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New directions in clinical trials for frontotemporal lobar degeneration: methods and outcome measures

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Boxer, Adam L., Gold, Michael, Feldman, Howard, Boeve, Bradley F., Dickinson, Susan L.-J., Fillit, Howard, Ho, Carole, Paul, Robert +23 more·2020·Alzheimer's & Dementia

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Introduction: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is the most common form of dementia for those under 60 years of age. Increasing numbers of therapeutics targeting FTLD syndromes are being developed. Methods: In March 2018, the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration convened the Frontotemporal Degeneration Study Group meeting in Washington, DC, to discuss advances in the clinical science of FTLD. Results: Challenges exist for conducting clinical trials in FTLD. Two of the greatest challenges are (1) the heterogeneity of FTLD syndromes leading to difficulties in efficiently measuring treatment effects and (2) the rarity of FTLD disorders leading to recruitment challenges. Discussion: New personalized endpoints that are clinically meaningful to individuals and their families should be developed. Personalized approaches to analyzing MRI data, development of new fluid biomarkers and wearable technologies will help to improve the power to detect treatment effects in FTLD clinical trials and enable new, clinical trial designs, possibly leveraged from the experience of oncology trials. A computational visualization and analysis platform that can support novel analyses of combined clinical, genetic, imaging, biomarker data with other novel modalities will be critical to the success of these endeavors.

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Boxer, A. L., Gold, M., Feldman, H., Boeve, B. F., Dickinson, S. L.-J., Fillit, H., Ho, C., Paul, R., Pearlman, R., Sutherland, M., Verma, A., Arneric, S. P., Alexander, B. M., Dickerson, B. C., Dorsey, E. R., Grossman, M., Huey, E. D., Irizarry, M. C., Marks, W. J., Masellis, M., McFarland, F., Niehoff, D., Onyike, C. U., Paganoni, S., Panzara, M. A., Rockwood, K., Rohrer, J. D., Rosen, H., Schuck, R. N., Soares, H. D., & Tatton, N.
Affiliations
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • AbbVie (United States) (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Mayo Clinic (US)
  • Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (US)
  • Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (US)
  • Denali Therapeutics (United States) (US)
  • Alector (United States) (US)
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States) (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
  • University of Rochester (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Eli Lilly (United States) (US)
  • Verily Life Sciences LLC (United States) (US)
  • Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (CA)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Wave Life Sciences (United States) (US)
  • Dalhousie University (CA)
  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (GB)
  • United States Food and Drug Administration (US)
Corresponding author
Boxer, Adam L.
Venue
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2020-01
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
131-143
ISSN
  • 1552-5260 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-5279
OpenAlex
W2981318929
Cited by
71
References
131
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1
FWCI
7.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration
  • National Institutes of Health (U54NS092089)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
Keywords
frontotemporal lobar degeneration, clinical trial design
MeSH terms
Atrophy, Clinical Trials as Topic, Congresses as Topic, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Biomarkers, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

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