Psychiatrie Bulletin ( 1990), 14,676 Expert opinion Drugs for Alzheimer's disease

Disease (AD) are generally ineffective " is a reason able conclusion to draw from the results of treatment studies to date. However in recent years there has been a rapid expansion of knowledge of both basic neurobiology and the pathology of AD. Future ad vances may be expected to arise from this, so when the authors of Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin next review this subject they may well be able to draw a more optimistic conclusion. When considering treatments for AD, it is import ant to remember that this is a progressive neurode-generative condition with a characteristic pathology, from which patients die slowly distressing both to themselves and their carers. In this respect itdiffers from 'Age-Associated Memory Impairment' (McEntee & Crook, 1990)and similar conditions, th