Patent ID: 8791117

Claim:
A method for relieving or alleviating of cognitive impairment caused by a disease, injury, or condition in a mammal in need thereof, comprising: administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of cyclic Glycyl-2-Allyl Proline (cG-2-AllyIP) to said mammal, where said disease is selected from the group consisting of Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Lewy Body disease, Dementia, and multi-infarct dementia, said injury is selected from the group consisting of neurotoxic injury, cerebral hypoxia/ischemia, traumatic brain injury, coronary artery bypass surgery, where said condition is normal aging, age-related memory loss, memory impairment, cholinergic hypofunction, vascular narrowing or blockage in the brain, neuroinflammation, mild cognitive impairment, cerebral atrophy, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Pick's disease, HIV infection, Down's syndrome, and loss of synaptic plasticity.