Concept information
Preferred term
Nootropic Agents
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Agent, Anti-Dementia
- Agent, Antidementia
- Agent, Nootropic
- Agent, Procognitive
- Agents, Anti-Dementia
- Agents, Antidementia
- Agents, Procognitive
- Anti Dementia Agent
- Anti-Dementia Agent
- Antidementia Agent
- Anti Dementia Agents
- Anti-Dementia Agents
- Antidementia Agents
- Cognitive Enhancer
- Cognitive Enhancers
- Drug, Nootropic
- Drugs, Nootropic
- Enhancer, Cognitive
- Enhancers, Cognitive
- Nootropic
- Nootropic Agent
- Nootropic Drug
- Nootropic Drugs
- Nootropics
- Procognitive Agent
- Procognitive Agents
Scope note
- 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.
History note
- 95; NOOTRPIC DRUGS was see PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS 1990-94
In other languages
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Finnish
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dementialääke
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dementialääkkeet
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muistihäiriölääke
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nootrooppinen aine
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nootrooppiset aineet
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Swedish
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Kognitiva förstärkare
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Nootropika
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018697
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