMS) is an epidemiological study of Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive disorders, and aging in a population of exceptionally long-lived individuals (7th to 11th decade).

  24. Circadian rhythm disturbances have been associated with these symptoms.

  25. Cognitive impairment in the aging dialysis and chronic kidney disease populations: an occult burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Advances in chronic kidney disease 2008-04-01 Caregiving

    The high burden of cognitive impairment in hemodialysis and chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients has only recently become recognized.

  26. Trends in the prevalence and mortality of cognitive impairment in the United States: is there evidence of a compression of cognitive morbidity?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2008-03-04 Caregiving

    Societal investment in building and maintaining cognitive reserve through formal education in childhood and continued cognitive stimulation during work and leisure in adulthood might help limit the burden of dementia among the growing number of older adults worldwide.

  27. Effect of moderate exercise training on T-helper cell subpopulations in elderly people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Exercise immunology review 2008-01-01 Prevention and risk

    CD28 molecule expression on the surface of T cells plays a critical role in upregulation of various cytokines synthesis and T-helper (Th) cell proliferation and differentiation.

  28. Nonpharmacological cognitive interventions in aging and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2007-12-01 Prevention trials

    There have been increasing efforts to develop cognitive interventions to ameliorate cognitive problems experienced by older adults.

  29. Pulse pressure and pulse wave velocity are related to cognitive decline in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2007-11-19 Getting a diagnosis

    Pulse pressure and pulse wave velocity, markers of arterial stiffness, have been associated with stroke, dementia, and lowered levels of cognitive function.

  30. Low vitamin B-12 status and risk of cognitive decline in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2007-11-01 Prevention and risk

    Low vitamin B-12 status was associated with more rapid cognitive decline.

  31. Deficits of knowledge versus executive control in semantic cognition: insights from cued naming

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2007-09-18 Digital health tools

    Deficits of semantic cognition in semantic dementia and in aphasia consequent on CVA (stroke) are qualitatively different.

  32. The relationship between specific cognitive functions and falls in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2007-09-01 Prevention and risk

    The current study examined the relationship between cognitive function and falls in older people who did not meet criteria for dementia or mild cognitive impairment (N = 172).

  33. The effects of tobacco smoke and nicotine on cognition and the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2007-08-10 Vascular contributions

    Tobacco smoke consists of thousands of compounds including nicotine.

  34. Changes in everyday function in individuals with psychometrically defined mild cognitive impairment in the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2007-08-01 Prevention trials

    MCI classification guidelines should allow for functional changes in MCI, and clinicians should monitor for such changes.

  35. The neuroprotective effects of caffeine: a prospective population study (the Three City Study)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2007-08-01 Prevention and risk

    The psychostimulant properties of caffeine appear to reduce cognitive decline in women without dementia, especially at higher ages.

  36. The role of higher-level cognitive function in gait: executive dysfunction contributes to fall risk in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2007-07-04 Prevention and risk

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is generally understood as primarily affecting cognition while sparing motor function, at least until the later stages of the disease.

  37. Does NSAID use modify cognitive trajectories in the elderly? The Cache County study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2007-07-01 Genetics

    Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use may help to prevent cognitive decline in older adults if started in midlife rather than late life.

  38. Cognitive and neuroimaging predictors of instrumental activities of daily living

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2007-05-18 Caregiving

    Impaired ability to conduct daily activities is a diagnostic criterion for dementia and a determinant of healthcare services utilization and caregiver burden.

  39. Relation of obesity to cognitive function: importance of central obesity and synergistic influence of concomitant hypertension. The Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2007-04-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Obesity has been related to the incidence of dementia but its impact on cognitive performance in persons without dementia is less clear.

  40. IANA task force on nutrition and cognitive decline with aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2007-03-01 Prevention and risk

    Cognitive impairment can be influenced by a number of factors.

  41. Serum cholesterol changes after midlife and late-life cognition: twenty-one-year follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2007-03-01 Genetics

    The relationship between serum total cholesterol (TC) and dementia seems to be bidirectional.

  42. Strategic subcortical hyperintensities in cholinergic pathways and executive function decline in treated Alzheimer patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Cerebrovascular compromise of the cholinergic pathways may be a factor that contributes more selectively than does total white matter lesion burden to response to cholinergic therapy in Alzheimer disease, particularly on frontal/executive tasks.

  43. Selenium level and cognitive function in rural elderly Chinese

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2007-01-31 Disparities

    Selenium is a trace element associated with antioxidant activity and is considered to be a protective agent against free radicals through enhanced enzyme activity.

  44. Quantitative gait dysfunction and risk of cognitive decline and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2007-01-19 How common it is

    Our findings indicate that quantitative gait measures predict future risk of cognitive decline and dementia in initially non-demented older adults.

  45. Cognitive performance in older women relative to ApoE-epsilon4 genotype and aerobic fitness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Medicine and science in sports and exercise 2007-01-01 Genetics

    The preliminary findings from this study support the possibility that aerobic fitness is positively associated with the memory performance of those individuals at most genetic risk for Alzheimer disease.

  46. Heart failure and cognitive impairment: challenges and opportunities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2007-01-01 Clinical safety

    As populations age, heart failure (HF) is becoming increasingly common, and in addition to a high burden of morbidity and mortality, HF has an enormous financial impact.

  47. Nutritional status determinants and cognition in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2007-01-01 Prevention trials

    It is possible to identify risks or protective factors against dementia.

  48. Strategies to prevent falls and fractures in hospitals and care homes and effect of cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta-analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2006-12-08 How common it is

    There is some evidence that multifaceted interventions in hospital reduce the number of falls and that use of hip protectors in care homes prevents hip fractures.

  49. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with low mood and worse cognitive performance in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2006-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In a cross-section of older adults, vitamin D deficiency was associated with low mood and with impairment on two of four measures of cognitive performance.

  50. Endogenous sex hormone levels and risk of cognitive decline in an older biracial cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2006-11-09 Disparities

    Older women with low estradiol levels were more likely to experience decline in global cognitive function and verbal memory, and a similar trend was observed for verbal memory in men.

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