Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

Towards a future where Alzheimer's disease pathology is stopped before the onset of dementia

WM van der Flier, ME de Vugt, EMA Smets, M Blom… - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major healthcare challenge with no curative treatment at
present. To address this challenge, we need a paradigm shift, where we focus on pre …

Amyloid and tau PET-positive cognitively unimpaired individuals are at high risk for future cognitive decline

R Ossenkoppele, A Pichet Binette, C Groot, R Smith… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
A major unanswered question in the dementia field is whether cognitively unimpaired
individuals who harbor both Alzheimer's disease neuropathological hallmarks (that is …

Biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: role in early and differential diagnosis and recognition of atypical variants

B Dubois, CAF von Arnim, N Burnie, S Bozeat… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2023 - Springer
Background Development of in vivo biomarkers has shifted the diagnosis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) from the later dementia stages of disease towards the earlier stages and has …

Detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease in its preclinical stage

MS Rafii, PS Aisen - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Longitudinal multimodal biomarker studies reveal that the continuum of Alzheimer's disease
(AD) includes a long latent phase, referred to as preclinical AD, which precedes the onset of …

Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup

CR Jack Jr, JS Andrews, TG Beach… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association convened three
separate work groups in 2011 and single work groups in 2012 and 2018 to create …

The complex pathway between amyloid β and cognition: implications for therapy

WJ Jagust, CE Teunissen, C DeCarli - The Lancet Neurology, 2023 - thelancet.com
For decades, the hypothesis that brain deposition of the amyloid β protein initiates
Alzheimer's disease has dominated research and clinical trials. Targeting amyloid β is …

Biomarker-based staging of Alzheimer disease: rationale and clinical applications

J Therriault, SE Schindler, G Salvadó… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Disease staging, whereby the spatial extent and load of brain pathology are used to
estimate the severity of Alzheimer disease (AD), is pivotal to the gold-standard …

Comparison of group-level and individualized brain regions for measuring change in longitudinal tau positron emission tomography in Alzheimer disease

A Leuzy, AP Binette, JW Vogel, G Klein… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Longitudinal tau positron emission tomography (PET) is a relevant outcome in
clinical trials evaluating disease-modifying therapies in Alzheimer disease (AD). A key …

The ATN framework—moving preclinical Alzheimer disease to clinical relevance

WM Van Der Flier, P Scheltens - JAMA neurology, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
The ATN framework proposes a shift from a syndrome to a biological construct of Alzheimer
disease (AD) for research purposes. 1 According to this framework, whereAstands for …