How Do We Treat Dementia?

How Do We Treat Dementia? (0:23)

Alzheimer's disease is complex and hard to treat, but there are a couple of pharmaceutical options that help improve quality of life. In this video, HealthMaker William Mobley, MD, PhD, describes some of these drugs.

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There are any coldness stress medicines, there's memantine that helps to modulate memory these, they do work, they're not disease modifying, but they work, they are big benefit to patients with Alzheimer's disease, and some of those with down syndrome, but they are not the disease modifying treatments that you'd like to say, now we've made a real change.

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William Mobley, MD, PhD, is chair of the Department of Neurosciences at UCSD and a leading expert on Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. He discusses the surprising link between Down syndrome and Alzheimer's.

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