Aricept is a prescription drug used to treat dementia related to mild, moderate, or severe Alzheimer’s disease. (Dementia is sometimes referred to as major neurocognitive disorder.) Aricept ...

Public Citizen asked the FDA to ban high-dose Aricept because of side effects. May 19, 2011— -- Public Citizen has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban high doses of the ...

Patients whose CMAI score was 39 or more after the psychosocial treatment were enrolled in the drug-treatment phase of the study and randomly assigned to receive donepezil or placebo daily for 12 ...

There are four medications approved in the UK to ease a person’s dementia symptoms, including memory and thinking problems: donepezil rivastigmine galantamine memantine. These treatments are only ...

This drug is also approved to treat the early stages ... Your doctor may also prescribe it with donepezil (Aricept). Memantine helps balance glutamate, which is another “messenger chemical ...

Donepezil plus memantine combines a cholinesterase inhibitor with a different Alzheimer’s medication called an NMDA agonist. The NMDA agonist controls levels of a different brain chemical called ...