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Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance cognitive abilities

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 25th, 2005

Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance cognitive abilities.

According to a report from the United States, "Drug development for the treatment of dementia and age-related cognitive decline has been slow to produce clinically viable alternatives to the two existing FDA-approved drug treatments, AChE inhibitors and the noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, memantine. Recent human and preclinical animal studies suggest that phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors, already in clinical use for the treatment of erectile dysfunction in men, may have central cognitive enhancing effects."

"Recent behavioral pharmacological studies with rodents...

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