Mondello, Stefania and Salama, Mohamed Mosaad and Mohamed, Wael Mohamed Yousef and Kobeissy, Firas H. (2020) Editorial: biomarkers in neurology. Frontiers in Neurology, 11. pp. 1-3. ISSN 1664-2295
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Abstract
Neurological disorders constitute a major health and socioeconomic problem. They represent the second cause of death and the leading cause of disability throughout the world. Despite the implementation of strategies and intervention programs to reduce the burden, over the past 25 years, the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and disability rates of neurological disorders are rising globally, mainly due to population aging and growth (1). This has placed heavy pressure on health-care systems pointing out the urgent need to identify new strategies to improve patient outcomes and reduce health costs by enabling more effective drug development and establishing a more personalized medicine approach. Rapid scientific and technical advances have enabled reliable and affordable measurement of novel biomarkers—biological indicators that objectively measure and evaluate physiological or pathophysiological processes or pharmacological responses to a therapeutic intervention (2)—which have been suggested to help assessment and management of patients with neurological disorders beyond current practice standards (3–5). Evidence suggests a potential variety of clinical applications, including enhancing diagnostic and prognostic accuracy, improving the existing decision criteria for early diagnosis and risk stratification, as well as assisting in disease monitoring, and acting as surrogate endpoints in experimental studies and clinical trials (6–10). In addition, biomarkers may reliably capture the different aspects of disease heterogeneity and pathogenesis, helping characterize patients, and thereby informing targeted tailored treatments and predicting response outcomes to interventions (11–18). However, despite large numbers of candidate biomarkers have been proposed and extensively evaluated, very few are currently integrated into routine clinical practice and the quest for novel brain injury markers in still ongoing (19).
| Item Type: | Article (Editorial) |
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| Additional Information: | 7497/80952 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | biomarkers; neurological disorders & brain damage; diagnostic test; prognosis; neurodegeneration; brain Injury; Traumatic |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): | Kulliyyah of Medicine > Department of Basic Medical Kulliyyah of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Dr Wael Mohamed |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2020 15:56 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2020 11:04 |
| URI: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/80952 |
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