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  1. Network-based stage-specific drug repurposing for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Computational and structural biotechnology journal 2022-03-16 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and the most common type of dementia.

  2. 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.

  3. Hypocretins (orexins): The ultimate translational neuropeptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2022-01-19 Risk factors

    The hypocretins (Hcrts), also known as orexins, are two neuropeptides produced exclusively in the lateral hypothalamus.

  4. Acetylcholinesterase Enzyme Inhibitor Molecules with Therapeutic Potential for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2022 Treatments

    Acetylcholinesterase (AchE), hydrolase enzyme, regulates the hydrolysis of acetylcholine neurotransmitter in the neurons.

  5. Dysphagia Risk in Patients Prescribed Rivastigmine: A Systematic Analysis of FDA Adverse Event Reporting System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Treatments

    When compared to patients prescribed donepezil, galantamine, or memantine, individuals prescribed rivastigmine were almost twice as likely to report dysphagia as an adverse event.

  6. An Argument for Simple Tests of Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Prevention trials

    Two potential disease-modifying approaches for dementia are being vigorously tested: the early targeting of the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and multi-domain lifestyle interventions to promote resilience to neuropathology.

  7. Avoiding Over-Reliance on Multi-Domain Interventions for Dementia Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Prevention trials

    Given the unknown therapeutic value of targeting Alzheimer's disease pathology and the discovery of robust risk factors for dementia, non-pharmacological risk reduction (RR) is increasingly offered as an alternative to targeting Alzheimer's disease pathology.

  8. An Overview on Sleep Medicine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2022 Risk factors

    Sleep plays an important role in homeostasis, brain plasticity, clearance of neurotoxins, cognition, memory, concentration, performance, and the regulation of the temperature, endocrine and immunological systems.

  9. 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.

  10. Sleep disorders in Alzheimer's disease: the predictive roles and potential mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2021-10 Risk factors

    Sleep disorders are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and can even occur in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, which appears before Alzheimer's disease.

  11. Treatment of insomnia - effect of trazodone and hypnotics on sleep

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Psychiatria polska 2021-08-31 Risk factors

    Sedative antidepressants are commonly used drugs in the treatment of insomnia.

  12. Recent advances in drug repurposing using machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current opinion in chemical biology 2021-07-16 Drug development

    Drug repurposing aims to find new uses for already existing and approved drugs.

  13. Role of liraglutide in Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-06-12 Drug development

    The effects of LRGT on animal models show significant benefits in AD pathology and cognitive impairment.

  14. Lithium: A therapeutic option in Alzheimer's disease and its prodromal stages?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2021-06-10 Drug development

    Experimental data reveal that lithium is capable of attenuating Alzheimer's disease pathology and stimulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis.

  15. Potential therapeutic natural products against Alzheimer's disease with Reference of Acetylcholinesterase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2021-05-04 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), is the most common type of dementia primarily affecting the later years of life.

  16. Treatment of Parkinson's Disease with Cognitive Impairment: Current Approaches and Future Directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-04-17 Treatments

    Cognitive impairment risk in Parkinson's disease increases with disease progression and poses a significant burden to the patients, their families and society.

  17. Insomnia in neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurological research and practice 2021-03-10 Risk factors

    Insomnia is defined as difficulties of initiating and maintaining sleep, early awakening and poor subjective sleep quality despite adequate opportunity and circumstances for sleep with impairment of daytime performance.

  18. Alzheimer's disease treatment: The share of herbal medicines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Iranian journal of basic medical sciences 2021-02 Treatments

    One of the most frequent forms of dementia in neurological disorders is Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Psychosis Management in Lewy Body Dementia: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2021-01-19 End-of-life care

    Lewy body dementia (LBD) is asynucleinopathy that results in clinical manifestation of motor and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

  20. Therapeutic Potential of Multifunctional Derivatives of Cholinesterase Inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neuropharmacology 2021 Treatments

    The aim of this work is to review tacrine analogues from the last three years, which were not included in the latest review work, donepezil and galantamine hybrids from 2015 and rivastigmine derivatives from 2014.

  21. Polygala tenuifolia : a source for anti-Alzheimer's disease drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pharmaceutical biology 2020-12-01 Drug development

    Polygala tenuifolia and its active components have multiplex neuroprotective potential associated with AD, such as anti-A β aggregation, anti-Tau protein, anti-inflammation, antioxidant, anti-neuronal apoptosis, enhancing central cholinergic system and promote neuronal proliferation.

  22. Current and Future Treatments in Alzheimer Disease: An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of central nervous system disease 2020-02-29 Treatments

    Disease-modifying treatment strategies for Alzheimer disease (AD) are still under extensive research.

  23. Management of mild cognitive impairment (MCI): The need for national and international guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry 2020-02-05 Prevention trials

    Consensus diagnostic criteria for MCI are available, making early recognition and accurate classification of MCI subtypes possible.

  24. The path forward in Alzheimer's disease therapeutics: Reevaluating the amyloid cascade hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-03 Treatments

    Development of disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been challenging, with no drugs approved to date.

  25. Cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease: clinical management and prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2019-12-06 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by the accumulation of amyloid β in the form of extracellular plaques and by intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, with eventual neurodegeneration and dementia.

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