{"id":218176,"date":"2025-07-17T21:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/landmark-study-investigates-potential-of-ambroxol-a-cough-medicine-to-slow-parkinsons-related-dementia"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:02:36","slug":"landmark-study-investigates-potential-of-ambroxol-a-cough-medicine-to-slow-parkinsons-related-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/landmark-study-investigates-potential-of-ambroxol-a-cough-medicine-to-slow-parkinsons-related-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Landmark study investigates potential of Ambroxol, a cough medicine, to slow Parkinson\u2019s-related dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/landmark-study-investigates-potential-of-ambroxol-a-cough-medicine-to-slow-parkinsons-related-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Ont. \u2013 Dementia poses a major health challenge with no safe, affordable treatments to slow its progression.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Lawson Research Institute (Lawson), the research arm of St. Joseph\u2019s Health Care London, are investigating whether Ambroxol \u2014 a cough medicine used safely for decades in Europe \u2014 can slow dementia in people with Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Published today in the prestigious JAMA Neurology, this 12-month clinical trial involving 55 participants with Parkinson\u2019s disease dementia (PDD) monitored memory, psychiatric symptoms and GFAP, a blood marker linked to brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>Parkinson\u2019s disease dementia causes memory loss, confusion, hallucinations and mood changes. About half of those diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s develop dementia within 10 years, profoundly affecting patients, families and the health care system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Ont. \u2013 Dementia poses a major health challenge with no safe, affordable treatments to slow its progression. Researchers at Lawson Research Institute (Lawson), the research arm of St. Joseph\u2019s Health Care London, are investigating whether Ambroxol \u2014 a cough medicine used safely for decades in Europe \u2014 can slow dementia in people with Parkinson\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}