The “rights” of precision drug development for Alzheimer's disease

J Cummings, HH Feldman, P Scheltens - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2019 - Springer
There is a high rate of failure in Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug development with 99% of
trials showing no drug-placebo difference. This low rate of success delays new treatments …

Safety and efficacy of focused ultrasound induced blood-brain barrier opening, an integrative review of animal and human studies

Y Meng, CB Pople, H Lea-Banks, A Abrahao… - Journal of controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier, while fundamental in maintaining homeostasis in the central
nervous system, is a bottleneck to achieving efficacy for numerous therapeutics. Improved …

Persistent neuropathological effects 14 years following amyloid-β immunization in Alzheimer's disease

JAR Nicoll, GR Buckland, CH Harrison, A Page… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We performed a 15-year post-mortem neuropathological follow-up of patients in the first trial
of amyloid-β immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease. Twenty-two participants of a clinical …

[HTML][HTML] The amyloid cascade and Alzheimer's disease therapeutics: theory versus observation

RJ Castellani, G Plascencia-Villa, G Perry - Laboratory Investigation, 2019 - Elsevier
The identification of amyloid-β precursor protein (APP) pathogenic mutations in familial early
onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), along with knowledge that amyloid-β (Aβ) was the principle …

The role of biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease drug development

J Cummings - Reviews on Biomarker Studies in Psychiatric and …, 2019 - Springer
Biomarkers have a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug development. Biomarkers can
assist in diagnosis, demonstrate target engagement, support disease modification, and …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated view on vascular dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

J Klohs - Neurodegenerative Diseases, 2019 - karger.com
Background: Cerebrovascular disease is a common comorbidity in patients with Alzheimer's
disease (AD). It is believed to contribute additively to the cognitive impairment and to lower …

Early onset cerebral amyloid angiopathy following childhood exposure to cadaveric dura

G Banerjee, ME Adams, Z Jaunmuktane… - Annals of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Amyloid‐β transmission has been described in patients both with and without iatrogenic
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease; however, there is little information regarding the clinical impact …

Immunotherapy with ponezumab for probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy

C Leurent, JA Goodman, Y Zhang, P He… - Annals of clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is caused by cerebrovascular deposition of β‐
amyloid fragments leading to cerebrovascular dysfunction and other brain injuries. This …

Cerebral microbleeds: prevalence and relationship to amyloid burden

J Graff-Radford, H Botha, AA Rabinstein, JL Gunter… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To describe the prevalence of cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and determine the
association between CMBs and β-amyloid burden on PET. Methods From the population …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep and circadian rhythm disruption and stress intersect in Alzheimer's disease

TX Phan, RG Malkani - Neurobiology of stress, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) was discovered and the pathological hallmarks were revealed
more than a century ago. Subsequently, many remarkable discoveries and breakthroughs …