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. 2018 Oct 30;9:1520. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01520

Table 4.

Results of human studies testing the effect of lithium (a), rapamycin (b), rifampicin & doxycycline (c) and nilotinib (d) on cognition.

Author, year Cognitive tests Outcome Significance
a Pomara et al., 1983 Buschke selective reminding test [2pt]No quantitative data reported—“None of the psychometric measures showed either consistent, significant increases or decreases” ±
Digit span/supraspan test
Sperling test of iconic memory
Word fluency tasks
Wechsler Memory Scale
a Macdonald et al., 2008 Change in MMSE Li−4.8 (5.5), ctrl−4.0 (5.0) ±
a Hampel et al., 2009 MMSE Li−23.6 (1.6) -> 22.6 (3.5) ±
PBO−23.6 (1.7) -> 23.2 (2.7)
ADAS-Cog Li−15.8 (4.2) -> 15.6 (4.4) ±
PBO−5.4 (5)-> 16.6 (5.1)
ADAS-Cog % with improvement >4 points Li−28.6%, PBO−14.3% NR
a Leyhe et al., 2009 ADAS-Cog Li 19.2 (5.7) -> 17.7 (5.8) +
PBO 16.5 (5.1) -> 18.0 (5.1)
a Forlenza et al., 2011 ADAS-Cog Li 11.0(6.7)->12.6(6.6), PBO 10.7(5.1)-> 13.9(8.5) +
CDR–SoB Li 1.4(1.3) -> 2.2(1.8), PBO 1.9(1.4) -> 2.8(2.3) ±
Delayed recall Li 4.8(2.1) -> 4.8(2.2), PBO 4.2(2.3) -> 4.5(2.3) ±
Figure recall Li 2.3(1.2) -> 2.0(1.3), PBO 1.9(1.1) -> 1.6(1.2) ±
Sequence letters & numbers Li 6.4(2.1) -> 6.0(2.9), PBO 6.3(2.6) -> 5.1(2.6) +
Trail making test A (s) Li 69.1(44.2) -> 62.8(31.5), PBO 89.9(67.4) -> 63.6(41.9) ±
Trail making test B Li 171.8(83.9) -> 184.9(78.1), PBO 207.1 (79.6) -> 190.7 (92.8) ±
Conversion MCI->AD Li (n = 20) Stable = 16, Progress = 4 ±
PBO (n = 20) Stable = 13, Progress = 7
MCI->AD converters CDR-SoB Li 3.3(1.3) -> 4.4(1.5), PBO 3.4(1.4) -> 5.6(1.5) +
a Nunes et al., 2013 MMSE Li 19.48 (0.67) -> 19.82 (0.9) +++
PBO 17.95 (0.73) -> 14 (1.326)
b Kraig et al., 2018 Pre-post test change
EXIT25 PBO 0.38 (-1.84, 2.61), rapa−0.1 (-3.31, 3.11) ±
SLUMS PBO 0.38 (-2.03, 1.26), rapa−0.8 (-3.92, 2.32) ±
TAPS PBO−1 (-3.18, 1.18), rapa 1.44 (-1.68, 4.57) ±
c Molloy et al., 2013 SADAS-Cog Rif−0m = 22, 12m = 27.5
Doxy – 0m = 21, 12m = 25.5
Rif + Doxy−0m = 22, 12m = 28
PBO−0m = 21, 12m = 25
CDR-SoB mean Rif−0m = 6, 12m = 8.5 ±
Non-Rif−0m = 5.75, 12m = 7.75
Doxy – 0m = 6, 12m = 8.5 ±
Non-Doxy – 0m = 5.75, 12m = 7.8
SMMSE ns vs. placebo, data NR ±
Qmci Rif worse than PBO, data NR
d Pagan et al., 2016 MMSE (change 0w->24w) 150mg–+3.85, 300mg–+3.5 NR
SCOPA-Cog (change 0w->24w) 150mg–+1.85, 300mg–+2.00

+++ favoring intervention, highly significant p < 0.001. ++ favoring intervention, significant p < 0.01. + favoring intervention, significant p < 0.05. +/± trend favoring intervention, p < 0.1. ± not significant. +/± trend favoring control, p < 0.1. - favoring control, significant p < 0.05. – favoring control, significant p < 0.01. — favoring control, highly significant p < 0.001. EXIT25, Executive interview; NR, p-value not reported; PBO, placebo; RoB, Cochrane risk of bias; SLUMS, St Louis University Memory Status; TAPS, Texas Assessment of Processing Speed.