Music intervention approaches for Alzheimer's disease: A review of the literature

M Leggieri, MH Thaut, L Fornazzari… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Music interventions have been widely adopted as a potential non-pharmacological therapy
for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to treat cognitive and/or behavioral symptoms of …

Effectiveness of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine for treating dementia: evidence review for a clinical practice guideline

P Raina, P Santaguida, A Ismaila… - Annals of internal …, 2008 - acpjournals.org
Background: The effectiveness of the 5 US Food and Drug Administration–approved
pharmacologic therapies for dementias in achieving clinically relevant improvements is …

Efficacy and safety of donepezil, galantamine, and rivastigmine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

RA Hansen, G Gartlehner, AP Webb… - … interventions in aging, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Pharmacologic treatments for Alzheimer's disease include the cholinesterase inhibitors
donepezil, galantamine, and rivastigmine. We reviewed their evidence by searching …

Memantine: a NMDA receptor antagonist that improves memory by restoration of homeostasis in the glutamatergic system-too little activation is bad, too much is even …

CG Parsons, A Stöffler, W Danysz - Neuropharmacology, 2007 - Elsevier
The neurotransmitter glutamate activates several classes of metabotropic receptor and three
major types of ionotropic receptor–α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid …

Cognitive training in Alzheimer's disease: a meta‐analysis of the literature

DI Sitzer, EW Twamley, DV Jeste - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To systematically review the literature and summarize the effect of cognitive
training (CT) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients on multiple functional domains. Method …

Pharmacotherapies for Alzheimer's disease: beyond cholinesterase inhibitors

HO Tayeb, HD Yang, BH Price, FI Tarazi - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2012 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of memory impairment and dementia in
the elderly. AD is pathologically characterized by extracellular deposits of beta-amyloid (Aβ) …

Current and emerging drug treatment options for Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

N Herrmann, SA Chau, I Kircanski, KL Lanctot - Drugs, 2011 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and ultimately fatal condition that causes
debilitating memory loss and extensive deterioration of cognitive and functional abilities …

A risk-benefit assessment of dementia medications: systematic review of the evidence

JS Buckley, SR Salpeter - Drugs & aging, 2015 - Springer
Background There is no cure for dementia, and no treatments exist to halt or reverse the
course of the disease. Treatments are aimed at improving cognitive and functional …

Rivastigmine-loaded PLGA and PBCA nanoparticles: preparation, optimization, characterization, in vitro and pharmacodynamic studies

SA Joshi, SS Chavhan, KK Sawant - European journal of pharmaceutics …, 2010 - Elsevier
Sustained release nanoparticulate formulations of Rivastigmine tartrate (RT) were prepared,
optimized (using factorial design) and characterized using the biodegradable polymers …

Pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic aspects of drugs used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

M Noetzli, CB Eap - Clinical pharmacokinetics, 2013 - Springer
With the aging population and its rapidly increasing prevalence, dementia has become an
important public health concern in developed and developing countries. To date, the …