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Methylphenidate and galantamine in patients with vascular cognitive impairment-the proof-of-principle study STREAM-VCI.
7 January 2020. doid: 10.1186/s13195-019-0567-z
Leijenaar JF, Groeneveld GJ, Klaassen ES, Leeuwis AE, Scheltens P, Weinstein HC, van Gerven JMA, Barkhof F, van der Flier WM, Prins ND
View publicationTo date, no symptomatic treatment is available for patients with vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). In the proof-of-principle study Symptomatic Treatment of Vascular Cognitive Impairment (STREAM-VCI), we investigated whether a single dose of a monoaminergic drug (methylphenidate) improves executive functioning and whether a single dose of a cholinergic drug (galantamine) improves memory in VCI patients.
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