DONEPEZIL HYDROCHLORIDE vs MEMANTINE AND DONEPEZIL

This morning Axovant Sciences [announced](http://investors.axovant.com/news-releases/news-release-details/axovant-announces-negative-topline-results-intepirdine-phase-3) that the Phase 3 clinical trial of its potential Alzheimer's drug, intepirdine, in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's dise

Hello and welcome back to SAR! Protein production in the human body is a pretty remarkable achievement of evolution. Without our conscious input, little factories are able to take stored information and translate it to proteins which constitute every major structure in the body. Despite proteins do

**I am not an investment advisor, do your own due diligence..** **I love flier biotech plays, because when they work, they really work. In my opinion this play will either lose 50% of your money in the next three weeks, or 2-10X your money.** **SUMMARY** ​ * The market is severely und

I'm a recently graduated surgeon, currently in surgical training and preparing for super-specialty exams. For the past 2.5 years, my mother (age- 57 yrs) has been living with Alzheimer's. I know the disease inside and out from a medical perspective—the pathology, the prognosis, the progression. But

People ask a lot for help with things, which are often symptoms of having a severe neurological disability, and not minor headspace miscalibrations that can be fixed with a mindset or framing change. I want to help people more, and help *myself* more, but it seems not everyone responds to the same t

New grad, just settling in to my first job. I have noticed a few things about the providers at the practice I joined that is very different from what I learnt in residency so wanted to ask Redditers about their own experiences. Specifically, do you make the diagnosis of dementia and prescribe Donep

My 87 y.o. dad lives near Knoxville, TN. They have the Pat Summitt Clinic, which I understood to be a "big deal", I was hoping for experimental care options. The Dr. was personable, but quickly admitted that there were not many meds for dementia, and my dad was / is on donepezil and memantine, and s

My husband was diagnosed 4 years ago by a neurologist at a teaching hospital. The diagnosis was made through an MRI and cognitive testing. He was first prescribed donepezil/Aricept which he took for at least a year. Galantamine was added in place of the donepezil at 1.5 years. We were living in a bi

Howdy! I'm just wondering, how can this generic still be filled at pharmacies like Kroger's in good conscience given it's history with the FDA and them stating it isn't bio equivalent to Concerta? Is the extended release OROS wannabe the only version that is problematic, or are the quick acting norm