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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2020

Four-Repeat Tauopathies: Current Management and Future Treatments.

Lawren VandeVrede, Peter A Ljubenkov, Julio C Rojas, Ariane E Welch, Adam L Boxer

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lawren VandeVredeMemory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. Lawren.VandeVrede@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-6711
Peter A LjubenkovMemory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Julio C RojasMemory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Ariane E WelchMemory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Adam L BoxerMemory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Technology and Remote Assessment CoreU19AG063911 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI ADAM L. BOXER, Bradley F Boeve · 2019 to 2026
$120.9M
TDP-43 Loss-of-Function: Biology to BiomarkersP01AG019724 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Jennifer Merrilees · 2002 to 2026
$67.2M
Research Education ComponentP30AG062422 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Serggio Carlo Lanata · 2019 to 2026
$36.9M
The Four Repeat Tauopathy Neuroimaging InitiativeR01AG038791 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BOXER, ADAM L. · 2010 to 2020
$18.1M
Progressive Aphasia Cognition Anatomy and ProgressionR01NS050915 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MARIA LUISA GORNO TEMPINI · 2004 to 2026
$11.0M
Multidisciplinary Research Fellowship in Alzheimer’s disease and Related DementiasT32AG023481 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BRUCE L MILLER, HOWARD J ROSEN · 2005 to 2026
$7.4M
Multimodal Imaging in Frontotemporal DegenerationK24AG045333 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ROSEN, HOWARD J · 2013 to 2023
$1.9M
Proteomics for fluid biomarker discovery in frontotemporal dementiaK23AG059888 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ROJAS-MARTINEZ, JULIO CESAR · 2019 to 2023
$995k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Four-repeat tauopathies are a neurodegenerative disease characterized by brain parenchymal accumulation of a specific isoform of the protein tau, which gives rise to a wide breadth of clinical syndromes encompassing diverse symptomatology, with the most common syndromes being progressive supranuclear palsy-Richardson's and corticobasal syndrome. Despite the lack of effective disease-modifying therapies, targeted treatment of symptoms can improve quality of life for patients with 4-repeat tauopathies. However, managing these symptoms can be a daunting task, even for those familiar with the diseases, as they span motor, sensory, cognitive, affective, autonomic, and behavioral domains. This review describes current approaches to symptomatic management of common clinical symptoms in 4-repeat tauopathies with a focus on practical patient management, including pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies, and concludes with a discussion of the history and future of disease-modifying therapeutics and clinical trials in this population.

Indexed as

Disease ManagementClinical Trials as TopicForecastingHumansMotor DisordersTauopathiesTreatment Outcome4R-tauopathy (4R-tau)atypical parkinsonismcorticobasal degeneration (CBD)corticobasal syndrome (CBS)progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)Richardson’s syndrome (PSP-RS)

Identifiers

PMID32676851
PMCPMC7851277
OpenAlexW3043735937

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