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Filter by:This study is a prospective observational study, which involves a cohort of 2000 all-sex and all-ethnic people aged 60 years and above with permanent residence in Tianma area, SheMountain Town, Songjiang District (suburban area), Shanghai. Demographic information, neuropsychiatric scale, peripheral blood, APOE genotype, brain MRI, speech information, AV45-PET, FDG-PET, Tau-PET, GLP-1R PET, and cholinergic receptor probe (ASEM) PET were collected and analyzed. Follow-up visits were performed twice a year for 4 visits, and neuropsychiatric scales and biological samples were collected at each follow-up visit to construct a diagnostic model for patients with mild cognitive impairment, or Alzheimer's disease, as well as a predictive model for the progression of cognitive impairment.
Alzheimer's disease is a severe neurodegenerative disorder of the brain that is characterized by progressive loss of memory and cognitive decline. With the ageing population, AD is a major public health problem affecting nearly 35 million people worldwide with numbers projected to rise to 115.4 million by 2050. AD is the only cause of death among the top ten causes that has no prevention or cure . It is believed that novel treatment of AD needs to start early or even at the prodromal stage in order to be effective. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find accurate methods of early detection before patients with AD develop clinical dementia. This study aims to identify biomarkers for AD in local Chinese population. this study hypothesizes blood-based proteomics, retinal imaging, ASL-MRP and tau PET can improve the accuracy and staging of AD.
Color discrimination deficit is a common manifestation of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the pathophysiology of this dysfunction remains poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to evaluate color discrimination using the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test in patients with AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared with age-matched control subjects. As a secondary aim, we evaluated whether the outcomes of these visual tests were associated with cognitive.
The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection has led to the emergence of diffuse and heterogeneous persistent symptoms in addition to the well-known acute symptoms, which have come to be referred to as persistent COVID. In particular, one of the frequent complaints of patients with a previous diagnosis of COVID is impaired cognitive ability. Various cognitive rehabilitation programmes have benefited from incorporating the methodology of so-called "serious games" are designed to train or change behaviour while entertaining players. The design of the online rehabilitation programme (COPERIA-COG) took into account the principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation (neuropsychological pre-assessment, operational goal setting, task prioritisation and continuous feedback system) and combined different individual techniques, such as restitution and compensation. Patients treated with COPERIA-COG will show neuropsychological improvements in verbal memory compared to the waiting list group. The main objective is to identify differences in long-term memory in patients treated with COPERIA-COG vs. patients on the waiting list. For this purpose, both groups will be evaluated through RAVLT, taking the long-term memory subtest as a reference, comparing the results before and after the active group performs the online training with COPERIA-COG. The COPERIA platform is a cloud platform that provides a range of ICT tools for monitoring and aiding the recovery of patients with persistent COVID. To achieve this goal, the platform will store patient data to which Artificial Intelligence techniques will be applied to perform an assessment of the affected person.
ALCOTRA (Alpes Latines COoperation TRAnsfrontalière) is one of the European cross-border cooperation programmes covering France and Italy and financed by the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund). It includes the thematic plan (PITEM), called "PROSOL" (PROximity and SOLidarity), set up in the PIEDMONT region (Italy). The PITEM PROSOL strategy aims to develop new social and health services for vulnerable populations in the rural areas and cross-border Franco-Italian mountains of the South regions (Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur, Liguria, Piedmont and Aosta valley). As part of the PITEM PROSOL project, a PROSOL telemedicine platform has been developped for the management of isolated patients from the territory of the Latin Alpes and suffering from neurological diseases (neurodevelopmental disorders, neuromuscular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases). These patients are divided into 3 experimental groups: WOMEN (project 5106), SENIORS (project 4128) and YOUTH (project 5162). A PROSOL e-learning platform (https://www.prosol-elearning.com/) has also been developped for these patients, their caregivers and community physicians to improve knowledge and management of these diseases. Experimentation of these platforms by several participants (and their caregivers) has highlighted the need, often discontent, of a personalized management of physiotherapy for patients with neuromuscular diseases (MNM) and neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease). As physical activity has a beneficial and protective effect of these diseases, and inactivity is one of the important risk factors in worsening symptoms contributing to the loss of patients' motor and cognitive functional abilities, a program of self-physical rehabilitation has been designed by neurologists and physiotherapists of expert centers for a personalized and adapted treatment for each patient. The PROSOL TELEKINECT project offers a physical rehabilitation program to be carried out autonomously at home, with coaching by physiotherapists via the telemedicine platform, as well as close monitoring of exercise response regarding the level of pain and fatigue of patients, thus ensuring their maximum safety. The objective of the PROSOL TELEKINECT project is to evaluate the value of an appropriate physical rehabilitation programme for each type of patient. The feasibility and beneficial effects of this program will be assessed using conventional assessments of motor function and patient quality of life, but also using a connected watch coupled with artificial intelligence algorithms to collect and analyze physiological data remotely in real time in the patients' natural environment. The results of this pilot study will be used to lay the foundation for a larger clinical study to test a new digital strategy for self-treatment rehabilitation, aimed at reducing unequal access to care for patients with neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases, and residents of transboundary territories, thus offering the establishment of a preventive and supportive approach to these diseases.
The goal of this cohort study is to estimate the incidence of AD in the first-degree relatives of patients with AD. The main questions it aims to answer are: - cognitive changes of subjects at high risk of AD as ageing; - environmental and behavioral factors affecting AD incidence.
The STAREE-Mind imaging sub-study will examine the effect of statin treatment over a 4-year period, compared with placebo, on markers of brain health.
The purpose of this research study is to assess safety and tolerability of a single intravenous (given through a vein) dose of the investigational retinal tracer AMDX-2011P in patients with neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson's disease and ALS).
Personalized Integrated Care Promoting Quality of Life for Elderly People (ProCare4Life, PC4L) project was created to finalize a digital platform with integrated sensors , for monitoring the health status of the elderly subjects with neurodegenerative diseases and comorbidities. In fact, an integrated care platform - able to establish correlations between comorbidities, investigate the intake of different drugs, mitigate potential health risks, study the social variables and promote unified therapeutic procedures or social services - could help patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals and social health workers to monitor various diseases parameters. The main contribution of the PC4L project is to propose an integrated, scalable and interactive care system that can be easily adapted to the reality of various chronic diseases, care institutions and end-user needs, for the benefit of all the actors involved. The main expected results are to improve patients' quality of life, enable an active life and better disease management, support professionals in decision making, facilitate efficient communication between all stakeholders and ensure reliable and secure access to data at the within Europe.
This is a bridging study to visually and quantitatively assess PET images obtained after single application of 300 MBq [18F]florbetaben and PET scanning of patients with Alzheimer disease.