While the FDA weighs aducanumab’s marketing license application, Alzheimer’s researchers agree that the agency’s own statistician correctly assessed the data as weak. Most prefer that one more trial be done.
Researchers consider the data encouraging, though questions linger about the cognition results. Did regulators mess up the randomization of this trial?
Network analysis of human PET brain imaging data suggests amyloid plaques set the stage for microglial activation that, in turn, drives tangle spread through the brain.
People with subjective or mild cognitive impairment are less likely to get dementia if their CSF Aβ38 levels are high. Should γ-secretase modulators be revived?