Patient D was diagnosed with a mild to moderate form of Alzheimer’s Disease in 2016.
However, their cognitive state has recently deteriorated and they have been prescribed an NMDA receptor antagonist (memantine), which:

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Patient D was diagnosed with a mild to moderate form of Alzheimer’s Disease in 2016.  
 However, their cognitive state has recently deteriorated and they have been prescribed an NMDA receptor antagonist (memantine), which:

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is a form of treatment that only addresses symptoms, and not the underlying pathology.

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will stabilise his current cognitive state for approximately one year.

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is usually only used in end-stage Alzheimer's disease.

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is the only treatment that has been shown to reverse symptoms.

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