GCG and Alzheimer disease: Consequently, clinical trials have been designed to test the therapeutic potential of antidiabetic drugs, in particular intranasal insulin (Claxton et al. 2015) and incretins (glucagon-like peptide-1 [GLP-1] analogues) in AD and PD patients (Athauda and Foltynie 2016; Femminella and Edison 2014).