Objetivo: analisar a evolução do consumo de psicoestimulantes pelos acadêmicos Medicina da Universidade Federal Rio Grande (FURG) durante quatro anos.Métodos: foi realizado um estudo painel com amostra estudantes primeiro ao quarto ano curso medicina, matriculados na instituição no período 2015 2018. O teve como desfecho o psicoestimulantes. Foram coletadas informações sobre uso cafeína, metilf...

Abstract Background Cognitive impairment mainly affects learning and problem solving abilities of the person. Traditional medicines, due to fewer side effects, more efficacy lesser cost are still choice treatment in India. The main objective present study is explore nootropic potential ethanol extract Elettaria cardamomum Maton fruits. was conducted by using exteroceptive behavioral models like...

Background: The piracetam analog, aniracetam, has recently received attention for its cognition enhancing potential, with minimal reported side effects. Previous studies report the drug to be effective in both human and non-human models with pre-existing cognitive dysfunction, but few studies have evaluated its efficacy in healthy subjects. A previous study performed in our laboratory found no...

In this study, we aimed to compare the clinical efficacy of liposomal albendazole (L-ABZ) and tablet-albendazole (T-ABZ) for the treatment of human hepatic cystic echinococcosis (CE). Sixty patients with single cyst (CE1) or daughter cyst (CE2) were included in this study and were nonrandomly divided into the L-ABZ group (n = 30, 10  mg/kg per day, p.o., b.i.d.) and T-ABZ group (n = 30, 12-20 m...

2-Pyrrolidinones are important scaffolds found in numerous pharmacologically active compounds, such as brivaracetam and levetiracetam (antiepileptic drugs) or piracetam pramiracetam (age-related memory impairment drugs). Among the targets, nootropic agents represent an attractive class of compounds since they selectively improve cognitive functions. In this study, we report successful translati...