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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Friday, July 30, 2010
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Alzheimer's Disease |
Aricept03/05/2010 |
Is aricept used for anything else other than Dementia and Alzheimer`s disease?
Aricept is only approved by the FDA for mild to severe Alzheimer's disease. However, physicians may use the medication for any other purpose they feel it would be useful. It has been used for other dementia conditions such as vascular related dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal dementia. It has been tried in Mild Cognitive Impairment and for people with significant attention or apathetic conditions. All of these and other uses are "off label" and the data to say that it is helpful for any of these other uses is limited.
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Douglas W. Scharre, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Memory Disorders Clinic Department of Neurology College of Medicine The Ohio State University |
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