View clinical trials related to Alzheimer Disease.
Filter by:The Alzheimer's and Blood Glucose Levels Study is researching the differences in blood glucose levels between people with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer's disease with the aim of early detection of Alzheimer's Disease.
The National Plan to Address Alzheimer's disease has identified education of dementia care providers as a top priority to address the need for quality care for the population of persons with dementia that will triple in the next 30 years. This study will test new online interactive training for nursing home staff that improves staff communication and also reduces behavioral symptoms of persons with dementia that they care for. Innovative approaches to reach care providers are essential to achieve implementation of evidence-based practices to improve care.
We will try to 1. establish the correlation of plasma Aβ40 and Aβ42 level, ApoE genotype, MRI imaging markers in the diagnosis and prognosis of VCI patients 2. understand more on the pathophysiology of VCI.
CORT-X will examine if mitigation of stress-mediated pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a feasible target for intervention in individuals at risk for this disease. This single-site (Baltimore, Maryland) phase II clinical trial is a 2-week, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover study of the effects of the selective glucocorticoid receptor antagonist, CORT108297, on cognitive test performance in 26 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to AD and in 26 cognitively normal individuals with an increased risk for AD due to family history, genetics, and/or subjective memory complaints. All subjects will participate in a brief stressor (public speaking and mental arithmetic) and provide saliva samples so investigators can measure stress hormone response. Then, following 2 weeks of treatment with placebo or CORT108297, in counterbalanced order, participants will complete cognitive tests assessing memory and executive function. All study participants will receive CORT108297 and placebo over the course of this 10-week trial that requires 6 in-person study visits. The primary aims will compare the effects of CORT108297 to placebo on cognitive test performance in individuals with MCI due to AD and in individuals at risk for AD, and describe the side effects of CORT108297 in study participants. Secondary aims will identify subject characteristics that predict positive response to study drug.
To investigate the clinical effect neural mechanism of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation combined with cognitive training on early AD
To identify factors that signal the transition from asymptomatic (preclinical) to symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD).
The purpose of this study is to determine how inflammation is related to other changes in the brain that occur during the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The investigators are also studying how inflammation is related to the symptoms that first occur in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). For this reason, the investigators are asking people with different versions of Alzheimer's disease and/or other related dementias to participate. This includes patients with: - Mild Cognitive Impairment - Posterior cortical atrophy - a version of Alzheimer's disease with vision difficulties - Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia - a version of Alzheimer's disease with language difficulties - Amnestic Alzheimer's disease - a "typical" version of Alzheimer's disease with memory difficulties - The investigators are also enrolling older adults with normal visual, language, and memory function.
This is a phase 0 study that will enable an assessment of biodistribution and estimation of absorbed dose in humans based on data collected from five healthy volunteers, which is typically the minimum number required by the FDA for first-in-human studies to assess dosimetry of a new tracer. The evaluation of the brain imaging of thirty additional subjects in the 2nd part of the study will lead to a descriptive assessment of the targeting and pharmacokinetics of MPC6827 in the brain and between normal and diseased brain.
The project of Bio-AD is a population- based cohort study among the elderly in China. The project includes not only Alzheimer's disease (AD including familial AD and sporadic AD), but also other clinical stage of AD, as well as elderly people with normal cognitive function. The project will collect, detect and screen the special biomarkers at different clinical stage of AD based on body fluid, gene and brain image. The standard and consistent assessment protocols are employed to obtain clinical, cognitive, genetic, neuroimaging and biospecimen data. The purpose of this project is to establish a panel of biomarkers which could be used to diagnose AD at the early stage, and to establish a risk prediction models for AD to predict the 5-years risk of the onset and progression of AD among elderly population in China.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting almost 6% of the world's population over the age of 65. This disease, in its most typical sporadic form, is characterized by an episodic memory impairment linked to a deficit in consolidation. Many studies indicate that sleep promotes this consolidation stage during the deep slow sleep stage by facilitating the transfer of information between the hippocampus and the neocortex. A method of acoustic brain stimulation at night by pink noises has been recently developed and has shown its effectiveness in strengthening memory consolidation in healthy volunteers. Actually, there is no study observing the effect of this new stimulation method on populations with neurodegenerative pathologies, in particular in AD for which this technique could potentially become a therapeutic option. The hypothesis is that of a strengthening of the memory consolidation capacities in subjects with AD as has been shown in healthy subjects.