Editorial: biomarkers in neurology
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 incidenc...
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| author | Mondello, Stefania Salama, Mohamed Mosaad Mohamed, Wael Mohamed Yousef Kobeissy, Firas H. |
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| description | 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). |
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| spelling | iium-809522020-07-13T03:04:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/80952/ Editorial: biomarkers in neurology Mondello, Stefania Salama, Mohamed Mosaad Mohamed, Wael Mohamed Yousef Kobeissy, Firas H. RC321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry 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). Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-18 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80952/1/80952_Editorial%20Biomarkers%20in%20Neurology.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80952/7/80952_Editorial%20Biomarkers%20in%20Neurology_scopus.pdf 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 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2020.00190/full 10.3389/fneur.2020.00190 |
| spellingShingle | RC321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Mondello, Stefania Salama, Mohamed Mosaad Mohamed, Wael Mohamed Yousef Kobeissy, Firas H. Editorial: biomarkers in neurology |
| title | Editorial: biomarkers in neurology |
| title_full | Editorial: biomarkers in neurology |
| title_fullStr | Editorial: biomarkers in neurology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Editorial: biomarkers in neurology |
| title_short | Editorial: biomarkers in neurology |
| title_sort | editorial: biomarkers in neurology |
| topic | RC321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
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