[New therapeutic prospects in Alzheimer disease]

The approval for marketing of tacrine (Cognex), an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, allowed physicians and the general people to attract attention to a degenerative disease, which prevalence dramatically increases every year. This drug is hopeful. Meanwhile, we must keep in mind that it has only a symptomatic effect. Its hepatotoxicity requires regular biological tests. Many medications are actually in earlier stages of development along with various etiological approaches.