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Preclinical Alzheimer's prevention trials require a multi-year commitment from diverse, cognitively unimpaired individuals willing to receive biomarker results of confirmed Alzheimer's pathology and possible ApoE4 status. Participants learn new terms such as ARIA, edema and microhemorrhage and undergo numerous MRI scans for safety monitoring. They take quarterly composite Alzheimer's assessments that are anxiety-provoking and highlight weaknesses which may have been unrecognized in daily life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD) associated with amyloid precursor protein (APP) duplications or presenilin (PSEN) variants increases risk of seizures. Targeting epileptiform activity with antiseizure medicine (ASM) administration to AD patients may beneficially attenuate cognitive decline (Vossel et al, JAMA Neurology 2021). However, whether mechanistically distinct ASMs differentially suppress seizures in discrete EOAD models is understudied (Lehmann et al, Neurochem Res 2021).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: evoke and evoke+ are phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled trials currently investigating the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist semaglutide as disease-modifying therapy (DMT) in persons with early Alzheimer's disease (AD). How the evoke and evoke+ trial populations compare with other phase 3 programs for DMTs in early AD has not been described.
Method: We compare the inclusion/exclusion criteria and baseline characteristics of the evoke/evoke+ trial populations with those of Clarity AD (lecanemab) and TRAILBLAZER-ALZ-2 (donanemab): two recent phase 3 trials assessing anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies in persons with early AD.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, SL, Mexico.
Background: Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease, characterized by a decrease in cognitive and behavioral functions of patients. Between the multiple potential disease-modifying therapeutics for AD, we have monoclonal antibodies as aducanumab, lecanemab, and donanemab. Recent results from the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ trial, highlighted donanemab as a promising monoantibodies treatment of early symptomatic AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimers Dement
December 2024
University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Background: The recruitment of individuals for Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetic studies particularly those with low socioeconomic status, and living in rural areas remains a challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), due to stigma-related cultural beliefs that hinder their participation. The Recruitment and Retention of Alzheimer's Disease Diversity Genetic Cohorts in the ADSP (READD - ADSP) project is a case-control genetic epidemiological study involving individuals who are living with AD and disease - free healthy control individuals. The aim is to build a resource that greatly expands Alzheimer's disease genetic studies in the currently underrepresented African ancestry populations and Hispanic/Latinx individuals.
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