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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. Continued Use of Cholinesterase Inhibitors and Memantine in Hospice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA Internal Medicine 2025-03-24 End-of-life care

    This cohort study examines the use of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine among older adults with dementia after admission into hospice care despite the medications’ limited clinical benefit following enrollment into hospice.

  2. Trazodone and Risk of Orthostatic Hypotension, Syncope and Falls in Geriatric Outpatients with Hypertension

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Drugs & Aging 2025-03-11 Clinical safety

    In older adults, trazodone is frequently prescribed for anxiety and insomnia owing to its perceived greater tolerability in comparison with benzodiazepines.

  3. Lecanemab autorizado para tratamiento del Alzhéimer en pacientes que tienen una o ninguna copia de ApoE4: una reacción adversa grave limita su uso

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Panorama actual del medicamento 2025-02-25 Treatments

    La Agencia Europea de Medicamentos (EMA), tras realizar su comité CHMP una nueva evaluación de su dictamen inicial negativo en julio 2024, ha recomendado que se otorgue una autorización de comercialización limitada a pacientes de Alzheimer, que tienen una o ninguna copia de ApoE4, una determinada forma del gen de la proteína apolipoproteína E. Esta población tiene menos probabilidades de experimentar anomalías de imagen relacionadas con el amiloide (ARIA), una reacción adversa grave conocida, que implica edema (hinchazón) y posibles hemorragias cerebrales.

  4. Black raspberry supplementation on overweight and Helicobacter pylori infected mild dementia patients a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. npj Science of Food 2025-02-12 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia.

  5. Targeting Amyloid Pathology in Early Alzheimer's: The Promise of Donanemab-Azbt

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) 2025-02-08 Treatments

    Key results included a 35% slowing of decline on the Integrated Alzheimer's Disease Rating Scale (iADRS) and a 36% slowing on the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB).

  6. Thirty medical specialists (geriatricians, n = 23; psychiatrists, n = 4; neurologists, n = 3) from 30 different clinics participated (public, 76.7%; private, 23.3%), including from metropolitan (73.3%), regional (20.0%) and rural (6.7%) areas.

  7. Ultrasound Neuromodulation With Transcranial Pulse Stimulation in Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA network open 2025-02-03 Treatments

    For the intention-to-treat analysis, 60 patients between ages 51 and 82 years (mean [SD], 70.65 [8.16] years; 30 females; 30 males) were included.

  8. Enhanced in silico QSAR-based screening of butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors using multi-feature selection and machine learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. SAR and QSAR in environmental research 2025-02-01 Digital health tools

    Butyrylcholinesterase inhibition offers one of the formulated solutions to tackle the aggravating symptoms of dementia that downgrades to cholinergic neuronal loss in Alzheimer’s disease.

  9. Etomidate ameliorates Alzheimer-like neuropathology and cognitive impairment in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. Journal of physiology and pharmacology : an official journal of the Polish Physiological Society 2025-02-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    To investigate the effect and mechanism of etomidate on attenuating Alzheimer-like neuropathology and cognitive impairment in mice with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Novel Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment of Alzheimers Disease using KISUNLA Drug

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 26 out of 100. International Journal of Advanced Research in Science Communication and Technology 2025-01-24 Treatments

    For persons with early-stage sympathetic Alzheimer's disease (AD), including those with mild cognitive impairment and mild congitive dementia stages of the disease with confirmed amyloid pathology, KISUNLA (donanemab-azbt) is a disease-modifying treatment.

  11. “D-Neuron Protection / Activation (DPA) Therapy”: New Strategy for Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Illnesses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Advances in Bioengineering and Biomedical Science Research 2025-01-23 Treatments

    Recent progress of pharmacotherapy enabled anti-amyloid and anti-tau immunotherapy for Alzheimer disease.

  12. evoke and evoke+: design of two large-scale, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 studies evaluating efficacy, safety, and tolerability of semaglutide in early-stage symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-01-08 Inflammation and the immune system

    Enrollment was undertaken between May 18, 2021, and September 8, 2023.

  13. This study (RCT) investigated the impact of Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC)-based art therapy on cognitive function and quality of life among older adults with dementia living in a complex care setting.

  14. A Novel Mouse Model for Investigating ARIAs in Response to Anti-Abeta Immunotherapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2025-01-01 Treatments

    Study 1 was designed for 8 weeks with weekly 3D6.IgG2a injections, but was aborted after the first injection when 7/10 mice died within 36 hours.

  15. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) in Clinical Trials of Gantenerumab in Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-01-01 Treatments

    These results show that in addition to APOE ε4 allele count, severity of Aβ neuropathology and comorbid cerebrovascular pathology may be relevant for clinicians prescribing anti-Aβ monoclonal antibodies for early AD and developing individualized safety monitoring plans.

  16. Deferiprone in Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-01-01 Treatments

    Elevated brain iron observed in AD has been associated with accelerated cognitive decline and may be a tractable drug target.

  17. Integrating repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and Mediterranean diet for cognitive and anxiety improvement in early Alzheimer's disease: A case report and literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2025-01-01 Prevention trials

    A 52-year-old male with early-stage Alzheimer's disease and long-standing anxiety received 30 repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation sessions over 8 months and 20-month Mediterranean diet intervention.

  18. Interim biomarker results for trontinemab, a novel Brainshuttle antibody in development for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ⚠ Conference abstract — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia (AAIC 2025 conference abstract) 2025 Clinical trials

    Trontinemab is designed with a molecular 'shuttle' that helps it cross into the brain more efficiently than older anti-amyloid antibodies, aiming for faster plaque removal at lower doses.

  19. Lecanemab como tratamiento en el deterioro cognitivo de pacientes con Alzheimer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Acta Médica Grupo Ángeles 2025-01-01 Treatments

    Introducción: la enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA) se define como un trastorno neurodegenerativo caracterizado por acumulación de placas beta amiloide a nivel cerebral, lo cual ocasiona alteraciones histopatológicas y se manifiesta, principalmente, en el deterioro cognitivo (DC).Objetivo: evaluar el efecto de lecanemab sobre el DC en pacientes con EA.Material y métodos: metaanálisis de artículos originales que evaluaron el DC durante los periodos de intervención con placebo y lecanemab.

  20. Multiple-Dose Results from an Ongoing Phase 1 Study of Mivelsiran, an Investigational RNA Interference Therapeutic Targeting Amyloid-Beta Precursor Protein for Alzheimer's Disease

    ⚠ Conference abstract — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia (AAIC 2025 conference abstract) 2025 Clinical trials

    Mivelsiran takes a completely different approach from antibody drugs: it's injected into the spinal fluid and uses RNA interference to tell brain cells to make less of the amyloid precursor protein in the first place, rather than clearing plaques after they form.

  21. Pharmacotherapy for Poststroke Cognitive Impairment and Poststroke Cognitive Impairment With Dementia: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Stroke Research and Treatment 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Poststroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) refers to any level of cognitive decline occurring after a stroke, ranging from mild to severe impairments, while PSCI with dementia describes a more severe form where the cognitive decline significantly affects daily functioning and meets the clinical criteria for dementia.

  22. Therapierefraktärer Status epilepticus bei Therapie mit Anti-Amyloid-AK

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 25 out of 100. Neuroradiologie Scan 2025-01-01 Treatments

    Eine Möglichkeit zur Behandlung von beginnenden Alzheimer-Erkrankungen stellten Anti-Amyloid-Antikörper (AK) dar, die die Amyloidablagerungen im Gehirn reduzieren sollen.

  23. Phase 2A Proof-of-Concept Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nicotinamide in Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2024-12-13 Treatments

    Of 47 participants enrolled (mean age = 73.8 years; 43% female), 1 dropped out before treatment initiation and 6 before completion, including 2 in the nicotinamide and 4 in the placebo arm.

  24. Metformin effectively alleviates the symptoms of Alzheimer in rats by lowering amyloid β deposition and enhancing the insulin signal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Metabolic brain disease 2024-11-25 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibits distinct biochemical and histopathological attributes, encompassing cellular, neuronal, and oxidative impairment.

  25. Effect of choline alfoscerate in older adult patients with dementia: an observational study from the claims data of national health insurance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2024-11-16 Health systems and care delivery

    Choline alfoscerate, a cholinergic precursor with limited evidence of efficacy in dementia management, has been used for various cognitive impairments in Korea.

  26. Leqembi Recommended for Treatment of Early Alzheimer's Disease (CHMP re-examination, reversing July 2024 refusal)

    ⚠ Regulatory decision — not a study alzhub usefulness score 15 out of 100. European Medicines Agency 2024-11-14 Treatments

    The EMA's human medicines committee (CHMP) initially refused to approve lecanemab in the EU in July 2024, judging that its modest effect on cognitive decline did not outweigh ARIA risk in the broad early-Alzheimer's population studied.

  27. Brexpiprazole treatment for agitation in Alzheimer's dementia: A randomized study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2024-10-06 Treatments

    Highlights Brexpiprazole treatment for 10 weeks improved agitation in Alzheimer's dementia.

  28. Designing and implementing the IDEAL Study: A randomized clinical trial of APOE genotype disclosure for late-onset Alzheimer's disease in an urban Latino population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2024-10-01 Treatments

    We sent invitations to 91,433 households; 5542 (6.1%) responded, 2120 completed the Baseline Survey (78.5% online; 21.5% via computer-assisted telephone interview), and 2087 were deemed eligible, yielding a response rate of 2.3%.

  29. SEC Charges Cassava Sciences and Former Top Executives with Securities Fraud Related to Alzheimer's Drug Clinical Trial

    ⚠ Regulatory decision — not a study alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. SEC Press Release / Administrative Order (Securities Act of 1933 Release No. 11311) 2024-09-26 Laboratory science

    In September 2024 the SEC announced that Cassava Sciences and three individuals tied to the company agreed to pay over $40 million combined to settle federal charges that they misled investors about a 2020 Phase 2 trial of simufilam.

  30. An 18-month multimodal intervention trial for preventing dementia: J-MINT PRIME Tamba

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-04 Prevention trials

    An 18-month multimodal intervention for older adults at risk of dementia could improve their cognitive function.

  31. Our findings illuminate the potential benefits of ChEI treatment in DLB patients.

  32. ω-3 PUFA for Secondary Prevention of White Matter Lesions and Neuronal Integrity Breakdown in Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-08-01 Treatments

    In this 3-year randomized clinical trial, ω-3 treatment was safe and well-tolerated but failed to reach significant reductions in WML accumulation or neuronal integrity breakdown among all participants, which may be attributable to sample size limitations.

  33. Fluvoxamine maleate alleviates amyloid-beta load and neuroinflammation in 5XFAD mice to ameliorate Alzheimer disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2024-07-29 Biomarkers

    Our data suggest that FXN ameliorates AD pathology, by simultaneously targeting two key pathological features: Aβ deposits and neuroinflammation.

  34. FDA Approves Treatment for Adults with Alzheimer's Disease (Kisunla / donanemab-azbt)

    ⚠ Regulatory decision — not a study alzhub usefulness score 15 out of 100. U.S. Food and Drug Administration 2024-07-02 Treatments

    The FDA approved donanemab (Kisunla) as a monthly IV infusion for people with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia) with confirmed amyloid plaques.

  35. A phase 2, open-label study of anti-inflammatory NE3107 in patients with dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Medicine 2024-07-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    NE3107 was associated with clinician-rated improvements in cerebral blood flow and functional connectivity within the brain.

  36. Choline alfoscerate exhibits additional cognitive improvement in both cognitive and noncognitive domains, supporting the findings of the ASCOMALVA trial.

  37. Downstream Biomarker Effects of Gantenerumab or Solanezumab in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease: The DIAN-TU-001 Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2024-06-01 Biomarkers

    Of 236 eligible participants screened, 43 were excluded.

  38. Nonlinear dose-response relationship between exercise and cognitive improvement in Alzheimer's disease, with the optimal AE dose identified at 660 METs-min/week for enhancing cognitive function in AD.

  39. Integrating a multimodal lifestyle intervention with medical food in prodromal Alzheimer's disease: the MIND-ADmini randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-05-30 Prevention trials

    Primary outcome was feasibility of the multimodal intervention, evaluated by recruitment rate during a 6-month recruitment phase, overall adherence in each intervention arm, and 6-month retention rate.

  40. Cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine are associated with a reduced mortality in nursing home residents with dementia: a longitudinal observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2024-05-29 Treatments

    The use of conventional anti-dementia drugs is associated with a lower mortality in nursing home residents with dementia and should be widely used in this population.

  41. p75 neurotrophin receptor modulation in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2a trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Nature medicine 2024-05-17 Treatments

    p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75 NTR ) signaling pathways substantially overlap with degenerative networks active in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  42. Progranulin AAV gene therapy for frontotemporal dementia: translational studies and phase 1/2 trial interim results

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature medicine 2024-05-14 Long-term cohort studies

    GRN mutations cause progranulin haploinsufficiency, which eventually leads to frontotemporal dementia (FTD-GRN).

  43. Updated safety results from phase 3 lecanemab study in early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-05-10 Treatments

    Overall, 1795 participants from Core and 1612 participants with at least one dose of lecanemab (Core + OLE) were included.

  44. Effectiveness of Personalized Hippocampal Network-Targeted Stimulation in Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-05-01 Treatments

    This randomized clinical trial demonstrated the positive effects of rTMS on cognitive and functional performance, and the plastic changes in the hippocampal-cortical network.

  45. Glucagon-like peptide-1 class drugs show clear protective effects in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease clinical trials: A revolution in the making?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2024-04-25 Drug development

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex syndrome for which there is no disease-modifying treatment on the market.

  46. Cost-Effectiveness of Lecanemab for Individuals With Early-Stage Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2024-03-14 Costs and economics

    Neither targeted lecanemab treatment nor treatment unrestricted by APOE ε4 genotype is cost-effective vs SoC alone for patients with MCI or mild dementia due to AD.

  47. Assessment of Efficacy and Safety of Zagotenemab: Results From PERISCOPE-ALZ, a Phase 2 Study in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2024-02-22 Biomarkers

    In participants with early symptomatic AD, zagotenemab failed to achieve significant slowing of clinical disease progression compared with placebo.

  48. Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors in Men With Erectile Dysfunction and the Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Neurology 2024-02-07 Treatments

    PDE5I initiation in men with ED was associated with a lower risk of AD, particularly in those most frequently issued prescriptions.

  49. Delayed treatment initiation of oral anticoagulants among Medicare patients with atrial fibrillation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. American Heart Journal Plus Cardiology Research and Practice 2024-02-02 Health systems and care delivery

    = 314,472) as early OAC initiation. Median age for both cohorts was 78 years.

  50. Nanoencapsulated Curcumin: Enhanced Efficacy in Reversing Memory Loss in An Alzheimer Disease Model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain sciences 2024-01-26 Biomarkers

    Investigating new drugs or formulations that target Alzheimer disease (AD) is critical for advancing therapeutic interventions.

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