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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.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Individual Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Risk of Dementia: A Target Trial Emulation Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-14 Digital health tools

    Of 22,025,599 individuals screened, 2,051,275 were eligible; matched cohorts ranged from 10,113 to 857,773, with median follow-up of 4.7 to 7.2 years.

  2. Dementia and PDE5 inhibitors: A retrospective cohort study of veterans

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-13 Lewy body dementia

    The observed protective effect may be explained by vascular and neuroprotective mechanisms unique to PDE5 inhibitors.

  3. The influence of cognitive decline on the severity and quantity of drug-drug interactions

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-11 Risk factors

    These findings indicate that cognitive impairment may mark a population vulnerable to medication complexity rather than independently driving DDI risk, with polypharmacy emerging as the principal modifiable determinant.

  4. Cognitive and Renal Outcomes of Finerenone in Older Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Real-World Cohort Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-06 How common it is

    In older adults with HFpEF, finerenone conferred renal benefit without a detectable short-term cognitive signal.

  5. Early strong anticholinergic initiation and 30-day mortality in older inpatients with dementia: a target trial emulation

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-08 How common it is

    Rare confirmed initiation prevented a clinically interpretable admission-time strategy estimate.

  6. Neuropsychiatric Adverse-Event Reporting With Brexpiprazole Across Approved Indications: A Disproportionality Analysis Using the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-08 Clinical safety

    Brexpiprazole was associated with a distinct neuropsychiatric adverse-event reporting pattern in Alzheimer’s disease compared with psychiatric indications, with the most consistent signals observed for delirium, falls, and agitation.

  7. Medication adherence in patients with cognitive disorders

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-20 Getting a diagnosis

    Medication adherence in older adults was strongly influenced by cognitive impairment, gender, health literacy and cohabitation.

  8. Effect of initiating an ARB- versus ACEI-based regimen on dementia risk, a target trial emulation of 2.5 million US Veterans

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-08 Drug development

    Among 2,577,000 Veterans (mean age, 63 years; 4.5% female; 65% White; 15% Black), 10% initiated ARBs and 90% initiated ACEIs.

  9. Amantadine, Donepezil and Memantine Associated Arrhythmia in an Elderly Patient

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-06-21 Treatments

    2.1 Case İnformation A 78 years old man was referred to the cardiology clinic because of mild dyspnea.

  10. Case Report: SIADH-Induced Hyponatremia Following Sertraline and Quetiapine Use in an Elderly Patient with Dementia: A Case Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. F1000Res 2026-06-18 Risk factors

    This case underscores the importance of routine sodium monitoring in elderly patients with dementia initiated on serotonergic or antipsychotic therapy.

  11. Assessment of potentially inappropriate medications using STOPPFrail V2 criteria and OncPal guideline in elderly cancer patients with end-stage disease: A cross-sectional study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-06-04 End-of-life care

    Polypharmacy and PIMs are highly prevalent in end-of-life elderly cancer patients.

  12. Reducing placebo response in clinical trials of agitation in Alzheimer’s disease

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-06-04 Treatments

    High placebo response is an obstacle in developing drugs to treat agitation in Alzheimer’s disease (AAD), a prevalent and burdensome symptom.

  13. Sodium channel blockers are associated with reduced dementia risk in late-onset unexplained epilepsy

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-05-22 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Late-onset unexplained epilepsy is a potential harbinger of dementia, likely driven by network hyperexcitability that facilitates amyloid-β release and tau propagation.

  14. Legacy neuropsychiatric benefit after semaglutide is linked to maximum achieved dose and independent of the maximum weight lost

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-04-23 Drug development

    In propensity-matched comparator analyses, during the 2 year time-period from treatment initiation, semaglutide was associated with broadly lower neuropsychiatric event risk than metformin, SGLT2 inhibitors, and DPP-4 inhibitors.

  15. Randomized, double-blind study of zervimesine in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2026-04-03 Clinical trials

    BackgroundZervimesine (CT1812) is a first-in-class, brain-penetrant sigma-2 receptor ligand that prevents binding and displaces Aβ42 oligomers from receptors on neuronal synapses.

  16. A phase 2, randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of S-adenosyl methionine in participants with mild cognitive impairment or dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 85 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-04 Clinical trials

    Mean percentage change in plasma p-tau217 in the SAMe group was an increase of 53.22 (standard deviation [SD] 159.19) compared to 25.34 (SD 94.83) in the placebo group (standardized mean difference 37.58, 95% confidence interval -32.61, 107.76; p = 0.288).

  17. Concurrent Gabapentin and Dihydropyridine Calcium Channel Blocker Use and Risk of Incident Dementia: An Active-Comparator Cohort Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-02-09 Costs and economics

    Both classes act on neuronal calcium signaling, raising the question of whether their combined use is associated with greater cognitive risk than gabapentin alone.

  18. Pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementias in Long-Term Care: A Real-World EHR Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-01-19 Health systems and care delivery

    More than one-quarter of residents with ADRD remain untreated with guideline-recommended pharmacotherapy, and treatment varied significantly by non-clinical predictors.

  19. Current and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2026-01-06 Risk factors

    Cardiovascular risk factors contribute to the majority of dementia cases, with about 20% directly attributable to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID).

  20. Antidepressant Use at the Threshold: using electronic health records to characterise people prescribed antidepressants around the time of dementia diagnosis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2025-12-17 Digital health tools

    The high incidence of new prescribing, as well as the lack of deprescribing, points to unmet needs and a role for more proactive medication review.

  21. Comparative safety of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine for dementia: a protocol for a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Systematic reviews 2025-11-04 Treatments

    By addressing gaps in prior NMAs, this study aims to provide an in-depth evaluation of safety outcomes associated with different ChEI and memantine doses and formulations across various dementia types.

  22. A randomized clinical trial of low-dose cannabis extract in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-10-29 Clinical trials

    BackgroundPreclinical and clinical evidence suggest that low-dose cannabinoids could ameliorate Alzheimer's disease (AD) signs and symptoms.

  23. Incretin-Based Drugs and the Risk of Dementia Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Drug safety 2025-10-22 Drug development

    Among 275,144 initiators of DPP-4 inhibitors or sulfonylureas, followed for 750,846 person-years, DPP-4 inhibitors were associated with a reduced dementia risk compared with sulfonylureas (4.4 vs. 5.7 events per 1000 person-years; HR 0.77, 95% CI 0.71-0.85).

  24. Hearing All About Donepezil: Its Role in the Field of Auditory Processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cureus 2025-09-24 Risk factors

    Donepezil is a central-acting acetylcholinesterase inhibitor aimed at increasing acetylcholine availability at the neuron synapses to enhance cholinergic transmission.

  25. A phase 2 randomized, placebo-controlled study on the efficacy and safety of AR1001, a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor, in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-09-05 Clinical trials

    A total of 210 participants were enrolled and 82% completed 26 weeks of treatment.

  26. Patterns and predictors of cholinesterase inhibitor use in dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2025-07-19 Treatments

    We found that 51.9% of DLB patients were ever prescribed a ChEI, and those who were prescribed a ChEI had a greater diagnosis interval.

  27. Movement disorders associated with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer's dementia: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Brain circulation 2025-03-21 Treatments

    Overall, 74 studies containing 92 cases were found of MDs related to ACHEIs.

  28. Clinical Pharmacokinetics of Oral ALZ-801/Valiltramiprosate in a 2-Year Phase 2 Trial of APOE4 Carriers with Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Clinical pharmacokinetics 2025-02-05 Treatments

    The steady-state plasma PK results were closely aligned with the previous 2-week PK in the ALZ-801 phase 1b study in APOE4 carrier subjects with AD, as well as a phase 1 7-day PK study in heathy elderly volunteers.

  29. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Dementia: Recommendations for Cholinesterase Inhibitors and Memantine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Dementia and neurocognitive disorders 2025-01-20 Treatments

    Three main recommendations are presented: (1) For AD, cholinesterase inhibitors (donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine) are strongly recommended for improving cognition and daily function based on moderate evidence; (2) Cholinesterase inhibitors are conditionally recommended for vascular dementia and Parkinson's disease dementia, with a strong recommendation for Lewy body dementia; (3) For moderate to severe AD, NMDA receptor antagonist (memantine) is strongly recommended, demonstrating significant cognitive and functional improvements.

  30. Blarcamesine for the treatment of Early Alzheimer's Disease: Results from the ANAVEX2-73-AD-004 Phase IIB/III trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-01-01 Biomarkers

    Blarcamesine, demonstrating a safety profile with no associated neuroimaging adverse events, significantly slowed clinical progression by 36.3% at 48 weeks with blarcamesine group as well as the individual 30 mg (by 34.6%) and 50 mg (by 38.5%) blarcamesine groups vs. placebo on the prespecified primary cognitive endpoint ADAS-Cog13.

  31. Emerging Pharmacological Approaches for Psychosis and Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. CNS drugs 2024-12-02 Clinical trials

    Psychosis and agitation are among the most distressing neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSs) of Alzheimer's disease (AD), linked to faster disease progression and earlier admission to nursing homes.

  32. Safety and efficacy of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2024-11 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects millions of people worldwide.

  33. Pharmacologic Treatments for Dementia and the Risk of Developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-10-01 Treatments

    There were 132 846 individuals (mean [SD] age, 80.4 [7.6] years; 61.8% women; mean [SD] body mass index [BMI], 25.5 [4.6]) with a diagnosis of dementia included in cohort 1, 159 419 individuals (mean [SD] age, 81.2 [7.6] years; 59.7% women; mean [SD] body mass index [BMI], 25.6 [4.7]) with a diagnosis of dementia included in cohort 2, and 92 328 individuals with a diagnosis of dementia included in cohort 3 (mean [SD] age, 80.9 [7.7] years; 58.5% women; mean [SD] body mass index [BMI], 25.5 [4.7]).

  34. Effect of long-term pharmacological treatments on Alzheimer disease: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Medicine 2024-09-20 Treatments

    Seventeen RCTs, comprising 7214 participants, investigated the efficacy of the following drugs: Donepezil, Rivastigmine, Galantamine, Memantine, Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb), Atorvastatin-calcium and Vitamin B in the treatment of AD.

  35. Alzheimer Disease: Treatment of Cognitive and Functional Symptoms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. American family physician 2024-09 Treatments

    Alzheimer disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of amyloid beta plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau proteins.

  36. Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors, Dulaglutide, and Risk for Dementia : A Population-Based Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2024-08-27 Drug development

    Overall, 12 489 patients initiating SGLT2 inhibitor treatment (51.9% dapagliflozin and 48.1% empagliflozin) and 1075 patients initiating dulaglutide treatment were included.

  37. 12-month neurological and psychiatric outcomes of semaglutide use for type 2 diabetes: a propensity-score matched cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2024-07-10 Drug development

    Each matched cohort included 23,386 (semaglutide vs sitagliptin), 22,584 (vs empagliflozin), and 19,206 (vs glipizide) patients.

  38. The Black Book of Psychotropic Dosing and Monitoring

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Psychopharmacology bulletin 2024-07-01 Treatments

    The phase III program for Auvelity, showed that the drug was well tolerated with the most common side effects being dizziness, headache, and dry mouth. 86 Another novel antidepressant agent approved in 2023 is zuranolone (Zurzuvae).

  39. Evaluating the efficacy and safety of Alzheimer's disease drugs: A meta-analysis and systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Medicine 2024-04-19 Treatments

    All drugs improved the cognitive function, with the effect value ranging from -1.23 (95% CI -2.17 to -0.30) for 20 mg memantine to -3.29 (95% CI -4.14 to -2.45) for 32 mg galantamine.

  40. A Review of Recent Advances in the Management of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cureus 2024-04-16 Drug development

    The antidiabetic drugs include NE3107, an anti-inflammatory and insulin sensitizer, and the diabetes mainstream drug metformin.

  41. Methotrexate and the Risk of Dementia: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2024-04-09 Genetics

    Our TSMR analysis showed a significant positive association between genetic predisposition to methotrexate use and dementia risk.

  42. Long-acting exenatide does not prevent cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment: a proof-of-concept clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of endocrinological investigation 2024-04-02 Drug development

    No significant between-group effects of exenatide on ADAS-Cog11 score (p = 0.17) were detected.

  43. The analysis included 8 randomized placebo-controlled trials with 6547 participants.

  44. Cholinesterase inhibitors-associated torsade de pointes/QT prolongation: a real-world pharmacovigilance study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2024-01-11 Treatments

    557 cases of TdP/QT prolongation related to 3 ChEIs were searched by SMQ.

  45. The Latest Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cureus 2023-12-14 Treatments

    Dementia is a debilitating neurological condition that is characterized by persistent cognitive decline.

  46. Consumption of drugs for Alzheimer's disease on the Brazilian private market

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Revista de saude publica 2023-11-10 Treatments

    Drug consumption went from 5,000 defined daily doses/1,000 inhabitants, in 2014, to more than 16,000/1,000 inhabitants, in 2020, and all federative units showed positive variation.

  47. Patients with geriatric syndromes and anti-amyloid therapies: lack of consideration? An exploratory analysis of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-10-10 Treatments

    Out of 538 articles, 23 (4.27%) were published in journals from the geriatric category, 44 (8.18%) included an author affiliated with a geriatric institution.

  48. 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.

  49. Prevalence of treated patients with Alzheimer's disease: current trends and COVID-19 impact

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-08-03 Treatments

    Crude AD prevalence (2015-2020) was estimated at 760.5 per 100,000 inhabitants, and age-standardized prevalence (2020) was 664.6 (male 595.7, female 711.0).

  50. 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.

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