Recruiting
Neuroimaging in Healthy Aging and Senile Dementia (HASD_IND)
About this study
To identify factors that signal the transition from asymptomatic (preclinical) to symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD).
- Condition
- Alzheimer Disease
- Tested
- [11C]-Pittsburgh Compound B ([11C]PiB), F 18 AV-1451 (Flortaucipir)
- Sponsor
- Tammie L. S. Benzinger, MD, PhD
Who can join
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Inclusion 8
- Minimum age: 18 years
- Study condition: Alzheimer Disease
- Male or female, any race
- Age \> 18 years
- Participation in one of the ongoing projects affiliated with the Knight ADRC at Washington University and referred by the MAP staff and a Washington University physician.
- Normal cognition or early-stage symptomatic AD
- Willing and able to undergo study procedures.
- Capacity to give informed consent and follow study procedures
Exclusion 9
- Has any condition that, in the Investigator's opinion, could increase risk to the participant, limit the participant's ability to tolerate the research procedures, or interfere with the collection/analysis of the data (e.g., participants with severe chronic back pain might not be able to lie still during the scanning procedures);
- Has hypersensitivity to either AV-1451 or PIB or any of its excipients;
- Contraindications to PET, CT or MRI (e.g. electronic medical devices, inability to lie still for extended periods) that make it unsafe for the individual to participate;
- Severe claustrophobia;
- Currently pregnant or breast-feeding. Women must agree to avoid becoming pregnant and must agree to refrain from sexual activity or to use reliable contraceptive methods for 24 hours following administration of Flortaucipir injection;
- Must not have participated in any clinical trial involving a study drug or device within the 30-days prior to study enrollment;
- Must not participate in another drug or device study prior to the end of this study participation;
- Current or recent (within 12 months prior to screening) participation in research studies involving radioactive agents such that the total research-related radiation dose to the participant in any given year would exceed the limits set forth in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 Section 361.1.
- https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?FR=361.1
Where
1 site, 1 recruiting
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Contact
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Kelley Jackson, BA
314-362-1558 kelleyj@wustl.edu
Potential match only. Final eligibility is determined by the study team.