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Record W4380624259 · doi:10.9734/bpi/namms/v5/5691b

Auvelity as a Potential Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

2023· book-chapter· en· W4380624259 on OpenAlexaff
Charles M. Lepkowsky

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicPharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects
Canadian institutionsMinistry of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMemantineExcitotoxicityNMDA receptorGlutamatergicNeuroscienceNeurodegenerationMedicineAgonistPharmacologyGlutamate receptorPsychologyDiseaseReceptorInternal medicine

Abstract

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Auvelity was approved by the FDA in 2022 for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adults. Auvelity’s relevant mechanisms of action are a combination of NMDA receptor blockade with consequent antagonism of the glutamatergic neurotransmitter pathway, and sigma-1 receptor agonism. Major Depressive Disorder and Alzheimer’s disease share a significant association. Glutamatergic excitotoxicity via NMDA receptors is believed to be a key mechanism underlying neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease, the most frequent form of dementia in older adults. NMDA antagonists like Memantine appear to inhibit glutamatergic excitotoxicity via blockade of NMDA receptors. As a sigma-1 receptor agonist, Memantine also increases dopaminergic activation. Memantine’s benefit for improving memory, cognition and general functioning in AD patients is generally attributed to the combination of these two mechanisms. Because AD medications like Memantine and Auvelity share the same mechanism of action, it is hypothesized that Auvelity has potential as a medical treatment for reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.095

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0280.015

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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