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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. Effect of Dexmedetomidine Added to Standard Care on Ventilator-Free Time in Patients With Agitated Delirium: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA 2016-04-01 Clinical safety

    Among patients with agitated delirium receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit, the addition of dexmedetomidine to standard care compared with standard care alone (placebo) resulted in more ventilator-free hours at 7 days.

  2. ADCOMS: a composite clinical outcome for prodromal Alzheimer's disease trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2016-03-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    ADCOMS is proposed as new standard outcome for pAD and mild AD dementia trials, and is progressing in a CAMD-sponsored qualification process for use in registration trials of pAD.

  3. Dexmedetomidine versus Propofol Sedation Reduces Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Anesthesiology 2016-02-01 Prevention and risk

    When compared with propofol, dexmedetomidine sedation reduced incidence, delayed onset, and shortened duration of POD in elderly patients after cardiac surgery.

  4. Double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept trial of bexarotene Xin moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2016-01-29 Caregiving

    The primary outcome of this trial was negative.

  5. Heterogeneity of Treatment Response to Citalopram for Patients With Alzheimer's Disease With Aggression or Agitation: The CitAD Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2016-01-15 Treatments

    Considering several covariates together allowed the identification of responders.

  6. Amyloid Hypothesis: Is There a Role for Antiamyloid Treatment in Late-Life Depression?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2016-01-14 Brain scans and imaging

    Antidepressants have modest efficacy in late-life depression (LLD), perhaps because various neurobiologic processes compromise frontolimbic networks required for antidepressant response.

  7. Rivastigmine for gait stability in patients with Parkinson's disease (ReSPonD): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2016-01-13 Clinical safety

    At week 32, compared with patients assigned to placebo (59 assessed), those assigned to rivastigmine (55 assessed) had improved step time variability for normal walking (ratio of geometric means 0.72, 95% CI 0.58-0.88; p=0.002) and the simple dual task (0.79; 0.62-0.99; p=0.045).

  8. Rapid Acting Insulin Use and Persistence among Elderly Type 2 Diabetes Patients Adding RAI to Oral Antidiabetes Drug Regimens

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Diabetes Research 2016-01-01 Health systems and care delivery

    We examined the real-world utilization and persistence of rapid acting insulin (RAI) in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes who added RAI to their drug (OAD) regimen.

  9. Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, Angiotensin Receptor Blockers, and Risk of Dementia in Heart Failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. American Journal of Alzheimer s Disease & Other Dementias® 2015-12-24 Health systems and care delivery

    Using the time-dependent Cox model, the adjusted dementia rate ratios (95% confidence-interval) among current and former users were 0.90(0.70-1.16) and 0.89 (0.71-1.10), respectively.

  10. Multisensory Stimulation as an Intervention Strategy for Elderly Patients With Severe Dementia: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2015-12-01 Treatments

    The objective of this study was to compare the effect of multisensory stimulation environment (MSSE) and one-to-one activity sessions in the symptomatology of elderly individuals with severe dementia.

  11. Group and individual cognitive therapies in Alzheimer's disease: the ETNA3 randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2015-11-17 Prevention trials

    These findings challenge current management practices of Alzheimer's patients.

  12. Raloxifene for women with Alzheimer disease: A randomized controlled pilot trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2015-11-04 Treatments

    Classification of evidence This study provides Class I evidence that for women with AD, raloxifene does not have a significant cognitive effect.

  13. Targeting Prodromal Alzheimer Disease With Avagacestat: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-11-01 Treatments

    Avagacestat did not demonstrate efficacy and was associated with adverse dose-limiting effects.

  14. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of resveratrol for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Neurology 2015-09-11 Treatments

    Resveratrol was safe and well-tolerated.

  15. Effect of Dextromethorphan-Quinidine on Agitation in Patients With Alzheimer Disease Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. JAMA 2015-09-01 Treatments

    With the sequential parallel comparison design, 152 patients received dextromethorphan-quinidine and 127 received placebo during the study.

  16. Citalopram for the Treatment of Agitation in Alzheimer Dementia: Genetic Influences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2015-08-23 Treatments

    Treatment outcomes in CitAD showed modest, although statistically significant, influence of genetic variation at HTR2A and HTR2C loci.

  17. Among older persons with AMD, oral supplementation with LCPUFAs or lutein/zeaxanthin had no statistically significant effect on cognitive function.

  18. Reelin protects against amyloid β toxicity in vivo

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Science signaling 2015-07-07 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a currently incurable neurodegenerative disorder and is the most common form of dementia in people over the age of 65 years.

  19. Adaptive, dose-finding phase 2 trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of ABT-089 in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2015-07-01 Treatments

    ABT-089, an α4β2 neuronal nicotinic receptor partial agonist, was evaluated for efficacy and safety in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease patients receiving stable doses of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.

  20. Etanercept in Alzheimer disease: A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, phase 2 trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2015-05-01 Treatments

    This study showed that subcutaneous etanercept (50 mg/wk) was well tolerated in this small group of patients with Alzheimer disease dementia, but a larger more heterogeneous group needs to be tested before recommending its use for broader groups of patients.

  21. A phase Ib multiple ascending dose study of the safety, tolerability, and central nervous system availability of AZD0530 (saracatinib) in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2015-04-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Despite significant progress, a disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has not yet been developed.

  22. Rivastigmine for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2015-04-10 Treatments

    Tacrine, the first of the cholinesterase inhibitors to undergo extensive trials for this purpose, was associated with significant adverse effects including hepatotoxicity.

  23. Phase 3 trial of flutemetamol labeled with radioactive fluorine 18 imaging and neuritic plaque density

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This study showed that flutemetamol injection labeled with radioactive fluorine 18 was safe and had high sensitivity and specificity in an end-of-life population.

  24. The flavonoid quercetin ameliorates Alzheimer's disease pathology and protects cognitive and emotional function in aged triple transgenic Alzheimer's disease model mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2015-02-07 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common senile dementia in the world.

  25. In the seven longitudinal studies assessing the effect of antihypertensive medication on cognitive impairment or cognitive decline, antihypertensive drugs appeared to be beneficial.

  26. Medication development for agitation and aggression in Alzheimer disease: review and discussion of recent randomized clinical trial design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2015-02-01 Treatments

    This review highlights a great heterogeneity in RCTs design of drugs for A/A in AD and some key methodological issues such as definition of A/A, choice of outcome measures and caregiver participation that could be addressed by an expert consensus to optimize future trials design.

  27. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of treatment effect

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Drugs & aging 2015-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the cause of more than two-thirds of all dementia cases.

  28. Souvenaid reduces behavioral deficits and improves social cognition skills in frontotemporal dementia: a proof-of-concept study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neuro-degenerative diseases 2015-01-15 Disease mechanisms

    Our results provide evidence of the potential of Souvenaid™ therapy for the treatment of behavioral disturbances and social cognition skills in FTD.

  29. Dementia praecox redux: a systematic review of the nicotinic receptor as a target for cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) 2015-01-07 Prevention trials

    Most individuals with schizophrenia suffer some cognitive dysfunction: such deficits are predictive of longer-term functioning; and current dopamine-blocking antipsychotics have made little impact on this domain.

  30. Olive Oil Phenols as Promising Multi-targeting Agents Against Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2015-01-01 Prevention trials

    Amyloid diseases are characterized by the deposition of typically aggregated proteins/peptides in tissues, associated with degeneration and progressive functional impairment.

  31. Results from a Phase II Study to Assess the Clinical and Immunological Activity of AFFITOPE® AD02 in Patients with Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2015-01-01 Treatments

    Treatments were generally well tolerated and adverse events (AEs) were seen at similar rates across all treatment groups, with the exception that more injection site reactions were seen in the groups with a higher level of adjuvant.

  32. Synaptic therapy in Alzheimer's disease: a CREB-centric approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2015-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Therapeutic attempts to cure Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed, and new strategies are desperately needed.

  33. This study indicates no benefits for memantine in the long-term treatment and prophylaxis of clinically significant neuropsychiatric symptoms.

  34. Management of cognitive determinants in senile dementia of Alzheimer's type: therapeutic potential of a novel polyherbal drug product

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Clinical drug investigation 2014-12-01 Digital health tools

    The trial was performed in 109 healthy subjects and 123 SDAT patients of whom 97 healthy subjects and 104 SDAT patients completed the study.

  35. Increased CSF APPs-α levels in patients with Alzheimer disease treated with acitretin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2014-10-24 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We investigated induction of α-secretase A disintegrin and metalloprotease 10 (ADAM10) by the synthetic retinoid acitretin (Neotigason; Actavis, München-Riem, Germany) in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) via measurement of CSF content of α-secretase-derived amyloid precursor protein (APPs-α).

  36. Rationale and design of a multicenter, phase 2 clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine SaiLuoTong in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2014-10-05 Treatments

    The rigorous methodology of the study will hopefully move forward the scientific evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of VaD.

  37. Tailored lighting intervention improves measures of sleep, depression, and agitation in persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia living in long-term care facilities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Clinical interventions in aging 2014-09-12 Clinical safety

    A lighting intervention, tailored to increase daytime circadian stimulation, can be used to increase sleep quality and improve behavior in patients with ADRD.

  38. Benzodiazepine use and risk of Alzheimer's disease: case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2014-09-09 Getting a diagnosis

    Benzodiazepine use is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.

  39. Effect of 1 night of total sleep deprivation on cerebrospinal fluid β-amyloid 42 in healthy middle-aged men: a randomized clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-08-01 Treatments

    Sleep deprivation, or prolonged wakefulness, interferes with a physiological morning decrease in Aβ42.

  40. GABAergic neurotransmission and new strategies of neuromodulation to compensate synaptic dysfunction in early stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2014-06-25 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by cognitive decline, brain atrophy due to neuronal and synapse loss, and formation of two pathological lesions: extracellular amyloid plaques, composed largely of amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ), and neurofibrillary tangles formed by intracellular aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  41. Comparison of sertraline, venlafaxine and desipramine effects on depression, cognition and the daily living activities in Alzheimer patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Pharmacopsychiatry 2014-06-23 Treatments

    The effects of antidepressants on mood, cognition and the daily activities of Alzheimer patients are ambiguous.

  42. Twenty-one patients received at least one drug dose (9 GAL/NIM and 12 GAL/PLA).

  43. [Effects of a neuropsychology program based on mindfulness on Alzheimer's disease: randomized double-blind clinical study]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Revista espanola de geriatria y gerontologia 2014-05-28 Treatments

    The mindfulness based neuropsychological program showed better cognitive and functional stability, as well as significant improvement in the psychopathological condition of mild to moderate Alzheimer' patients.

  44. Recently, several large randomised controlled trials about the treatments of cognitive impairment or dementia due to Parkinson's disease (CIND-PD or PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) were completed.

  45. Clinical trial of an inhibitor of RAGE-Aβ interactions in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2014-04-02 Treatments

    PF-04494700 at 20 mg/d was associated with increased adverse events and cognitive decline.

  46. Florbetapir F 18 amyloid PET and 36-month cognitive decline: a prospective multicenter study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2014-03-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study was designed to evaluate whether subjects with amyloid beta (Aβ) pathology, detected using florbetapir positron emission tomorgraphy (PET), demonstrated greater cognitive decline than subjects without Aβ pathology.

  47. Synthesis and multitarget biological profiling of a novel family of rhein derivatives as disease-modifying anti-Alzheimer agents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of medicinal chemistry 2014-03-10 Risk genes beyond APOE

    We have synthesized a family of rhein-huprine hybrids to hit several key targets for Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Cannabinoids for treatment of Alzheimer's disease: moving toward the clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2014-03-05 Inflammation and the immune system

    The limited effectiveness of current therapies against Alzheimer's disease (AD) highlights the need for intensifying research efforts devoted to developing new agents for preventing or retarding the disease process.

  49. Effect of citalopram on agitation in Alzheimer disease: the CitAD randomized clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. JAMA 2014-02-01 Treatments

    Among patients with probable Alzheimer disease and agitation who were receiving psychosocial intervention, the addition of citalopram compared with placebo significantly reduced agitation and caregiver distress; however, cognitive and cardiac adverse effects of citalopram may limit its practical application at the dosage of 30 mg per day.

  50. Phase 3 Trials of Solanezumab for Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. New England Journal of Medicine 2014-01-22 Treatments

    Solanezumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds amyloid, failed to improve cognition or functional ability.

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