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ReviewAging medicine (Milton (N.S.W))2019

Advances in screening instruments for Alzheimer's disease.

Xianbo Zhou, J Wesson Ashford

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Review in Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Toward digitally screening and profiling AD: A GAMLSS approach of MemTrax in China.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  19. Advances in screening instruments for Alzheimer's disease.Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Xianbo ZhouSJN Biomed LTD Kunming China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3544-7497
J Wesson AshfordWar Related Illness and Injury Study Center VA Palo Alto Health Care System Palo Alto California USA.
Alzheimer's Association · USVA Palo Alto Health Care System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At its fundamental basis, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a pathological process that affects neuroplasticity, leading to a specific disruption of episodic memory. This review will provide a rationale for calls to screen for the early detection of AD, appraise the currently available cognitive instruments for AD detection, and focus on the development of the MemTrax test, which provides a new approach to detect the early manifestations and progression of the dementia associated with AD. MemTrax assesses metrics that reflect the effects of neuroplastic processes on learning, memory, and cognition, which are affected by age and AD, particularly episodic memory functions, which cannot presently be measured with enough precision for meaningful use. Further development of MemTrax would be of great value to the early detection of AD and would provide support for the testing of early interventions.

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Alzheimer's diseasescreenscreening instrument

Identifiers

PMID31942517
PMCPMC6880670
OpenAlexW2947254362

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