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What is the main drug class for treating AD?
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acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
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What are the characteristics of AD?
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1.) progressive memory loss
2.) impaired thinking 3.) neuropsychiatric symptoms 4.) inability to perform routine ADLs |
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_________ is a protein that in healthy neurons serves to maintain the orderly arrangement of neurotubules.
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Tau
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What is Sundowner’s syndrome?
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Intensified AD symptoms in the evening.
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How do cholinesterase inhibitors work?
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By increasing the availability of acetylcholine at cholinergic synapses and thereby enhance transmission by cholinergic neurons that have not yet been destroyed by AD.
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List the common effects of cholinesterase inhibitors.
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-nausea
-vomiting -dyspepsia -diarrhea |
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___________ is the first representative of a new class of drugs for AD
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Memantine
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How does Memanine work?
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By modulating the effects of glutamate at NMDA receptors.
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