Active clinical trials for "Alzheimer Disease"

This is a two-part multiple dose study in healthy male and female (of non-child bearing potential) elderly volunteers, and in Alzheimer's disease patients, to assess the safety, effects on the body, and blood, CSF, and urine drug levels of AZD3293. AZD3293 is being developed for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

The aim of Patient-Centred Innovations for Persons With Multimorbidity (PACE in MM) study is to reorient the health care system from a single disease focus to a multimorbidity focus; centre on not only disease but also the patient in context; and realign the health care system from separate silos to coordinated collaborations in care. PACE in MM will propose multifaceted innovations in Chronic Disease Prevention and Management (CDPM) that will be grounded in current realities (i.e. Chronic Care Models including Self-Management Programs), that are linked to Primary Care (PC) reform efforts. The study will build on this firm foundation, will design and test promising innovations and will achieve transformation by creating structures to sustain relationships among researchers, decision-makers, practitioners, and patients. The Team will conduct inter-jurisdictional comparisons and is mainly a Quebec (QC) - Ontario (ON) collaboration with participation from 3 other provinces: British Columbia (BC); Manitoba (MB); and Nova Scotia (NS). The Team's objectives are: 1) to identify factors responsible for success or failure of current CDPM programs linked to the PC reform, by conducting a realist synthesis of their quantitative and qualitative evaluations; 2) to transform consenting CDPM programs identified in Objective 1, by aligning them to promising interventions on patient-centred care for multimorbidity patients, and to test these new innovations' in at least two jurisdictions and compare among jurisdictions; and 3) to foster the scaling-up of innovations informed by Objective 1 and tested/proven in Objective 2, and to conduct research on different approaches to scaling-up. This registration for Clinical Trials only pertains to Objective 2 of the study.

In this Phase II SBIR project we will enhance a wireless WiFi-based insole that was designed and successfully tested during a Phase I trial with elderly persons with dementia and their caregivers, and then investigate its efficacy in terms of caregiver activity, burden, and quality of life in Phase II. Evaluation will use semi-structured interviews and participant observation data collected from professional and family caregivers of patients with moderate or mild dementia.

The study will evaluate the effect of LY3002813 on brain scans. The study will evaluate the safety of LY3002813 by looking at adverse events (side effects). The study will also look at the effect the body has on LY3002813. Study participants will have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to AD or mild to moderate AD. The study involves 3 parts. Part A in which participants will receive a single dose of LY3002813 or placebo (no drug). Part B in which participants will receive multiple doses of LY3002813 or placebo for 24 weeks. Part C in which participants will receive multiple doses of LY3002813 or placebo for up to 72 weeks. Drug will be given as an intravenous infusion (injection into a vein). For Parts A, B and C, the study will last approximately 72 weeks, not including screening of approximately 56 days. The study is for research purposes only and is not intended to treat any medical condition.

To determine if treatment with HTL0009936 will lead to changes in neural activity, measured using the fMRI BOLD signal and ASL, in brain areas that are associated with spatial and working memory, learning and executive functioning.

This study evaluates the effect and process of individualized music therapy for home-dwelling persons with mild to moderate dementia. The music therapy is administered individually and includes a close caregiver. Memory of familiar music is found to be retained in persons with dementia. It is assumed to facilitate autobiographical memories and stimulate interaction with significant others. Based on time series analyses we will use statistical process control to evaluate when and how change occur.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the total body biodistribution and radiation dosimetry of 11C-JNJ-63779586 by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in healthy young adult males (Part A); to estimate and compare the uptake, distribution, and clearance of 11C-JNJ-63779586 in the brain by PET between mild Alzheimer Disease (AD) participants (males/females) and age- and gender-matched control participants (Part B), corrected for regional cerebral blood flow differences; and to model the tissue specific kinetics of 11C-JNJ-63779586 in human brain with the appropriate input function (IF) (Part B).

Links between orexin and amyloid processes have been underlined recently. During the Alzheimer's process an upregulation of the orexin mechanism has been observed. The pathophysiological mechanism of narcolepsy type 1 is linked to orexin deficiency. Thus, the investigators hypothesized that patients with narcolepsy may be protected from amyloid brain lesions, hallmarks of the Alzheimer's process. To test this hypothesis, the investigators analyzed the brain amyloid load measured by PET-scan amyloid brain imaging in patients with narcolepsy type 1 compared to controls without cognitive deficits.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. Mechanisms to remove these proteins have been the target of many drug trials. This study is designed to use a device to entrain brain waves to a specific frequency to see if rodent research can be replicated in humans with mild cognitive impairment. Ten participants will be recruited from the Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) database and assigned to either treatment for 8 weeks or treatment for 4 weeks. This latter group will serve as the control group (4 weeks no treatment, 4 weeks treatment). It is hypothesized that exposure to the gamma oscillations (Flicker) will clear toxic proteins from the brain and increase cerebral blood flow.

This is a cluster randomised controlled trial composed of two research arms: exercise training group (experimental group) and a social activity group (control group).