Noopept tablets: instructions for use, analogues, contraindications, price

Indications

Noopept is indicated for a fairly large number of conditions:

impairments of cognitive functions of various origins;
emotional-volitional disorders (including in the elderly);
consequences of traumatic brain injury (brain contusion, diffuse axonal damage);
post-concussion syndrome;
discirculatory encephalopathy, encephalopathy of combined genesis (with the presence of a vascular component);
asthenia;
decrease in intellectual activity of various origins.

Advantages and efficiency

For many, Noopept is known as a memory and brain enhancer. It improves memory and helps you concentrate on learning. It is actively used to treat cognitive impairments, including stroke, organic brain pathology, and brain damage caused by alcohol. Some report improved hearing and vision.

As a result of research, it has been proven that Noopept has the strongest neuroprotective effect. This allows you to protect the brain from a large number of external factors that negatively affect cognitive ability.

Noopept prevents the action of free radicals, incomplete molecules, and oxidative processes. Incomplete molecules appear as a result of exposure to harmful substances in the body. The product also has an anti-inflammatory effect. It improves spatial thinking, improves verbal learning and memory. In addition, it has a positive effect on neurological health, resulting in improved blood flow to the brain and suppressed neurotoxicity that occurs as a result of the excessive presence of glutamate and calcium.

There is proven research on reducing anxiety. Subjects taking Noopept become much calmer. But at the same time, some users, on the contrary, claim that Noopept causes anxiety.

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The neuroprotective (protective) effect of Noopept® is manifested in increasing the resistance of brain tissue to damaging influences (trauma, hypoxia, electroconvulsive, toxic) and reducing the degree of damage to brain neurons. The drug reduces the volume of the lesion in a thrombotic stroke model and prevents the death of neurons in cultured tissue of the cerebral cortex and cerebellum exposed to neurotoxic concentrations of glutamate and free radical oxygen. Noopept® has an antioxidant effect, blocks voltage-dependent calcium channels of neurons, weakening the neurotoxic effect of excess calcium, improves the rheological properties of the blood, having antiplatelet, fibrinolytic, and anticoagulant properties.

The nootropic effect of the drug is associated with the formation of cycloprolylglycine, which is similar in structure to the endogenous cyclic dipeptide, which has antiamnestic activity, as well as the presence of a choline-positive effect.

Noopept® increases the amplitude of the transcallosal response, facilitating associative connections between the cerebral hemispheres at the level of cortical structures. Promotes the restoration of memory and other cognitive functions impaired as a result of damaging influences - brain injury, local and global ischemia, prenatal damage (alcohol, hypoxia).

The therapeutic effect of the drug in patients with organic disorders of the central nervous system is manifested starting from the 5-7th day of treatment. Initially, the anxiolytic and mild stimulating effects present in the spectrum of activity of Noopept® are realized, manifested in the reduction or disappearance of anxiety, increased irritability, affective lability, and sleep disturbances. After 14-20 days of therapy, a positive effect of the drug on cognitive functions, parameters of attention and memory is revealed.

Noopept® has a vegetative-normalizing effect, helps reduce headaches, orthostatic disorders, and tachycardia.

When discontinuing the drug, no withdrawal syndrome is observed.

Does not have a damaging effect on internal organs; does not lead to changes in the cellular composition of the blood and biochemical parameters of blood and urine; does not have immunotoxic, teratogenic effects, does not exhibit mutagenic properties.

Special instructions for the use of Noopept

There is no data on safe use during pregnancy and lactation. There are no data on use in children. Features of application. Increasing the dose of the drug (up to 30 mg/day), long-term use with other drugs should be carried out under the supervision of a physician. The patient must be warned that if adverse reactions occur or the condition worsens, he should consult a doctor. The ability to influence reaction speed when driving vehicles or operating other mechanisms is not known.

Dosage

The instructions for use indicate that treatment usually begins with a dosage of 20 mg (2 tablets), the daily dose is divided into 2 doses - in the morning and during the day. The tablet is taken after meals with water. If the doctor sees that this amount of medication is ineffective for the patient, then it is not forbidden to increase the dosage and bring it to 30 mg. In this case, Noopept is taken 3 times a day, one tablet. However, it is not recommended to use the drug after 18 hours, as it can cause insomnia.

Typically, the course of treatment with the drug in question lasts from 1.5 to 3 months. Afterwards, take a break for 1 month, and if necessary, repeat the therapy again. The drug "Noopept", which has good reviews from doctors, is contraindicated for persons under 18 years of age. But many are wondering whether it can be used to treat children. For example, middle-aged and older schoolchildren often suffer from attention problems, their learning ability decreases - that is, all the indications are available that are sufficient for the use of medicine.

Pharmacological properties

Thanks to the active substance, this medication helps improve memory, helps to absorb information more effectively, including for children and the elderly, and also prevents the development of amnesia and ensures memory restoration.
The drug also has a mild sedative effect on the patient, eliminates anxiety and increased irritability, and helps normalize sleep. It is not addictive; after stopping the use of Noopept, there is no so-called withdrawal syndrome. The effect of using the product occurs on days 5-7, and 2-3 weeks after the start of treatment, its positive effect on the ability to better remember and assimilate information appears.

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Pharmacodynamics

Noopept® has nootropic and neuroprotective properties.
Improves learning ability and memory, acting on all phases of processing: initial information processing, consolidation, retrieval. Prevents the development of amnesia caused by electric shock, blockade of central cholinergic structures, glutamatergic receptor systems, and deprivation of the paradoxical phase of sleep. The neuroprotective (protective) effect of Noopept® is manifested in increasing the resistance of brain tissue to damaging influences (trauma, hypoxia, electroconvulsive, toxic) and reducing the degree of damage to brain neurons. The drug reduces the volume of the lesion in a thrombotic stroke model and prevents the death of neurons in cultured tissue of the cerebral cortex and cerebellum exposed to neurotoxic concentrations of glutamate and free radical oxygen. Noopept® has an antioxidant effect, blocks voltage-dependent calcium channels of neurons, weakening the neurotoxic effect of excess calcium, improves the rheological properties of the blood, having antiplatelet, fibrinolytic, and anticoagulant properties.

Noopept® has a vegetative-normalizing effect, helps reduce headaches, orthostatic disorders, and tachycardia.

When discontinuing the drug, no withdrawal syndrome is observed.

Contraindications for use, possible side effects

The following group of people should not use this product or should only use it under the supervision of a physician. So, the medication is usually not prescribed:

pregnant and lactating women;
persons under 18 years of age;
patients who may have allergies due to hypersensitivity to individual components of the drug (including people with lactose intolerance);
those who have been diagnosed with severe kidney or liver dysfunction.

Side effects from taking Noopept are quite rare, but it is noted that during treatment, allergies may occur, and in certain groups of people (especially the elderly), blood pressure sometimes rises. There have been no cases of overdose, but if this does occur, treatment should be symptomatic.

Use of the drug to treat persons under 18 years of age

So is it possible to give Noopept to children? Reviews and opinions of doctors about this are different. The manufacturer indicates that this drug is non-toxic, so it is unlikely to harm such a young body. In the near future, they plan to conduct a series of studies, based on the results of which the company may register this drug for the treatment of children as well. In the meantime, there is no official data on whether the medicine “Noopept” can be used by children and schoolchildren, or in what dosage this should be done.

Remember that no research has been conducted on this matter, and if you decide (even with a doctor) to use the product to treat your baby, you do so at your own peril and risk. And the consequences of therapy can be completely unpredictable.