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Donepezil

Other Brand Names: Aricept

Revised:4/1/2000

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Overview

Aricept was recently been approved for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. This medication is not a cure, and not all patients respond well.

Like Cognex, it presumably works by increasing the activity of an important brain chemical, acetylcholine.

Aricept appears to slow the mental deterioration associated with this dread disease and may help some families delay institutionalization of the patient.

Within six weeks of discontinuing Aricept, the benefits are no longer measurable.

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