Re: prescription med for Apraxia?

[Guest guest]

Hi, thanks for the post. I'm not sure if this it, but I'll look into further.

Nora Middleton wrote: Is this what you are

referring to?

Cure Autism Now: Thursday, December 7, 2006

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Memantine Study to Target Motor Dysfunction in Autism

Cure Autism Now kicks off recruitment for its first Clinical Trials

Network study

In an effort to explore the possible role of pharmacological

treatment of motor deficits in individuals with autism, Cure Autism

Now has recently awarded a pilot grant to Evdokia Anagnostou, M.D.

from the Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence at Mount

Sinai School of Medicine. The Mount Sinai team will lead a

collaboration of treatment sites in conducting research into the

effectiveness of memantine (marketed as Namenda), a compound which

modulates the glutamate neurotransmitter system in the brain.

Clinically, early data from open label treatment with memantine

suggests that it may be helpful in targeting symptoms of motor

planning, language, and cognitive function challenges in autism. A

randomized multi-center clinical trial of memantine will now be

undertaken by the Clinical Trials Network created by Cure Autism Now.

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the first site to actively

enroll subjects. Other clinical trial sites will begin recruiting in

the near future. The recruitment periods will vary; for up-to-date

information on recruitment for the sites, as well as other studies

seeking participants, please check the Clinical Trials/Research

Project listing service.

Read more about this study in the Science News section of our website.

> I met a mom who told me that DAN! doctors are now prescribing a

> prescription med for children with apraxia. She could not remember

> the name. I have not been to our DAN! in a few months and he has

> never before mentioned anything like this. Does anyone have any info?

>

> Thanks

>

> Donna

>

> ---------------------------------

> Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from

> real people who know.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Let me know what you find out - my son was just diagnosed w/ Apraxia.

(3.4 yo).

Nora

> Hi, thanks for the post. I'm not sure if this it, but I'll look

> into further.

>

> Nora Middleton wrote: Is this what you are

> referring to?

> Cure Autism Now: Thursday, December 7, 2006

>

> return to top ^

>

> 

> Memantine Study to Target Motor Dysfunction in Autism

>

> Cure Autism Now kicks off recruitment for its first Clinical Trials

> Network study

>

> In an effort to explore the possible role of pharmacological

> treatment of motor deficits in individuals with autism, Cure Autism

> Now has recently awarded a pilot grant to Evdokia Anagnostou, M.D.

> from the Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence at Mount

> Sinai School of Medicine. The Mount Sinai team will lead a

> collaboration of treatment sites in conducting research into the

> effectiveness of memantine (marketed as Namenda), a compound which

> modulates the glutamate neurotransmitter system in the brain.

> Clinically, early data from open label treatment with memantine

> suggests that it may be helpful in targeting symptoms of motor

> planning, language, and cognitive function challenges in autism. A

> randomized multi-center clinical trial of memantine will now be

> undertaken by the Clinical Trials Network created by Cure Autism Now.

> The Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the first site to actively

> enroll subjects. Other clinical trial sites will begin recruiting in

> the near future. The recruitment periods will vary; for up-to-date

> information on recruitment for the sites, as well as other studies

> seeking participants, please check the Clinical Trials/Research

> Project listing service.

>

> Read more about this study in the Science News section of our website.

>

>

>

> > I met a mom who told me that DAN! doctors are now prescribing a

> > prescription med for children with apraxia. She could not remember

> > the name. I have not been to our DAN! in a few months and he has

> > never before mentioned anything like this. Does anyone have any

> info?

> >

> > Thanks

> >

> > Donna

> >

> > ---------------------------------

> > Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from

> > real people who know.

> >

> >