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  1. Commentaries: Lecanemab: pioneering the way as the first approved drug for Alzheimer's disease treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] 2023-09-08 Clinical trials

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder marked by cognitive decline and neuronal abnormalities.

  2. Tryptamine: A privileged scaffold for the management of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Drug development research 2023-09-07 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic and irreversible neurodegenerative disease associated with aging.

  3. Lecanemab (Leqembi) is not the right drug for patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2023-09 Treatments

    On July 6, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lecanemab (Leqembi) for the treatment of Alzheimer's dementia (AD) patients.

  4. Management of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2023-08-07 Clinical trials

    RECENT FINDINGS: In a large autopsy series from a national consortium, multiple neuropathologies of dementia subtypes were common and increased severity of specific NPS during life was associated with greater severity of neuropathology across diagnoses.

  5. A Novel Formulation: Donepezil Patch

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Senior care pharmacist 2023-07-01 Treatments

    Prevalence of dementia continues to increase with limited pharmacotherapy options available.

  6. The affordability of lecanemab, an amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer's disease: an EADC-EC viewpoint

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Lancet regional health. Europe 2023-05-22 Treatments

    Lecanemab, an anti-amyloid antibody with effects on biomarker and clinical endpoints in early Alzheimer's Disease (AD), was granted accelerated approval by the FDA in 2023 and regulatory review in Europe is ongoing.

  7. Drug repositioning targeting glutaminase reveals drug candidates for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of translational medicine 2023-05-20 Drug development

    We identified glutaminase as a promising drug target.

  8. Treatment strategy for late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2023-05-07 Risk factors

    With the unprecedented aging of the world's population, the number of elderly patients with depression is expected to increase.

  9. [Anti-Dementia Drugs (Anti-Alzheimer's Disease Drugs)]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 2023-05 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment includes both non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches.

  10. Combination of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and NMDA receptor antagonists increases survival rate in soman-poisoned mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Toxicology mechanisms and methods 2023-04-19 Treatments

    Organophosphorus nerve agents pose a global threat to both military personnel and civilian population, because of their high acute toxicity and insufficient medical countermeasures.

  11. Long-term use of metformin and Alzheimer's disease: beneficial or detrimental effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Inflammopharmacology 2023-02-28 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid beta (Aβ) leading to cognitive decline.

  12. Drug Repurposing to Inhibit Histamine N-Methyl Transferase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-01-06 Drug development

    Lower activity of the histaminergic system is associated with neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. The Anti-Amyloid Monoclonal Antibody Lecanemab: 16 Cautionary Notes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Treatments

    After the CLARITY-AD clinical trial results of lecanemab were interpreted as positive, and supporting the amyloid hypothesis, the drug received accelerated Food and Drug Administration approval.

  14. Viewpoint: Clinicians' Perspectives on How Disease Modifying Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease Impact Specialty Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Treatments

    Clinicians specialized in the diagnosis and management of persons living with early-stage Alzheimer's disease need to enable access, for those meeting criteria, to the new class of disease modifying drugs (DMDs).

  15. Foresee Novel Targets for Alzheimer's Disease by Investigating Repurposed Drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2023 Drug development

    Drugs like Zileuton, Salbutamol, Baricitinib, Carmustine, Paclitaxel, and Nilotinib were observed to be involved in regulation of neurotransmitters.

  16. Cardiovascular Risk Management in Persons with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk factors

    The number of people living with dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, is increasing worldwide.

  17. Metformin: new applications for an old drug

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of basic and clinical physiology and pharmacology 2022-12-07 Drug development

    Metformin is a biguanide, evolved as one of the most widely used medicines.

  18. Gantenerumab: an anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody with potential disease-modifying effects in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-11-29 Treatments

    The results from the gantenerumab phase 3 programs are expected by the end of 2022 and will add critical information to the collective knowledge on the search for effective AD treatments.

  19. Drug Delivery Systems as a Strategy to Improve the Efficacy of FDA-Approved Alzheimer's Drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pharmaceutics 2022-10-26 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with a high impact worldwide, accounting for more than 46 million cases.

  20. Diabetes and dementia: Clinical perspective, innovation, knowledge gaps

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of diabetes and its complications 2022-10-05 Risk factors

    The world faces a pandemic-level prevalence of type 2 diabetes.

  21. Therapeutic drug repositioning with special emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases: Threats and issues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2022-10-03 Drug development

    Drug repositioning or repurposing is the process of discovering leading-edge indications for authorized or declined/abandoned molecules for use in different diseases.

  22. Drug repositioning in drug discovery of T2DM and repositioning potential of antidiabetic agents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Computational and structural biotechnology journal 2022-06-01 Drug development

    Repositioning or repurposing drugs account for a substantial part of entering approval pipeline drugs, which indicates that drug repositioning has huge market potential and value.

  23. 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.

  24. Antiviral, immunomodulatory, and neuroprotective effect of lithium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of integrative neuroscience 2022-03-23 Drug development

    Currently, in psychiatry, lithium is a drug of choice as a mood stabilizer in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder for the prevention of manic and depressive recurrences.

  25. Personalized Management and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-03-21 Risk factors

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a priority health problem with a high cost to society and a large consumption of medical and social resources.

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