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  1. [Antibody therapy in Alzheimer's disease] 2026-09-09
  2. Real-world evidence for amyloid-targeted therapies: Lecanemab and donanemab 2026-08-26
  3. APOE-guided lecanemab dosing dissociates ARIA-E from ARIA-H: The K-ROAD study 2026-08

Studies

332 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2000 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 26
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 21
  • The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 20
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 18
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 14

148 journals in all.

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  1. Anti-Amyloid Therapy, AD, and ARIA: Untangling the Role of CAA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2023-10-27 Treatments

    Anti-amyloid therapies (AATs), such as anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies, are emerging treatments for people with early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  2. Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy: shared neuropathology guides current and future treatment strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-10-23 Treatments

    Epilepsy is a cause of profound disability in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. Accelerating Alzheimer's therapeutic development: The past and future of clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell 2023-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) research has entered a new era with the recent positive phase 3 clinical trials of the anti-Aβ antibodies lecanemab and donanemab.

  4. Guidelines for pharmacotherapy in Alzheimer's disease - A primer on FDA-approved drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurosciences in rural practice 2023-10-07 Treatments

    Both act by binding with fibrillary conformations of Aβ plaques in the brain.

  5. Donanemab: Not two without a third

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2023-10 Treatments

    Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 2 anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies, aducanumab (June 7, 2021) and lecanemab (July 6, 2023), for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and will most likely also approve a 3rd one, donanemab, soon.

  6. The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-10-01 Treatments

    However, while Aβ may contribute to disease, genetic, clinical, imaging and biochemical data suggest a more complex aetiology.

  7. Validation of 3- and 5-point severity scales to assess ARIA-E

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-10-01 Treatments

    Our study suggests that SSAE-3 and SSAE-5 are valid ARIA-E rating scales for use in routine clinical practice by experienced radiologists in specialized settings.

  8. Monoclonal Antibody Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease: Aducanumab and Lecanemab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) 2023-09-25 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) has witnessed a gradual rise in its prevalence in recent decades, particularly impacting a substantial segment of individuals aged 85 and above.

  9. Anti-Amyloid Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease and the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2023-09-24 Treatments

    Over the past 30 years, the majority of (pre)clinical efforts to find an effective therapy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) focused on clearing the β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) from the brain since, according to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, the peptide was (and it is still considered by many) the pathogenic determinant of this neurodegenerative disorder.

  10. Alzheimer's disease: From immunotherapy to immunoprevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cell 2023-09-19 Treatments

    Recent Aβ-immunotherapy trials have yielded the first clear evidence that removing aggregated Aβ from the brains of symptomatic patients can slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

  11. Commentaries: Lecanemab: pioneering the way as the first approved drug for Alzheimer's disease treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] 2023-09-08 Clinical trials

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder marked by cognitive decline and neuronal abnormalities.

  12. Senolytic therapy in mild Alzheimer's disease: a phase 1 feasibility trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature medicine 2023-09-07 Biomarkers

    Cellular senescence contributes to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  13. Lecanemab (Leqembi) is not the right drug for patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2023-09 Treatments

    On July 6, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lecanemab (Leqembi) for the treatment of Alzheimer's dementia (AD) patients.

  14. Antiamyloid Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Alzheimer Disease: Emerging Issues in Neurology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2023-07-26 Treatments

    With recent data demonstrating that lecanemab treatment can slow cognitive and functional decline in early symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD), it is widely anticipated that this drug and potentially other monoclonal antibody infusions targeting β-amyloid protein will imminently be realistic options for some patients with AD.

  15. Anti-Amyloid Immunotherapies for Alzheimer's Disease: A 2023 Clinical Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2023-07-25 Treatments

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis is a useful framework for therapeutic development in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Trial of Solanezumab in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2023-07-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Solanezumab, which targets monomeric amyloid in persons with elevated brain amyloid levels, did not slow cognitive decline as compared with placebo over a period of 240 weeks in persons with preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

  17. The risk-benefit profile of anti-Aβ monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains unclear, especially concerning their safety and overall effects on AD progression and cognitive function.

  18. Passive Alzheimer's immunotherapy: A promising or uncertain option?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-07-05 Treatments

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s recent accelerated approval of two anti-amyloid antibodies for treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD), aducanumab and lecanemab, has caused substantial debate.

  19. Advances in amyloid-targeting monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer's disease: clinical and public health issues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2023-07-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major global public health challenge.

  20. TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 4: Topline Study Results Directly Comparing Donanemab to Aducanumab on Amyloid Lowering in Early, Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. BJPsych Open 2023-07-01 Treatments

    This study provides the first active comparator data on amyloid plaque clearance in patients with early symptomatic AD.

  21. Donanemab exposure and efficacy relationship using modeling in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2023-06-28 Biomarkers

    The plasma p-tau217 and plasma GFAP models adequately predicted the change over time, with donanemab resulting in decreased plasma p-tau217 and plasma GFAP concentrations.

  22. MRI in the new era of antiamyloid mAbs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2023-06-23 Treatments

    Currently, three antibeta amyloid (Aβ) mAbs are approved or under examination in USA and in Europe for the treatment of patients with early Alzheimer's disease.

  23. Recent Trends in Active and Passive Immunotherapies of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-06-19 Drug development

    In the elderly, a debilitating condition known as dementia, which is a major health concern, is caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Implications of the Approval of Lecanemab for Alzheimer Disease Patient Care: Incremental Step or Paradigm Shift?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2023-06-09 Treatments

    The amyloid cascade model of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) is well supported in observational studies.

  25. The affordability of lecanemab, an amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer's disease: an EADC-EC viewpoint

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Lancet regional health. Europe 2023-05-22 Treatments

    Lecanemab, an anti-amyloid antibody with effects on biomarker and clinical endpoints in early Alzheimer's Disease (AD), was granted accelerated approval by the FDA in 2023 and regulatory review in Europe is ongoing.

  26. Safety and efficacy of lecanemab for Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-05-05 Treatments

    Our analysis found that lecanemab showed significant positive statistical efficacy with respect to cognition, function, and behavior in patients with early AD though the actual clinical significance is yet to be established.

  27. An anti-amyloid therapy works for Alzheimer's disease: why has it taken so long and what is next?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-04-19 Treatments

    Hardy and Mummery discuss the recent positive findings in the clinical trial of lecanemab in early Alzheimer’s disease, and the implications for the amyloid hypothesis.

  28. Anti-Amyloid Monoclonal Antibodies are Transformative Treatments that Redefine Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Drugs 2023-04-15 Treatments

    Two anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (MABs)-lecanemab (Leqembi ® ) and aducanumab (Aduhelm ® )-have been approved in the USA for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. Therapeutic preference for Alzheimer's disease treatments: a discrete choice experiment with caregivers and neurologists

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-03-24 Treatments

    Caregivers and neurologists considered incremental clinical benefit over SOC and safety to be highly desirable qualities for a new drug that could clear amyloid plaques and delay clinical progression and indicated a willingness to accept incremental ARIA-E to achieve additional clinical benefits.

  30. Targeting amyloid β in Alzheimer's disease: Meta-analysis of low-dose solanezumab in Alzheimer's disease with mild dementia studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-03-22 Treatments

    Pooled MMRM analyses showed a statistically significant effect of solanezumab across cognitive and functional outcome measures.

  31. Assessing preparedness for Alzheimer disease‐modifying therapies in Australasian health care systems

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Medical Journal of Australia 2023-03-19 Treatments

    Three deaths have been reported related to treatment with lecanemab.6 Patients receiving DMT require frequent monitoring with MRI brain scans (four or more per year), as there is a high rate of clinically significant amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA), both brain oedema (ARIA-E) and macro- and microhaemorrhages (ARIA-H).

  32. Donanemab Population Pharmacokinetics, Amyloid Plaque Reduction, and Safety in Participants with Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 2023-03-09 Treatments

    Donanemab is an amyloid-targeting therapy that resulted in robust amyloid plaque reduction and slowed Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression compared with placebo in the phase II TRAILBLAZER-ALZ study (NCT03367403).

  33. Anti-amyloid antibody therapies in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Treatments

    After years of failed attempts to develop a disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer's disease, consistent evidence in support of clinical efficacy was finally presented for a monoclonal antibody targeting the amyloid-β protofibrils.

  34. Lecanemab: First Approval

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Drugs 2023-03-01 Treatments

    Lecanemab (lecanemab-irmb; LEQEMBI™) is a humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) against aggregated soluble and insoluble forms of amyloid-β peptide.

  35. Aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society 2023-02-12 Treatments

    Aducanumab is a novel disease-modifying anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) human monoclonal antibody specifically targeted to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. A combined physiologically-based pharmacokinetic and quantitative systems pharmacology model for modeling amyloid aggregation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology 2023-01-20 Treatments

    Antibody-mediated removal of aggregated β-amyloid (Aβ) is the current, most clinically advanced potential disease-modifying treatment approach for Alzheimer's disease.

  37. ACU193, a Monoclonal Antibody that Selectively Binds Soluble Aß Oligomers: Development Rationale, Phase 1 Trial Design, and Clinical Development Plan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Nonclinical data indicate that ACU193 can reduce the toxic effects of amyloid β oligomers.

  38. ARIA in patients treated with lecanemab (BAN2401) in a phase 2 study in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2023-01-01 Treatments

    Lecanemab can be administered without titration with modest incidence of ARIA.

  39. There are few treatments that slow neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and while therapeutic antibodies are being investigated in clinical trials for AD treatment, their access to the central nervous system is restricted by the blood-brain barrier.

  40. Initial Experiences with Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Patients Receiving Aducanumab Following Accelerated Approval

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023-01-01 Treatments

    Aducanumab is the first FDA-approved amyloid-lowering immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease.

  41. Investigating Partially Discordant Results in Phase 3 Studies of Aducanumab

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Clinical trials

    Post-hoc analyses showed that outcomes in the ENGAGE high-dose group were affected by an imbalance in a small number of patients with extremely rapid progression and by lower exposure to the target dose of 10 mg/kg.

  42. Lecanemab Clarity AD: Quality-of-Life Results from a Randomized, Double-Blind Phase 3 Trial in Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Clinical trials

    A total of 1795 participants were enrolled (lecanemab:898; placebo:897).

  43. Neuropathology of Anti-Amyloid-β Immunotherapy: A Case Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Treatments

    Host responses to anti-amyloid-β (Aβ) antibody therapy are evident in neuroimaging changes and clinical symptoms in a subset of clinical trial subjects receiving such therapy.

  44. Novel anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) monoclonal antibody lecanemab for Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. International journal of immunopathology and pharmacology 2023 Treatments

    The FDA approved lecanemab for Alzheimer's disease in January 2023 which acts as a novel disease-modifying anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) human monoclonal antibody and is administered intravenously.

  45. The Anti-Amyloid Monoclonal Antibody Lecanemab: 16 Cautionary Notes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Treatments

    After the CLARITY-AD clinical trial results of lecanemab were interpreted as positive, and supporting the amyloid hypothesis, the drug received accelerated Food and Drug Administration approval.

  46. Viewpoint: Clinicians' Perspectives on How Disease Modifying Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease Impact Specialty Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023 Treatments

    Clinicians specialized in the diagnosis and management of persons living with early-stage Alzheimer's disease need to enable access, for those meeting criteria, to the new class of disease modifying drugs (DMDs).

  47. Donanemab for Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-12-22 Treatments

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and aggregated tau are two core mechanisms that contribute to the clinical deterioration of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

  48. Lecanemab treatment resulted in significant reduction in amyloid plaques and a slowing of clinical decline.

  49. Gantenerumab: an anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody with potential disease-modifying effects in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-11-29 Treatments

    The results from the gantenerumab phase 3 programs are expected by the end of 2022 and will add critical information to the collective knowledge on the search for effective AD treatments.

  50. Lecanemab, Aducanumab, and Gantenerumab - Binding Profiles to Different Forms of Amyloid-Beta Might Explain Efficacy and Side Effects in Clinical Trials for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2022-10-17 Treatments

    Immunotherapy against amyloid-beta (Aβ) is a promising option for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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