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Drugs for Alzheimer's disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew W. Procter
Andrew W. Procter*
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United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy's Hospital Campus, London SE1 9RT
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The view (Anon, 1990) that “drugs for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) are generally ineffective” is a reasonable conclusion to draw from the results of treatment studies to date. However in recent years there has been a rapid expansion of knowledge of both basic neurobiology and the pathology of AD. Future advances may be expected to arise from this, so when the authors of Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin next review this subject they may well be able to draw a more optimistic conclusion.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 11 , November 1990 , pp. 676
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