Abstract
An 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.
Highlights
The increasingly ageing population poses major challenges worldwide, aging issues such as disease and healthcare
The need for international organizations to advance interdisciplinary research In the previous sections, we argued that integrative interdisciplinary research is crucial for the successful discovery and implementation of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) treatments, yet barriers such as lower funding [12], different cultures across disciplines [45], lack of institutional support [13], and fewer published papers [14] present huge hurdles for researchers from different disciplines working together
We argue that there needs to be a push from international organizations towards promoting interdisciplinary research
Summary
The need for international organizations to advance interdisciplinary research In the previous sections, we argued that integrative interdisciplinary research is crucial for the successful discovery and implementation of AD treatments, yet barriers such as lower funding [12], different cultures across disciplines [45], lack of institutional support [13], and fewer published papers [14] present huge hurdles for researchers from different disciplines working together. To address these issues, we argue that there needs to be a push from international organizations towards promoting interdisciplinary research. Metrics in which researchers are judged upon need to be re-evaluated and proper incentive systems need to be developed to compliment this shift
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