Amantadine in trauma recovery

[typhoonegator]

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46577897/ns/health-health_care/

Giacino (lead author) is a good guy and a good researcher. While he does a ton of fascinating research with imaging surrogates and fMRI, this is an important study which validates a role for amantadine in post-TBI recovery. Many of us have been using amantadine for years with less-than-stellar evidence. It's great to see an important issue like this getting the press it deserves. Not a fancy new expensive medicine, not a highly-marketable disease state, just good research with a huge impact on patients and families stricken by tragedy.

 

[danielmd06]

Interesting article. Thank you.

 

[PETRAN]

Good article thanks. (Will inform my neuropsychology research). Its good to see a real neuro-therapeutics-related thread every now and then (not only which fellowship will result in the highest pay 😛 )

 

[HarveyCushing]

Cool article. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mattchiavelli]

Yeah thanks- I see this being used in a much larger patient population than amphetamines are/were because of the prevalence of coronary disease. Pretty cool to see how old drugs get brought back for other uses.