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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1995
Ram Kaminski, New York, NY (US);
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention, neuropsychiatric symptoms of apathy-amotivation syndrome and particularly those symptoms in: Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's chorea, frontal lobe lesions, and AIDS dementia can be ameliorated by treating a patient with a histamine H.sub.2 -antagonist that passes the blood-brain barrier. Suitable H.sub.2 -antagonists include famotidine and ranitidine. The H.sub.2 -antagonists may be co-administered with other compounds which are known to be useful in the treatment of the above neuropsychiatric conditions, and in one aspect of the invention can be formulated with such other compounds into a therapeutic composition.