Memantine Benefits Overall and Specific Cognitive Abilities

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Memantine Benefits Overall and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Patients With Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease: Presented at ADPD
By Chris Berrie

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- March 15, 2009 -- Memantine demonstrates significant benefits on global cognition as well as on specific single cognitive items in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to study data presented here at the 9th International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases (ADPD).

Coinvestigator Patrizia Mecocci, MD, PhD, Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, presented this post hoc analysis of combined data from 6 multicentre, randomised trials here on March 14.

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