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Newest in this topic

  1. Ceperognastat in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial 2026-09-22
  2. Varenicline as a Repurposable Drug Candidate for ADRD Prevention 2026-09-20
  3. Antihypertensive Medication Class and Incident Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias: External Replication Across Two Independent Healthcare Data Sources-the Vanderbilt EHR Synthetic Derivative and US Medicare Claims 2026-09-17

Studies

804 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 66
  • The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 35
  • JAMA 24
  • JAMA neurology 23
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 21

333 journals in all.

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  1. Use of Bacopa monnieri in the Treatment of Dementia Due to Alzheimer Disease: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Interactive journal of medical research 2022-08-01 Treatments

    Our comprehensive search yielded 5 eligible studies.

  2. Addressing the need for rigorous longitudinal data for the effectiveness of music therapy in people with and at risk for developing AD, this trial aims to enhance knowledge regarding cost-effective interventions with potentially high clinical applicability.

  3. Effect of cerebellum stimulation on cognitive recovery in patients with Alzheimer disease: A randomized clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain stimulation 2022-06-11 Treatments

    Our results depict that 5 Hz rTMS of the bilateral cerebellum is a promising, non-invasive treatment of cognitive dysfunction in AD patients.

  4. Cost-effectiveness of Aducanumab and Donanemab for Early Alzheimer Disease in the US

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggest that at current expected prices, neither aducanumab nor donanemab would be cost-effective for early AD in the US.

  5. Cost-effectiveness of Aducanumab and Donanemab for Early Alzheimer Disease in the US

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2022-03-28 Costs and economics

    Before donanemab was approved, researchers built a computer model simulating lifetime outcomes for Alzheimer's patients to estimate whether aducanumab and donanemab were reasonably priced for the health benefit they provide.

  6. Risk of first ischaemic stroke and use of antidopaminergic antiemetics: nationwide case-time-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2022-03-25 Health systems and care delivery

    To estimate the risk of ischaemic stroke associated with antidopaminergic antiemetic (ADA) use.

  7. Anodal tDCS+CS delays cognitive decline (ADAS-cog change) to a greater extent than sham tDCS+CS (-3.4±1.1 vs. -1.7±0.4; p=.03).

  8. The ATENción Plena en Enfermedad de Alzheimer (ATENEA-Mindfulness in Alzheimer's Disease) Program for Caregivers: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-03-15 Treatments

    A person affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD) gradually loses the ability to perform activities of daily living and becomes dependent on caregivers, thereby having a negative impact on the caregivers' quality of life.

  9. Aducanumab Use in Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease Evidence in Focus [RETIRED]: A Report of the AAN Guidelines Subcommittee

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-23 Drug development

    The author panel systematically reviewed available clinical trial data detailing aducanumab use in individuals with early symptomatic Alzheimer disease.

  10. Insights into the neuroprotective effects of Salvia officinalis L. and Salvia microphylla Kunth in the memory impairment rat model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Food & function 2022-02-21 Prevention trials

    Salvia species have a longstanding traditional culinary use, mostly being consumed in the Mediterranean diet as a common herb added to food.

  11. Non-invasive photobiomodulation treatment in an Alzheimer Disease-like transgenic rat model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Theranostics 2022-02-14 Disease mechanisms

    PBM treatment significantly improved the typical AD pathologies of memory loss, amyloid plaques, tau hyperphosphorylation, neuronal degeneration, spine damage, and synaptic loss.

  12. Cost-Effectiveness and Value-Based Pricing of Aducanumab for Patients With Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2022-01-12 Drug development

    Aducanumab was granted accelerated approval with a conflicting evidence base, near-unanimous Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee vote to reject approval, and a widely criticized launch price of $56,000 per year.

  13. Two Randomized Phase 3 Studies of Aducanumab in Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, irreversible, and fatal disease for which accumulation of amyloid beta is thought to play a key role in pathogenesis.

  14. Vessels Sing Their ARIAs: The Role of Vascular Amyloid in the Age of Aducanumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Stroke 2021-12-15 Drug development

    We review the implications of the recently approved aducanumab amyloid-β immunotherapy for treating Alzheimer disease with comorbid cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

  15. Impact of Donepezil and Memantine on Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Alzheimer Disease: Six-month Open-label Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology 2021-12-02 Treatments

    The two groups' baseline characteristics, including age, sex, mean length of education, and disease duration, were comparable, as were their baseline Mini-Mental State Examination scores.

  16. This study aimed to examine the therapeutic mechanism of the benefit-finding therapeutic (BFT) intervention that used cognitive reappraisal and alternative thinking to construct positive aspects of caregiving (PAC), in a cluster-randomized controlled trial for Alzheimer caregivers.

  17. Effect of Levetiracetam on Cognition in Patients With Alzheimer Disease With and Without Epileptiform Activity: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-11-01 Treatments

    Of 54 adults assessed for eligibility, 11 did not meet study criteria, and 9 declined to participate.

  18. Effect of Methylphenidate on Apathy in Patients With Alzheimer Disease: The ADMET 2 Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-11-01 Treatments

    Of 200 participants, 99 were assigned to methylphenidate and 101 to placebo.

  19. Effectiveness of the 10 cm2 Rivastigmine Patch in Taiwanese Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Dementia: A 48-Week Real-World Observational Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Advances in therapy 2021-09-11 Health systems and care delivery

    The current study aimed to provide data on the effectiveness of the 10 cm2 rivastigmine patch in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a real-world setting in Taiwan.

  20. The Trial to Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Nursing Home Residents With Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias (TRAIN-AD): A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2021-09-01 Treatments

    This cluster randomized clinical trial found that despite high adherence to the training, a multicomponent intervention promoting goal-directed care for suspected UTIs and LRIs did not significantly reduce antimicrobial use among nursing home residents with advanced dementia.

  21. Neuroprotective Effect of Trans-Resveratrol in Mild to Moderate Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blind Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology and therapy 2021-08-16 Treatments

    These results indicate that trans-resveratrol has potential neuroprotective roles in the treatment of moderate to mild AD and that its mechanism may involve a reduction in the accumulation and toxicity of Aβ in the brain of patients, thereby reducing neuroinflammation.

  22. Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Improving Cognition in Alzheimer Disease: Protocol for an Interim Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. JMIR research protocols 2021-08-09 Treatments

    Overall, the study with the same protocol is going as expected with no serious AE or any major protocol deviation.

  23. Investigation of the effects of interventions made according to the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model on the care outcomes of Alzheimer patients and their families: a randomized clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society 2021-07-07 Treatments

    As a result of the PLST training, there was a decrease in the behavioural problems of Alzheimer's patients, along with a decrease in the care burden of the caregivers and an increase in their care satisfaction.

  24. Alzheimer's and Aducanumab: Unjust Profits and False Hopes

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. The Hastings Center report 2021-06-23 Health systems and care delivery

    Accelerated approval of aducanumab for mild Alzheimer's by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on June 7, 2021, has generated substantial medical, scientific, and ethical controversy.

  25. FDA Grants Accelerated Approval for ADUHELM (aducanumab) as the First and Only Alzheimer's Disease Treatment to Address a Defining Pathology of the Disease

    ⚠ Regulatory decision — not a study alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (announced via Biogen press release) 2021-06-07 Treatments

    On June 7, 2021, the FDA granted accelerated approval to aducanumab (Aduhelm), the first new Alzheimer's drug approved since 2003 and the first ever approved for a mechanism thought to modify disease course.

  26. A phase 2 double-blind placebo-controlled 24-week treatment clinical study of the p38 alpha kinase inhibitor neflamapimod in mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-05-27 Disease mechanisms

    At randomization, the mean age is 72, 50% female, 77% with CDR-global score 0.5, and mean MMSE score 23.8.

  27. A randomized, double-blind, phase 2b proof-of-concept clinical trial in early Alzheimer's disease with lecanemab, an anti-Aβ protofibril antibody

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-04-17 Treatments

    BAN2401-G000-201 did not meet the 12-month primary endpoint.

  28. A comparative study of the effects of Aducanumab and scanning ultrasound on amyloid plaques and behavior in the APP23 mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-04-09 Drug development

    Aducanumab is an anti-amyloid-β (Aβ) antibody that achieved reduced amyloid pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) trials; however, it is controversial whether it also improved cognition, which has been suggested would require a sufficiently high cumulative dose of the antibody in the brain.

  29. These findings suggest that benzoate treatment may improve cognitive function in women with later-phase dementia.

  30. Long-term Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitors on Cognitive Decline and Mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2021-03-19 Treatments

    Patients with Alzheimer dementia from the Swedish Dementia Registry starting on ChEIs within 3 months of the dementia diagnosis were included and compared to nontreated patients with Alzheimer dementia.

  31. A 36-week multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, phase 3 clinical trial of sodium oligomannate for mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-17 Caregiving

    A significant drug-placebo difference on the ADAS-Cog12 favoring GV-971 was present at each measurement time point, measurable at the week 4 visit and continuing throughout the trial.

  32. Donanemab in Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2021-03-13 Treatments

    In patients with early Alzheimer's disease, donanemab resulted in a better composite score for cognition and for the ability to perform activities of daily living than placebo at 76 weeks, although results for secondary outcomes were mixed.

  33. Findings of Efficacy, Safety, and Biomarker Outcomes of Atabecestat in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease: A Truncated Randomized Phase 2b/3 Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2021-03-01 Treatments

    change from baseline in Preclinical Alzheimer Cognitive Composite score.

  34. Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-02-23 Prevention and risk

    This is the first randomized trial to investigate the impact of a ketogenic diet in patients with uniform diagnoses of AD.

  35. Cholinesterase inhibitors for vascular dementia and other vascular cognitive impairments: a network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2021-02-22 Treatments

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) describes a broad spectrum of cognitive impairments caused by cerebrovascular disease, ranging from mild cognitive impairment to dementia.

  36. Home-based multimodal exercise program in older people with Alzheimer disease: Randomized controlled trial protocol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapy 2021-02-15 Treatments

    Improvements in the aspects evaluated are expected in the IG compared to CG.

  37. Recent trials of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) have reported encouraging results for improving or stabilizing cognition in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer dementia.

  38. A comparative study of the effects of Aducanumab and scanning ultrasound on amyloid plaques and behavior in the APP23 mouse model of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-01-04 Drug development

    We found that both Adu and SUS reduced the total plaque area in the hippocampus to a similar degree, with no additive effect in the combination treatment (SUS+Adu).

  39. Aducanumab (Marketed as Aduhelm) Approval Is Likely Based on Misinterpretation of PET Imaging Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Drug development

    According to the FDA, aducanumab (Aduhelm), the recently approved anti-Alzheimer drug, reduces the level of cerebral amyloid plaques-a hallmark finding in patients with Alzheimer's disease-and this will result in a reduction in clinical decline.

  40. The Japan-Multimodal Intervention Trial for Prevention of Dementia (J-MINT): The Study Protocol for an 18-Month, Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Prevention trials

    This trial that enlist the support of private enterprises will lead to the creation of new services for dementia prevention as well as to verify the effectiveness of multi-domain interventions for dementia prevention.

  41. Strategies for the use of Ginkgo biloba extract, EGb 761® , in the treatment and management of mild cognitive impairment in Asia: Expert consensus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2020-12-22 Prevention trials

    EGb 761 ® is currently recommended in multiple guidelines for the symptomatic treatment of MCI.

  42. Orally Administered Benzofuran Derivative Disaggregated Aβ Plaques and Oligomers in the Brain of 5XFAD Alzheimer Transgenic Mouse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. ACS chemical neuroscience 2020-12-17 Drug development

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregated forms are highly associated with the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  43. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to enhance sleep in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of sleep research 2020-12-02 Mild cognitive impairment

    Suboptimal sleep causes cognitive decline and probably accelerates Alzheimer's Disease (AD) progression.

  44. Concomitant Cholinesterase Inhibitor and Anticholinergic Drug Use Among Older Adults With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2020-12-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Anticholinergic medications (ACh) are frequently prescribed to older adults despite being associated with impaired physical functioning.

  45. Novel benzoic acid derivatives: Synthesis and biological evaluation as multitarget acetylcholinesterase and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Archiv der Pharmazie 2020-11-06 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by dementia, memory impairment, cognitive dysfunction, and speech impairment.

  46. Effect of Aspirin vs Placebo on the Prevention of Depression in Older People: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2020-10-01 Disparities

    Low-dose aspirin did not prevent depression in this large-scale study of otherwise healthy older adults.

  47. Enhancing cognitive training effects in Alzheimer's disease: rTMS as an add-on treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Brain stimulation 2020-09-28 Prevention trials

    The treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the field of non-pharmacological interventions is a challenging issue, given the limited benefits of the available drugs.

  48. Baseline assessments were conducted on 128 participants.

  49. β-Hydroxybutyrate inhibits inflammasome activation to attenuate Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2020-09-21 Brain tissue and pathology

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, late-onset dementia with no effective treatment available.

  50. No clinically important adverse events were associated with treatment.

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