Subcortical dementia neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and pathophysiology

JL Cummings - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1986 - cambridge.org
Subcortical dementia refers to a clinical syndrome characterised by slowing of cognition,
memory disturbances, difficulty with complex intellectual tasks such as strategy generation …

The striatum and substantia nigra: a commentary on their relationships

A Dray - Neuroscience, 1979 - Elsevier
PERHAPS the greatest focus of attention in recent years regarding the functions of the basal
ganglia (ie caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus and substantia nigra) has been given …

Neurotransmitter changes in Alzheimer's disease: implications to diagnostics and therapy

KJ Reinikainen, H Soininen… - Journal of neuroscience …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic, dopaminergic, GABAergic
and somatostatinergic neurons were investigated to determine their roles in Alzheimer's …

Changes in nicotinic and muscarinic cholinergic receptors in Alzheimertype dementia

S Shimohama, T Taniguchi, M Fujiwara… - Journal of …, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
Nicotinic and muscarinic cholinergic receptors were studied in autopsied brains from four
histologically normal controls and five histopathologically verified cases of Alzheimertype …

Muscarinic binding and choline acetyltransferase activity in Parkinsonian subjects with reference to dementia

M Ruberg, A Ploska, F Javoy-Agid, Y Agid - Brain Research, 1982 - Elsevier
Abstract [3 H] Quinuclidinylbenzilate ([3 H] QNB) binding and choline acetyltransferase
(CAT) activity were studied in post-mortem brains from control and Parkinsonian subjects …

Antagonism by neuroleptics of neurotransmitter receptors of normal human brain in vitro

E Richelson, A Nelson - European journal of pharmacology, 1984 - Elsevier
Using radioligand binding techniques, we determined the equilibrium dissociation constants
(K D's) for a series of neuroleptics at the dopamine (D-2), muscarinic, histamine H 1, α 1-and …

Organization of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in human striatum: receptor autoradiographic studies in Huntington's disease and schizophrenia

JN Joyce, N Lexow, E Bird, A Winokur - Synapse, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
The technique of quantitative autoradiography was used to examine the effects of
Huntington's disease (HD) and schizophrenia on the organization of striatal dopamine (DA) …

External imaging of cerebral muscarinic acetylcholine receptors

WC Eckelman, RC Reba, WJ Rzeszotarski, RE Gibson… - Science, 1984 - science.org
A radioiodinated ligand that binds to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors was shown to
distribute in the brain by a receptor-mediated process. With single-photon-emission imaging …

Neurotransmitter alterations in a model of perinatal hypoxicischemic brain injury

MV Johnston - Annals of Neurology: Official Journal of the …, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Vulnerability of neurotransmitterspecific neurons to hypoxiaischemia was examined in the
immature rat corpus striatum. Carotid artery ligation plus 2 hours of 8% oxygen atmosphere …

Distribution of monoaminergic, cholinergic, and GABAergic markers in the human cerebral cortex

F Javoy-Agid, B Scatton, M Ruberg, R L'heureux… - Neuroscience, 1989 - Elsevier
Mapping of a number of biochemical markers for noradrenergic, dopaminergic,
serotoninergic, cholinergic and GABAergic systems was undertaken in 93 samples removed …