Mild cognitive impairment – piracetam or vinpocetine? Reprint from: Biblioteka Medycyny Faktów 1/2013

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Grzegorz Krychowiak

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Term Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) means memory weakness and other neurocognitive functioning with higher intensity then accounted norm of age and education level but unavailable for level of accomplished dementia’s criteria. MCI can be stable or can be converted to dementia. Currently there is no commonly accepted method of MCI treatment. In this paper short literature review about MCI treatment trials using piracetam and vinpocetine is presented.

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Krychowiak, G. (2014). Mild cognitive impairment – piracetam or vinpocetine?. Medycyna Faktow (J EBM), 7(1(22), 27-31. Retrieved from https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/jebm/article/view/2378
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