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The primary aim of this study is to determine whether longitudinal neuroimaging acquired across multiple research and clinical centers is a feasible biomarker to use as an outcome measure for clinical trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)


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ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that manifests with extensive clinical heterogeneity, including variable degrees of upper motor neuron (UMN) and lower motor neuron (LMN) impairment. While ALS is classically defined as a neuromuscular disorder, approximately 15% of individuals also develop cognitive and/or behavioral dysfunction of the frontotemporal variety, ranging in severity from ALS with cognitive or behavior impairment to a frank form of dementia consistent with FTD2 - Recent consensus criteria capture this heterogeneity by defining these conditions together as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis frontotemporal spectrum disorder (ALS-FTSD)3 - There are emerging and in-progress interventional clinical trials underway that aim to arrest ALS and/or FTD disease progression; however, there are limited objective and quantitative biomarkers to directly track disease progression during life. Multi-modal neuroimaging provides an ideal candidate biomarker for clinical trials because ALS-FTSD affects a distributed neuroanatomic network and we can reliably measure neurodegeneration of grey matter (GM) and arterial spin labeling based perfusion MRI (pMRI) measurements of cerebral blood flow (CBF). However, there are many unaddressed technical challenges associated with measuring disease progression using neuroimaging techniques in a multi-center setting. The overall aim of this protocol is to leverage a team science approach to develop disease-specific candidate neuroimaging outcome measures for ALS-FTSD clinical trials. ;


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NCT number NCT04490096
Study type Interventional
Source University of Pennsylvania
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Status Terminated
Phase Phase 1
Start date February 25, 2021
Completion date March 17, 2022

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