[Tanakan (EGb 761) in the therapy of mild cognitive impairment].

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) means cognitive deterioration not yet causing disability or dementia. Aged patients with MCI constitute a group of high risk for Alzheimer disease and other types of dementia. Currently, there is no generally adopted approach to MCI management but medications with neuroprotective properties are presumed to be the most perspective. Presented are the results of a multicentral open-label clinical trial of vascular and neuroprotective drug tanakan (EGb 761). The study has shown the decrease of cognitive impairment, which was both clinically and statistically significant, in patients at early stages of vascular and neurodegenerative pathological process. Probable efficacy of long-term tanakan treatment in prevention of dementia is discussed.

[Experience in the application of pramistar, a new nootropic preparation, in the treatment of memory disorders in patients with cerebrovascular pathology]. / Opyt primeneniia novogo nootropnogo preparat pramistar v lechenii mnesticheskikh rasstroistv u bol'nikh s tserebrovaskuliarnoi patologiei.

Morbidity rise of cerebrovascular pathology is followed by remarkable cognitive decline. Chronic cerebral blood insufficiency and stroke consequences compose a group of the diseases which lead to different types of memory deterioration, consecutive memory decline and as a result to professional and social dysadaptation. The morphological basis of the problem consists in progressive structural cerebral deficit with forming a new adaptive system. The activity of this system is often not effective due to a lack of mediator supply. We have investigated the effects of monotherapy by a new nootropic drug--pramiracetam (Pramistar) on neuropsychological symptoms of memory deterioration in patients with chronic cerebrovascular insufficiency and stroke consequences in basilar and carotid vascular basin. The data obtained suggest statistically significant heterogeneous influence of the medicine on intensity of the evaluated symptoms.