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Abstract
Drugs used to specifically facilitate learning or memory, particularly to prevent the cognitive deficits associated with dementias. These drugs act by a variety of mechanisms.
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27 entry terms
- Anti-Dementia Agent
- Anti-Dementia Agents
- Antidementia Agent
- Antidementia Agents
- Cognitive Enhancer
- Cognitive Enhancers
- Nootropic
- Nootropic Agent
- Nootropic Drug
- Nootropic Drugs
- Nootropics
- Procognitive Agent
- Procognitive Agents
- Agent, Anti-Dementia
- Agent, Antidementia
- Agent, Nootropic
- Agent, Procognitive
- Agents, Anti-Dementia
- Agents, Antidementia
- Agents, Nootropic
- Agents, Procognitive
- Anti Dementia Agent
- Anti Dementia Agents
- Drug, Nootropic
- Drugs, Nootropic
- Enhancer, Cognitive
- Enhancers, Cognitive
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24 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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History Note
95; NOOTRPIC DRUGS was see PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS 1990-94
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- Psychotropic Drugs (1989-1994)
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- National Library of Medicine. Nootropic Agents. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018697. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018697
- Nootropic Agents. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic
- Nootropic Agents. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q742487