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Newest in this topic

  1. Individual Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Risk of Dementia: A Target Trial Emulation Study 2026-10-14
  2. Dementia and PDE5 inhibitors: A retrospective cohort study of veterans 2026-10-13
  3. The influence of cognitive decline on the severity and quantity of drug-drug interactions 2026-10-11

Studies

271 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1981 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 15
  • Neurology 11
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 9
  • Research Square 8
  • medRxiv 8

138 journals in all.

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  1. Multiple anticholinergic medication use and risk of hospital admission for confusion or dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014-10-03 Digital health tools

    Taking more anticholinergic medications is associated with greater risk of hospitalization for confusion or dementia.

  2. Efficacy and safety of donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, and memantine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Treatments

    Cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine are able to stabilize or slow decline in cognition, function, behavior, and global change.

  3. A population-based study of dosing and persistence with anti-dementia medications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. European journal of clinical pharmacology 2013-02-27 Treatments

    Between January 2006 and December 2010, 20,729 patients aged >70 years received a prescription for an AD medication.

  4. Treatment of Alzheimer's disease with the GSK-3 inhibitor tideglusib: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Treatments

    This pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, escalating dose trial explored the safety and efficacy of tideglusib, an inhibitor of glycogen synthase kinase-3, in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  5. British Association of Dermatologists’ guidelines for the management of bullous pemphigoid 2012

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. British Journal of Dermatology 2012-11-02 Drug development

    The overall objective of the guideline is to provide up‐to‐date, evidence‐based recommendations for the management of bullous pemphigoid (BP).

  6. Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2012-03-01 Treatments

    In patients with moderate or severe Alzheimer's disease, continued treatment with donepezil was associated with cognitive benefits that exceeded the minimum clinically important difference and with significant functional benefits over the course of 12 months.

  7. Differential risk of death in older residents in nursing homes prescribed specific antipsychotic drugs: population based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2012-02-23 Health systems and care delivery

    Though these findings cannot prove causality, and we cannot rule out the possibility of residual confounding, they provide more evidence of the risk of using these drugs in older patients, reinforcing the concept that they should not be used in the absence of clear need.

  8. Association between polypharmacy and dementia in older people: a population-based case-control study in Taiwan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Geriatrics & gerontology international 2012-01-10 Digital health tools

    The risk of dementia increases steadily with the number of medications used and age in older people in Taiwan.

  9. Risk of Mortality Among Individual Antipsychotics in Patients With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. American Journal of Psychiatry 2011-12-30 Clinical safety

    In covariate-adjusted intent-to-treat analyses, haloperidol was associated with the highest mortality rates (relative risk=1.54, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.38-1.73) followed by risperidone (reference), olanzapine (relative risk=0.99, 95% CI=0.89-1.10), valproic acid and its derivatives (relative risk=0.91, 95% CI=0.78-1.06), and quetiapine (relative risk=0.73, 95% CI=0.67-0.80).

  10. Potentially inappropriate medications defined by STOPP criteria and the risk of adverse drug events in older hospitalized patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 2011-06-01 Clinical safety

    STOPP criteria PIMs, unlike Beers criteria PIMs, are significantly associated with avoidable ADEs in older people that cause or contribute to urgent hospitalization.

  11. Dimebon disappointment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2010-09-13 Clinical trials

    Dimebon (latrepirdine) has received widespread publicity as a potential therapy for Alzheimer's disease following a very positive phase 2 study carried out in Russia and published in the Lancet in 2008.

  12. Rosiglitazone monotherapy in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease: results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2010-08-21 Treatments

    No evidence of efficacy of 2 mg or 8 mg RSG XR monotherapy in cognition or global function was detected in the APOE-ε4-negative or other analysis populations.

  13. Diagnosis, prevention, and management of delirium: summary of NICE guidance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMJ 2010-07-28 Costs and economics

    Delirium is a complex clinical syndrome characterised by disturbed consciousness, cognitive function, or perception.

  14. Drugs for Alzheimer's disease: are they effective?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PubMed Central 2010-04-01 End-of-life care

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a devastating neurodegenerative disorder, is the leading cause of dementia in the U.S. and in other developed countries.

  15. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and memantine for neuroenhancement in healthy individuals: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2010-03-01 Treatments

    The term neuroenhancement refers to improvement in the cognitive, emotional and motivational functions of healthy individuals through, inter alia, the use of drugs.

  16. Effects of donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine in 938 Italian patients with Alzheimer's disease: a prospective, observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. CNS drugs 2010-02 Treatments

    No statistically significant improvement in the primary outcome measures (MMSE and ADAS-Cog) was observed with drug therapy at 36 weeks, at which point all groups had lost, on average, 1 point on the MMSE and gained 2-3 points on the ADAS-Cog scale compared with baseline.

  17. Management of behavioral problems in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2010-01-25 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex progressive brain degenerative disorder that has effects on multiple cerebral systems.

  18. Can we do better in developing new drugs for Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2009-11 Treatments

    The past 30 years have seen multiple attempts at demonstrating the safety and efficacy of drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD), predominantly to improve symptoms.

  19. The association between dementia and long-term use of benzodiazepine in the elderly: nested case-control study using claims data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2009-07-01 Digital health tools

    Our findings suggest that long-term use of BZDs is associated with an increased risk for dementia, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear, and further investigations are needed.

  20. Statin‐Associated Adverse Cognitive Effects: Survey Results from 171 Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy 2009-06-26 Drug development

    Patients completed a survey assessing statin-associated, cognitive-specific adverse drug reaction (ADR) characteristics, relation of the ADR to specific statin and dose (or potency), and time course of symptom onset and recovery.

  21. 14 studies were identified that matched inclusion criteria.

  22. Syncope and its consequences in patients with dementia receiving cholinesterase inhibitors: a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 2009-05-01 Treatments

    Use of cholinesterase inhibitors is associated with increased rates of syncope, bradycardia, pacemaker insertion, and hip fracture in older adults with dementia.

  23. Long-term effects of the concomitant use of memantine with cholinesterase inhibition in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2009-02-09 Treatments

    This observational study revealed that the addition of the NMDA receptor antagonist memantine to the treatment of AD with ChEI significantly altered the treated history of AD by extending time to nursing home admission.

  24. The dementia antipsychotic withdrawal trial (DART-AD): long-term follow-up of a randomised placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2009-01-08 Clinical trials

    We aimed to assess whether continued treatment with antipsychotics in people with AD is associated with an increased risk of mortality.

  25. Neurological and psychiatric practitioners' views on Alzheimer's disease and treatment thereof

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2008-12-04 Treatments

    36% of practitioners reported not having used therapies for medical conditions other than dementia in patients with AD for reasons of limited compliance in these patients.

  26. Effect of regulatory warnings on antipsychotic prescription rates among elderly patients with dementia: a population-based time-series analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2008-08-01 Digital health tools

    Although the warnings slowed the growth in the use of atypical antipsychotic drugs among patients with dementia, they did not reduce the overall prescription rate of these potentially dangerous drugs.

  27. Inclusion criteria were early AD (mini-mental state examination [MMSE] score between 20 and 26 points or Alzheimer's disease assessment scale-cognitive subscale (ADAS-cog) score between 10 and 25 points), taking a stable dose of acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (donepezil, galantamine, or rivastigmine) for at least 4 months, a modified Hachinski score of 4 points or less, and CT or MRI results that were consistent with AD.

  28. 155 (85%) patients completed the trial (78 [88%] in dimebon group, 77 [82%] in placebo group).

  29. Long-term Course and Effectiveness of Combination Therapy in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 2008-07-01 Treatments

    Covarying for baseline scores, age, education, and duration of illness, the COMBO group had significantly lower mean annualized rates of deterioration in BDS and ADL scores compared with the CI (P<0.001; Cohen's dBDS=0.10-0.34 and dADL=0.23-0.46 at 1 to 2 y) and NO-RX groups (P<0.001; Cohen's dBDS=0.56-0.73 and dADL=0.32-0.48 at 1 to 2 y).

  30. Prevalence of cholinesterase inhibitors in subjects with dementia in Europe

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety 2008-07 Treatments

    In 2004, estimated prevalence of ChI use among subjects with dementia ranged from 3.0% in the Netherlands to 20.3% in France.

  31. Clinical Symptom Responses to Atypical Antipsychotic Medications in Alzheimer’s Disease: Phase 1 Outcomes From the CATIE-AD Effectiveness Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American Journal of Psychiatry 2008-06-02 Clinical safety

    In relation to placebo, the last observation in phase 1 showed greater improvement with olanzapine or risperidone on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory total score, risperidone on the Clinical Global Impression of Changes, olanzapine and risperidone on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) hostile suspiciousness factor, and risperidone on the BPRS psychosis factor.

  32. Memantine for Agitation/Aggression and Psychosis in Moderately Severe to Severe Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2008-03-15 Treatments

    Sixty percent of the total patient group had baseline symptoms of agitation/aggression, delusions, or hallucinations on the NPI.

  33. Assessing change in cognitive function in dementia: the relative utilities of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale and the Cognitive Drug Research system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2008-03-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This paper considers the suitability of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-cog) as the gold standard in registration trials of treatments for Alzheimer's disease.

  34. Safety and efficacy of galantamine in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Neurology 2008-03-05 Treatments

    Galantamine failed to significantly influence conversion to dementia.

  35. Current pharmacologic treatment of dementia: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2008-03-01 Treatments

    Description The American College of Physicians and American Academy of Family Physicians developed this guideline to present the available evidence on current pharmacologic treatment of dementia.

  36. Efficacy and safety of donepezil, galantamine, and rivastigmine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2008-01-01 Treatments

    Pharmacologic treatments for Alzheimer's disease include the cholinesterase inhibitors donepezil, galantamine, and rivastigmine.

  37. Improvement in behavioural symptoms in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease by memantine: a pooled data analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2007-12-03 Treatments

    At weeks 12 and 24/28, ITT analysis demonstrated that memantine treatment produced statistically significant benefits over placebo treatment in NPI total score (p=0.001 and p=0.008), and in NPI single items: delusions (p=0.007 week 12, p=0.001 week 24/28), hallucinations (p=0.037 week 12), agitation/aggression (p=0.001 week 12, p=0.001 week 24/28), and irritability/lability (p=0.005 week 24/28), LOCF population.

  38. Donepezil for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2007-10-01 Treatments

    In this 12-week trial, donepezil was not more effective than placebo in treating agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  39. Cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia with Lewy bodies: a comparative analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2007-09 Treatments

    All ChEIs significantly improved cognitive and neuropsychiatric measures.

  40. Efficacy and adverse effects of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in vascular dementia: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2007-09-01 Treatments

    Three donepezil, two galantamine, one rivastigmine, and two memantine trials, comprising 3093 patients on the study drugs and 2090 patients on placebo, met the selection criteria.

  41. Atypical antipsychotics for the treatment of dementia-related behaviors: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Medicine and health, Rhode Island 2007-06 Treatments

    The evidence base, although incomplete, suggests that modest treatment effect sizes are offset by risk of considerable adverse effects.

  42. A six-month double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of a transdermal patch in Alzheimer's disease--rivastigmine patch versus capsule

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2007-05-01 Treatments

    The target dose of 10 cm2 rivastigmine patch provides efficacy similar to the highest doses of capsules with a superior tolerability profile.

  43. Donepezil: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy 2007-05-01 Treatments

    Donepezil hydrochloride is the most widely prescribed drug for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  44. Delirium in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMJ 2007-04-19 Costs and economics

    Few ill health situations are more degrading to people of any age than loss of reasoning, faculties, and personhood.

  45. Efficacy and safety of galantamine in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies: a 24-week open-label study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2007-04-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Galantamine appears to be an effective and safe therapy for patients with DLB.

  46. Cost-effectiveness of treatments for Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research 2007-02 Costs and economics

    Care of dementia is extremely resource demanding and has a great impact on both the formal care systems and the situation for informal carers.

  47. Is long-term treatment of Alzheimer's disease with cholinesterase inhibitor therapy justified?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Drugs & aging 2007 Treatments

    The cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine are the current mainstays in the drug treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  48. Rivastigmine in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2007 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in industrialized countries.

  49. Effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic drugs in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2006-10-01 Clinical trials

    Adverse effects offset advantages in the efficacy of atypical antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of psychosis, aggression, or agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

  50. Outcomes of antipsychotic drug use in community-dwelling elders with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of psychiatric nursing 2006-10-01 Digital health tools

    This study used administrative data from a large health care insurer in the southeast United States to describe the utilization pattern and health care outcomes of antipsychotic drug use in community-dwelling elders with dementia.

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