Therapeutic Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease: Current Treatments and New Perspectives Pardo Moreno, Teresa Gónzalez Acedo, Anabel Rivas Domínguez, Antonio García-Morales, Victoria García-Cozar, Francisco Jose Ramos Rodríguez, Juan José Melguizo-Rodríguez, Lucía Alzheimer’s disease dementia A pathology Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. The pathophysiology of this disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid- , leading to the formation of senile plaques, and by the intracellular presence of neurofibrillary tangles based on hyperphosphorylated tau protein. In the therapeutic approach to AD, we can identify three important fronts: the approved drugs currently available for the treatment of the disease, which include aducanumab, donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, memantine, and a combination of memantine and donepezil; therapies under investigation that work mainly on A pathology and tau pathology, and which include -secretase inhibitors, -secretase inhibitors, -secretase modulators, aggregation inhibitors, metal interfering drugs, drugs that enhance A clearance, inhibitors of tau protein hyperphosphorylation, tau protein aggregation inhibitors, and drugs that promote the clearance of tau, and finally, other alternative therapies designed to improve lifestyle, thus contributing to the prevention of the disease. Therefore, the aim of this review was to analyze and describe current treatments and possible future alternatives in the therapeutic approach to AD. 2024-09-16T08:52:40Z 2024-09-16T08:52:40Z 2022-05-24 journal article Pardo Moreno, T. et. al. Pharmaceutics 2022, 14, 1117. [https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14061117] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/94467 10.3390/pharmaceutics14061117 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI