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  1. [Antibody therapy in Alzheimer's disease] 2026-09-09
  2. Real-world evidence for amyloid-targeted therapies: Lecanemab and donanemab 2026-08-26
  3. APOE-guided lecanemab dosing dissociates ARIA-E from ARIA-H: The K-ROAD study 2026-08

Studies

332 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2000 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 26
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 21
  • The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 20
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 18
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 14

148 journals in all.

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  1. High-clearance anti-amyloid immunotherapies in Alzheimer's disease. Part 1: Meta-analysis and review of efficacy and safety data, and medico-economical aspects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Revue neurologique 2022-09-29 Treatments

    In 2021, aducanumab, an immunotherapy targeting amyloid-β, was approved for Alzheimer's disease (AD) by the US Food and Drug Administration thanks to positive results on a putative biological surrogate marker.

  2. Optimal anti-amyloid-beta therapy for Alzheimer's disease via a personalized mathematical model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. PLoS computational biology 2022-09-02 Treatments

    With the recent approval by the FDA of the first disease-modifying drug for Alzheimer's Disease (AD), personalized medicine will be increasingly important for appropriate management and counseling of patients with AD and those at risk.

  3. Aducanumab for Alzheimer's Disease: Summarized Data From EMERGE, ENGAGE, and PRIME Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Senior care pharmacist 2022-08-01 Treatments

    Based on the data to date, it is difficult to accurately assess the role of aducanumab in patients with MCI or mild AD.

  4. If amyloid drives Alzheimer disease, why have anti-amyloid therapies not yet slowed cognitive decline?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PLoS biology 2022-07-21 Treatments

    Strong genetic evidence supports an imbalance between production and clearance of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) in people with Alzheimer disease (AD).

  5. In silico exploration of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities in the gantenerumab open-label extension trials using a semi-mechanistic model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2022-06-06 Treatments

    Upon further refinement and validation, the VWD model could inform strategies for dosing and ARIA monitoring in individuals with an ARIA-E history.

  6. Role of Aducanumab in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: Challenges and Opportunities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2022-05-18 Treatments

    Aducanumab is a monoclonal antibody selective for amyloid β (Aβ) aggregates.

  7. Alzheimer's disease drug development pipeline: 2022

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2022-05-04 Drug development

    The AD drug development pipeline has agents representing a substantial array of treatment mechanisms and targets.

  8. Therapeutic news in Alzheimer's disease: Soon a disease-modifying therapy?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Revue neurologique 2022-04-28 Treatments

    Research on disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease has resulted in a series of failures over the past 20 years.

  9. Impact of Anti-amyloid-β Monoclonal Antibodies on the Pathology and Clinical Profile of Alzheimer's Disease: A Focus on Aducanumab and Lecanemab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-04-12 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of age-related dementia in the world, and its main pathological features consist of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque deposits and neurofibrillary tangles formed by hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  10. Early-stage Alzheimer disease: getting trial-ready

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2022-04-04 Treatments

    Slowing the progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) might be the greatest unmet medical need of our time.

  11. Aβ plaques removal in the brain due to amyloid therapy is strongly correlated with a better clinical response in patients with early Alzheimer's disease and a higher ARIA-E rate for the treatment groups and clinical trials in this meta-analysis.

  12. Disease Modeling and Model-Based Meta-Analyses to Define a New Direction for a Phase III Program of Gantenerumab in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 2022-02-28 Treatments

    Selecting the right dose is a significant challenge in designing clinical development programs, especially for slowly progressing diseases lacking predictive biomarkers of efficacy that may require long-term treatment to assess clinical benefit.

  13. "Aducanumab" making a comeback in Alzheimer's disease: An old wine in a new bottle

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2022-02-26 Treatments

    Despite presence of substantial evidence suggesting the pivotal role of amyloid (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), very few therapeutic agents have been able to ameliorate the disease.

  14. Specifically, recent studies suggest that increased plasma concentrations of lipoprotein-Aβ compromise the brain microvasculature, resulting in extravasation and retention of the lipoprotein-Aβ moiety.

  15. Aducanumab, a Novel Anti-Amyloid Monoclonal Antibody, for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: A Comprehensive Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Health psychology research 2022-01-30 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting millions of individuals, including family members who often take on the role as caregiver.

  16. Aducanumab: Appropriate Use Recommendations Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Aducanumab (Aduhelm) is approved in the United States for the treatment of patients with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease or mild AD dementia.

  17. Alzheimer's Disease: Key Insights from Two Decades of Clinical Trial Failures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Given the acknowledged lack of success in Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug development over the past two decades, the objective of this review was to derive key insights from the myriad failures to inform future drug development.

  18. Detection and Management of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease Treated with Anti-Amyloid Beta Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) are adverse events reported in Alzheimer's disease trials of anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) therapies.

  19. Disease-Modifying Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease: More Questions than Answers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Scientific advances over the last four decades have steadily infused the Alzheimer's disease (AD) field with great optimism that therapies targeting Aβ, amyloid, tau, and innate immune activation states in the brain would provide disease modification.

  20. New Drug Update: Dostarlimab, Loncastuximab Tesirine, and Aducanumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Senior Care Pharmacist 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Three new drugs are presented: dostarlimab, loncastuximab tesirine, and aducanumab.

  21. Safety and Efficacy of Monoclonal Antibodies for Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Published and Unpublished Clinical Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Our results suggest that the risk-benefit profile of mAbs remains unclear.

  22. Consensus Statement Regarding the Application of Biogen to Health Canada for Approval of Aducanumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Canadian Geriatrics Journal 2021-12-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer’s disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality.

  23. Is Aducanumab for LMICs? Promises and Challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain Sciences 2021-11-22 Treatments

    Aducanumab, a human monoclonal antibody, was approved in June of 2021 as the first disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s disease by the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA).

  24. Between July 22, 2014, and May 17, 2018, 261 participants entered the open-label phase. 211 were randomly assigned losartan (n=105) or placebo (n=106).

  25. The effectiveness and value of aducanumab for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2021-11 Costs and economics

    DISCLOSURES: Funding for this summary was contributed by Arnold Ventures, The Donaghue Foundation, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), an independent organization that evaluates the evidence on the value of health care interventions.

  26. Population pharmacokinetics and standard uptake value ratio of aducanumab, an amyloid plaque–removing agent, in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology 2021-10-26 Treatments

    Aducanumab is a human immunoglobulin G1 anti‐amyloid beta (Aβ) antibody currently being evaluated for potential treatment of patients with early Alzheimer’s disease.

  27. Past, present and future of therapeutic strategies against amyloid-β peptides in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2021-10-21 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in ageing, affecting around 46 million people worldwide but few treatments are currently available.

  28. A Primer on the Evolution of Aducanumab: The First Antibody Approved for Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2021-10-12 Treatments

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with global burden projected to triple by 2050.

  29. Aducanumab: evidence from clinical trial data and controversies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Drugs in context 2021-10-04 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause for dementia worldwide.

  30. caso de aducanumab ¿Más esperanza que ciencia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. ARS MEDICA Revista de Ciencias Médicas 2021-08-26 Treatments

    En junio, la Agencia de Alimentos y medicamentos de los Estados Unidos (FDA) otorgó aprobación mediante vía acelerada al medicamento aducanumab, desarrollado por Biogen, Inc. para tratamiento de la enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA).

  31. Preclinical in vivo longitudinal assessment of KG207-M as a disease-modifying Alzheimer's disease therapeutic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2021-08-11 Biomarkers

    In vivo biomarker abnormalities provide measures to monitor therapeutic interventions targeting amyloid-β pathology as well as its effects on downstream processes associated with Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology.

  32. Aducanumab: a new phase in therapeutic development for Alzheimer’s disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. EMBO Molecular Medicine 2021-08-02 Treatments

    On 7 June , the FDA approved aducanumab, the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in almost 20 years—and notably, the first drug with a putative disease‐modifying mechanism for the treatment of this devastating disorder, namely the removal of β‐amyloid (or Aβ) plaques from the brain.

  33. Aducanumab: First Approval

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Drugs 2021-08-01 Treatments

    Aducanumab (aducanumab-avwa; Aduhelm™) is a human, immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody directed against aggregated soluble and insoluble forms of amyloid β.

  34. Aducanumab and disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry 2021-07 Treatments

    Aducanumab has recently been licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA under its ‘accelerated approval’ pathway (to provide earlier access to treatments that fulfil an unmet need based on a surrogate endpoint) for treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

  35. Aducanumab for Alzheimer's disease: An update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuroscience Research Notes 2021-06-30 Treatments

    The US FDA approved Aducanumab in June 2021 as the first Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug under its accelerated approval pathway.

  36. A trial of gantenerumab or solanezumab in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Nature medicine 2021-06-21 Biomarkers

    Dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (DIAD) causes predictable biological changes decades before the onset of clinical symptoms, enabling testing of interventions in the asymptomatic and symptomatic stages to delay or slow disease progression.

  37. Neurotoxic Soluble Amyloid Oligomers Drive Alzheimer's Pathogenesis and Represent a Clinically Validated Target for Slowing Disease Progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-06-14 Treatments

    A large body of clinical and nonclinical evidence supports the role of neurotoxic soluble beta amyloid (amyloid, Aβ) oligomers as upstream pathogenic drivers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  38. Donanemab leads to less decline in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update 2021-06-04 Treatments

    Patients with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease showed less cognitive and functional decline with donanemab compared with placebo in a Phase 2 study offering up to 72 weeks of treatment.

  39. Alzheimer's disease drug development pipeline: 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-05-25 Drug development

    This pipeline analysis shows that target biological processes are more diversified, biomarkers are more regularly used, and repurposed agents are being explored to determine their utility for the treatment of AD.

  40. Anticancer drugs repurposed for Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-05 Drug development

    Based on a structured search on the ClinicalTrials.gov and the EudraCT databases, we identified 13 clinical trials testing 11 different approved anticancer agents (five tyrosine kinase inhibitors, two retinoid X receptor agonists, two immunomodulatory agents, one histone deacetylase inhibitor, and one monoclonal antibody) in the AD continuum.

  41. Systematic in silico analysis of clinically tested drugs for reducing amyloid-beta plaque accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-05-02 Treatments

    The calibrated model predicts that endogenous plaque turnover is slow, with an estimated half-life of 2.75 years.

  42. In this meta-analysis of phase III trials in AD, we found that monoclonal antibodies against Aβ induced clinical improvements of small effect sizes, biomarker improvements of large effect sizes, and increases in risk for the hallmark adverse event, ARIA, by a large effect size, when all drugs were pooled together.

  43. Value-Generating Exploratory Trials in Neurodegenerative Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2021-03-05 Clinical trials

    Drug development for Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative dementias, including frontotemporal dementia, has experienced a long history of phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials that failed to show efficacy of investigational drugs.

  44. Effect of reductions in amyloid levels on cognitive change in randomized trials: instrumental variable meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2021-02-25 Treatments

    Pooled evidence from available trials reporting both reduction in amyloid levels and change in cognition suggests that amyloid reduction strategies do not substantially improve cognition.

  45. Aducanumab: Appropriate Use Recommendations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Treatments

    Aducanumab has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  46. Donanemab (LY3002813) dose‐escalation study in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 2021-01 Treatments

    Donanemab was generally well tolerated up to 10 mg/kg.

  47. Donanemab (LY3002813) Phase 1b Study in Alzheimer's Disease: Rapid and Sustained Reduction of Brain Amyloid Measured by Florbetapir F18 Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021 Brain scans and imaging

    Treatment with donanemab resulted in rapid reduction of amyloid, even after a single dose.

  48. Can Anti-β-amyloid Monoclonal Antibodies Work in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology. Genetics 2020-12-17 Treatments

    The dominant theory of Alzheimer disease (AD) has been that amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulation in the brain is the initial cause of the degeneration leading to cognitive and functional deficits.

  49. Repositioning of Immunomodulators: A Ray of Hope for Alzheimer's Disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2020-12-04 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline and by the presence of amyloid β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.

  50. Failure to demonstrate efficacy of aducanumab: An analysis of the EMERGE and ENGAGE trials as reported by Biogen, December 2019

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-11-01 Treatments

    Aducanumab recently underwent two large phase III clinical trials that were stopped prematurely by the sponsor Biogen.

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