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  1. Medicinal Plants and Alzheimer's Disease: from Ethnobotany to Phytotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology 1999-05-01 Treatments

    The use of complementary medicines, such as plant extracts, in dementia therapy varies according to the different cultural traditions.

  2. Donepezil for Treatment of Dementia With Lewy Bodies: A Case Series of Nine Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 1998-09-01 Treatments

    Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is common.

  3. The data from the present study do not lend support to the idea that low affinity, open channel NMDA receptor blockers are also effective in models of epilepsy at doses having little effect on physiological processes.

  4. Behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: phenomenology and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PubMed 1987-05-01 Clinical safety

    Limited information is available regarding the incidence, nature, and treatment of behavioral problems in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Correlation of cholinergic abnormalities with senile plaques and mental test scores in senile dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. British medical journal 1978-11-01 Risk factors

    Necropsy brain tissue from normal (control) patients and patients with depression and dementia was examined for activities of various cholinergic components, and these related to the degree of senile plaque formation and extent of intellectual impairment.

  6. CHANGES IN BRAIN CHOLINESTERASES IN SENILE DEMENTIA OF ALZHEIMER TYPE

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 1978-07-01 Risk factors

    Acetyl- and butyryl-cholinesterase activities have been measured biochemically in normal brain tissue, in senile dementia of Alzheimer type and in mental disorders without Alzheimer-type abnormalities.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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).

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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).

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Computational Approaches for Supporting Combination Therapy in the Post-Aducanumab Era in Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports 2021-03-11 Treatments

    With the approval of aducanumab on the “Accelerated Approval Pathway” and the recognition of amyloid load as a surrogate marker, new successful therapeutic approaches will be driven by combination therapy as was the case in oncology after the launch of immune checkpoint inhibitors.

  18. [Dementia of the Oldest-Old]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 2020-12 Brain tissue and pathology

    It is important to have a wide perspective to provide appropriate medical care for the oldest-old individuals.

  19. New pharmacologic agents for insomnia and hypersomnia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in pulmonary medicine 2020-11 Risk factors

    Insomnia and hypersomnia are conditions with multifactorial causes that can be difficult to treat.

  20. Role of metformin in various pathologies: state-of-the-art microcapsules for improving its pharmacokinetics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Therapeutic delivery 2020-09-23 Drug development

    Metformin was originally derived from a botanical ancestry and became the most prescribed, first-line therapy for Type 2 diabetes in most countries.

  21. Marine Natural Products, Multitarget Therapy and Repurposed Agents in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-09-11 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial disease characterized by the presence of amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and nerve cell death that affects, mainly, older people.

  22. Repurposed agents in the Alzheimer's disease drug development pipeline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-08-17 Drug development

    We identified 53 clinical trials involving 58 FDA-approved agents.

  23. Pharmacogenetic considerations when prescribing cholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology 2020-06-23 Treatments

    Cholinergic dysfunction, demonstrated in the late 1970s and early 1980s, led to the introduction of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) in 1993 (Tacrine) to enhance cholinergic neurotransmission as the first line of treatment against Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Lithium - past, present, future

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of psychiatry in clinical practice 2020-06-17 Drug development

    The history of medical and psychiatric use of lithium dates back to more than one and a half-century ago.

  25. [Toward a preventive management Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine 2020-04-21 Prevention trials

    Dementias, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in particular, will increasingly become a public health issue.

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