This invention concerns adamantanamines (e.g. memantine, amantadine, and rimantadine) and neramexane salts of thiomolybdic and thiotungstic acids, including their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions, as dual acting drugs. These salts are used to treat or potentially arrest the neurodegenerative pathophysiology, clinical signs and symptoms of dementia of the Alzheimer's type, Parkinson's, Huntington's, AIDS-related dementia and Schizophrenia and its cognitive deficits. Additional uses of these derivatives include antiviral activity. The novel compositions of the present invention appear particularly useful in enhancing the therapeutic benefits of copper-sequestering tetrathiomolybdates in treating elevated copper-induced toxicities in neurologically presenting Wilson's disease, and in treating diseases of the inflammatory etiology and abnormal copper biochemistry, such as tumor angiogenesis, liver cirrhosis, hepatitis, pulmonary fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases, cardiovascular disease, cerebral ischemia, renal anemia, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal disorders, and eye diseases such as glaucoma, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, and age related macular degeneration. These compounds have excellent stability and aqueous solubility for good oral bioavailability.