Trial of Dronabinol Adjunctive Treatment of Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease
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Official title
Pilot Trial of Dronabinol Adjunctive Treatment of Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease
Brief summary
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease of aging. Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in AD are a major cause of burden to patients, caregivers, and society and are near-universal at some point in the AD course. One of the most troubling of these symptoms is agitation (Agit-AD), typified by a variety of problem behaviors including combativeness, yelling, pacing, lack of cooperation with care, insomnia, and restlessness. There is a great need for better interventions that target Agit-AD, a major source of patient disability as well as caregiver burden and stress, particularly in the case of moderate to severe agitation. This pilot trial could open the door to "re-purposing" Dronabinol (Marinol®) as a novel and safe treatment for Agit-AD with significant public health impact.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02792257
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- 84 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 60 Years to 95 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 28, 2017
- Primary completion
- May 30, 2024
- Completion
- May 30, 2024
- Last update posted
- May 8, 2025
2017 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 5
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 5
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Jewish Health | Miami | Florida | 33137 | — |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | Maryland | 21224 | — |
| McLean Hospital | Belmont | Massachusetts | 02478 | — |
| Tufts Medical Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02111 | — |
| North Shore Medical Center | Salem | Massachusetts | 01970 | — |
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- Last update posted May 8, 2025 · Synced Sep 1, 2026
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