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The idea of a collaboration between public institutions and private pharmaceutical companies to fund a large biomarker project to study AD and to speed up progress toward effective treatments for the disease was conceived at the beginning of the millennium by Neil S. Buckholz at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Dr. William Potter, at Eli Lilly and Company. [1]
In that year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invested $13 million in Alzheimer's disease research. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan designated the first National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Week. The Association is the world's largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer's research and the nonprofit with the highest impact worldwide. [3]
The state of the art of dementia research Explores a broad cross section of dementia related research areas including basic science, diagnosis, drug discovery, risk reduction and epidemiology. The report also featured progress, innovation and developments in care research. [40] 2017 No Publication 2016 Improving healthcare
One study published in December 2022 found that semaglutide lowered the risk of dementia in patients with type 2 diabetes. Another study found that fellow GLP-1 medication liraglutide may protect ...
Once a diagnosis of dementia is made, patients can live for many years, says Petersen. Over time, the symptoms will get worse, he says, which is why it’s important to create a care plan.
The $15 million gift was the founding endowment for the institute to establish the world's first major research institute focused on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of neurological, psychiatric, and other cognitive disorders affecting the human brain, with an emphasis on Alzheimer's disease.
For example, the US National Institutes of Health program for Alzheimer's research, the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, has a budget of US$3.98 billion for fiscal year 2026. [31] In the European Union, the 2020 Horizon Europe research programme awarded over €570 million for dementia-related projects. [32]
In community samples, cutoff scores for likely dementia have ranged from 3.3 and above to 3.6 and above, while in patient samples the cutoff scores have ranged from 3.4 and above to 4.0 and above. [3] To improve the detection of dementia, the IQCODE can be used in combination with the Mini-Mental State Examination.