Clinical Trials

This project is focused on understanding the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in total hip and total knee arthroplasty patients. It involves 4 aims:

AIM 1. To determine the risk of dementia in patients with TJA. Using the REP, we will identify a population-based cohort of 9,000 TJA patients and a matched cohort of 9,000 non-TJA patients. The overall risk of dementia and subtypes will be compared between the two cohorts.

AIM 2. To determine cognitive function and neuroimaging measures in patients with TJA. Within the existing data from the MCSA cohort (IRB: 14-004401), we ...

The purpose of this study is to reduce behaviors and psychotic symptoms of dementia by using a weighted blanket as a non-pharmacological method to decrease agitation and distress in the elderly population.

This study will conduct assessment of patients with rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) to review clinical information and perform additional assessments to better understand the disease. Cognitive impairment and function will be assessed concurrent with clinical assessments using validated measures applied in the assessment and monitoring of patients with age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Clinical information will be combined with interval blood/serum, genetic (DNA, analyses of associated measures of transcription factors and proteins, with integration of induced pluripotent stem cell models), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and neuroimaging biomarkers when available. The ability of these novel measures to predict outcomes and clinical / pathological diagnoses will be ...

The purpose of this study is to gather information and learn more about imaging tests in racially different people who are cognitively normal or have dementia.

The study is designed to determine the relationship between structural and functional changes in the brain on imaging and progression of speech and language, neurological and neuropsychological features in patients with neurodegenerative apraxia of speech (AOS).

The purpose of this study is to change the way we care for those with advanced dementia in memory care units. Through integrated technologies and innovative architectural build, the specific aims are to reduce symptom burden, psychotropic medication use, dementia related behaviors, caregiver burden and health care utilization while improving sleep, mood, and function for those who are currently residing in memory care units.

The purpose of this study is to use a specific gene panel to assist in the diagnosis of a hereditary form of young onset dementia.

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of AL001 compared with placebo in carriers of progranulin gene (GRN) mutations causative of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) as measured by the Clinical Dementia Rating Dementia Staging Instrument PLUS National Alzheimer’s Disease Coordinating Center frontotemporal lobar degeneration Behavior & Language Domains Sum of Boxes (CDR® plus NACC FTLD-SB).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate sporadic (s-) and familial (f-) frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) patients and asymptomatic family members of f-FTLD patients, characterizing the cohorts longitudinally and informing clinical trial design.  FTLD is a neurodegenerative disorder of the nervous system which there are no approved treatments or cures.

The study has two arms: a “longitudinal arm” involving a comprehensive assessment of clinical, functional, imaging, and biofluid data collection, and a “biofluid-focused arm” involving limited clinical data to accompany biospecimen collection.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the medication Armodafinil in patients who have dementia with Lewy bodies which is associated with memory loss and other thinking problems, excessive daytime sleepiness, hallucinations, delusions, apathy, and reduced quality of life.

Longitudinal Imaging Biomarkers of Disease Progression in Prodromal and Overt DLB

The objectives of this study are to determine the predictors of death within 6 months in individuals with Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), to identify whether a change in caregiver measures can predict approaching end of life of individuals with DLB, and to identify factors that affect quality end of life experiences for persons with DLB and their caregivers.

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is part of Lewy body dementia, the 2nd-most-common degenerative dementia in the U.S. It is also one of the Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (ADRDs). Evidence-based models of end-of-life care for ADRDs are insufficient; families face difficult ...

This study seeks to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intepirdine (RVT-101) in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), and pharmacodynamics (PD) of AL001 in participants with a  frontotemporal dementia.

The objectives of the study are to; (1) estimate the change in disease -related cognitive decline over 1 year on a battery of cognitive tests administered to participants with early-stage symptomatic Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD) phenotypic variant; (2) identify the cognitive test or brief battery of cognitive tests which are the most sensitive to detect bvFTD progression; (3) determine the optimal schedule of administration of cognitive tests to detect bvFTD progression; (4) evaluate the relationship between cognitive tests and measures of behavior, function, caregiver's burden, quality of life (QOL); and (5) obtain blood samples for genetic and exploratory biomarkers ...

This study is being done to learn more about normal thinking and behavior, mild thinking and behavior problems, Frontotemporal Dementia and other forms of dementia in families in which one or more relatives have a mutation associated with Frontotemporal Dementia.

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of CT1812 as a treatment for mild-to-moderate Dementia with Lewy Bodies.

The purpose of this study is twofold:

Specific Aim 1

• In biopsies of skin from living subjects with DLB, PD without dementia (PD), and PD with dementia (PDD), assess the relative diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of IHC and seeding assay measures of aSyn, relative to normal control subjects.

Specific Aim 2

• In second biopsies of skin from subjects with DLB, PD and PDD, assess whether IHC and seeding measures of aSyn progress, regress or remain stable over time, indicating whether these may be useful as measures of therapeutic agent target engagement and disease progression.

The purpose of this study is to collect and analyze blood specimens from individuals carrying known familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration (f-FTLD) mutations compared to a control group of individuals without known f-FTLD mutations.  

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of TRx0237 in the treatment of patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

The purpose of this study is to provide subjects who have completed participation in a Phase 2 or Phase 3 trial with TRx0237 continued access to therapy and to evaluate the long-term safety of TRx0237.

This study will compare the effectiveness of different combinations of 5 types of behavioral interventions across patient-centered outcomes. It will also evaluate which outcomes (e.g. quality of life, cognition, function, mood) matter most to people at risk for dementia and their care partners. The results of this study have the potential to direct patients, families, and health care providers as to which combinations of behavioral interventions provide the greatest potential impact on which dementia prevention outcomes. Greater use of behavioral strategies that are targeted to the outcomes of most important to the patient will likely improve patient compliance and treatment ...

The purposes of this study are to investigate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacodynamics of FRM-0334 in subjects with prodromal to moderate frontotemporal dementia with granulin mutation.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Nelotanserin for the treatment of visual hallucinations in patients with Lewy body dementia.

The purpose of this study is to collect blood samples for DNA analysis from patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimers disease, Lewy Body disease, and Frontotemporal degeneration.

This 6-month extension study will provide further information regarding the long-term safety and tolerability of intepirdine (RVT-101) in subjects with Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) who have participated in the double-blind, placebo-controlled, lead-in study RVT-101-2001.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Alzheimer's Disease related cognitive trajectories can be identified in midlife and disambiguated from normal aging using serial cognitive measurement.

Additionally, to determine the biofluid and imaging biomarker profiles associated with cognitive trajectories and with eventual conversion to dementia; to determine the effect of genetic characteristics on cognitive decline, biomarkers and disease and health status; to determine the influence of lifestyle and health features that confers risk and resilience to AD; to make data available to local, national and international researchers and to facilitate WRAP participation in linked studies including imaging ...

The primary objective is to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of aducanumab after a wash-out period imposed by discontinuation of feeder studies in participants who had previously received aducanumab (i.e., previously treated participants) or who had previously received placebo (i.e, treatment-naïve participants).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether treatment with JNJ-54861911 slows cognitive decline compared with placebo treatment, as measured by a composite cognitive measure, the Preclinical Alzheimer Cognitive Composite (PACC), in amyloid-positive participants who are asymptomatic at risk for developing Alzheimer's dementia.

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of CNP520 on cognition, global clinical status, and underlying AD pathology, as well as the safety of CNP520, in people at risk for the onset of clinical symptoms of AD based on their age, APOE genotype and elevated amyloid.

The purpose of this study is to determine safety of plasma infusion in APOE 44 patients.
 

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate acceptability of a combination compensation development and lifestyle modification program for brain health in those with subjective cognitive complaint without objective impairment measured by: a) the proportion of invited participants who chose to enroll; and b) quantitative and qualitative program satisfaction ratings.

Aging is associated with a loss of brain function and conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease. It is likely that decreased brain metabolism is contributing to the progression of age related degenerative diseases. Aerobic exercise training can increase brain volumes and is associated with decreased risk for degenerative brain conditions. However, little is know about the changes that occur to brain metabolism with aerobic training and aging.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of monthly doses of aducanumab in slowing cognitive and functional impairment as measured by changes in the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) score as compared with placebo in participants with early AD. Secondary objectives are to assess the effect of monthly doses of aducanumab as compared with placebo on clinical progression as measured by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), AD Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (13 items) [ADAS-Cog 13], and AD Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory (Mild Cognitive Impairment version) [ADCS-ADL-MCI].

The purpose of this study is to measure target engagement in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood, and to establish the feasibility and safety of Dasatinib plus Quercetin treatment in adults with early stage but symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (AD) to inform and select the best blood, CSF, urine, and other analyses to conduct in banked samples from a larger Phase 2b clinical trial.

The study is designed to assess the demographic, clinical and imaging associations with the presence of microbleeds in atypical Alzheimer's disease. The primary hypothesis is that cognitive and functional performance will be poorer in atypical Alzheimer's subjects with microbleeds compared to those without microbleeds.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of LY3314814 in the treatment of people who have mild Alzheimer's disease dementia.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of monthly doses of aducanumab in slowing cognitive and functional impairment as measured by changes in the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) score as compared with placebo in participants with early AD. Secondary objectives are to assess the effect of monthly doses of aducanumab as compared with placebo on clinical progression as measured by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), AD Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (13 items) [ADAS-Cog 13], and AD Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory (Mild Cognitive Impairment version) [ADCS-ADL-MCI].

This study is designed to determine the effectiveness of florbetapir (18F) in changing patient management and to evaluate the association between scan status and cognitive decline.

The purpose of this study is to develop a large, well-characterized, biomarker-confirmed, trial-ready cohort to facilitate rapid enrollment into AD prevention trials utilizing the APT Webstudy and subsequent referral to in-clinic evaluation and biomarker confirmation. Participants with known biomarker status may have direct referral to the Trial-Ready Cohort. If you are interested in being selected for the TRC-PAD study, you should first enroll in the APT Webstudy (https://www.aptwebstudy.org/welcome).

The purpose of this study is to identify lifestyle and health variable associated with abnormal cognitive aging and the development of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and to use this information to develop interventions that will slow disease progressiong in asymptomatic persons. 

This study consists of two parts, Part I and Part II. The purpose of Part I of the study is to assess the efficacy and safety of MK-8931 compared with placebo administered for 78 weeks in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The primary study hypotheses for Part I are that at least one MK-8931 dose is superior to placebo at 78 weeks of treatment with respect to change from Baseline in Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-Cog) score and that at least one MK-8931 dose is superior to placebo at 78 weeks of treatment with respect to change ...

The purposes of this study are to determine if neuroinflammation, as measured by PET imaging, is associated with Ab plaques in cognitively impaired vs. cognitively unimpaired participants, to determine if neuroinflammation, as measured by neuroinflammation PET imaging, is associated with the rate of cognitive in the 5 years preceding PET imaging, and to determine if neuroinflammation, as measured by PET imaging, is associated with plasma biomarkers of inflammation.

A brain PET scan is recognized as "reasonable and necessary" for some patients with "a recently established diagnosis of dementia" (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Decision Memo CAG-00088R, 2004), but evidence is less clear for patients having less severe cognitive problems. A substantial portion of such patients will develop Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, which affect millions of people in the U.S., costing us over $100 billion annually. This project employs a prospective randomized protocol to determine whether PET scanning can help distinguish those patients with early Alzheimer's changes in their brains from those having other causes ...

The purpose of this study is to compare different ways of measuring tau both in the brain and in the blood over time in healthy controls and individuals with cognitive impairment. We will collect images in healthy elderly people, individuals with mild cognitive impairment and those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease to help us learn how the buildup of amyloid and tau proteins may contribute to developing the disease and in normal aging. Healthy young individuals will be used as controls.

This study is composed of 2 timepoints, separated by approximately 18 months. Each timepoint will require visits to the ...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment with BAN2401 is superior to placebo on change from baseline of the Preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) Cognitive Composite 5 (PACC5) at 216 weeks of treatment.

This study aims to establish, use, and extensively share a comprehensive longitudinal resource of genetic, non-genetic, and cognitive data, brain imaging and fluid biomarker measurements of amyloid-β (Aβ), tau pathophysiology, neurodegeneration, and inflammation (“A,T,N,I”), and biological samples to advance the study of cognitively unimpaired older adults at six levels of genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) due to their apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype, including understudied APOE2 and APOE4 homozygotes (HMs) at the lowest and highest risk and those APOE4 HMs and heterozygotes (HTs) who remain unimpaired at older ages due to unknown protective factors and spared pathophysiological effects ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the safety and effectiveness of suvorexant (MK-4305) to improve sleep in individuals who have Alzheimer's disease.

A randomized placebo-controlled trial in individuals with Parkinson's disease dementia to evaluate the safety and efficacy of three doses of study drug LY3154207 in participants with mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease dementia treated for 12 weeks.

This study aims to obtain EEG data on individuals at all stages of AD from preclinical through severe dementia.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of MABT5102A in patients who have mild to moderate Alzheimer's Disease.

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of CNP520 on cognition, global clinical status, and underlying AD pathology, as well as the safety of CNP520, in people at risk for the onset of clinical symptoms of AD based on their age, APOE genotype and elevated amyloid.

The purpose of this study is to test whether two investigational drugs called CAD106 and CNP520, administered separately, can slow down the onset and progression of clinical symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in participants at the risk to develop clinical symptoms based on their age and genotype.

McLean hospital,  Mayo Clinic,  Emory University, LIJ/Northwell, and Pine Rest Mental Health are conducting a research study using Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)  to treat agitation in dementia. ECT is a treatment done under general anesthesia, in which brief electric currents are passed through the brain to trigger a brief seizure. It is a safe and highly effective treatment for depression.

Agitation is common in nearly 60% of patients with dementia, increases caretaker burden, creates safety risk for individuals with dementia and others and increases risk for hospitalization and nursing home placement.

While ECT ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how abrupt loss of ovarian hormones following bilateral oophorectomy affects overall aging, physical performance, and cognitive function, including the risk for Alzheimer’s disease in women who had this procedure performed prior to natural menopause for benign conditions.

The purpose of this research is to iteratively develop an natural language (NL) web-based app tool using information learned from stakeholders on design and content, especially as it relates to the needs and usability for persons with dementia and/or their caregivers.

The primary objective of this application is to establish the feasibility of widespread clinical use of advanced MRS technology for early AD diagnosis in a strategic alliance between MR physicists at the UMN and physician scientists at Mayo Clinic.

The aim of this study is to develop a dementia questionnaire that is sensitive and specific in detecting the many diseases evaluated in a memory disorder clinic. In this study we have designed an informant-based questionnaire with special emphasis on unique features of different types of dementia.

The overall purpose of this research is to understand how ADAD develops in order to eventually provide treatments for this disorder. Each biological child of a person with an ADAD mutation has a 50% risk of inheriting the mutation, and thus of developing ADAD. This study will develop a registry of families with a known ADAD mutation and will collect, analyze and bank data, tissue, and brain images from the members who participate in the DIAN research study. The data and tissue collected are available to all qualified researchers who wish to determine what changes occur before and after ADAD ...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether reduced genetic diversity as reflected in lower heterozygosity reduces our adaptability to stressors and thus influences human susceptibility to age-related cognitive decline and dementia.  This will be examined in an established cohort of individuals at genetically defined risk for Alzheimer’s disease based on APOE genotype who have been undergoing longitudinal neuropsychological assessment.

The purpose of this study is to validate the Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers assays (Phospho-Tau/Total-Tau/Ab42) being implemented at Mayo to compare them to the referral tests in support of test validation efforts.

This randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-arm study will evaluate the safety and tolerability of at least two dose levels of intravenous (IV) crenezumab in 24-72 participants with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) (mini-mental state examination [MMSE] 18 to 28 points, inclusive). An optional open-label extension (OLE) will be offered after the completion of initial double-blind stage.

The purpose of this study is to test whether two investigational drugs called CAD106 and CNP520, administered separately, can slow down the onset and progression of clinical symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in participants at the risk to develop clinical symptoms based on their age and genotype.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of cognitive change in clinically normal older individuals who "screen-failed" for the A4 trial on the basis of their screening PET imaging not demonstrating evidence of elevated amyloid accumulation ( were Aβ negative) but met all other A4 study eligibility criteria. While long term data suggests that older individuals with elevated Aβ burden are at increased risk of cognitive decline, it is important to demonstrate the different rate of clinical decline between Aβe ("Aβ elevated") and Aβne ("Aβ not elevated") individuals.  

The purpose of this study is to develop and test the effectiveness of an investigational imaging technique called magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) to measure the stiffness (mechanical properties) of tissues.

The goal of this study is to gain a better understanding of the status of advanced care planning among caregivers of patients with dementia and examine how this differs by race and disease stage.

The purpose of this study is to create a registry of patients having a clinical diagnosis and collect demographics, cognitive testing, blood and cerebrospinal fluid so that biomarkers and genetic difference can be found in different patient groups.

The purpose of this study is to assess the long-term safety and tolerability of ABBV-8E12 in subjects with early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

The purpose of this study is to explore the various retinal modalities to determine if they may provide a non-invasive method of identifying populations at risk for developing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and predict disease progression.

The purpose of this study is to optimize profile questionnaire and matching algorithm developed in Phase I and implement in final website design, and to determine if algorithmically matched participants have statistically significant increase in match satisfaction and self-reported sense of resiliency and quality of life over randomly matched caregivers.

This study is intended to obtain clinical information and establish a repository of DNA, RNA, peripheral blood monocyte, lymphocyte and skin tissue samples from people with ALS and related neurodegenerative motor neuron diseases, people with a family history of these conditions, and healthy people with no family history of these disorders. The samples will be used in future research to learn about how these disorders affect people, what causes these conditions, and how the investigators can tell when someone has this kind of disease. Future research may also include the generation of stem cells from stored blood cell and skin ...

This study is being done to learn more about normal memory and aging, mild memory and thinking problems, Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of neflamapimod on cognitive function as assessed in a study-specific Cogstate Neuropsychological Test Battery (NTB).

There is evidence that neurodegenerative changes precede clinical symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease by two decades (Villemagne et al, 2013). Early detection is critical for development of interventions to halt, slow, or even reverse these pathological processes. The promise of plasma biomarkers to identify early pathology is growing rapidly (Palmqvist et al, 2020), however it is likely that multiple converging biomarkers will be necessary to identify the earliest pathological changes, as subtle differences from healthy controls may fall within the margin of error for any given single biomarker measure. Here we propose that the evaluation of speech and language for both ...

The purpose of this study is to facilitate focus groups to assess/identify important qualities and characteristics that dementia caregivers are looking for in a supportive person, and to design a prototype website for matching current and former caregivers.

The purpose of this study is to further characterize the serum and Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) biomarker profile of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, both before and after VP shunt placement, and help differentiate this profile from Alzheimer’s disease.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of gantenerumab versus placebo in participants with early (prodromal to mild) Alzheimer's Disease (AD). All participants must show evidence of beta-amyloid pathology. Eligible participants will be randomized 1:1 to receive either subcutaneous (SC) injection of gantenerumab or placebo. The primary efficacy assessment will be performed at the end of the double blind period at week 104. Participants will then be offered to enter into an open-label extension (OLE). Participants not willing to go to the OLE will participate in a long term follow-up period for up to 50 weeks ...

To further investigate biomarkers in CSF as possible predictors for mild cognitive impairment and dementia

The purpose of this study is to reduce disparities in end-of-life care by increasing engagement in advance care planning among African Americans with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia and their caregivers.

The study is designed to determine whether there are clinical features that can be used as biomarkers to predict whether underlying Alzheimer's pathology is the cause of a speech and language based dementia. The primary hypothesis is that the proportion of patients who test positive for beta-amyloid deposition will vary across different speech and language based dementias.

This study seeks to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Nelotanserin for the treatment of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) in subjects with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) or Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD).

Since its launch in 2004, the overarching aim of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has been realized in informing the design of therapeutic trials in AD. ADNI3 continues the previously funded ADNI-1, ADNI-GO, and ADNI-2 studies that have been combined public/private collaborations between academia and industry to determine the relationships between the clinical, cognitive, imaging, genetic and biochemical biomarker characteristics of the entire spectrum of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The overall goal of the study is to continue to discover, optimize, standardize, and validate clinical trial measures and biomarkers used in AD research.

The primary objective of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of TPN-101 in patients with C9ORF72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

This study seeks to validate and further develop the NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function® (NIHTB) for use in studies of cognitive aging beginning with normal cognition through progression into amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) and into dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type, early stage (DAT).

This study is being done to learn more about normal memory and aging, mild memory and thinking problems, Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. This study will help us determine how often memory problems occur in people in our community, and help to identify factors that may influence changes in memory and thinking skills.

This study seeks to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ABBV-8E12 in subjects with Early Alzheimer's Disease.

This study seeks to evaluate the long-term safety and effectiveness of nelotanserin for the treatment of visual hallucinations (VHs) and Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) in subjects with Lewy body dementia (LBD).

The investigators propose using DaTscan in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), Alzheimer's disease (AD), and other neurodegenerative syndromes and disorders, to test several hypotheses - some confirmatory, and some novel. Such use will provide new data on the potential clinical and research utility of DaTscan in neurodegenerative diseases. The findings on DaTscan will be correlated with clinical diagnoses and other multimodal imaging studies (e.g., MRI, MRS, FDG-PET, and amyloid-PET) to enhance our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases.

The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of a distraction apron will decrease the length of hospital stay in patients with dementia or cognitive impairment.

This study is being done to learn more about specialized systems in the brain and how they relate to the disease processes in aMCI and AD.

The purpose of this study is to learn more about Lewy Body disease and a skin condition called Bullous Pemphigoid.

The purpose of this study is to collect clinical data, serial blood samples for plasma, serum, DNA and RNA extraction, and a single time blood sample for peripheral blood monocytes for the preparation of stem cell lines and lymphocytes for the preparation of lymphoblastoid cell lines. There will also be a single time skin biopsy sample for tissue examination and preparation of skin fibroblasts from patients who have familial or sporadic ALS, ALS-FTD or similar neurodegenerative motor neuron disorders, and are participating in NINDS funded research projects in the Mayo Clinic ALS Center.

The purpose of this study is to collect CSF and blood samples that can be used in future research studies to identify potential biomarkers in blood and CSF collected in ALS patients. Biomarkers are non-genetic elements in your blood and CSF that may help us diagnose and monitor ALS more easily. There are no readily available sources of longitudinal CSF, plasma or serum samples from people with ALS, ALS-FTD or similar neurodegenerative disorders or their family members for use in the identification of potential ALS biomarkers. Future research will examine potential biomarkers in blood and CSF collected over time to ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a program for individuals living alone with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

The purpose of this study is to understand why patients with multiple system atrophy, Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s disease with autonomic failure, and dementia with Lewy bodies have a fall in blood pressure on standing up. It is believed that different patients develop these symptoms for different reasons. The reasons could be:

• damage to nerve supply to the legs

• the autonomic nerves are not working properly

• the brain is not controlling blood pressure or heart rate properly

This study will look at these different reasons.

The purpose of this study is to collect and study blood samples that can be used in current and future research studies to identify genetic risk factors in ALS and identify potential biomarkers in blood collected in ALS patients. Biomarkers are non-genetic elements in your blood that may help us diagnose and monitor ALS more easily. There are no readily available sources of longitudinal DNA, RNA, monocytes, serum or plasma from people with ALS, ALS-FTD or similar neurodegenerative disorders or their family members for use in the identification of potential changes in gene structure over time or biomarkers in ALS. ...

The primary purpose of this study is to create a Mayo Clinic repository for  neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies (PDD/DLB), multiple system atrophy (MSA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), cortico-basal degeneration (CBD), and other even rarer forms of neurodegeneration.

This study consists of two parts, Part I and Part II. The purpose of Part I of the study is to assess the efficacy and safety of verubecestat (MK-8931) compared with placebo administered for 104 weeks in the treatment of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) due to Alzheimer's Disease (AD), also known as prodromal AD. Participants will be randomized to receive placebo, or 12 mg or 40 mg verubecestat, once daily. The primary study hypothesis for Part I is that at least one verubecestat dose is superior to placebo with respect to the change from baseline in the Clinical Dementia ...

Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) is the neuropathological term for a collection of rare neurodegenerative diseases that correspond to four main overlapping clinical syndromes: frontotemporal dementia (FTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), corticobasal degeneration syndrome (CBS) and progressive supranuclear palsy syndrome (PSPS). The goal of this study is to build a FTLD clinical research consortium to support the development of FTLD therapies for new clinical trials. The consortium, referred to as Advancing Research and Treatment for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ARTFL), will be headquartered at UCSF and will partner with six patient advocacy groups to manage the consortium. Participants will be evaluated at ...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a seven-day slow-tempo music intervention on the primary outcome of delirium/coma free days among mechanically ventilated, critically ill older adults.

Critically ill older adults admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are at a higher risk to develop delirium, which predisposes them to longer lengths of ICU and hospital stay, increased in-patient mortality, and higher risk of new acquired cognitive impairment and dementia. Music listening is a non-pharmacological intervention that holds potential to decrease ICU delirium.

The intent of this research protocol is to test the equivalency of two amyloid imaging drugs (C11 Pittsburgh Compound B and F18 Flutemetamol). The investigators hypothesize that there will be no significant difference in the distribution of the agents to areas of amyloid deposition in the brain or to other normal brain structures. Recent data have shown similarity in the distribution of the drugs in subjects with AD or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). No comparison data of the two PET drugs in normal subjects has been published. It is important to understand differences in the images and biodistribution from the ...

The purpose of this study is to study the structure and biochemistry of the brain and/or bodily fluid and tissue after death.  Comparison of specimens from normal and diseased individuals provide essential clues that lead to a greater understanding of the diseased state which, in turn, will lead to new ideas for therapy.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate changes in CSF dynamics (e.g., velocity, flow rate) between patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus and healthy controls, as well as patients with other dementia disorders.

The purpose of this study is to characterize and study the relationship of the clinical risk factors and predictors of seizures and epilepsy in patients with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease (EOAD) using a 48-hour CAA-EEG.

The purpose of this Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease Study (LEADS) is designed to look at disease progression in individuals with early onset cognitive impairment . Clinical/cognitive, imaging, biomarker, and genetic characteristics will be assessed across three cohorts: (1) early onset Alzheimer's Disease (EOAD) participants, (2) early onset non-Alzheimer's Disease (EO-nonAD) participants,and (3) cognitively normal (CN) control participants.

The purpose of this study is to develop a diagnostic test using tissue biomarkers to provide an accurate diagnosis of alpha-synucleinopathies in patients with Parkinson's disease, Multiple System Atrophy, Dementia with Lewy bodies and Pure Autonomic Failure. Using a simple diagnostic test will improve clinical accuracy in diagnosing, earlier diagnosis, and distinguishing between neurodegenerative diseases.

Most individuals with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) develop additional
neurological symptoms and are subsequently diagnosed with overt synucleinopathies, including dementia with
Lewy bodies (DLB), Parkinson disease (PD), and multiple system atrophy (MSA), indicating that RBD
represents a prodromal stage of synucleinopathy. RBD therefore offers a window of opportunity to intervene
with neuroprotective treatments at the earliest stages of disease when treatment is most likely to be effective.
Recognizing the importance of early intervention, key federal agencies focused on neurodegenerative disease
have proposed high priority recommendations for prodromal aspects of synucleinopathies, including
specifically RBD, to prepare for ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the association between untreated OSA and chronic insomnia and their association with cognitive decline, increased Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and vascular pathology.

The purpose of this study is to describe cerebral and retinal vasoreactivity in patients with cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) vs. healthy control, to describe temporal change of cerebral and retinal vasoreactivity, and to test the effectiveness of cilostazol in slowing the progression of white matter dementia (WMD).

The main goal of this study is to evaluate whether a certain set of memory and thinking tests that are in English also work in other languages after they are translated. The measures will test your memory, thinking, problem solving, and everyday function abilities.

The purpose of this study is to establish a repository consisting of clinical information, radiological data, serum, peripheral blood lymphocytes, plasma, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), urine, stool, DNA and tissue specimens collected from patients who have central nervous system (CNS)  inflammatory diseases. 

The purpose o fthis study

A total of 8,000 patients presenting to CPSs with acute-onset AIS, ICH or aSAH and no history of dementia will be enrolled within 6 weeks of stroke onset.

All participants will undergo baseline screening for evidence of pre-stroke dementia. Those who pass baseline screening will complete a blood draw and a series of cognitive and functional assessments at baseline.

Participants will undergo in-person (3-6 months, 18 months) and telephone (annual) follow-up visits for the duration of the study to assess for longitudinal cognitive and functional outcomes. In addition to Tier 1 procedures, at each in-person follow-up visit: Tier ...

The aim of this study is to create a state-wide biorepository and resource center for cerebrovascular diseases in Florida. The Center will collect and store detailed phenotypic information, DNA, and other biofluids on affected subjects with diverse cerebrovascular conditions, including, but not limited to, ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), vascular dementia (VAD), anoxic brain injury, unruptured intracranial aneurysm (UIA), cavernous malformation, arteriovenous malformations (AVM), carotid and vertebral arterial dissections, symptomatic and asymptomatic cervical carotid artery atherosclerotic stenosis, non-aneurysmal perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage (naSAH), cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), moyamoya disease, fibrosmuscular dysplasia (FMD), non-traumatic, angiography-negative subarachnoid ...