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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease2026

From past to future: Digital approaches to success of clinical drug trials for Parkinson's disease.

Cen Cong, Madison Milne-Ives, Ananya Ananthakrishnan, Walter Maetzler, Edward Meinert

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Review in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Cen CongTranslational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.ORCID 0009-0007-8261-6480
Madison Milne-IvesTranslational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7628-882X
Ananya AnanthakrishnanTranslational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.ORCID 0009-0000-0292-3923
Walter MaetzlerDepartment of Neurology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5945-4694
Edward MeinertTranslational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2484-3347

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent years have seen successes in symptomatic drugs for Parkinson's disease, but the development of treatments for stopping disease progression continues to fail in clinical drug trials, largely due to the lack of clinical efficacy of drugs. This may be related to limited understanding of disease mechanisms, data heterogeneity, poor target screening and candidate selection, challenges in determining optimal dosage levels, reliance on animal models, insufficient patient participation, and lack of drug adherence in trials. Most of the recent applications of digital health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools focused mainly on stages before clinical drug trials. Recent applications used AI-based algorithms or models to discover novel targets, inhibitors and indications, recommend drug candidates and drug dosage, and promote remote data collection. This paper reviews the state of the literature and highlights strengths and limitations in digital approaches to drug discovery and development for Parkinson's disease from 2021 to 2024, and offers recommendations for future research and practice for the success of drug clinical trials.

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Antiparkinson AgentsArtificial IntelligenceClinical Trials as TopicDrug DevelopmentDrug DiscoveryParkinson DiseaseDigital HealthHumansAntiparkinson Agentsclinical trialdrug discoveryParkinson's diseasetechnology

Identifiers

PMID40289580
PMCPMC13435200

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