Drugs widely prescribed to the elderly could be responsible for a decline in cognitive and physical function according to new research. A new report reveals that anti-cholinergic drugs – which are ...

Vascular dementia (VaD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a high prevalence. Several studies have recently reported that VaD patients present cholinergic deficits in the brain and ...

Before the advent of the amyloid hypothesis in the 1990s, the cholinergic hypothesis offered key clues to the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease. Concentrated in the basal forebrain and projecting ...

Background: Impaired mobility and falls are clinically important complications of Parkinson's disease (PD) and a major detractor from quality of life for which there are limited therapies.

Voluntary visual spatial attention can be allocated in a goal-oriented manner to locations containing behaviorally relevant information. In contrast, involuntary attention is automatically captured by ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Cholinergic crisis' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

The muscarinic receptor agonist xanomeline has antipsychotic properties and is devoid of dopamine receptor–blocking activity but causes cholinergic adverse events. Trospium is a peripherally ...