Cannabis has shown increasing promise in treating many aspects of the causes and effects of dementia.
There is much frustration and despair among dementia patients, their families, caregivers, and practitioners.dementia
The issues with current regimens are many: Aricept and drugs like it that attempt to raise acetylcholine levels may not help very much: newly introduced antibody medications are for mild disease, and while they may delay the development of some of the neurodegeneration that occurs, they are not without potentially serious side effects; tranquilizers can mitigate disturbing behavior but can sedate and further isolate the patient, decreasing desired interactions with family and caregivers.
In laboratory studies in mice and clinical studies, it has been shown that cannabis can be very helpful in treating symptoms, potentially prevent deterioration and, as my colleagues both here and abroad have seen, allow patients to either decrease or discontinue entirely, their psychotropic meds. In addition, THC is at least as effective as other drugs on the market to maintain levels of acetylcholine. It also appears to prevent the development of the neurofibrillary tangles that are seen in AD.
An additional issue in patients with dementia is that an overwhelming proportion of them have dysfunction of the frontal lobe. This affects its role in inhibiting negative behaviors such as anxiety-exacerbated aggression, agitation, irritability, mood disturbances, and resistance to care.Also, even in those of us who are not cognitively impaired, anxiety can prevent us from accessing information that we know is still there in our brains.
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