Potential for intermittent stimulation of nucleus basalis of Meynert to impact treatment of alzheimer's disease

The brain's cholinergic arousal pathways decline in parallel with the brain's executive functions in aging and Alzheimer's Disease. The frontline and currently most effective approach to treating Alzheimer's disease is the administration of cholinesterase inhibitors, which, in a...

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Main Authors: David T. Blake, Alvin V. Terry, Marc Plagenhoef, Christos Constantinidis, Ruifeng Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-11-01
Series:Communicative & Integrative Biology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2017.1389359