The Cognitive Psychopharmacology of Alzheimer's Disease: Focus on Cholinergic Systems
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Neurochemical Research
- Vol. 23 (5) , 787-794
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022419712453
Abstract
The primary pathology in Alzheimer's disease (DAT) occurs in the basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS), which provides the major cholinergic innervation to the neocortex, hippocampus and...Keywords
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