Re-Addressing Dementia by Network Medicine and Mechanism-Based Molecular Endotypes

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 In this hypothesis article, we discuss how such current outdated nosology of dementia is a key roadblock to precision medicine and articulate how Network Medicine enables the substitution of clinicopathologic phenotypes with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.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:96

Enthalten in:

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 96(2023), 1 vom: 16., Seite 47-56

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pacheco Pachado, Mayra [VerfasserIn]
Casas, Ana I [VerfasserIn]
Elbatreek, Mahmoud H [VerfasserIn]
Nogales, Cristian [VerfasserIn]
Guney, Emre [VerfasserIn]
Espay, Alberto J [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, Harald H H W [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alzheimer’s disease
Amyloid
Amyloid beta-Peptides
Dementia
Endophenotypes
Journal Article
Precision medicine
Protein-protein interaction network
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systems medicine

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 31.10.2023

Date Revised 21.11.2023

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04477785

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3233/JAD-230694

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362391289