Armodafinil (Nuvigil) is a stimulant-like drug produced by the pharmaceutical company Cephalon Inc., which was approved by the FDA on June 15, 2007.[1] Armodafinil is the active (−)-(R)-enantiomer of the racemic drug modafinil (Provigil).
Cephalon plans to conduct clinical trials evaluating the use of Nuvigil as a treatment for serious medical conditions such as bipolar depression, cognition abnormalities associated with schizophrenia, and excessive sleepiness, and fatigue in conditions such as Parkinson's disease, cancer,[2] and narcolepsy, which is a sleep disorder. Nuvigil is protected by a U.S. patent expiring in 2023 that claims the Form 1 polymorph of armodafinil.
Nuvigil is available for prescription as of June 1, 2009.
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- ^ "CDER Drug and Biologic Approvals for Calendar Year 2007". http://www.fda.gov/cder/rdmt/InternetNDA07.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Cephalon - Pipeline,". http://www.cephalon.com/our-science/pipeline/. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
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