Heat-processed ginseng enhances the cognitive function in patients with moderately severe Alzheimer's disease

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 278-282

  Heo, Jae Hyeok ^a   Lee, Soon Tae ^b   Chu, Kon ^b   Oh, Min Jung ^b   Park, Hyun Jung ^b   Shim, Ji Young ^b   Kim, Manho ^b  

^a Seoul Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Cognition; Ginseng

Indexed keywords

GINSENOSIDE; GINSENOSIDE RB 1; GINSENOSIDE RB 2; GINSENOSIDE RC; GINSENOSIDE RG 3; GINSENOSIDE RG 5; GINSENOSIDE RK 1; SUN GINSENG 135; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE ASSESSMENT SCALE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GINSENG; HEART PALPITATION; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAUSEA; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SIDE EFFECT; URTICARIA; CHEMISTRY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PANAX; PHYTOTHERAPY; VERY ELDERLY;

ANIMALIA; PANAX GINSENG;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PANAX; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS;

EID: 84871213491     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830512Y.0000000027     Document Type: Article

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