Memantine for Adult ADHD
At the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) in October 2010, Craig Surman of Massachusetts General Hospital reported results from an open study suggesting that the anti-Alzheimer’s drug memantine (Namenda) was effective in the treatment of ADHD in adults.
Editor’s Note: Gianni Faedda also indicated to this writer that he had successfully used memantine, an antagonist of the glutamate NMDA receptor, for children with ADHD. He observed that memantine was also helpful in several of his treatment-resistant bipolar patients. Based on these anecdotal observations, this compound deserves further systematic exploration. It is also noteworthy that Amit Anand and colleagues found that memantine increased antidepressant response to lamotrigine in bipolar depression compared to placebo.
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