Clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases: the challenges and the future

• Published in: Nature medicine Vol. 16; no. 11; pp. 1223 - 1226
• Main Author: Lang, Anthony E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.11.2010; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/154/109; 631/154/53; 692/699/375/365; 692/700/565; Alzheimer's disease; Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cancer Research; Clinical trials; Clinical Trials as Topic - trends; commentary; Degeneration; Future; Health care; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Metabolic Diseases; Molecular Medicine; Nervous system; Neurodegenerative Diseases - therapy; Neurology; Neurosciences; Parkinson's disease; Terminology as Topic; Canada

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease represent a crucial and exponentially increasing challenge to health care systems throughout the world. There is an urgent need for effective treatments that will both delay their onset and slow their inexorable...