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Dementia Clinical Trials in Boston, MA
A listing of 21 Dementia clinical trials in Boston, MA actively recruiting volunteers for paid trials and research studies in various therapeutic areas.
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The city of Boston, Massachusetts, currently has 21 active clinical trials seeking participants for Dementia research studies.
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Nationwide clinical trials offered in your area. Some trials offering up to several thousand dollars in compensation for participation.
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Chronic Cough Study
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Are you tired of living with chronic cough? The ASPIRE Study is now looking to enroll people from all backgrounds to help research potential new treatment options for chronic cough. You are under no obligation to take part and health insurance is not required. Find out more today! We’d love to hear from you.
Conditions:
Chronic Cough
Refractory or Unexplained Chronic Cough
Cough
Asthma
Allergic Asthma
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Studying an Investigational Virus Vaccine
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The main objectives of this study are to assess the safety and effectiveness of an investigational vaccine aimed at preventing norovirus, commonly known as the stomach flu. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the investigational vaccine or a placebo. Should you express interest, you will be contacted directly by the research site, which will provide further details and answer any questions you may have about study requirements, risks/benefits, and any compensation.
Conditions:
Healthy
Interested in vaccine studies
All Conditions
Preventative Trials
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Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Study
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Does your loved one struggle with memory loss from Alzheimer's disease? If so, consider a clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease. Learn more about a paid research study near you.
Conditions:
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer Disease
Alzheimer Dementia
Dementia Alzheimers
Alzheimer Disease
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Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Study
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Does your loved one struggle with memory loss from Alzheimer's disease? If so, consider a clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease. Learn more about a paid research study near you.
Conditions:
Alzheimer Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer Dementia
Dementia Alzheimers
Dementia
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Type 2 Diabetes Clinical Trial
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Can changing your breakfast improve your type 2 diabetes? If you have an HbA1C of 7.0% or higher, you are invited to participate in an online study at the University of Michigan.
Conditions:
Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 in Obese
Diabetes Type Two
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Diabete Type 2
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 4
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Since its launch in 2004, the overarching aim of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Study has been to validate biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials. ADNI4 continues the previously funded ADNI1, ADNI-GO, ADNI2, and ADNI3 studies that have combined public/private collaborations between academia and industry to determine the relationships between the clinical, cognitive, imaging, genetic and biochemical biomarker characteristics of the entire spectrum of AD.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 55 years and 90 years
Trial Updated:
03/28/2025
Locations: Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts +1 locations
Trial-Ready Cohort-Down Syndrome (TRC-DS)
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The purpose of the Trial-Ready Cohort - Down Syndrome (TRC-DS) is to enroll 120 healthy adults with Down syndrome (DS), between the ages of 25-55, into a trial ready cohort (TRC), and up to 450 participants in total including co-enrolled in the Alzheimer Biomarkers Consortium - Down Syndrome (ABC-DS) study. Participants enrolled in the TRC-DS will undergo longitudinal cognitive and clinical assessment, genetic and biomarker testing, as well as imaging and biospecimen collection. Using these outc... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 25 years and 55 years
Trial Updated:
03/25/2025
Locations: Massachusetts General Hospital, Co-Enrolling through ABC-DS Only, Boston, Massachusetts
Deprescribing in Patients Living with Dementia with Caregiver and Provider Nudges
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The objectives of this study are to demonstrate the feasibility of implementing a deprescribing nudge intervention using pragmatic methods, confirm that outcomes can be feasibly measured and evaluated at scale in a subsequent embedded pragmatic clinical trial (ePCT), and explore representativeness of persons living with dementia and care partners identified.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
65 years and above
Trial Updated:
03/25/2025
Locations: Mass General Brigham, Boston, Massachusetts
Sirtuin-NAD Activator in Alzheimer's Disease
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The primary objectives are to:
1. To determine whether MIB-626, after its daily oral administration, penetrates the blood-brain barrier in humans by measuring the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of MIB-626 and its key metabolites, nicotinamide (NAM), NR, 2-PY, and MeNAM at baseline and on day 90 at steady state.
2. To evaluate whether oral MIB-626 administration engages the sirtuin-NAD pathway by determining the abundance of NAD (a SIRT1 substrate) in the brain using ultra-high field 7... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 55 years and 85 years
Trial Updated:
03/06/2025
Locations: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Conditions: Alzheimer's Disease (Incl Subtypes), Dementia
ARTFL LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ALLFTD)
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ARTFL LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ALLFTD) represents the formalized integration of ARTFL (U54 NS092089; funded through 2019) and LEFFTDS (U01 AG045390; funded through 2019) as a single North American research consortium to study FTLD for 2019 and beyond.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
18 years and above
Trial Updated:
02/11/2025
Locations: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Conditions: Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD), Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD), Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia (svPPA), Nonfluent Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia (nfvPPA), FTD With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (FTD/ALS), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Oligosymptomatic PSP (oPSP), C9orf72, GRN Related Frontotemporal Dementia, MAPT Gene Mutation, TBK1 Gene Mutation, Oligosymptomatic Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Mindfulness for Cognition in Early-stage Alzheimer's Disease
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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if mindfulness meditation can improve outcomes in older adults with and without cognitive impairment. The main questions it aims to answer are:
1. How does mindfulness impact thinking and memory?
2. How does mindfulness influence brain function and structure?
3. How does mindfulness affect daily function and quality of life?
Researchers will compare all outcomes to one other groups. In one group, individuals will participate in a mindfulness class in... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 50 years and 100 years
Trial Updated:
01/23/2025
Locations: VA Boston Healthcare System - Jamaica Plain Campus, Boston, Massachusetts
Conditions: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Due to Alzheimer's Disease, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), Aging, Healthy Elderly, Alzheimer's Dementia (AD)
Researching Efficient Approaches to Delirium Identification-Sustaining Effective Translation
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The goal of this step-wedge trial is to test the implementation of daily nurse screening for delirium in routine care and its impact on outcomes and complications in hospitalized older adults admitted to 6 general medicine/surgery units at 3 hospitals in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are:
* 1. To test the fidelity, accuracy, and sustainability of implementing daily nurse screening for delirium using the UB-CAM in routine care.
* 2. To evaluate the imp... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
70 years and above
Trial Updated:
01/15/2025
Locations: Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Conditions: Delirium, Delirium in Old Age, Delirium With Dementia, Delirium Superimposed on Dementia
A Pivotal Study of Sensory Stimulation in Alzheimer's Disease (Hope Study, CA-0011)
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This is a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, adaptive-design pivotal study of sensory stimulation in subjects with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. Up to approximately 600 subjects will be randomized to 12 months of daily treatment with either Active or Sham Sensory Stimulation Systems. Efficacy will be measured using the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study- Activities of Daily Living (ADCS-ADL) assessment and a combined statistical test (CST) of the ADCS-ADL and the Mini-Mental S... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 50 years and 90 years
Trial Updated:
01/06/2025
Locations: Boston Clinical Trials, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Conditions: Alzheimer Disease, Alzheimer Disease 1, Alzheimer Disease 2, Alzheimer Disease 3, Alzheimer Disease, Early Onset, Alzheimer Disease, Late Onset, Alzheimer Disease 9, Alzheimer Disease 4, Alzheimer Disease 7, Alzheimer Disease 17, Alzheimer's Dementia Late Onset, Alzheimer Disease 5, Alzheimer Disease 6, Alzheimer Disease 8, Alzheimer Disease 10, Alzheimer Disease 11, Alzheimer Disease 12, Alzheimer Disease 13, Alzheimer Disease 14, Alzheimer Disease 15, Alzheimer Disease 16, Alzheimer Disease 18, Alzheimer Disease 19, Dementia, Dementia Alzheimers, Dementia, Mild, Dementia of Alzheimer Type, Dementia Moderate, Dementia Senile, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Mild Dementia, MCI, Cognitive Impairment, Cognitive Decline, Cognitive Impairment, Mild
Treating Hyperexcitability in AD With Levetiracetam
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The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between cortical hyperexcitability, abnormalities of brain network function, and cognitive dysfunction in human patients with AD and whether administration of the antiepileptic medication levetiracetam (LEV) normalizes these measures and improves cognition.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 50 years and 90 years
Trial Updated:
12/03/2024
Locations: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Conditions: Alzheimer Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Dementia of Alzheimer Type, Mild Cognitive Impairment
Determinants of Incident Stroke Cognitive Outcomes and Vascular Effects on RecoverY
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The overall goal of the DISCOVERY study is to better understand what factors contribute to changes in cognitive (i.e., thinking and memory) abilities in patients who experienced a stroke. The purpose of the study is to help doctors identify patients at risk for dementia (decline in memory, thinking and other mental abilities that significantly affects daily functioning) after their stroke so that future treatments may be developed to improve outcomes in stroke patients. For this study, a "stroke... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
18 years and above
Trial Updated:
11/25/2024
Locations: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts +1 locations
Conditions: Ischemic Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Dementia, Vascular, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Vascular Cognitive Impairment
A Multi-Modal Remote Monitoring Platform for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) Syndromes
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The primary objective of this study is to enroll an observational cohort of approximately 60 patients with PSP over the course of 24 months using a multicenter study design and to follow each of them for 12 months.
The secondary objective of this study is to develop a robust solution for multi-modal remote monitoring of motor symptoms and function in PSP that can be applied to other Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) syndromes.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 40 years and 89 years
Trial Updated:
11/18/2024
Locations: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Conditions: PSP, CBD, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, FTD, Corticobasal Degeneration, Frontotemporal Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Biomarkers of Postoperative Delirium
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The goal of this prospective cohort study is to assess potential differences in sleep biomarkers in older adult patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are:
1. To define sleep/circadian biomarkers of delirium (sleep duration, regularity, stability and timing of rhythm) in a prospective observational study.
2. To determine if plasma Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology/inflammatory burden interacts with or moderates the relationship between a sleep/circad... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
70 years and above
Trial Updated:
11/04/2024
Locations: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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