The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...he low affinity glutamate NMDA receptor antagonist memantine can slightly reduce deterioration in patients with...cluded that, compared to placebo, giving 20 mg/day memantine reduced symptoms in people with moderate to severe Alzheimer disease. After six months, patients giv...Some Alzheimer's patients can benefit from drug memantine
The drug memantine can reduce cognitive deterioration and loss of eve...University of Oxford and colleagues. The effect of memantine was measured by a variety of tests that rate a patient's thinking skills, daily activity and mood. W...Memantine appears effective and safe in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease
...leted the previous 28-week study received 20 mg of memantine daily for an additional 24 weeks. The authors repo... and observations by clinicians all indicated that memantine was beneficial to AD patients. "The benefits of memantine seen in the double-blind phase were again ...... for migraine. They found that a medication called memantine (brand name Namenda), which is currently approved ...ospective study, 54 patients who were treated with memantine for at least two months were asked to fill out a survey describing their experience with the medicat...