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Dementia can’t be cured, but several medications can help control some of its symptoms. Learn about 4 common dementia medications here.
Compare risks and benefits of common medications used for Alzheimer's Disease. Find the most popular drugs, view ratings and user reviews.
Medications for dementia include cholinesterase inhibitors like donepezil and rivastigmine to slow symptom progression, and memantine for moderate to severe cases, aiding memory and daily...
The FDA has approved medications that fall into two categories: drugs that change disease progression in people living with early Alzheimer's disease, and drugs that may temporarily mitigate some symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia.
Many medications are FDA approved to treat Alzheimer’s-related dementia. The most common medications — donepezil (Aricept, Adlarity), rivastigmine (Exelon), and galantamine — are cholinesterase inhibitors that treat cognitive symptoms.
Current Alzheimer's treatments temporarily improve symptoms of memory loss and problems with thinking and reasoning. These Alzheimer's treatments boost the performance of chemicals in the brain that carry information from one brain cell to another. They include cholinesterase inhibitors and the medicine memantine (Namenda).
FDA-approved medicines for treating symptoms. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved medicines to treat symptoms at different stages of Alzheimer's disease — mild, moderate and severe. These stages are based on scores on tests that assess memory, awareness of time and place, thinking, and reasoning.
You may need treatment for depression, sleep problems, hallucinations, parkinsonism or agitation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lecanemab (Leqembi) and donanemab (Kisunla) for people with mild Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease.
Currently, drugs with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to treat early Alzheimer’s disease include lecanemab and aducanumab. Learn more about the early signs of dementia.
Aducanumab (Aduhelm) Aducanumab is currently the only disease-modifying medication for Alzheimer’s disease. The medication is a type of immunotherapy that targets the protein beta-amyloid and...