Interdisciplinary Research in Alzheimer's Disease and the Roles International Societies Can Play

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dc.creatorTan, Shawn Zheng Kai
dc.creatorZhao, Robert Chunhua
dc.creatorChakrabarti, Sasanka
dc.creatorStambler, Ilia
dc.creatorJin, Kunlin
dc.creatorLim, Lee Wei
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-1336-348X (Jin, Kunlin)
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-09T14:08:41Z
dc.date.available2022-09-09T14:08:41Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-01
dc.description.abstractAn ever-increasing ageing population has elevated Alzheimer's disease to be one of the biggest challenges in modern medicine. Alzheimer's disease is highly complex, and we are still no closer to understanding the causes, let alone an effective treatment. The lack of good experimental models and lack of critical understanding has led to high failure rates of clinical trials with high associated costs, as well as difficulties in implementing treatments. The multifaceted nature of this disease highlights the need for an interdisciplinary approach to address these concerns. In this essay, we suggest how collaborative work can be useful in addressing some of the above issues. We then propose that international organisations and publishers need to support interdisciplinary research by creating platforms, lobbying funders, and pushing for interdisciplinary publications. We further highlight some of the issues involved in implementing these suggestions and argue that willpower of the research community, together with a re-evaluation of evaluation metrics and incentive systems, are needed in order to foster interdisciplinary research. Overall, we emphasise the need for interdisciplinary research in Alzheimer's disease and suggest that international societies should play a huge role in this endeavour.
dc.identifier.citationTan, S., Zhao, R. C., Chakrabarti, S., Stambler, I., Jin, K., & Lim, L. W. (2021). Interdisciplinary Research in Alzheimer's Disease and the Roles International Societies Can Play. Aging and disease, 12(1), 36-41. https://doi.org/10.14336/AD.2020.0602
dc.identifier.issn2152-5250
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12503/31699
dc.identifier.volume12
dc.publisherJKL International
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.14336/AD.2020.0602
dc.rights.holder© 2020 Tan SZK et al.
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourceAging and Disease
dc.subjectAlzheimer's disease
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary
dc.subjectinternational societies
dc.subjectresearch
dc.titleInterdisciplinary Research in Alzheimer's Disease and the Roles International Societies Can Play
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