<<Less impressed with the findings is Gary J. Kennedy, MD, director of geriatric psychiatry at New York's Montefiore Medical Center. Kennedy warns that placebo-treated Alzheimer's patients in Russia get far different care than U.S. patients, who must be allowed access to existing treatments.
That would make any effect of Dimebon seem greater compared with placebo. And Kennedy says that patients' actual improvement on Dimebon is not very different from improvement seen with the existing Alzheimer's drugs Aricept, Razadyne, and Exelon.>>