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Background: The most common and prevalent dementia worldwide is Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is a continuum composed of Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's Disease dementia (ADD) stage. One of the main clinical variables in patients with dementia is performance in functional capacity since its alterations are associated with poor prognosis and disease progression. Functional capacity is measured through activities of daily living (ADL), which are divided into three domains: i) Basic (BADL), ii) Instrumental (IADL), and iii) Advanced (AADL). The study aimed to characterize the performance of the different stages of the AD continuum in the ADL domains and their association with cognitive abilities. Method: A cross‐sectional study of subjects at different stages of the AD continuum was conducted: Healthy Controls (CTR) (n = 17), SCD (n = 77), MCI (n = 30), and ADD (n = 23), who were matched for age, sex, and education. ADLs were estimated using The Technology‐Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (T‐ADLQ), which assesses the three domains and a total score. T‐ADLQ performance was compared across groups and correlated with cognitive ability instruments (ACE‐III and IFS). Result: The results showed that patients with ADD performed worse on the BADL, IADL, and total ADLs compared to the other three groups. There were no significant differences between the CTR, SCD, and MCI on the BADL, IADL, and total ADLs. However, the AADL, in addition to differentiating the ADD patients from the other three groups, also showed differences between CTR and MCI subjects and between SCD and MCI subjects (Table 1 and Figure 1). The correlation study showed that AADL correlated significantly with global cognitive and executive function assessment (Figure 2). Conclusion: AADL shows progressive functional impairment at different stages of the AD continuum, which is further associated with global cognitive and executive function performances. As one progresses to a more advanced stage of the disease continuum, the performance of ADLs, especially AADLs, worsens, which could indicate a marker of disease progression, allowing for better patient follow‐up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transition metal oxides are a great alternative to less expensive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts. However, the lack of conductivity of these materials requires a conductor material to support them and improve the activity toward HER. On the other hand, carbon paste electrodes result in a versatile and cheap electrode with good activity and conductivity in electrocatalytic hydrogen production, especially when the carbonaceous material is agglomerated with ionic liquids. In the present work, an electrode composed of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and cobalt ferrite oxide (CoFe 2 O 4 ) was prepared. These compounds were included on an electrode agglomerated with the ionic liquid N-octylpyridinium hexafluorophosphate (IL) to obtain the modified CoFe 2 O 4 /MWCNTs/IL nanocomposite electrode. To evaluate the behavior of each metal of the bimetallic oxide, this compound was compared to the behavior of MWCNTs/IL where a single monometallic iron or cobalt oxides were included (i.e., α-Fe 2 O 3 /MWCNTs/IL and Co 3 O 4 /MWCNTs/IL). The synthesis of the oxides has been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), RAMAN spectroscopy, and field emission scanning electronic microscopy (FE-SEM), corroborating the nanometric character and the structure of the compounds. The CoFe 2 O 4 /MWCNTs/IL nanocomposite system presents excellent electrocatalytic activity toward HER with an onset potential of -270 mV vs. RHE, evidencing an increase in activity compared to monometallic oxides and exhibiting onset potentials of -530 mV and -540 mV for α-Fe 2 O 3 /MWCNTs/IL and Co 3 O 4 /MWCNTs/IL, respectively. Finally, the system studied presents excellent stability during the 5 h of electrolysis, producing 132 μmol cm -2 h -1 of hydrogen gas.