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TitleRe-Addressing Dementia by Network Medicine and Mechanism-Based Molecular Endotypes.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2023
AuthorsPachado, MPacheco, Casas, AI, Elbatreek, MH, Nogales, C, Guney, E, Espay, AJ, Schmidt, HHHW
JournalJ Alzheimers Dis
Volume96
Issue1
Pagination47-56
Date Published2023
ISSN1875-8908
KeywordsAging, Alzheimer Disease, Amyloid, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Brain, Humans
Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of dementia are together a leading cause of disability and death in the aging global population, imposing a high personal, societal, and economic burden. They are also among the most prominent examples of failed drug developments. Indeed, after more than 40 AD trials of anti-amyloid interventions, reduction of amyloid-β (Aβ) has never translated into clinically relevant benefits, and in several cases yielded harm. The fundamental problem is the century-old, brain-centric phenotype-based definitions of diseases that ignore causal mechanisms and comorbidities. In this hypothesis article, we discuss how such current outdated nosology of dementia is a key roadblock to precision medicine and articulate how Network Medicine enables the substitution of clinicopathologic phenotypes with molecular endotypes and propose a new framework to achieve precision and curative medicine for patients with neurodegenerative disorders.

DOI10.3233/JAD-230694
Alternate JournalJ Alzheimers Dis
PubMed ID37742653
PubMed Central IDPMC10657714
Grant ListR01 AG059417 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
U01 NS113851 / NS / NINDS NIH HHS / United States
R01 NS125294 / NS / NINDS NIH HHS / United States
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