Get help now — free helplines

You can call any of these for free. You do not need a diagnosis, an appointment, or a crisis to call — questions and plain exhaustion are reasons enough.

  • Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Free, confidential support and information for people with dementia, caregivers, families and the public. Master's-level clinicians. Also Spanish.
  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 988 24/7 Call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. For anyone in emotional distress or a mental-health crisis, including caregivers.
  • Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) Helpline 866-232-8484 9:00 am - 9:00 pm ET, seven days a week Licensed social workers providing support, info and referrals. Also text message and web chat. Text: 646-586-5283

In a medical emergency, call 911. More numbers, and what each line does, on the help page.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Reimagining cholinergic therapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-07-01 Treatments

    Currently, enhancement of cholinergic neurotransmission via cholinesterase inhibitors represents the main available approach to treat cognitive and behavioural symptoms of the early as well as late stages of Alzheimer's disease.

  2. Therapeutic Approach to Alzheimer's Disease: Current Treatments and New Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Pharmaceutics 2022-05-24 Treatments

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease: An Updated Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-07-30 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and accounts for most cases of dementia.

  10. Recent advances on drug development and emerging therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular biology reports 2021-06-28 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative old age disease that is complex, multifactorial, unalterable, and progressive in nature.

  11. 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).

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Symptomatic amyloid-related imaging abnormalities in an APOE ε4/ε4 patient treated with aducanumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-10-09 Treatments

    Acute symptoms included headache and encephalopathy, and magnetic resonance imaging revealed ARIA-E and ARIA-H. Malignant hypertension and epileptiform activity were treated with nicardipine and levetiracetam.

  15. Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson Disease: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. JAMA 2020-02-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Individuals experiencing complications, such as worsening symptoms and functional impairment when a medication dose wears off ("off periods"), medication-resistant tremor, and dyskinesias, benefit from advanced treatments such as therapy with levodopa-carbidopa enteral suspension or deep brain stimulation.

  16. Pharmaceutical Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Utilization and Disparities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Treatments

    Among persons diagnosed with ADRD or related symptoms, 33.3% used an approved drug over the study period.

  17. Central pharmacodynamic activity of solanezumab in mild Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2018-11-09 Treatments

    Solanezumab produced statistically significant increases in CSF total Aβ isoforms versus placebo, which correlated with CSF solanezumab concentration.

  18. Phase II clinical trials of anti-amyloid β antibodies: When is enough, enough?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2017-05-17 Clinical trials

    Efforts to develop new therapies to combat Alzheimer's disease suffer from extraordinarily high failure rates that make it difficult to justify continued investment in the field.

  19. Inclusion/exclusion criteria in late life depression antidepressant efficacy trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016-08-22 Risk factors

    There were nine inclusion/exclusion criteria that were used in more than half of the late life depression AETs: minimum severity on a symptom severity scale (100.0%), significant suicidal ideation (77.8%), psychotic features during the current episode of depression or history of a psychotic disorder (94.4%), history of bipolar disorder (77.8%), diagnosis of alcohol or drug abuse or dependence (83.3%), presence of a comorbid nondepressive, nonsubstance use Axis I disorder (55.6%), episode duration too short (66.7%), and an insufficient score on a cognitive screen (88.3%) or the presence of a cognitive disorder (55.6%).

  20. Aducanumab (BIIB037) is a human monoclonal antibody selective for aggregated forms of beta-amyloid peptide being investigated as a disease-modifying treatment for AD.

  21. From prescription drug purchases to drug use periods – a second generation method (PRE2DUP)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. BMC medical informatics and decision making 2015-03-25 Health systems and care delivery

    PRE2DUP method gives highly accurate drug use periods for most drug classes, especially those meant for long-term use.

  22. Pharmacokinetic drug–drug interaction study of ranolazine and metformin in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development 2015-01-22 Drug development

    Ranolazine and metformin may be frequently co‐administered in subjects with chronic angina and co‐morbid type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

  23. Alzheimer's disease drug-development pipeline: few candidates, frequent failures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2014-07-03 Clinical trials

    The Clinicaltrials.gov database demonstrates that relatively few clinical trials are undertaken for AD therapeutics, considering the magnitude of the problem.

  24. Incretin mimetics as pharmacologic tools to elucidate and as a new drug strategy to treat traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-02-01 Drug development

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI), either as an isolated injury or in conjunction with other injuries, is an increasingly common event.

  25. Identification of novel functional inhibitors of acid sphingomyelinase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2011-08-31 Digital health tools

    We describe a hitherto unknown feature for 27 small drug-like molecules, namely functional inhibition of acid sphingomyelinase (ASM).

From across this topic

9 of the 902 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 9. The same 9 appear here every time.

Other topics