
Moclobemide
in patients with
dementia and depression
Amrein R, Martin JR, Cameron AM
F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd.,
Basel, Switzerland.
Adv Neurol 1999; 80:509-19
ABSTRACT
Moclobemide,
the first reversible inhibitor of MAOA (so-called RIMA) to become widely
available for clinical use, is an effective and well-tolerated antidepressant.
Preclinical experiments, as well as studies in human volunteers and patients,
provide evidence for the cognition enhancing effects of moclobemide. This
cognition improvement, taken together with moclobemide's absence of
anticholinergic effects, lack of sedation, and similarity in pharmacokinetics
in young and elderly individuals, makes this drug especially appropriate for
use in treatment of the elderly depressed patient.