Rivastigmine

Summary: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transitional risk state that occurs between the normal aging process and Alzheimer's dementia (AD). On average 32% of patients with MCI will progress to dementia, 62% will stay stable, and about 6% will return to normal cognition at subsequent visits. Current treatment for MCI includes cholinesterase inhibitors (donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine), and NMD...

Summary: This study is a single-center, prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT). Employing a parallel-group design, the trial plans to enroll 30 clinically diagnosed AD patients, who will be randomly assigned via a computerized randomization tool into three equal groups: low-dose, high-dose, and control (10 patients per group). The blinded clinical trial consists of three phas...

Summary: Antimuscarinic delirium (AMD) is a common and dangerous toxicology condition caused by poisoning by medications and other chemicals that block muscarinic receptors. Physostigmine is effective in reversing AMD but has a short duration of action, and patient commonly experience recurrence of AMD after initial control with physostigmine. Recent case reports and small observational studies suggest tha...

Summary: Auditory hallucinations are among the most distressing aspects of psychotic illness, and between 10 and 30% of people with hallucinations do not respond to antipsychotic medications. The authors have used computational modeling of behavior to link brain activity to development of auditory hallucinations in the hope of guiding new treatment development. The proposed studies take the first step towa...

Summary: This is a 24-week prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center phase III study evaluating efficacy and safety of rotigotine 4mg/24 hrs in combination with rivastigmine 9.5 mg/24 hrs in mild to moderate AD patients. The total study duration per patient from baseline to the end will be 24 weeks. The study has a placebo-controlled design to eliminate experimental biases tha...

Summary: This study is a phase 2a, single-center, double-blind and randomized clinical trial that evaluates the safety and efficacy of AR1005 administration in 60 patients with cognitive impairment due to Lewy body disease. The study evaluates whether the administration of AR1005 in patients with cognitive impairment due to Lewy body disease has the effect of improving cognitive function, behavioral psycho...

Summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to test the beneficial effects of rivastigmine administration, and predict the treatment outcome with electroencephalography (EEG), in patients with severe depression treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The study has two main objectives: * to study whether rivastigmine would ameliorate the side-effect profile of ECT * to develop an outcome prediction mo...