4^th Annual Dementia Congress

Drug Development in Dementia

From bench to bedside, drug development is the process of bringing a novel drug to market. As a progressive and irreversible decline in cognition, dementia affects a patient's pre-existing level of functioning, according to its definition. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of the clinical syndrome of dementia. In Alzheimer's disease, drug development is based on pathophysiological theory that is constantly evolving.