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A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that older adults with mild-cognitive-impairment-level MoCA-J scores showed distinct resting facial action-unit patterns: AU10 upper lip raiser, AU23 lip tighte…
Read articleA 430-caregiver study in Kathmandu found caregiving burden in 65.3% of family caregivers of older adults with disability, with adjusted predictors clustering around low economic status, 8 or…
Read articleA 2026 Medicare target-trial emulation found continued levetiracetam after acute ischemic stroke was associated with 53 vs. 62 deaths per 1,000 over 90 days, a risk difference of −9 deaths p…
Read articleA 2026 individual participant data meta-analysis of 1,721 dementia trial participants linked risperidone to cerebrovascular adverse events, HR 4.11 (95% CI 1.77 to 9.51), and major cardiovas…
Read articleA 2025 longitudinal analysis of 1,528 older Chinese Americans by Chen et al. in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease says something more specific than “stress causes Alzheimer’s”…
Read articleAuditory targeted memory reactivation during a 2-hour nap did not improve motor retention in 20 Parkinson’s disease patients or 20 healthy older adults, even though the same cues changed sle…
Read articleA 2026 BETA analysis of 199 older adults found that resting-state fMRI could separate 4 anxiety-related tDCS response patterns, but the result was narrower than “brain scan predicts treatmen…
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