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ArticleBrain communications2021

Simulating the outcome of amyloid treatments in Alzheimer's disease from imaging and clinical data.

Clément Abi Nader, Nicholas Ayache, Giovanni B Frisoni, Philippe Robert, Marco Lorenzi, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Article in Brain communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Clément Abi NaderUniversité Côte d'Azur, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, EPIONE Research Project, 06902, Sophia-Antipolis, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-9148
Nicholas AyacheUniversité Côte d'Azur, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, EPIONE Research Project, 06902, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Giovanni B FrisoniMemory Clinic and LANVIE-Laboratory of Neuroimaging of Aging, Hospitals and University of Geneva, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland.
Philippe RobertUniversité Côte d'Azur, CoBTeK Lab, MNC3 Program, 06103, Nice, France.
Marco LorenziUniversité Côte d'Azur, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, EPIONE Research Project, 06902, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we investigate SimulAD, a novel quantitative instrument for the development of intervention strategies for disease-modifying drugs in Alzheimer's disease. SimulAD is based on the modeling of the spatio-temporal dynamics governing the joint evolution of imaging and clinical biomarkers along the history of the disease, and allows the simulation of the effect of intervention time and drug dosage on the biomarkers' progression. When applied to multi-modal imaging and clinical data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative the method enables to generate hypothetical scenarios of amyloid lowering interventions. The results quantify the crucial role of intervention time, and provide a theoretical justification for testing amyloid modifying drugs in the pre-clinical stage. Our experimental simulations are compatible with the outcomes observed in past clinical trials, and suggest that anti-amyloid treatments should be administered at least 7 years earlier than what is currently being done in order to obtain statistically powered improvement of clinical endpoints.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseamyloid hypothesisbiomarkersclinical trialsdisease progression

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PMCPMC8168944

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