Clinical trials: Degenerative; Dementia
Dementia, Cognitive Dysfunction
A Relational Research Recruitment and Engagement Intervention for Cognitive Aging Research
Despite well-documented disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (AD) prevalence, incidence, treatment, and mortality, individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (e.g.
- Conditions
- Dementia, Cognitive Dysfunction, Alzheimer Disease, Lewy Body Disease
- Trial name
- NCT05444244
- Testing
- Relational Research Recruitment and Engagement Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 182 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Alzheimer Disease, Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB)
Retrospective Observational Study of Blood-based Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Patients With a Neurodegenerative Disease or Mental Disorder
This is a retrospective observational study to evaluate the clinical utility of blood-based biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of patients with a neurodegenerative disease (ND) or mental disorder (MD).
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
- Trial name
- Synapsing-BK (NCT07314190)
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 1,799 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Alzheimer Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia
Tanycytes in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
Metabolic and hormonal deregulations are both a risk factor and a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), occurring early in the course of the disease.
- Trial name
- BIOWATCH (NCT05288842)
- Testing
- Lumbar puncture, blood sample
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 102 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Lille
Dementia, Mixed, Dementia, Vascular
Statins in Reducing Events in the Elderly Mind (STAREE-Mind) Imaging Substudy
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.
- Conditions
- Dementia, Mixed, Dementia, Vascular, Dementia of Alzheimer Type, Cognitive Decline
- Trial name
- STAREE-Mind (NCT05586750)
- Testing
- Atorvastatin 40 Mg Oral Tablet
- Where
- 2 sites in Australia
- Volunteers
- 341 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Monash University
Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia With Lewy Bodies
Imaging of Brain Amyloid Plaques in the Aging Population
This is a prospective, open label, non-therapeutic, diagnostic imaging study. The purpose of this study is to utilize Pittsburgh Compound B positron emission imaging (PiB PET) to ascertain the relationship between change in…
- Conditions
- Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia With Lewy Bodies, Frontotemporal Dementia, Vascular Dementia
- Trial name
- NCT00950430
- Testing
- Pittsburgh Compound B (C-11 PiB), F-18 FDG, Tau (18-F-AV-1451)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Subjective Cognitive Concerns, Mild Cognitive Impairment
Digital Accessible Remote Olfactory Mediated Health Assessments for Preclinical AD
The goal of this study is to objectively test one's sense of smell, called olfaction, in participants with Subjective Cognitive Concerns (SCC), Mild Cognitive Impairment, Mild Behavioral Impairment (MBI), and age-matched…
- Conditions
- Subjective Cognitive Concerns, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Mild Behavioral Impairment, Healthy Aging
- Trial name
- NCT05881239
- Testing
- AROMHA Brain Health Test
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Parkinson Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Discovery and Validation of Protein Structural Complexes in Circulating Biofluids As Novel Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapeutic Management of Patients Affected by Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs), such as Parkinson¿s disease (PD), Alzheimer¿s disease (AD), Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) are characterized by aggregation and intracellular accumulation…
- Conditions
- Parkinson Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
- Trial name
- NCT06803784
- Testing
- Genetic: whole genome sequencing, whole exome sequencing
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Neuromed IRCCS
POCD - Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction, Mechanical Bowel Preparation
Investigation of the Effect of Preoperative Bowel Cleansing on Postoperative Cognitive Impairment
Cognitive impairment has been reported up to 54 % after colorectal surgeries. Mechanical bowel cleansing means that a system called the second brain in the body, which includes a wide variety of genetic and neuronal structures…
- Trial name
- NCT05942404
- Testing
- mechanical bowel preparation
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- TC Erciyes University
C9orf72 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Frontotemporal Dementia
Safety and Therapeutic Potential of the FDA-approved Drug Metformin for C9orf72 ALS/FTD
The primary objective is to assess the safety and tolerability of Metformin in subjects with C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis administered for 24 weeks.
- Trial name
- NCT04220021
- Testing
- Metformin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Frontotemporal Dementia
Open Label Pilot Study of the Effects of Memantine on FDG-PET in Frontotemporal Dementia
Memantine has been approved for use in Alzheimer's disease. Its mechanism of action raises questions of whether it can also be effective for non-Alzheimer's dementias such as frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which currently has no…
- Trial name
- NCT00594737
- Testing
- memantine hydrochloride
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- Tiffany Chow, MD
Tauopathies, Neurodegenerative Diseases
Tau PET/CT in Various Tau-Related Disease Patients
To evaluate the potential usefulness of 18F-S16/T807 positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for the diagnosis of primary and metastatic lesions in various Tau-related disease patients.
- Conditions
- Tauopathies, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegeneration
- Trial name
- NCT06690983
- Testing
- 18F-S16/T807
- Where
- 3 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tianjin Medical University
Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia, Caregiver Stress Syndrome
Improving Self-Care of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Caregivers
The research study is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a virtual support intervention to reduce stress and poor self-care for caregivers of persons with behavioral variant Frontotemporal Degeneration (bvFTD) compared…
- Trial name
- ViCCY (NCT04686266)
- Testing
- Health Information + Health Coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 43 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Aging, Aging Well
100-Year Human Aging Study
The 100-Year Human Aging Study is a prospective, pragmatic, observational trial enrolling participants across fixed clinical sites, mobile clinical sites, and an online participation pathway (current and future) to undergo…
- Conditions
- Aging, Aging Well, All-Cause Mortality, Mortality
- Trial name
- NCT07563777
- Testing
- Comprehensive Multi-System Clinical Screening
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Longevity Metrics, Inc.
Logopenic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia, Non-Fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
rTMS as a Treatment for PPA
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) includes three variants. Two such variants, the non-fluent/agrammatic variant (nfvPPA) and the logopenic variant (lvPPA), are characterized by progressive word-finding difficulties and effortful…
- Trial name
- NCT03406429
- Testing
- Active rTMS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer Disease
Optical Coherence Tomography in Neurological Practice: Utility and Applicability Across Neurological Diseases (OCt.IN.N)
OCt.IN.N is a national, monocentric, prospective, observational cohort study evaluating the utility and applicability of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in the diagnostic workup and longitudinal monitoring of neurological…
- Conditions
- Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer Disease, Parkinson Disease, Migraine
- Trial name
- OCT (NCT07720765)
- Testing
- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) - Heidelberg SPECTRALIS HRA+OCT
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 1,050 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS San Raffaele
Parkinson Disease, Parkinsonism
More Than a Movement Disorder: Applying Palliative Care to Parkinson's Disease
This is a two-center (University of Colorado, University of California San Francisco) community-based comparative effectiveness study of outpatient palliative care for Parkinson's disease (PD) and related disorders (progressive…
- Conditions
- Parkinson Disease, Parkinsonism, Lewy Body Disease, Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive
- Trial name
- MTMD (NCT03076671)
- Testing
- Palliative Care
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 783 people
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Alzheimer's Disease
Memantine and Changes of Biological Markers and Brain PET Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease
In AD, tau protein is abnormally hyperphosphorylated. Significant changes of hyperphosphorylated tau levels in CSF are found in AD patients.
- Trial name
- NCT00800709
- Testing
- Memantine
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 26 people
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Mental Health Center
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2
The purpose of this study is to build upon the information obtained in the original Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI1) and ADNI-GO (Grand Opportunity; a study funded through an NIH grant under the American…
- Conditions
- Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Significant Memory Concern (SMC), Early Mild Cognitive Impairment (EMCI)
- Trial name
- ADNI2 (NCT01231971)
- Testing
- Florbetapir, Flortaucipir
- Where
- 58 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,182 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Communication Bridge 3 Study
This study will use a randomized controlled trial design to evaluate the effect of two evidence-based treatments for adults with mild-moderate Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA).
- Trial name
- CB3 (NCT06191198)
- Testing
- Communication Bridge™, Evidence-Based Impairment Focused
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Mild Alzheimer's Disease
Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of IONIS-MAPTRx in Patients With Mild Alzheimer's Disease
The purpose of this study was to assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of IONIS-MAPTRx in patients with Mild Alzheimer's Disease.
- Trial name
- NCT03186989
- Testing
- IONIS MAPTRx
- Where
- 13 sites in Canada, Finland and 4 more
- Volunteers
- 46 people
- Sponsor
- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.