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Study raises new treatment possibilities for cognitive disorders
05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!UC Irvine researchers have identified a new class of compounds that could be used for drugs to treat cognitive disorders that accompany schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and ADHD, according to an article published today in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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