Active clinical trials for "Alzheimer Disease"

The primary purpose of this long-term follow-up study is to assess the long-term safety profile of APOE4 homozygote participants who were administered gene therapy (LX1001) for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in Study LX100101. A secondary objective is to assess the biomarker as shown by the conversion of CSF APOE isoforms from APOE4 to APOE2-APOE4. Additional secondary outcomes include amyloid PET scan, CSF markers (including Aβ42, Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio T--tau, and P-tau), and quantitative MRI (and other biomarkers that may be informative for this therapeutic approach). Other secondary objectives include instruments to assess cognitive and clinical AD and to evaluate if treatment with AAVrh.10hAPOE2 improves brain tau pathology with tau PET scan (LX1001-01 Cohort 3 only).

As of today, there is no FDA-approved treatment for agitation in AD. Hence, it is still considered an unmet need. Sporadic observation in healthy or diagnosed individuals indicated that cannabis products, in particular, THC have calming and anti-anxiety effects. These observations are supported by basic science data as well as animal experiments. SCI -110 is a combination of (1) dronabinol, the active ingredient in an FDA-approved synthetic analog of tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive molecule in the cannabis plant, and (2) palmitoylethanolamide. In the present study, the starting daily dose for all subjects is 2.5 mg dronabinol and 800 mg PEA and will be gradually increased (every 3 days an addition of 2.5 mg dronabinol per day, with no change in the PEA dose) to a maximum of 12.5 mg Dronebinol and 800 mg PEA per day. The study product will be given orally, twice daily, to add-on the medical treatment. Study Duration per patient is up to 64 days: a. screening (3-21 days); b. treatment phase: (1) titration (15-23 days) of dronabinol from 2.5 to 12.5 mg or up to the maximal subject's tolerated dose (2) Stabilization phase (10 days) until end of treatment on the highest subject's daily tolerated dose. c. follow-up phase (7 days) - until the end-of-study. During the study, the tolerability of the drug, its safety (vital signs, physical examinations, blood, and urine tests and side effects follow-up) as well as changes in subject's condition (using CMAI, MMSE, SIB-8 questionnaires), appetite and sleep quality (SDI) will be followed.

The study tests the effect of the ATNC MDD-V1 on Alzheimer patients' cognitive function. The ATNC MDD-V1 uses non-invasive stimulation of both magnetic and cognitive training.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of seltorexant versus placebo on the sum of Agitation and Aggression domain scores (A plus A) of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Clinician rating (NPI-C) in participants with probable Alzheimer's Disease (AD) with clinically significant agitation/aggression.

The goal of this multi-site double blinded randomized sham-controlled Phase II clinical trial is to test a novel, relatively low cost, low risk, and potentially high impact therapeutic intervention in older adults who are at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. The intervention involves transcranial and intranasal delivery of near infrared (NIR) light via light emitting diodes, aka photobiomodulation. The overall hypothesis, based on animal and pilot studies, is that exposure to NIR stimulation will have beneficial effects on brain health via influence on mitochondrial function as measured by changes in 31P MRS-based markers of ATP, neural network changes in functional connectivity (rs-fMRI), and improved cognitive performance. To test this hypothesis, 168 older adults with subjective cognitive complaints, and a first-degree family history of Alzheimer's disease will be randomized to sham or real treatment groups. Neuromiaging and ocgnitive outcome measures will be obtained, before and after a 12-week intervention involving transcranial and intranasal NIR-PBM. The intervention protocol will involve "lab" and "home" sessions, and a 3 month post-intervention follow-up. This trial will determine: 1) whether NIR stimulation, relative to sham, improves performance on memory and executive tasks sensitive to hippocampal and frontal brain function in older adults with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease; 2) whether NIR stimulation, relative to sham, enhances brain function and connectivity measured by changes in MRS phosphorous ATP and resting state functional connectivity; and 3) how differences in demographic, neuroimaging, and Alzheimer-related risk factors influence the brain response to NIR stimulation versus sham in older adults with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. Results will provide key insights into whether this novel NIR intervention can enhance cognition in older adults with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease and will provide the necessary data for a future Phase III randomized clinical trial.

The objective of this proposed study is to evaluate the effect and safety of acupuncture combined therapy on cognitive function, daily living ability and quality of life of Alzheimer's disease by using the international dementia certification scale. In this 12-week, assessor-blind, a Multi-center randomized, controlled study of acupuncture as additional treatment with Donepezil, a total of 180 patients with Alzheimer's disease will be recruited. The patients will be randomly assigned to acupuncture combined with Donepezil (n =90) or Donepezil treatment (n =90). (36 sessions, 3 sessions a week). Changes in the cognition over time measured using ADAS-cog is the primary outcome. MMSE, ADCS-ADL and QOL-AD are the secondary outcomes. The study will be conducted at LongHua Hospital Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Huashan Hospital Fudan University, and Mental Health Center Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

The Brain Energy for Amyloid Transformation in AD (Alzheimer's disease) or BEAT-AD study will compare the effects of a ketogenic low-carbohydrate diet and a low-fat diet in adults with mild cognitive impairment. The data collected will help determine whether diet interventions induce changes in cognitive function, cerebral blood flow, and levels of certain proteins and hormones in body fluids. The study will include volunteers who have mild cognitive impairment, who will be randomly assigned to receive either a ketogenic low-carbohydrate diet or a low-fat diet for 16-weeks, with follow-up assessment 8 weeks after diet completion. Study measures, clinic visits and phone sessions will occur at baseline and throughout the 24-week study. Group 2 will include volunteers who have mild cognitive impairment. This group will complete a 16-week low-fat diet study, with follow-up assessment 8 weeks after diet final completion. Study measures, clinic visits and phone sessions will occur throughout the 24-week study. Participant will follow either a low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet that will be individually planned with help from a study dietitian. After completing the study diet for 16 weeks, participants will resume their normal diet. The final visits will occur at week 24 (8 weeks after the completing the diet). At the end of the 24-week study, participants will be given the opportunity to meet with the study dietitian for education and assistance with planning a healthy diet.

Nighttime agitation in persons with Alzheimer's disease causes patient suffering, distresses caregivers, and often results in prescriptions for harmful antipsychotics. Effective treatments are lacking because of limited knowledge of the etiology of nighttime agitation. The investigators propose a clinical trial to better elucidate whether a sleep disorder, restless legs syndrome, may be a mechanism for nighttime agitation, and if treatment with gabapentin enacarbil (Horizant®) reduces nighttime agitation, improves sleep, reduces restless legs syndrome behaviors, and reduces antipsychotic medications.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of escitalopram for agitation in Alzheimer's dementia.

This clinical trial is an open label, dose-ranging study designed to evaluate gene therapy to treat patients who are APOE4 homozygotes with clinical diagnosis varying from mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's, mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease, and moderate dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.